


Extreme percussion work from Eli Keszler, mostly solo pieces using a diverse sonic palette, and assisted on 2 tracks by clarinetist Ashley Paul, plus brass player Andrew Fenlon and prepared pianist Sakkiko Mori.
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Eli Keszler-drums, bowed metal, crotales, guitar, prepared/riveted 4 x 10 foot sheet metal, contact microphone, spring harp, bass board, motor, prepared piano, piano, motors, cymbal, crotales, snare drum, microphones
Ashley Paul-clarinet
Andrew Fenlon-trumpet, tuba, french horn, trombone
Sakiko Mori-prepared piano
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Limited edition of 300 copies and comes packaged with a beautiful, hand-screened poster featuring original artwork by Eli Keszler.
UPC: 0825481040617
Label: ESP-Disk
Catalog ID: ESPDISK 4061
Squidco Product Code: 15350
Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2011
Country: USA
Packaging: Cardstock gatefold foldover
Mastered by Kris Lapke at Hospital Audio.
"ESP-Disk' has released some far-out albums in its 47 years, but Eli Keszler's Oxtirn raises the bar. Keszler is a percussionist and composer like no other; some connoisseurs of outside music will know him from his work with the singular guitarist Jandek. Oxtirn is Keszler's ESP-Disk' debut and most widely distributed album after prolifically self-releasing micro-edition CDRs, tapes, and vinyl via his label REL Records.
On Oxtirn, Keszler plays drums, guitar, piano, prepared piano, motors, cymbal, crotales (bowed and unbowed), snare drum, prepared/riveted sheet metal, spring harp, bass board, and microphones. He's joined by clarinetist Ashley Paul (his partner in Aster) on two tracks, plus Andrew Fenlon (trumpet, tuba, French horn, trombone) and Sakkiko Mori (prepared piano) on one track each.
There are few musical analogies to what Keszler is doing here. It might sound like freely improvised noise, but it's actually meticulously composed - and if you don't believe it, you can check out his graphical-notation score for all three tracks, included on a six-panel fold-out. The Italian Futurists of the 1920s would have loved this magnificent din, so full of startling timbres and arresting textural combinations, like a cross between Xenakis and free jazz."-ESP
Limited edition of 300 copies and comes packaged with a beautiful, hand-screened poster featuring original artwork by Eli Keszler.

Artist Biographies
• Show Bio for Eli Keszler "Eli Keszler is a New York based artist, composer and percussionist. Keszler's music, installations, and visual work have appeared at Lincoln Center, MIT List Center, 67 Ludlow, Victoria & Albert Museum, Sculpture Center, The Kitchen, South London Gallery, Hessel Museum, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Luma-Foundation, Centraal Museum in Utrecht, Barbican-St. Lukes, Walker Art Museum, LAX Art, and Greater New York at MoMa PS1. His work has been featured in Frieze, Bomb Magazine, The New York Times, Wire Magazine, The Washington Post, Gramophone, Modern Drummer and Modern Painters among others. He has released solo records for Empty Editions, Esp-Disk', PAN and REL records. As a composer Keszler has received commissions from the Icelandic Symphony Orchestra, ICE Ensemble, Brooklyn String Orchestra and So Percussion. Keszler works and collaborates with oneohtrix point never, laurel halo, Rashad becker and david grubbs amongst many others. he is a graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music and was a 2016 New York Foundations for the Arts fellow." ^ Hide Bio for Eli Keszler • Show Bio for Ashley Paul "Ashley Paul is an American multi-instrumentalist/composer based in London. Her intuitive process integrates free form song structures with a focused approach to sound. Using a complexity of instruments including saxophone, clarinet, voice, prepared guitar and percussion she creates a delicate palette, uniquely her own." ^ Hide Bio for Ashley Paul
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Track Listing:
1. Part 1 13:46
2. Part 2 11:03
3. Part 3 14:19

Improvised Music
ESP
Improvised Music
Electro-Acoustic
Electro-Acoustic Improv
Percussion & Drums
Free Improvisation
Quintet Recordings
Instruments with Preparations
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