PERFORMED BY SO PERCUSSION WITH SOLOISTS
JOHN MEDESKI, NELS CLINE, ZEENA PARKINS, GREG OSBY & BOBBY PREVITE
TERMINALS DUE OCTOBER 28, 2014 (DIGITAL) /
NOVEMBER 18 (DELUXE DOUBLE LP)
VIA CANTALOUPE MUSIC
NOVEMBER 18 (DELUXE DOUBLE LP)
VIA CANTALOUPE MUSIC
“Previte’s music is thoroughly, stubbornly and distinctly his own…
the music copies nothing, and is utterly original.”- The New York Times
the music copies nothing, and is utterly original.”- The New York Times
“Previte is a serious composer with the heart of a roadhouse rocker.”- Village Voice
“He can break your heart with one cymbal crash.” – Jazziz
Cantaloupe Music is excited to announce the release of Bobby Previte‘s Terminals, performed by the highly esteemed So Percussion ensemble, with soloists John Medeski (Medeski, Martin & Wood),Nels Cline (Wilco, Nels Cline Singers, Nels Cline Trio, Thurston Moore), Zeena Parkins (Fred Frith, Björk, Ikue Mori), Greg Osby (Herbie Hancock, Jack DeJohnette, Andrew Hill) and Bobby Previtehimself. Each soloist appears on one of Terminals‘ five tracks, bringing their singular and genre-defying virtuosity to the work with thrilling results. Terminals will have a digital-only release onOctober 28, 2014 and a deluxe double gatefold vinyl release on November 18, 2014 via Cantaloupe Music.
Drummer, composer, bandleader and tireless improviser Bobby Previte is known for his massive contributions to New York’s legendary downtown progressive music scene – an immensely fertile period in the 1980s that saw the likes of Steve Reich and Philip Glass breaking new ground with Ornette Coleman’s Prime Time, Bang on a Can and many more.
Now with nearly four decades under his belt as a creative force behind the drumkit, Previte has assembled a dream team of pioneering musicians from the jazz, indie rock, and classical worlds to create Terminals, a luminous project consisting of five concertos for percussion ensemble and soloists, each inspired by the schematic-like terminal maps that Previte has noticed in airports around the world. With the eternally adventurous So Percussion holding down the groove, Cline, Parkins, Osby, Medeski and Previte take turns in the forefront to deliver an electrifying part-composed, part-improvised workout that stretches over two vinyl pieces. (Previte’s “Terminal 4” will be available as a digital-only exclusive.)
A 2012 Guggenheim Foundation Fellow, Previte has collaborated with an improbable array of some of the leading lights in and beyond the world of music, from serving as ensemble contractor for the world première of John Adams‘ opera I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky at Lincoln Center, to creating the signature bass marimba line on “Clap Hands” for rock icon Tom Waits‘ groundbreaking Rain Dogs recording, to his appearances with William Shatner on Saturday Night Live, and as “The Drummer” in legendary filmmaker Robert Altman‘s masterwork, Short Cuts. His music has been heard both in films opening the New York Film Festival and in shows running onBroadway.
In the liner notes to the LP, which will be pressed in a deluxe double-gatefold package, Previte breaks down the influences that inspired the project. “Terminals is a collision between, and a celebration of, two worlds. In clichéd terms: the precise, unflappable, ‘classical’ percussion ensemble meets the wild, uncontrollable, ‘jazz’ master improviser in the forum best suited to such a meeting, the Concerto – a schizophrenic word whose etymology is much debated but in Italian means to ‘join together,’ while in Latin means to ‘contend.’
These two worlds happily co-exist in my mind. This is the country in which I live.”
Terminals tracklist:
1. Terminal 1 – featuring Zeena Parkins (harp)
2. Terminal 2 – featuring Greg Osby (alto sax)
3. Terminal 3 – featuring Nels Cline (guitar)
4. Terminal 4 – featuring Bobby Previte (drums)*
5. Terminal 5 – featuring John Medeski (organ)
* digital only; not available on the LP
