My friend, Jeff Bagato, created a new band, Croniamantal, to serve as a vehicle for improvisational collaboration between poets and musicians. I was surprised and honored to be invited to be a part of Croniamantal's inaugural performance.
The first and only, to date, jam session went very well. Jeff has assembled a good group of people, as in, nice and friendly, for this project. It is unfortunate that "nice and friendly" is often associated with "bland" but if you check out the audio clip, the music is not necessarily so. One thing I notice often in free improv is that much of it tends to be a-rhythmic, which is unfortunately all too conducive to chaos. Inviting Pat into the band was a brilliant move. He specializes in modular analog synth, with a penchant for rhythmic sounds. Thus, we have one source of rhythm we can play off of. The other is the poet Buck Downs, as his poetic delivery has a natural rhythm as well.
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