Twisted by Jon Rosenberg feat. Herb Robertson

I became friends with multi-instrumentalist Herb Robertson over 40 years ago after we had been introduced by our mutual friend Tim Berne. A year later, our partnership produced Herb's first record called Transparency, which was released on JMT Records. Since then, I have worked on several projects with Herb, as a recording engineer and mixer, but it was not until he decided to make a solo recording in 2023 that I saw the possibility of a collaboration.

This was accomplished by adding different elements such as samples, loops and effects to Herb's improvisations in post production. Each of these sonic sculptures was assembled over time with creative input from Herb and producer Phil Haynes. There are quite a range of styles here, starting with techno rap (with the kind assistance of SpiritEra) to the environmental piece that ends the album. My inspiration for the third track, "Sentient Sea", was the Russian science fiction film Solaris.

It has been my pleasure to have assisted some of the most talented and creative artists in the world for the past 40 plus years. Although I have recorded, mixed and/or mastered over 1000 projects during that time, none of them sound like this one. I feel proud and excited to present this special collaboration with Herb Robertson to the creative community.
- Jon Rosenberg

Clarence Clifford 'Herb' Robertson is a pivotal avant-garde jazz trumpeter, flugelhornist and composer combining a thorough command of traditional and extended techniques wedded to an unpredictable and humored spontaneity. His countless collaborators are a literal international 'Who's Who' of important composer / improvisers during the past half century, combining jazz and modern abstraction.

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