Artist: Kyle Motl
Title: Transmogrification
Year Of Release: 2017
Label: Metatrope
Genre: Experimental, Free Jazz
Quality: 320 / FLAC (tracks 24bit/44.1kHz)
Total Time: 51:25
Total Size: 121 / 343 Mb
Tracklist:
1. Panjandrums! (05:10)
2. Urrong (05:42)
3. Skrull (04:53)
4. ax-i-on (03:04)
5. Thwombulous (02:18)
6. Dnomla (03:04)
7. Scintillionic (03:31)
8. Gimblegyre (02:59)
9. Umber (01:22)
10. Transmogrificant I (03:58)
11. Gnomon (02:05)
12. Phosphene alpha (06:06)
13. Gonx (03:02)
14. Skryll (01:43)
15. Multiferrous (02:28)
Recorded over the course of two hazy San Diego afternoons in December 2016, Transmogrification is a series of short solo improvisations and pieces. In solo improvisation, I am free to plumb the contrabass' wealth of sonorities, pushing sound to its breaking point and revealing the extremities of technique, timbre, and dynamic envelope. Artifacts of varied musical endeavors from free bop to contemporary concert music and noise are refracted, transformed, and recontextualized.
The music on this record is solo acoustic bass - there are no overdubs and there is no computer processing of the sound. On a few tracks, a pair of microphones aligned vertically on the bass are panned slightly apart in the stereo field, in order to highlight the polyphonic nature of the music, allowing a heightened sense of space.
