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New Music For Clarinet And Piano

by Eric Mandat - Greg Mills

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Chance Dance 05:30
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Journey to Charon 07:00
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Tag Team 04:32
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Orbital Resonances 06:24
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For M. Feldman 15:50
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Bass is the Place 03:43
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For K. Penderecki 05:44
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Three Steps on the Horizon 1 04:33
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Three Steps on the Horizon 2 05:35
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Three Steps on the Horizon 3 02:30
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Postmodern classical music created thru the art of improvisation in a broad variety of forms, moods and themes.The musicians exhibit a telepathic rapport in these well defined spontaneous compositions played with elegance and flair, a mature vision delightfully rendered.

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released August 1, 2017

Eric Mandat: clarinet, bass clarinet
Greg Mills: piano

Recorded September 19, 2016
at Jackson Pianos, St. Louis
Special thanks to Joe Jackson
and Kristen Pettinelli
Recording and Mastering: Tazu Marshall
Mix: Tazu Marshall and Jay Zelenka
Produced by Jay Zelenka/Freedonia Music
Cover Photo by Chandra X-Ray Observatory:
Abell 1689, a galaxy cluster 2.3 billion light years from Earth


ABOUT THE MUSICIANS

For more than 35 years, clarinetist/composer Eric Mandat has been at the forefront of clarinet extended performance techniques exploration, particularly multiphonics, microtones, and timbral modulations. Through his numerous performances, compositions, and master classes worldwide, Eric has had a profound influence on the way an entire generation of clarinetists approaches playing their instrument. Eric has also enjoyed an extremely diverse performance career as a chamber musician and collaborator. He has been a member of the Chicago Symphony’s MusicNOW ensemble since 2000, working with eminent composer/conductors such as Pierre Boulez and Esa-Pekka Salonen. He performed the title role in quarter-tone composer John Eaton’s heralded opera for instrumentalists, Don Quixote. Since 1989, Eric has been a member of Tone Road Ramblers, an eclectic sextet specializing in improvisation and experimental music. He has received numerous honors and awards including multiple Illinois Arts Council Artist Fellowships for Composition. He received the 1999 Southern Illinois University Outstanding Scholar Award, the university’s highest honor for research/creative work.Eric Mandat received his education at the University of North Texas, the Yale School of Music, and the Eastman School of Music. He is Visiting Professor of Music and Distinguished Scholar at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, where he teaches clarinet and graduate courses in musical analysis.

Eric’s artistic mission is to invite listeners to explore the deep and delicate inner worlds of self through their experiences of the micro galaxies of clarinet multiphonics and subtle timbral and pitch modulations in his compositions and improvisational commentaries.


Greg Mills studied classical piano performance at the St.Louis Institute of Music and privately with Gail Delente and Jules Gentils. Mentored in jazz performance and theory by St.Louis Black Artist Group bassist Carl Arzinia Richardson, he gigged with Richardson performing jazz standards as the duo Epoxy in the mid 1970's. In the late 1970's he was associated with James Marshall's Human Arts Ensemble. In 1980 Mills teamed up with Jay Zelenka and for the next ten years performed and recorded as the multi-instrumental improvising duo EXILES, amalgamating influences of the musical cultures of India and Africa with free improv and elements of the Euro-classical avant-garde. Exploring exotic tunings and extended raga-like duet performances for kalimba led Mills to adapt the Indian raga form to piano, creating a unique body of work in performances and recordings. During this time Mills pursued interests in mallet keyboards, drum set, percussion and began developing what is today a virtuoso command of the melodica, a wind keyboard usually treated as a novelty instrument. In 2015 Mills co-founded the Perihelion groups (trio, quartet, and ensemble), and curated a series of performances for solo improviser (Soliloquy) and duo improvisation (Just The Two Of Us). As leader of the Perihelion groups, Mills organized numerous public performances in 2015-2016 while recording his solo work, Mosaique, A Day At The Circus (Perihelion Quartet), and New Music for Clarinet and Piano. Most recently Mills recorded KUVUKA as one half of The Glen"Papa" Wright Greg Mill Duo and a new solo work, The Dark Passanger, both to be released on the Freedonia Music imprint.

Throughout his thirty plus years of public performance, free improv on solo piano has been his mainstay while continuing to explore directed or structured approaches to improvisation as diverse as ragas and tone rows. Mills says his work is "about the continuing discovery and exploitation of new approaches to improvised music and the development of new techniques for improvising on the piano."

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