Bruford Levin Upper Extremities (CD)

The music is what you might expect when King Crimson's rhythm section blends with David Torn's outer space looping, held together by Chris Botti's Miles-like cool melodic sense on the horn. Pieces vary from ballads to heavy rocking ones - with one total improv, titled President's Day. Tying the tracks together are some excerpts of Bruford drumming on the derelict piano in my garage. There's also my tape of a band dinner at a local Woodstock restaurant, which morphs into the track we were discussing at the table. The package is self-designed, rounding out the trio of CD's with this packaging. On this one I had taken a cover photo, planning to hand tint it, but I decided to paint instead, skipping the photo all together. I then did a few more paintings while listening to the looped rough tracks of the music - liked them so much I used them as art in various parts of the package.

Musicians:
Bill Bruford - drums.
Chris Botti - trumpet.
David Torn - guitars, loops, bansuri, wierd eerie things.
Tony Levin - Stick, NS Electric Upright, and an NS/Taos Drums creation we called a DrumBass.

Tracks:
Cerulean Sea
Original Sin
Etude Revisited
A Palace of Pearls (on a blade of grass)
Fin de Siecle
Drumbass
Cracking the Midnight Glass
Torn DrumBass
Thick with Thin Air
Cobalt Canyons
Deeper Blue
Presidents Day


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