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Blue Arcana 04:37
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Revelation Space 2 03:41
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Voices In The Mirror 04:56
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Gondwana 14:15
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Revelation Space 1 03:32
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Walkabout 03:55
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Naissance In Cloud Forest Dream 09:30
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Intimate improv duets and trios for voice, electronic alto and baritone sax. A journey of exploration and discovery beyond the borders of song where voice becomes instrument and music becomes revelation.






Lifeline is a collaboration of two musicians from vastly different backgrounds. It exists because creativity itself is intolerant of categories, boundaries, definitions and limitations. It began not as a Cd project but as an experiment born of curiosity; "let's throw it against the wall and see what sticks and what drips." Lika was and still is a singer/songwriter who writes in a unique and personal contemporary pop style. She has a strong and unusual voice. She sings in English which is not her native tongue. There is a delightfully strange and nuanced coloration to the way she sings in her adopted language. Definitely. With this unique voice she positively owns covers. Lika came to the USA 8 years ago from Tbilisi in the Republic of Georgia where the government had banned her from radio, TV and club performances for her outspoken pro-democracy views. Her current project is the band "Homospouses" with her husband and longtime music partner, Archil.

The need for freedom of expression drives all artist and I think it was part of the reason Lika was attracted to the collaboration resulting in the Cd Lifeline. At the time we met I had a regular monthly slot at the aptly named Way Out Club With my electronic free jazz / psych noise band, Squid Choir Orkestra. Lika came to a few of our shows. She liked the sounds and the teetering-on-the-edge-freedom of our music. Lika, a singer of songs, was very interested in experimenting using her voice as an instrument, free from lyrics and the implicit constraints of linguistic content. She told me she found the sounds I create playing amplified alto sax thru ring modulator, delays,etc. exciting and emotionally disturbing "in a good way." She thought our electronic free jazz collective improvisation represented a strongly democratic stance. She was absolutely right. Creative improvisation, free improvisation, intuitive improvisation is, at its best, a music that lives outside the realm of everything we already know, outside the language of all we have named; it is not the music of the ego or the self or the culture we collectively carry & create. It requires complete freedom and its participation is implicitly democratic.

The first time we played was a joyful discovery of ways such different musical instruments, such different "sonic worlds" could combine creating an extend conversation, a dialogue that spun off in wild variety of directions without the supportive "safety net" of standard structures or tonalities. These nights of musical exploration eventually led to the material collected on this Cd. A few of the cuts are enhanced by the fortuitous participation of Dave Stone on baritone sax. The time was spring of 2010, a season of freedom dedicated and celebrated with Lifeline.

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released January 1, 2011

Lika Shubitidze: vocals
Jay Zelenka: electronic alto sax
Dave Stone: baritone sax on 1 & 6


Recording & Mix: Jay Zelenka
Cover Art: Spyros Karayiannis
Produced by Jay Zelenka/Freedonia Music

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Freedonia Music St. Louis, Missouri

Freedonia Music was born in 2006 to promote Creative Improvised Music.
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