"Before or After" brings together four improvising musicians from different backgrounds and aesthetic influences and convictions. Composer-Conductor-Pianist and Educator Haim Elisha has created and performed music for over 60 years in the United States and abroad, ranging from contemporary concert music to classical orchestral, chamber, opera, choral and sacred music. His compositions and arrangements have been published and awarded and he has appeared with his son Ehran on four avant-garde jazz recordings including this release. He has collaborated with other improvisers such as Roy Campbell Jr. and Daniel Carter, the latter also featured on this release. Daniel Carter is a New York and word-wide improvised music legend, one of the great figures of Free Jazz and the so-called "Downtown Scene" in New York, featured on scores of recordings and in ensembles such as Other Dimensions in Music, Test, Downtown Horns and many more, playing a variety of wind and brass instruments masterfully. Bassist Jeremy Harlos has applied his keen and sensitive musical ear in ensembles such as trumpeter Arthur Brooks's Ensemble V, the So Called Jazz Sextet, and ensembles with guitarist Alec Julien. Ehran Elisha has led a variety of ensembles over the past thirty years in New York, elsewhere in the US, and in Israel as well as performing in Europe, as percussionist, improviser and composer. His groups have included the Kinetic Music ensemble, the percussion quintet Kinetic Drums, his collaborative trio with the two late masters Roy Campbell and Wilber Morris, a trio with Daniel Carter and Drew Gress or Joe Fonda, Ehran Elisha Ensemble and more. He has released ten albums as leader or co-leader to date. Ehran was also proud to have performed professionally in duo, trio and large ensembles led by one of his mentors, Bill Dixon and was a percussion student of Ed Blackwell, Milford Graves and Max Roach.
Together in a one-off inspired studio session, these four players improvised a series of pieces that coalesced into works reflecting drive, lyricism, stylistic breadth, depth and space, all expressed with a collective sense of pure artistic design. The music now belongs to the listener.
credits
released December 1, 2018
Haim Elisha - Piano, Daniel Carter - Winds&Brass, Jeremy Harlos - Bass, Ehran Elisha - Drums&Percussion.
All tracks composed by Haim Elisha, Daniel Carter, Jeremy Harlos, Ehran Elisha.
All tracks published by EYEtone Music (ASCAP).
Produced by Ehran Y. Elisha and Jeremy Harlos.
Recorded March 16th, 2014.
Engineered and Mixed by Peter Karl, Peter Karl Recording Studios, Brooklyn NY.
Cover Painting, "Before and After" by Haim Elisha.
Graphic design by Ian Klapper.
Vermont winter back cover photograph by Jeremy Harlos.
(Bandcamp profile photo by Eyal Hareuveni)
Information EYEtone@aol.com
note: Atlantis is a three part suite meant to be heard as one extended piece, though it is featured on the album as three separate digital tracks to differentiate the suite's episodic form.
Thank You For Listening.
C&P 2018 Ehran Y. Elisha. A Kinetic Music Production.
EYEtone # 121988
EYEtone presents music created and recorded by composer/improviser/percussionist Ehran Elisha and the master musicians and
friends that comprise his collaborative units as well as the ensembles he leads. The label's latest release is "Before or After", a quartet work by Haim Elisha, Ehran's father, Daniel Carter, a long time collaborator, and Jeremy Harlos, Ehran's friend and a musical soul-mate....more
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Simply amazing to hear a new album with Wadada and Ewart!! ...And Reed rounds out this trio beautifully.
Just gave it my first spin. Absolutely magical. jeffrey maurer
A sonic exploration of the life and thoughts of trees, this is brave and exploratory contemporary classical music and avant-jazz. Bandcamp New & Notable Mar 6, 2022
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This is a beautiful duet performance!
Thanks for making this available, Mark.
On par with the excellent NU.
Hopefully you have one of the trio with Redman and Blackwell.
Had to listen to this twice tonight. jeffrey maurer