Bryan Eubanks & Michel Doneda
Panzer Constellations
CD (2022) [available April 2022]
1. - 19:58
2. - 15:47
3. - 07:25
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+
Recorded by Adam Asnan in Berlin, June 2019.