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Fluid Density
Brian Groder & Tonino Miano
Piano-trumpet duets between
Brian on trumpet and Tonino on piano. Spontaneous improvisational interpretations of modern classical new-music. There are no written scores, outlines or overdubs,
just the exchanged words between takes. Recorded June 2010 NYC.
Phase Shift
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Phase Shift
music/album1/Phase Shift.mp3
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Optika
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Groder & Greene
with Burton Greene, Rob Brown, Adam Lane and Ray Sage
Landfall
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Landfall - ferocious, inspired octatonic riffery. Lane’s opening bass pizzicato regales his extraordinary bent pitch sensitivity. The song exemplifies the considerable talents of Groder, Greene, and their excellent accompanists.
http://www.briangroder.com/music/landfallcut.mp3
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Only The Now
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Only the Now - just listen to Lane's double bass on this one - truly moving (every second of every measure). The drums and alto sax play an intricate duet at first, with the other instruments slowly coming one at a time, each one adding another line to the ever-flowing waves within waves.
music/album2/groder3-02.mp3
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Separate Being
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Separate Being - Brian plays some sublime muted trumpet while Burton carefully places soft flurries of notes and Rob spins a few notes of his alto into cerebral tapestry
music/album2/groder3-03.mp3
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Amulet
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Amulet - Greene puts a lot of humor and fun in the music, like in "Amulet" where he distorts the sound of the piano by putting objects on the strings. A quiet and strange piano, bass, and drums trio that has Greene plucking at the piano inside and out and Lane and Sage responding appropriately.
music/album2/groder3-04.mp3
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Cryptic Means
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Cryptic Means - features the duo without the rest of the band in a virtuosic rewarding turn
music/album2/groder3-05.mp3
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Torque
with Sam Rivers, Doug Mathews and Anthony Cole
Spellcast
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Spellcast features drummer Anthony Cole's masterful management of tension with fluid shifts from cymbals to toms. Groder's presence is known after only a few seconds into the first track.
music/album3/Spellcut.mp3
music/album3/Spellcut.ogg
Betwixt
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The collective tumult of Betwixt.
music/album3/Betwixtcut.mp3
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Behind the Shadows 1
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Behind the Shadows 1 - Groder bringing poised, muted trumpet figures that fit perfectly with Rivers' elaborate flute filigrees on the freely improvised 'Behind the Shadows'.
music/album3/BTS1cut
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Oculus
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Oculus - a relaxed, swinging groove.
music/album3/Occut.mp3
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Jingo
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Jingo - Bassist Doug Mathews' adroit shifts between unison and counterpoint are impressive.
music/album3/Jingocut.mp3
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Incantations
with Ron Thomas, Craig Thomas and Newman Taylor Baker
Incantations
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Incantations
music/album4/Incantationsample.mp3
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Discerning Omens
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Discerning Omens
music/album4/Omensample.mp3
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Tonus
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music/album4/Tonusample.mp3
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Perihelion
with Michael Mee, Kevin Kuhn, Vince Fay and Newman Taylor Baker
Lone Consonance
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Lone Consonance
music/album5/Lonesample.mp3
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Hubbub
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Hubbub
music/album5/Hubsample.mp3
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Ancestral Tongues
with Michael Mee, J. C. Feil, Kevin Kuhn, Craig Thomas and Tony Vigilante
Ancestral Tongues
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Ancestral Tongues
music/album6/Ancut.mp3
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Lee's Label
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Lee's Label
music/album6/Leecut.mp3
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Ratios Within
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Ratios Within
music/album6/Ratiocut.mp3
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Out-takes and never-released recordings
Disconcertion, alternate
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Disconcertion - alternate take from the Torque sessions: Brian Groder, trumpet and Doug Mathews, bass
music/album7/Disconcertion.mp3
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Diverging Orbits, live take
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From the "Living Room Sessions" rehearsals for Torque, here is the first rough but full-out rendition of 'Diverging Orbits'. Listen at about the four-minute mark when the rhythm section takes over, and wait for Sam to shout his approval at the end. Brian, Sam Rivers, Doug Mathews, Anthony Cole
music/album7/divergingalt.mp3
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