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01. Michael Zerang - Chicago Flyaway
02. Michael Zerang - The Djinn of Nineveh
03. Michael Zerang - Assyrian Caesarean
04. Michael Zerang - Capitalism's Last Shred
05. Michael Zerang - The Swift and Sordid Purification of Jimi Jihad
06. Michael Zerang - Song for Mourners
07. Michael Zerang - Threnody for a Desert Storm
ARTIST
TITLE
Assyrian Caesarean
FORMAT
LP

LABEL
CATALOG #
HOL 122LP HOL 122LP
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
7/19/2019

Chicago-based percussionist Michael Zerang presents his first solo recording after a long career as an exploratory musician and composer, Assyrian Caesarean. Recorded and mixed by Matt Bordin in the woods at (the new) Outside Inside Studio, the album features a range of approaches to percussion that Zerang has developed over the years, including the use of vibrating drumhead surfaces, expressive friction passages, multiple timbre percussion, and straight-up trap-set drumming -- all infused with a rich sense of melodic, rhythmic and textural innovation. Zerang has performed and recorded with some of the most adventurous artists of his era, including a fourteen-year stint with The Peter Brotzmann Chicago Tentet, Joe McPhee's Survival Unit III, and an extended collaboration with drummer and percussionist Hamid Drake. Frequent collaborators also include cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm, pianist and synthesist Jim Baker, bassist Kent Kessler, trumpeter Axel Dorner, along with an ever-widening pool of international improvisors. He also recently began performing with the experimental Middle-Eastern super group Karkhana, with Mazen Kerbaj, Sharif Sehnaoui, Maurice Louca, Tony Elieh, Sam Shalabi, and Umut Çağlar. Edition of 300.