Bilbao Song, by Available Jelly

Bilbao Song

by Available Jelly

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1.	Lovelock 05:29	buy track
2.	Bulan/Khek Borates 03:57	buy track
3.	Façade 05:22	buy track
4.	Baltimore Oriole 05:40	buy track
5.	Little French Boy 03:18	buy track
6.	Selat Sunda 04:42	buy track
7.	Jackdaws and Blackbirds 05:09	buy track
8.	Wollič 04:10	buy track
9.	Mad 04:33	buy track
10.	Colima 05:05	buy track
11.	In the Secret Garden 03:40	buy track
12.	Bilbao Song 04:30	buy track

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Michael Moore - alto saxophone, clarinet, bass clarinet
Tobias Delius - tenor saxophone, clarinet
Eric Boeren - cornet
Wolter Wierbos - trombone Ernst Glerum, bass; Michael Vatcher, percussion

Lovelock is named after James Lovelock, co-discoverer of the 'Gaia' theory, which views the Earth as a living organism; a wonderful antidote to the present ascendancy of faith-based viewpoints of how it all happened. Bulan and Khek Borates are two pieces found in an old book of Siamese songs. We treat them as found objects. Facade--facades are to be found everywhere, especially in Amsterdam. Baltimore Oriole is a beautiful tune by that master of pop, blues, jazz, and country & western songwriting. Little French Boy is from the Casino Royale soundtrack, which is much better than the movie. Selat Sunda is the strait between Java and Sumatra. The music is inspired by Javanese, Balinese, and music from the Karo Batak highlands of Sumatra. How people in such hot places can play such fast music I can't understand. Jackdaws and Blackbirds is an improvised portrait of the sounds in my garden. A humming melody in the background that you only notice when not listening to the sounds in the fore- ground: loads of jackdaws singing their descending lines ("krah, krah, krah, krah, krah, krah, krah...") with blackbirds and other birds singing pretty melodies on top in short bursts. Duke Ellington's 1938 recording of Braggin' in Brass knocked out Available Jelly's brass section completely. Was there more to be done with good old Tiger Rag? Wollic is written to feature Wolter Wierbos. Mad is a 'fake' Madagascar tune. Colima is the name of a city and state in Mexico where I have never been. In the Secret Garden was written in a barren, concrete play area in the middle of Amsterdam which we called the scret garden, perhaps for motivational purposes. For me, Bilbao Song tends toward stasis. "

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released January 1, 2004

Recorded 25-27 January, 2004 by Frank van der Weij, assisted by David Klooker and Bento Kassies at E-Sound Studios, Weesp, NL

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Michael Moore Amsterdam, Netherlands

Michael Moore (1954, Eureka, California, USA) is a saxophone & clarinet player active primarily in Europe and North America playing creative jazz and improvised musics. He leads his own ensembles, works with the Instant Composers Pool Orchestra and many others, collaborates with dancers, teaches music at the Conservatories of Amsterdam and Groningen in the Netherlands and produces recordings. ... more