Eksjö Musik Encyklopedi

01. raar (featuring Jeff Fairbanks, Kavin Allenson, Norbert Oldani)
02. glibs (featuring Jukka-Pekka Kervinen, Paul Muller, Adam Kondor, Bruce Hamilton)
03. rome (featuring Paul Hertz, Benjamin Smith, Glenn Weyant, Steve Moyes, Peter Thörn)
04. convermash (featuring Paul Muller, Jérôme Poirier, Jude Cowan, Chris Vaisvil, Roger Sundström)
05. doorbler (featuring Steve Layton, Peter Thörn)
06. loose ends (featuring Steve Moshier, J.C. Combs, Greg Hooper)
07. chunka (featuring Norbert Oldani, Kavin Allenson, Roger Sundström)
08. lightness of bleeping (featuring Jeff Duke, Steve Moshier, Benjamin Smith)
09. bonfire machines (featuring Chris Becker, Paul Muller, Lee Noyes, Bruce Hamilton)
10. emu lunaire (featuring Jan Civil, Jukka-Pekka Kervinen)
11. fria (featuring Jérôme Poirier, Lee Noyes, Shane Cadman)
12. qua (featuring Don Bplaektree, Jérôme Poirier, Gerald DeGroote, Roger Sundström)
13. curtains (electric sheep) (featuring Roger Sundström, Adam Kondor, Jukka-Pekka Kervinen, Bruce Hamilton)
14. trio procession (featuring Steve Layton, Shane Cadman, Greg Hooper)
15. mettle/meddle (featuring Roger Sundström, J-P Kervinen, Jim Goodin)
16. cousins (featuring Jeff Fairbanks, Steve Moshier)
17. line pumpercar (featuring Steve Layton, Peter Thörn)
18. glassloops (featuring Jeff Duke, David Perreko, Bruce Hamilton)
19. dronedrift (featuring Steve Moshier, Peter Thörn, Anonymouse, Don Bplaektree)

An album of experimental mashups culled from 'ImprovFriday' events, 'society For ShortY new music' collaborations, and Facebook sharing.

Remolding preexisting material has become one of my favorite musical habits of the past three years. Most of these works were created during ImprovFriday, a weekly online event where folks typically post brand new works or improvisations and can expect to have them mashed into new pieces by others within hours. The process of creating works on the fly is very challenging but also immensely fun. In my own case, not every mashup will succeed to the same degree but there are always some I end up loving as compositions (featuring my talented friends).

As with my duo collaboration album “duopoly” there are multiple approaches involved when making these. Some mashes are fairly hands-off, letting the component pieces speak for themselves, revealing accidental (and coerced) musical connections between often disparate sources. In other mashes I may edit and process the tracks almost beyond recognition. Sometimes I add my own instrumental contributions; and sometimes my mashups contain other mashups or online jam sessions.

This album is dedicated to my collaborators, whose audio contributions served as both the inspiration and raw materials for these tracks.

All tracks - Bruce Hamilton: editing, arranging, processing, mixing, mastering.

Artwork by Miles Hamilton-Sommer.