SPILLER ALLEY by LARRY OCHS - MIYA MASAOKA - PEGGY LEE

released October 5, 2008

Recorded on Avril 2006 by Alberto Spezzamonte (Venice, Teatro Fondamente Nuovo, Italy), Wolfgang Obrecht (Munich, Offene Ohren e.V., Germany), Charly Wienand (St Johan, Alte Gerberei, Austri)
Liner notes: Alvin Curran
Photograph: Francesca Pfeffer
Cover design: Max Schoendorff
Cover realization: David Bourguignon
Producer: Larry Ochs
Executive producer: Michel Dorbon

This music of exquisite sensibilities, profound listening and genuinely laid-back cloth at first throws you; nobody is trying to do anything, just play as together as possible. Nobody gets in anybody’s face, including the listener. Nobody solos more than the depth they listen at; nobody never wanted not to be there…. Anyway if this ingenious blend of scents from Masaoka’s ancient koto, Lee’s middle-European cello and Ochs’ out of hock saxes is any indication, “musica da camera” - that old elite art of chamber music - is going to be around for some time yet. Alvin Curran