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Directed and free improvisations: Previously unreleased recordings from a 1997 New Music Circle concert plus newly remastered studio tracks present high points in the decades spanning collaboration of Mills & Zelenka, aka the band EXILES. The music ranges from free improv and sparse avant-garde performance to the exotic instrumentation of their orchestral studio works.




"Exiles have destructured standard musical notions so radically that the mind is mainlined imagery as immediate and lush as any Rousseau painting and as mystic as the best of Turner or Blake."
--Marc Tucker, Concrete Dreams, 1985

"...throbbing living music, a sterling blend of technological tools, strong technical skills and humanistic impulses"
--Milo Fine, Cadence, 1987

"It is easiest to respond to the sheer vitality of Exiles playing...Mills and Zelenka's improvisations are stimulating both viscerally and intellectually, well worth the attention of adventurous listeners."
--James Werzbicki, St. Louis Globe-Democrat, 1982

credits

released April 15, 2017

Live Tracks (1-3)
Jay Zelenka: alto sax, flute, Akai EWI (electronic wind instrument)
Greg Mills: piano, Kurzweil digital piano
Eric Markowitz: bass (1,3)
Dave Stone: baritone sax, clarinet (3)

Studio Tracks (4-10)
Jay Zelenka: prepared piano (4), synthesizer (7), alto sax, flute, penny whistle, bamboo flute, bird whistles, Indian oboe, kalimba, percussion
Greg Mills: prepared piano (4), synthesizer (5,6), Kurzweil digital piano, melodica, vibes, violin, bongos, percussion
Dave Stone: soprano sax (7)



Live Tracks (1-3)
Performance for The New Music Circle at Steinberg Auditorium, Washington University, St. Louis, May 3, 1997.


Tracks 4 & 7 previously released on PREMONITIONS (2006)
5,6,8,9 & 10 on FROM THE EDGE (2006)
Tracks 4,7 recording and Mix 2005: Jay Zelenka
Track 5 recording & Mix 1988: James Stonebraker, Telemusik Studio
Tracks 6,8,9 recording & Mix 1986-8: Chris Rathert, Premier Film and Sound

Mastering: Tazu Marshall 2016
Cover photo: Bob Vore © 2016
Produced by JZ/Freedonia Music

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