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More Unity cassette
Cassette + Digital Album
Limited edition cassette of Landon Caldwell & Friend's new cassette, More Unity, which is the 59th release on Atlantic Rhythms.
Includes unlimited streaming of More Unity via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
Includes unlimited streaming of More Unity
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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More Unity + Unity repress DOUBLE CASSETTE
Cassette + Digital Album
Double cassette of Landon Caldwell's Unity concept piece, including a re-issue of 'Unity' (Atlantic Rhythms, 2020) and 'More Unity' (Atlantic Rhythms, 2022) albums with riso printed j-card. This is the 60th release on Atlantic Rhythms.
Includes unlimited streaming of More Unity
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
For several years, composer Landon Caldwell has iterated on his ‘Unity’ concept. In essence, 'Unity' looks to composition as a spiritual realm for connection through time and space between different selves and different people. It tries to be everything; composition and improvisation, ensemble and solo, etc. ‘More Unity’ is a continuation of that pursuit and the latest iteration to manifest via Caldwell and an expanded ensemble of collaborators, including Patrick Shiroishi, Thom Nguyen, Yuri Osuka, Mark Tester, Drew Davis, Jordan Allen, and Nick Yeck-Stauffer.
Place and environment are central themes in Caldwell’s work, and Indianapolis has played a huge role in the artist’s approach to his compositions. ‘More Unity’ is about connection, physical and digital.
The album features two groups, Eternal Husk and Flower Head Ensemble. Eternal Husk tracks were improvised and recorded at State Street Pub, a place that is a cultural epicenter for the Indianapolis freak music community. Flower Head Ensemble was recorded using the Simultaneous System, a method where players recorded independent and ‘blind’ of the other players. The tracks are then cut up and rearranged into a composition. During the Simultaneous System recordings, players were located in Asheville, Los Angeles, and Nagoya. The juxtaposition here of two methods and two groups into a single album was very intentional. The challenge in conceiving and executing More Unity was to create an album with a singular sound that encompassed as many dualities as possible. Those dualities are apparent in not only method & engineering but also in concept. In exploring the intersection between improvisation and composition, Caldwell discovered that they aren’t that different.
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released October 7, 2022
Tracks 1 & 4 were recorded remotely, independently, and blind of the other players using the simultaneous system.
Yuri Osuka - Voice
Patrick Shiroishi - Saxophone
Thom Nguyen - Percussion & Drums
Mark Tester - Flute, Arp 2600, Bass
Landon Caldwell - Clarinet, Generative & Modular Synth
Tracks 2 & 3 were recorded as part of the Eternal Husk 'Commune' session in Indianapolis.
Nick Yeck-Stauffer - Trumpet
Drew Davis - Trumpet, Trombone
Jordan Allen - Hand Drum, Electric Guitar
Mark Tester - Bass, Shaker, Drums
Landon Caldwell - Organ, Electric Piano
Landon Caldwell is a composer and multi-disciplinary artist in Indianapolis whose work examines environment, family, & class through the language of intuition and other hidden layers of reality.
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