Artist: Paul Newman & Heraclitus Akimbo
Song: [edited excerpt]
Recorded at The Tranzac's Southern Cross Lounge (Joe's birthday concert), April 25, 2022.
Paul Newman & Heraclitus Akimbo - [edited excerpt]
Guest notes by Del Stephen:
Following a brief and rather beautifully awkward intermission of what could only be described as live "mystery-drone-troubleshooting", Paul Newman joined Heraclitus Akimbo for the 2nd and final duo set of the evening. By this point, the rain had mostly stopped.
The veteran saxophonist, walker, and notable rock climber initiated the 2nd duo set, stretching out the sound of his horn alongside the room's environmental happenings (i.e. a sudden rush at the bar and a crescendo of liquid a-pouring, coins a-shaking, single can opening, etc., each in their own time). Meanwhile, it wasn't long before it became apparent that Joe was stealthily mixing, sending effects to, and manipulating Paul's very moves, even collecting live samples throughout the set. As the saxophonist played on, and occasionally come up for air, a patient set of back and forth playing and processing took shape (or maybe it was more like back and forth, forth again and back, and then back back and forth). As can be said for the first set, the history between these two players is evident; neither ever needed to lead the other in a certain direction or towards a particular theme, instead allowing their close partnership to sail in the multiple directions it needed to sail on this occasion, and sail it did, all the way to its natural finale.
You know what they say- rain on your birthday, sunshine for the rest of the week.
You can also check out some video footage of this set over on youtube:
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