Love Me Two Times
(Intransitive - INT026) 2xCD $19.50 (Out-of-stock)
This twenty-three-track double-CD is the result of six years of live and studio collaboration between the Boston improvising duo of Bhob Rainey (soprano sax) and Greg Kelley (trumpet) with tape-loop operator/electronics whiz of some renown Jason Lescalleet. Recorded at a wide range of venues with correspondingly varied attacks (not to mention degrees of fidelity), Love Me Two Times provides as comprehensive a picture as is likely feasible of these three, from the microscopically subtle to blood smeared yawps, from gorgeously woven drones to, well, Julia Child.
Ommatidia
(Intransitive - int035) CD $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
COMING SOON. While nmperign have been active as one of the most celebrated and influential bands in improvised music for at least a decade, Ommatidia is the first ever studio recording of Greg Kelley (trumpet) and Bhob Rainey (soprano sax) as an unaccompanied duo. Previous albums have employed guest musicians (tapeloops composer Jason Lescalleet, improvisors Gunter Mueller, Axel Doerner, and Burkhard Beins) and subversive or dodgy recording techniques; their 2xLP on Siwa was recorded entirely to micro-cassette and walkman, while an early CD on Selektion was edited from live mini-disc recordings. This is the nmperign album fans have been waiting for: the core duo, beautifully recorded in an actual studio with excellent microphones... finally, pure nmperign. The music is spare and peerlessly inventive as always, but the mood remains light and joyful.
This Is Nmperign's Second CD
(Twisted Village - TW1049) Used CD $5.00
On this compelling investigation of sound in space and time from 1999, Bhob Rainey and Greg Kelley make audible every particle of sound they produce. Every ounce of spit and cubic inch of air that is pushed through the sax and trumpet comes through the speakers in stunning colors and textures. Sharp, crystalline fractures of sound, with fragments of disembodied melody meted out in small quantities. Guest include Jason Lescallett on tape loops, Tatsuya Nakatani on percussion, and Phil Gelb on shakuhachi.