PHILIP GELB


Mystic Journey: An Improvisational Setting

Item number GP-CD-1; Compact disc $16.00

 

 

 

 

Indistancing

All of the works on this disc are improvisational. Amazingly, the three musicians met face to face for the first time just 30 minutes before the concert, which was part of Brett Larner's tour. The first song sounds like a traditional work because the koto was played with a traditional type of tuning called hirajoshi, and of hearing this, Philip Gelb immediately adapted his playing style to it. For the other songs, the koto was retuned just before playing. The sound of water dripping, starting from the third song, was actually from a leak which occurred just then by chance. It sounds like the unexpected leak was welcomed as a member of the group, and the performers enjoyed improvising with it. In any case, a new experiment with various possibilities has just begun. This disc announces that beginning.

Item number GP-CD-2; Compact disc $16.00

Natto Quartet - headlands

Recorded live at the Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, California - 8/12/2002

Item number GP-CD-3; Compact disc $16.00

 

 

 

Purple Wind

Philip Gelb - shakuachi/Electronics, Miya Masaoka - Koto, Gino Robair - Percussion/Toy Horns/Rubble, Dana Reason - Piano, The Shaking Ray Lewis: Dennis Palmer - Korg 707, Casio CZ101, Electro Harmonix 16 second delay, and Bob Stagner - D4 Alesis electronic percussion.

Item number GP-CD-4; Compact disc $16.00

 

 

Rain Sketch #7

20 minutes of improvisation live from the acoustic spaces of the Artship in Oakland, California. This 3" CD plays in all standard CD players with trays.

Item number GP-CD-5; 3" CD $10.00

 

 


The Space Between

Recorded live at the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT) - Philip Gelb, shakuachi; Pauline Oliveros, accordion; Dana Reason, piano; Barre Phillips
Review by Joe Milazzo

Item number PO-COMP-2; Compact Disc $16.00

 



The Space Between with Joëlle Léandre

Recorded live at the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies, Berkeley, CA, November 2 & 3, 2002.
The Space Between brings together the freedom of spontaneous improvisation with a number of diverse traditions and ideas, not the least of which is the legendary Pauline Oliveros’ Deep Listening concept. In the Cadence review of their 2001 debut, The Space Between with Barre Phillips, Frank Rubolino wrote, “As a unit, they speak in a broken tongue of rarified beauty that is demanding but fully rewarding." This release once again pairs this esoteric trio with a world-renowned bassist in Jöelle Léandre.

More than just an award-winning instrumentalist, Léandre is one of the few artists able to world premiere works by new music composers like John Cage, actively compose and premiere her own music on a world stage, and also collaborate with the best creative improvisers playing today.

Musicians: Pauline Oliveros (accordion), Philip Gelb (shakuhachi), Dana Reason (piano), Joelle Leandre (bass) - .482music

Item number PO-COMP-6; CD $16.00



The Space Between with Mathew Sperry

This recording is a tribute to our dear friend Matt whose life was unexpectedly cut short. The first piece is a live concert by The Space Between, recorded in NYC in December 2002. The second piece is a live concert by The Space Between with special guest Matthew Sperry, recorded in Berkeley in 1999. Released July 2003 on 482music.

Musicians: Pauline Oliveros (accordion), Philip Gelb (shakuhachi), Dana Reason (piano), Matthew Sperry (bass) - .482music

Item number PO-COMP-7; CD $16.00

 

Philip Gelb

Although well versed in traditional shakuhachi music, Philip Gelb is one of the few shakuhachi players involved in new and experimental music. He has performed throughout the U.S. and in Japan, Europe and Canada as soloist and in ensembles with some of the leaders in contemporary music including: Pauline Oliveros, Chris Brown, Joe McPhee, Richard Teitelbaum and Derek Bailey. Other recordings are available on Deep Listening, New World/Countercurrents, Ryokan, Spakling Beatnik, Limited Sedition and Abray. Gelb is currently living and teaching in San Francisco.

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