35 Grapes (19 Shown), by Michael Zerang & Fred Lonberg-Holm

35 Grapes (19 Shown)

by Michael Zerang & Fred Lonberg-Holm

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"Percussionist Michael Zerang and string player Fred Lonberg-Holm are, like Gustafsson, second-generation free improvisers who know not only their Cage and Stockhausen but also jazz, rock, and other contemporary musics (Zerang, for example, is an expert in ethnic rhythms)—-which is not to say that all of these can be heard in 35 Grapes (19 Shown). Working from similar precepts as Christmann and Gustafsson, they put their own spin on this spontaneous process of construction. For one thing, these are longer pieces—they take more time to construct their edifices, and occasionally choose to linger over certain textures or emphasize a particularly complex rhythmic context. Due to their more varied instrumentation, they utilize a larger palette of colors, harmonics, overtones, and microtones. Lonberg-Holm switches from cello (on which he displays more classical training and technique than Christmann) to the tangy Chinese fiddle (erhu), the prickly mandolin, and the harmonicalike melodica. Zerang uses percussion not for timekeeping but as a source of pitched and unpitched colors, and his lightness of touch provides a subtle clatter rather than a rock-hard presence. If it could be said that Christmann and Gustafsson use their material to carve out a kind of stark, unpredictable, Calder-like mobile sculpture, then by way of contrast Zerang and Lonberg-Holm construct a kinetic sculpture of moving parts in the manner of Naum Gabo. Each has its own viability, its shifting moods, its special brand of charm. As music, they're just different, that's all." - Art Lange. Issue 23:1 (Sept/Oct 1999) of Fanfare Magazine.

"Like two abstract visual artists painting on the spot, these two begin with an idea of where they going and travel down some treacherous courses with little guidance. The results are uniformly stunning and enlightening. Zerang and Lonberg-Holm have done this sort of thing with others many times before, but this is clearly one of their best." - Steve Loewy, AllMusic

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released September 11, 1998

Fred Lonberg-Holm - Cello, Mandolin, Melodica, Banjo, Erhu
Michael Zerang - Percussion, Zither
Recorded By – Rick Barns
Recorded live at Rax Trax, Chicago on March 19, 1998

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