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Format: CD
Label: Rogueart
Year: 2026
Media Condition: New
Sleeve/Cover Condition: New
TRACKS:
1. In the Air
2. Get There
3. Going Through
4. Sky Shift
5. Return of the Empire
6. Foreign Landing
7. On the Ground
PERSONNEL:
Ed Wilkerson, Jr.: saxophones, clarinets, oud, didgeridoo
Ken Vandermark: saxophones, clarinets
Jim Baker: keyboards, viola
Luke Stewart: double bass, samples
Avreeayl Ra: Drums, percussion
The second album from Luke Stewart's Exposure Quartet (named for its spontaneous formation at Chicago's Exposure concert series) finds the group's improvisations peppered with sounds from the world, field recordings that take the music beyond some of its usual haunts.
"This project explores the idea that music takes us on a journey around the world," explains Luke Stewart, "in communion with the Universe. We observe and gather experiences that translate into sound, in a spirit of universal connectivity."
Among the real conditions of improvisation are the place and its spirits. There is the idea, yet another idea, that creative music draws its strength each time from a place on Earth and from everything that converges there. And that, in return, it opens up a space, a door, an energetic corridor there, leading to other places, real or imaginary.
This is also what the old blues songs meant when they spoke of coming back home and bringing back home which is what "Foreign Landing" and its somnambulistic clarinets convey here. The end of a long quest, a home, a prism. For a place is a bond, it fulfills wishes, a place is a link between all manner of things, present and absent, a magnetic field.
Label: Rogueart
Year: 2026
Media Condition: New
Sleeve/Cover Condition: New
TRACKS:
1. In the Air
2. Get There
3. Going Through
4. Sky Shift
5. Return of the Empire
6. Foreign Landing
7. On the Ground
PERSONNEL:
Ed Wilkerson, Jr.: saxophones, clarinets, oud, didgeridoo
Ken Vandermark: saxophones, clarinets
Jim Baker: keyboards, viola
Luke Stewart: double bass, samples
Avreeayl Ra: Drums, percussion
The second album from Luke Stewart's Exposure Quartet (named for its spontaneous formation at Chicago's Exposure concert series) finds the group's improvisations peppered with sounds from the world, field recordings that take the music beyond some of its usual haunts.
"This project explores the idea that music takes us on a journey around the world," explains Luke Stewart, "in communion with the Universe. We observe and gather experiences that translate into sound, in a spirit of universal connectivity."
Among the real conditions of improvisation are the place and its spirits. There is the idea, yet another idea, that creative music draws its strength each time from a place on Earth and from everything that converges there. And that, in return, it opens up a space, a door, an energetic corridor there, leading to other places, real or imaginary.
This is also what the old blues songs meant when they spoke of coming back home and bringing back home which is what "Foreign Landing" and its somnambulistic clarinets convey here. The end of a long quest, a home, a prism. For a place is a bond, it fulfills wishes, a place is a link between all manner of things, present and absent, a magnetic field.