DANA REASON

 

Dana Reason's Primal Identity


Dana Reason's superb sample of the best of trans-cultural music. The Deep Listening CD features Dana Reason on piano. Philip Gelb joins Reason on shakuhachi for several cuts. Reason's music is improvisational, but well-articulated in form, a melding of sound and story, an intensely personal journey guided by Afrological forms.
Item number DL-CD-6; Compact Disc $16.00

 


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

 

Dana Reason

DANA REASON is a pianist/composer/improvisor from Montr»al, Canada. Ms. Reason has appeared at the San Francisco Jazz Festival, Frau Musica (Nova) Cologne, Beyond the Pink Festival, (LA), Guelph Jazz Festival, Banff Arts Festival, Knitting Factory (NYC), Music Gallery (Toronto), and Newfoundland Sound Symposium. She has performed with Pauline Oliveros, George Lewis, Cecil Taylor, Joe McPhee, Lisle Ellis, and Richard Teitlebaum among others. She has been featured on National Public Radio, and Radio Canada. Ms. Reason has recorded for Music & Arts, Red Toucan, Deep Listening, Sparkling Beatnik and Ryokan labels. Ms. Reason contributes writing to the Twentieth Century Music Journal, Musicworks, and Improvisor magazines. Her music has been reviewed in Cadence, Coda, Musicworks, 20th Century Music Journal, Wire, Jazz Critique (Japan) and Outside Magazines. Ms. Reason was the co-organizer of the ground-breaking symposium Improvising Across Borders (1999) held at the University of California, San Diego. Reason holds a Bachelor of Music from McGill University, a Master of Arts in Composition from Mills College and is a Ph.D candidate in the music program Critical Studies/Experimental Practices at the University of California, San Diego.

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