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ARTIST
ALCORN, SUSAN
TITLE
The Heart Sutra (Arranged by Janel Leppin)
FORMAT
LP
LABEL
IDEOLOGIC ORGAN
CATALOG #
SOMA 038LP
SOMA 038LP
GENRE
EXPERIMENTAL
RELEASE DATE
3/26/2021
Legendary pedal steel player
Susan Alcorn
presents her music as curated and arranged by cellist and composer
Janel Leppin
. This recording is from a live performance from her residency at Issue Project Room in July 2012. Leppin's arrangements and curation emotes the brilliance, transparency and resonance of the pedal steel guitar. Through this ensemble, the mastery of Susan Alcorn's compositions shine. Susan Alcorn has taken the pedal steel guitar far beyond its traditional role in country music. Having first paid her dues in Texas country and western bands, she began to expand the vocabulary of her instrument through her study of 20th century classical music, visionary jazz, and world musics. Struck by the music of
Messiaen
she began transcribing classical music from recordings and scores on her instrument. Soon, she began to combine the techniques of country-western pedal steel with her own extended techniques to form a personal style influenced by free jazz, avant-garde classical music, Indian ragas, Indigenous traditions, and various folk musics of the world. By the early 1990s her music began to show an influence of the holistic and feminist 'deep listening' philosophies of
Pauline Oliveros
. As her records gained a cult following she moved to Baltimore, MD. She performs internationally and is a key figure in the free improv scene in the US. Janel Leppin is a core member of the Washington, D.C. experimental, jazz, punk and improvisational scenes and is a celebrated visual artist as a weaver. DownBeat Magazine describes her as '
An absolute virtuoso
', NPR Music says '
instrumental intimacy swept up in arrangements that cluster around her voice, as delicate and as imposing as a sheet of falling ice
' Janel leads and writes for her free jazz sextet,
Ensemble Volcanic Ash
. . . Leppin and Alcorn also recorded the composition 'Thick Tarragon' by
Eyvind Kang
from the album
Visible Breath
on Ideologic Organ. Leppin appears as a string arranger on many recordings on labels from Dischord Records to Sacred Bones. Personnel:
Anthony Pirog
- guitar; Janel Leppin - cello, modified cello;
Jessika Kenney
- vocals; Eyvind Kang - viola;
Skúli Sverrisson
- bass;
Doug Wieselman
- clarinet, bass clarinet. Gold vinyl.
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