Rabble Without A Cause, November 20: new introspective, improvisational music

Music from The Necks, Gerald Cleaver, Barry Guy and others

Nov 19, 2024

On this week’s show I’ll be featuring all new releases that are (mostly) introspective improvisations.

We will start the show with the Korean composer and pianist, Eunhye Jeong, from her new release, End of Time, KM-53 Project, Vol. 2. Jeong has written about this project:

The bear, code-named KM-53, passed away in June 2023. Unlike other Asiatic black bears, which Koreans refer to by ‘bandal gasum gom’ or ‘half-moon chest bears,’ KM-53 embarked on a journey of nearly 80 km from its original habitat in its second year of life, tirelessly moving through the backbone of South Korea's major mountain range. He could not confine himself to the assigned territory.
Wild or not, we are all children of nature. Whether successful or not, musical creations are born out of our connection to nature – both as Mother Nature and as the innate quality of an entity. I consider mine to be so.
End of Time Vol. 2 features two tracks of live performance recorded just before the infamous 2020 lockdowns. Four years passed, many things have returned to 'normal,' and some 'new normals' have been introduced to the world at an accelerated pace. When this creation was born, I didn’t foresee the end of old normalcy; however, the music seems to invoke a subversive, rupturing change in us and the universal reality we once believed in.

The album features the following musicians:

Allison Burik: Alto sax, bass clarinet
Max Ridley: Double bass
Francisco Mela: Drums
Mina Kim: Cello
Eunhye Jeong: Piano

We will also listen the first single from Mark Kirschenmann’s forthcoming album, coming in January. This album, Tonics, is a collection of seven melodies composed and performed on an acoustic trumpet with bamboo mouth pipe, replacing the traditional trumpet mouthpiece. This distinctive sound, almost flute-like, makes for relaxing listening. This album emerged out of Kirschenmann’s longstanding study of the bansuri and shakuhachi flute traditions.

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