Bryan Eubanks & Michel Doneda
Panzer Constellations
CD (2022) [available April 2022]

1. - 19:58
2. - 15:47
3. - 07:25

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Bryan Eubanks & Michel Doneda

Bryan Eubanks (1977) develops his music through solo work and collaboration. Since 1999 he has participated in many short and long term projects, and regularly presents his work internationally. Continually active in a variety of contexts: improvisation; composing electronic and acoustic works for small ensembles, solo instruments, computers, and electronics; organizing and curating concerts for other artists; building electronic instruments. He currently lives in Berlin.

Michel Doneda (1954) is one of the major figures of the improvised scene, preacher of sound action, fiercely free and definitely poetic. Soprano saxophone virtuoso, he is in the line of Sydney Bechet, Steve Lacy or Evan Parker, and like his elders he inscribes his work in a contemporaneity necessary for all pioneers of new sound territories.
An attentive traveler listening to the world, he has not stopped surveying the continents for more than thirty years and multiplying the collaborations; pygmies from Gabon to the drums of the empire, through the Basque singer Beñat Achiary, Barre Phillps and Sonic Youth.
Doneda apprehends the sound in its most concrete sense, listening and giving as much detail as possible to "go inside". His music invites to a journey of incredible sound space carried by inspiration and breathing.

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The music of Panzer Constellations was the result of a single occasion - by the invitation of After Action Review - to record a duo of soprano saxophones for the wonderful acoustics available at the former Heeresbekleidungsamt, Bernau - now an expansive abandoned building.

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Recording notes
Sennheiser MKH 106T x2 (wide), MKH 20 x2 (AB stereo)
Sonosax SX-R4+

This recording was made on site of the former offices and administration buildings of the Heeresbekleidungsamt Bernau (Army Clothing Agency), Berlin. The building was later used as one of the former Soviet Union Panzer tank kasernes in the region. Panzer Constellations was realised in one of two rooftop spaces that have the most remarkable acoustics, whereas Skirting was realised in the equivalent space of the opposite wing.

Recorded by Adam Asnan in Berlin, June 2019.