| 1 | Twice Removed | 3:46 |
| 2 | The Widow | 0:38 |
| 3 | Shank and Spindle | 3:41 |
| 4 | The Four Apprentices | 1:16 |
| 5 | Scalpel | 1:44 |
| 6 | The Attendant | 0:35 |
| 7 | Famously Short Arms | 4:20 |
| 8 | The Widows Daughter | 0:26 |
| 9 | These Things Are Not Fancy | 6:54 |
| 10 | Two Leyaks and a Minister | 1:37 |
| 11 | Now Now Not Later Not Ever | 4:32 |
| 12 | The Disciple | 1:08 |
| 13 | Fed Ex Gorilla | 3:46 |
| 14 | The Irate Prime Minister | 0:57 |
| 15 | My Face Spited | 2:30 |
| 16 | The Sared Beast | 0:11 |
| 17 | Regrets I've Had a Few | 2:05 |
| 18 | Warrior with Dagger | 0:33 |
| 19 | Supplie e Domanda | 1:58 |
Third solo record from Corsano. One drum set augmented by various re-purposed metal objects, modified reed instruments and bowed strings stretched across drums. 19 tracks--9 of which are interwoven throughout the record in a very loose retelling of the Calon Arang story portrayed in Balinese gamelan music.
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Chris Corsano / percussion
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Tracklisting:
1. Twice Removed - 4:06
2. The Widow - 0:38
3. Shank And Spindle - 3:41
4. The Four Apprentices - 1:16
5. Scalpels - 1:44
6. The Attendant - 0:35
7. Famously Short Arms - 4:20
8. The Widow's Daughter - 0:26
9. These Things Are Not Fancy - 6:54
10. Two Leyaks And A Minister - 1:37
11. Not Now Not Later Not Ever - 4:32
12. The Disciple - 1:08
13. Fed Ex'd Gorilla - 3:46
14. The Irate Prime Minister - 0:57
15. My Face, Spited - 2:30
16. The Sacred Beast - 0:11
17. Regrets, I've Had A Few - 2:05
18. Warrior With Dagger Pointed Inward - 0:33
19. Suppli E Domanda - 1:58
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Recorded January-March 2012 except #1 (December 2009), #5 (March 2008), #13 (December 2011) and #15 (May 2010).
All acoustics, no overdubs, some edits here, some fades there.
Available as a 320k MP3 or 24bit FLAC download.
Chris Corsano (b. 1975, USA) is a New York-based drummer who has been active at the intersections of collective improvisation, free jazz, avant-rock, and experimental music since the late 1990's. He's been the rim-batterer of choice for some of the greatest contemporary purveyors of "jazz" (Joe McPhee, Paul Flaherty, Mette Rasmussen, Zoh Amba) and "rock" (Sir Richard Bishop, Bill Orcutt, Jim O'Rourke), as well as artists beyond categorization (Björk for her Volta album and world tour, Michael Flower, Okkyung Lee).
Corsano began a long-standing, high-energy musical partnership with saxophonist Paul Flaherty in 1998. Their style, which they occasionally refer to with (semi-)tongue-in-cheek humor as "The Hated Music", combines modern free-jazz's ecstatic collectivism with the urgency and intensity of hardcore punk. A move from western Massachusetts to the UK in 2005 led Corsano to develop his solo music -- a dynamic, spontaneously-composed orchestra-of-one utilizing extended techniques for drum set, non-percussive instruments of his own creation (e.g. bowed violin strings stretched across drum heads), circular breathing on modified reed instruments, and stockpiles of resonant metals. He spent 2007-08 as the drummer on Björk's Volta world tour, all the while weaving in shows and recordings on his days off with the likes of Evan Parker, Michael Flower, and Jandek. He moved back to the U.S. in 2009 and continued touring in an ultrawide array of ever-evolving collaborations. In 2017 he won the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award. A renowned solo performer in his own right, Corsano has a new solo record, The Key (Became The Important Thing [and Then Just Faded Away] out on the Drag City label.
His dedication to collective improvisation has led to Corsano to join forces with many kindred spirits and his appearance on over 180 records and thousands of live performances. He's worked with, among others: Paul Dunmall (released by the label: ESP-Disk), Joe McPhee (Roaratorio), Okkyung Lee (Open Mouth), Bill Orcutt (Palilalia), Mette Rasmussen (Hot Cars Warp Records & Clean Feed), John Edwards (OTOroku & Dancing Wayang), Sylvie Courvoisier (Relative Pitch), Nate Wooley (No Business & Astral Spirits), Jim O'Rourke & Akira Sakata (Drag City & Polystar), Merzbow (Family Vineyard), Jessica Rylan (Load Records), Rodrigo Amado (Trost), Nels Cline (Strange Attractors), Heather Leigh (Volcanic Tongue), Ghédalia Tazartès (Ultra Eczema), Ken Vandermark (Audiographic), and Sunburned Hand Of Man (Manhand).
https://chriscorsano.bandcamp.com/music
