Recording: Splendid Industries' Quartets

Artist: Splendid Industries Presents: Erin Corbett/Tyson Headon/Paul Geldart/Curtis Whittaker/Sinéad Bermingham/Michael Palumbo

Songs: [excerpts from three quartet improvisations]

Recorded at Wenona Lodge (Track Could Bend #73), November 1, 2022.

Erin Corbett/Tyson Headon/Paul Geldart/Curtis Whittaker - [excerpt]

Paul Geldart/Sinéad Bermingham/Michael Palumbo/Erin Corbett - [excerpt]

Curtis Whittaker/Sinéad Bermingham/Michael Palumbo/Tyson Headon - [excerpt]

For this TCB, I asked Tyson Headon, who organizes things over at Splendid Industries, to put something together. He obliged by wrangling a half-dozen musicians, several of whom were meeting for the first time. The night was divided into two halves, first with each player getting the chance to participate in two shorter quartet performances before the whole crew played together in the second half. Sounds ranged from sputtery spirit invocations to modular lounge jams as the crew worked out some shared spaces.

For the record, the whole group consisted of:

• Erin Corbett - Modular Synth
• Michael Palumbo - Modular Synth
• Sinéad Bermingham - Harp/FX
• Tyson Headon - Bass/FX
• Paul Geldart - Electronic Drums/Percussion
• Curtis Whittaker - Acoustic Drums/Percussion

You can check out some video from each of these mini-sets over on the TCB youtube playlist:

[Track Could Bend will be back at Wenona on Tuesday, December 6th with sets from Madeleine Ertel and Ecotone.]