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Mêlée
Cloud Atlas Quartet
lp edition of 200

Mêlée by default has become a terrain with which other musicians engage. At this point the trio has played with Greg Kelley on several occasions, John Dierker, Mike Khoury, and Aaron Siegel amongst others. To have Joe Morris come and push the mountains around a little is both exciting and terrifying. He’s a premier guitarist, technician, improviser, professor and fire-starter. If ya ck his recent Wire Invisible Jukebox you can get a handle on the kind of absolutely practical intellectual approach he deals with. If ya listen to his absolutely fucking bananas 4CD duet set with Braxton you realize just how adventurous, skilled, strong and fearless he is as a musician, composer and improviser. Having the mug jump in and want to do a session like this is a beyond exciting and brings the kind of not-weak-as-pre-spinach-Popeye improvisation to a label that was started in part to continue the kind of music making that Joe Morris is fundamental to and has been fundamental in proposing.

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