CMW Records Presents

Bottesini

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With special guests Jeff Parker (Tortoise, Isotope 217), Scott Amendola (Nels Cline Singers), DJ Olive (Sonic Youth, MMW), and Ron Miles (Bill Frisell), The Bottesini Project came together in August 2007 to meld Denver’s thriving free improv scene with some of the finest instrumentalists in the world. Bringing to the stage three musicians with tremendous skill and diversity and adding a quartet featuring some of the best players in Denver today created a night of music to remember!

With no preparation, rehearsal, or discussion, the band hit the stage with the intent to explore the coming together of seven musical personalities, guided only by the spirit of free improvisation. However, this music differs greatly from the commonly expected result of free improv. Instead of meandering, pulse free atmospheres, this band has an uncanny ability to create the impression of composed, rehearsed music. There are songs spontaneously born, strong grooves, and overall a feeling that all seven of these musicians were locked into each other’s presence.

The concert was produced by Westword’s 2008 Mastermind recipient Creative Music Works, a non-profit organization dedicated to the support of musical innovators. Knowing that this performance would be the only chance to capture the unique energy of the first encounter, the night was recorded for release. The result is one hundred minutes of music, spanning two discs, that covers a stunning amount of territory, and both shows off the great individual talents involved as well as the synergy of the ensemble as a whole.

This Bottesini Project is:
Paul Riola: Tenor, Soprano Saxes & Electronics
Jeff Parker: Guitar
Scott Amendola: Percussion & Electronics
DJ Olive: Turntables & Laptop
Ron Miles: Cornet
Glenn Taylor: Pedal Steel
Doug Anderson: Bass

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A mastermind trio, Marco Benevento, Matt Chamberlain and Reed Mathis join experimental forces. Marco Benevento is best known as one half of the Benevento/Russo Duo, the acclaimed instrumental indie rock, post jazz experimentalists, who?ve earned a legion of fans performing at high profile events like Lollapalooza, Austin City Limits, Fuji Rock Festival and Bonnaroo, while drawing rave reviews at publications ranging from Rolling Stone to Pitchfork.com. Holding court behind a dizzying array of vintage keyboards, upright and toy pianos, pedals, samplers and other circuit bent gadgets, Benevento has established a reputation as one of the most exciting young keyboardists to emerge in the last decade.

Matt Chamberlain's first notable work was with Edie Brickell & New Bohemians, with whom he toured and recorded from 1988 until 1991. In 1991 he briefly joined the band Pearl Jam and toured with them before the release of their début album Ten. He can be seen in the band's first video, "Alive". After a season in the house band for Saturday Night Live, he moved to Seattle to start the out groove band Critters Buggin which is currently active. He has worked on combining live and looped drums, often creating loops on the fly and then playing along to them. Tori Amos has introduced Chamberlain as "the human loop" at her concerts.
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