Double Bass New and Forthcoming CD

[damonsmith]

New and available now:
Mimetic Holds - Balancepoint Acoustics - BPA 100

Frank Gratkowski (Germany) - Alto Sax,Clarinet

Scott R. Looney (USA) - Prepared and Unprepared Piano

Damon Smith (USA) - Contrabass

Kjell Nordeson (Sweden) - Drums, Percussion

This quartet pairs two explosive players, sax and clarinet titan Frank Gratkowski, and high-energy drummer and percussionist Kjell Nordeson (Mats gustafson,Ken Vandermark) w/ pianist Scott Looney and bassist Damon Smith in an exciting, incredibly intense, and varied series of sonic landscapes, from hard blowing free jazz to extremely sparse textures, all within the boundaries of cooperative composition. Recorded live in Santa Cruz at Kuumbwa Jazz (#1-5) and in Oakland (#6) at Studio 1510 in October 2004.

You can send a paypal for $15 PP worldwide to [email protected]
Get it here from Emusic:
http://www.emusic.com/album/Frank-Gratkowski-Mimetic-Holds-MP3-Download/11333293.html
Or Itunes:
Here at Itunes:
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=296945966&s=143441

Coming very, very soon will "ThoughtBeetle" By Bertram Turetzky and Damon Smith.

Damon Smith

Link Removed
Link Removed
New solo project:
Link Removed

 

[Sam Sherry]

I pulled this off EMusic today.

This is free-improvisation at a very, very high level. The music ranges from quietude to full-on skronk with ears open throughout. If free blowing is your bag, or if you want to hear some done well, spend some time with this band.

Gotta dig the "mix-and-match" titles, too.

 

[damonsmith]

Thanks for the kind words, Sam. Kjell and Frank are easily two of the best musicians who will play with me regularly. This project is approaching "working band" status, as much as these international improv groups can. We have a more recent recording in the can and hope to get it out soon.
The duo with Bert is almost done and I have to say I am really happy with it.

Oh, Sam asked in PM, getting it from emusic rather than ordering the cd is OK and maybe even preferable to me.