Solo@70 by Denman Maroney
I made this album to commemorate living 70 years. It features solo versions of 21 pieces I’ve written in the past 50 years. Half these pieces have been released before in ensemble form, but the other half have never been released, namely: Air Condition, Iteratio, Every Day, Nero, Long Odds, The One, Sank Sea Set, Pulsations, Vortex, and Whamapo. Solo@70 does not include “hyperpiano,” my inside-the-piano playing, but it is full of “temporal harmony,” my penchant for, or obsession with, poly-periodic or relative time, reflecting my love for the music of Ornette Coleman, Miles Davis, Andrew Hill, Charles Ives, Gyorgy Ligeti, Thelonious Monk, Olivier Messiaen, and Conlon Nancarrow, among others. My music has been called “Monk to the Monkth” by David Weinstein; “Cubist jazz” by Mark Steven Brooks.
Tracklist
| 1. | A Thought Revolved | 3:19 |
| 2. | Double You | 7:40 |
| 3. | Air Condition | 8:48 |
| 4. | Blip | 4:04 |
| 5. | Detach & Retain | 4:20 |
| 6. | Iteratio | 4:40 |
| 7. | Every Day | 10:48 |
| 8. | Fowler's Better Blues | 4:51 |
| 9. | Kilter | 8:32 |
| 10. | Jug | 6:20 |
| 11. | Nero | 5:43 |
| 12. | MC | 5:27 |
| 13. | Long Odds | 7:57 |
| 14. | The One | 2:48 |
| 15. | One Off, or Two | 5:35 |
| 16. | Sank Sea Set | 3:03 |
| 17. | Pulsations | 9:37 |
| 18. | Selonica | 3:54 |
| 19. | Social Security | 5:34 |
| 20. | Vortex | 3:10 |
| 21. | Whamapo | 13:58 |
Credits
All compositions by Denman Maroney
License
All rights reserved.
Denman Maroney is known for his "hyperpiano" techniques (playing the keys with one hand and the strings with other using slides and bows of metal, plastic, rubber, and wood) and his “temporal harmonies” (composing and improvising in multiple tempos). He has recorded for Outnow, Porter, Innova, Clean Feed, Nuscope, Kadima, Cryptogramophone, New World, Mutable, Victo, and Erstwhile among others.