MEJA
Michael Evans and Jeff Arnal
C3R 008
- Hand Me Down
- Fear Active
- Revivify
- Two Hats Are Better Than One
- Transvection
- West Shokan Slumber
- Labrador Labyrinth
- Snafu
- A Peculiar Presentiment
- Opening
- With a Hint of...
- A Maze of Transparencies
- Drifting W-Peer
- Treeman Suite
All Music by Michael Evans and Jeff Arnal © 2006. Recorded on June 9th & 10th, 2004 in West Shokan, NY, at the Make Believe Ballroom.Mixed and mastered by Tom Mark
Eschewing bombast and grandstanding, percussionists Michael Evans and Jeff Arnal are sympathetically
matched in their sensibilities, creating settings that are not lacking for traditional melodics and harmonics because they
fully understand the musical reach of their drums. Born of improvisation sessions, the diversity on these fourteen pieces is striking.
A full album experience has been created by smartly sequencing the pieces to create a dramatic arc that celebrates warmth, surprise and adventure. They jump happily into skittering density, as on the busy precision of "Fear Active" and the elliptical "Opening."
They lock horns on hi-hats (the cheekily titled "Two Hats are Better than One") and wood blocks (Drifting W-Peer").
There are also moments of open ended expansiveness (With a Hint Of...") and even lightly comedic portraiture (Labrador Labyrinth"). Two drummers create one full and balanced meal.
- DAVID GREENBERGER
SIGNAL TO NOISE 2008
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