Quiet Music is Here

[Ellery Eskelin]

Announcing the release of "Quiet Music"
the new DOUBLE CD release on "prime source"

ELLERY ESKELIN / QUIET MUSIC
EEw/AP&JB+JC>PG (prime source 4010)

Ellery Eskelin - tenor saxophone
Jessica Constable - voice
Andrea Parkins - accordion, piano and sampler
Jim Black - drums and percussion

with special guest
Philippe Gelda - piano, organ and voice (on selected tracks)

"Quiet Music" is a double CD release recorded in May 2006 during the band's European tour at "Studios La Buissonne" in France, one of the finest recording facilities in the world. The sound achieved on this recording is amazingly clear, natural and warm.

"Quiet Music" presents 14 new compositions that cover quite a large swath of territory...ranging from trio pieces (Eskelin w/ Parkins & Black) building on twelve years of work together...to quartet pieces (with the addition of Jessica Constable) investigating new compositional/improvisational paradigms...and a number of double keyboard quintet pieces with the addition of French keyboardist Philiippe Gelda giving the group a particularly massive sound.

"Quiet Music" is two hours of music performed exactly as an audience would experience it in concert, with an intensity only gained from touring night after night on the road. The two discs are presented in an attractive, slim six panel cardboard sleeve with original artwork by Rami Wade Eskelin.

Please take a visit to the new "prime source" website which contains complete information on "Quiet Music" including photographs and information on how to obtain copies:

http://home.earthlink.net/~primesource/


AVAILABLE NOW

a ramichellery / prime source production
http://home.earthlink.net/~eskelin/

[Tom Storer]

Looking forward to this one, Ellery. But is the music really especially quiet? You have your quiet moments, but in general I wouldn't call you a quiet band!

[Ellery Eskelin]

True...good point...

The title came from my son, who made a collage at school one day and titled it Quiet Music. We liked the artwork so much we used it for the CD package and decided to use his title as the title of the CD. To tie it into the music, there's actually one piece on there that is in fact very quiet, and I think it stands out in the presentation. So naturally that became "Quiet Music".

But rest assured...there's some loud stuff too...

[Tom Storer]

Yeah, I guess "Some Quiet Music and Some Other Stuff That's Loud" isn't as nice a title.