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Reminiscent of so much that is good, yet totally fresh. It’s as if Coltrane or John Lurie crashed a lunch date between Tito Puente and John Adams.... and they ALL sing as well!!!
—Charlie Bennett
This collection gathers the first completed works in an ongoing series composed by Zach Barocas. Initially devised from beats and recurring vocal harmonies, these pieces grow according to their own perceived need, inspired along the way by the contributions and interpretations of New Freedom Sound's collaborators.
By turns reminiscent of jazz, incantation, popular song, free music, new classical, and Barocas's own unique approach to rhythmic gravity and device, these Freedoms strive for ecstatic formulation, spontaneity, exuberance, beauty, and evolution.
credits
released July 22, 2021
Composed by Zach Barocas March-July, 2021.
Zach Barocas: drums, percussion, voices, claps
Mark Cisneros: tenor saxophone, bass clarinet, flute, trombone, percussion
J. Robbins: piano, electric piano, organ
Gordon Withers: cello
Recorded by J. Robbins at Magpie Cage (Baltimore, MD, assisted by Matt Redenbo) Zach Barocas at Fugitive (Brooklyn, NY), and Gordon Withers at home, March-July, 2021.
Mixed by J. Robbins at Magpie Cage and mastered by Dan Coutant at Sun Room Audio, July, 2021.
This recording is dedicated to Callum Zachary Robbins,
"en mémoire comme dans la vie."
Thank you James Tsaptsinos, Kevin McKendree, J. Robbins, and Dan Coutant for technical advice and encouragement; my family, Chris Ernst, Steve Shodin, Janet Morgan, and Peter O’Leary for preliminary and ongoing love and support; Lyle for the use of your marvelous painting; Mark, J., and Gordon for inspiration, collaboration, participation, enthusiasm, talent, and sounds; and Kimberley for the life we have that makes all of this possible. —Z.B.
