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![Sharp, Elliott (w / Sally Gates / Toshi Dorji): Ere Guitar (Intakt) Sharp, Elliott (w / Sally Gates / Toshi Dorji): Ere Guitar (Intakt)](https://www.teuthida.com/productImages/misc4/35195.jpg)
Following his 2017 trio album with guitarists Marc Ribot and Mary Halvorson, New York guitarist Elliott Sharp returns to his Manhattan studio with two different guitarists--Bhutan guitarist Tashi Dorji living in Asheville, and New Zealand guitarist living in New York Sally Gates--for ten far-ranging improvisations of inspired technique and creative intent.
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UPC: 7640120194185
Label: Intakt
Catalog ID: ITK418.2
Squidco Product Code: 35195
Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2024
Country: Switzerland
Packaging: Cardboard Gatefold 3 Panels w/ booklet
Recorded at Studio zOaR, in NYC, on July 26, 2023.
"In August 2023, guitarist Elliott Sharp met with fellow guitarists Sally Gates and Tashi Dorji in his Manhattan recording studio. Ere Guitar celebrates the great art of the guitar, played by musicians who seek new paths and create the current sound of the day. "The line-up of the album Ere Guitar initially ties in with it's predecessor Err Guitar with Mary Halvorson and Marc Ribot (Intakt CD 281). Here, too, we meet a trio chosen by Elliott Sharp, whose focus is on spontaneous improvisation. Although the compositional element was greater on Err Guitar and reduced to a minimum on Ere Guitar, these two albums are in no way complementary. Together they recount the search for the unexpected, the unheard, for a formal and tonal complexity that develops from the encounter of three creative musicians", writes Harry Lachner in the liner notes."-Intakt
"There is an art to arranging the guests at a dinner party or wedding reception. One wants to foster interesting conversations, sometimes between strangers, and create new friendships. The same can be said of Ere Guitar, a party organized by Downtown legend Elliott Sharp. The guitarist had previously released Err Guitar (Intakt, 2017) with his colleagues American guitarists Mary Halvorson and Marc Ribot. With this 2023 recording, Sharp invited New Zealand guitarist sally gates, who is a member of the experimental jazz-metal group Titan to Tachyons, and Bhutanese guitarist Tashi Dorji to record a collection of mostly improvised trio numbers.
Sharp's party matches unacquainted musicians, but most certainly Gates, Dorji, and many creative musicians will be familiar with their host's massive discography and diverse tastes. Both Gates and Dorji have an inclination towards metal and extended guitar technique. Dorji leans into the reinvention of his instrument à la Derek Bailey and Gates smashes an avant-blues in the mix.
Eight of the ten tracks are completely improvised, and only "Drill Core" and "Popular Science" credit Sharp as the composer. The latter track trades off on the decay of guitar notes by the three performers while ramping up the intensity. "Unfinished Conversation" stretches what could be described as cetacea sounds-in other words, whale vocalization-into Sharp's dinner parlay. The crunch and gnawing sounds on tracks such as "Wildlife" and "Addressing The Convention" continue the three-way dialogue as each musician applies effects and adds to the dialogue. All credit to Sharp for orchestrating this assemblage of guitars, and for the creation of new partners and friends."-Mark Corroto, All About Jazz
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• Show Bio for Elliott Sharp "Elliott Sharp is an American multi-instrumentalist, composer, and performer. A central figure in the avant-garde and experimental music scene in New York City for over 30 years, Elliott Sharp has released over eighty-five recordings ranging from orchestral music to blues, jazz, noise, no wave rock, and techno music. He leads the projects Carbon and Orchestra Carbon, Tectonics, and Terraplane and has pioneered ways of applying fractal geometry, chaos theory, and genetic metaphors to musical composition and interaction. His collaborators have included Radio-Sinfonie Frankfurt; pop singer Debbie Harry; Ensemble Modern; Qawwali singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan; Kronos String Quartet; Ensemble Resonanz; cello innovator Frances Marie Uitti; blues legends Hubert Sumlin and Pops Staples; pipa virtuoso Min-Xiao Feng; jazz greats Jack deJohnette, Oliver Lake, and Sonny Sharrock; multimedia artists Christian Marclay and Pierre Huyghe; and Bachir Attar, leader of the Master Musicians Of Jajouka. Sharp is a 2014 Guggenheim Fellow, and a 2014 Fellow at Parson's Center for Transformative Media. He received the 2015 Berlin Prize in Musical Composition from the American Academy in Berlin. He has composed scores for feature films and documentaries; created sound-design for interstitials on The Sundance Channel, MTV and Bravo networks; and has presented numerous sound installations in art galleries and museums. He is the subject of a new documentary "Doing The Don't" by filmmaker Bert Shapiro."-Elliott Sharp ^ Hide Bio for Elliott Sharp • Show Bio for Sally Gates "Sally Gates is a New Zealand musician and composer based in New York. Her avant-rock trio, Titan to Tachyons recently released their second album Vonals through John Zorn's Tzadik records. Received to excellent critical acclaim, Vonals was included in Spin's Best Metal of September 22, and was said to "harness virtuosity...with an enticingly organic fluidity" by The Wire. This year's recipient of the Wellington Jazz Festival Composer Commission, Gates returned home to premiere her piece Thought & Terraform for solo guitar at the Wellington Opera House, and booked a series of other performances around the country. A versatile musician with "slinky, avant-noir guitar work", Gates often curates performances in NYC with various improvisational music groups, most notably as a 'secret guest' in a John Zorn ensemble. Other recent collaborators have included Zoh Amba, Brian Chase, Greg Fox, and Sam Ospovat. Before relocating to New York, Gates released original music with the Miami progressive-metal band Orbweaver, and toured throughout the US, Canada, and New Zealand with other acts such as Gigan, Success Will Write Apocalypse Across the Sky, and Relentless Attrition." ^ Hide Bio for Sally Gates • Show Bio for Tashi Dorji "Tashi Dorji grew up in Bhutan, on the eastern side of the Himalayas. Residing in Asheville since 2000 and soaking up a vast array of music. Along the way, Dorji developed a playing style unbound by tradition, yet with a direct line to intuitive artistry. His recordings feature improvisations that spasmodically grow along tangential, surprising paths. All references break loose during a composition, as Dorji keys into his own inner world. His compositions drag the listener into a labyrinth of warbling tones, where each sound seems to jump out and replace the eerie silence that would otherwise occupy the atmosphere. The textures remain sustained in the reverberation as the vibration of the strings dwindle and ascend. The experience is one equally disorienting and reflective, in which Dorji's musicianship brings haunting beauty and mindfulness to the listener. After a handful of releases on various labels since 2009, Dorji presented his debut LP on Hermit Hut, the label created by Ben Chasny (Six Organs of Admittance) in 2014. Since then Tashi has released music in various formats on labels like Bathetic Records, Cabin Floor Esoterica, Blue Tapes, Marmara Records, Feeding Tubes,VDSQ & MIE." ^ Hide Bio for Tashi Dorji
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Track Listing:
1. Wildlife 2:09
2. Seven Seize 4:51
3. Array 9:14
4. Addressing The Convention 6:26
5. Survey The Damage 10:51
6. Check Some 8:41
7. Drill Core 7:56
8. The Moment 4:45
9. Unfinished Conversation 5:31
10. Popular Science 7:03
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