GEORGE LEWIS - ROSCOE MITCHELL

VOYAGE AND HOMECOMING

Roscoe Mitchell: sopranino(1), alto(2) and soprano(3) saxophones
George Lewis: laptop(1), trombone(2, 3)
Voyager: interactive computer pianist(2)

Quanta

21:45

Voyager

25:06

Homecoming

9:02

Quanta and Homecoming are composed by George Lewis and Roscoe Mitchell; Voyager is composed by George Lewis

Recorded live by Arne Vierck at CTM Festival on February 2nd 2018 at HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin, Germany
Mixing: Tom Hamilton
Mastering: Jean-Pierre Bouquet, L’Autre Studio, Vaires-sur-Marne, France
Liner notes: Paul Steinbeck
Photographs: Isla Kriss
Cover design: Max Schoendorff
Cover realization: David Bourguignon
Executive producer: Michel Dorbon

Roscoe Mitchell and George Lewis first met in the summer of 1971 on Chicago’s South Side, where both musicians were born and raised. Mitchell and the Art Ensemble of Chicago, had just returned to the South Side after a two-year sojourn in Europe, and Lewis was back home too, taking a break from his undergraduate studies at Yale. Since then, they collaborated very regularly, pushing each time the limits of the possible in music. This album, the latest chapter of a creative partnership spanning five decades, is a major step in their collaboration and is thus much more than just the sum of the immense talent of each of them.

January 18th 2019 at Philarmonie de Paris

"Emergent" and "The Will To Adorn" by GEORGE LEWIS
"Useful News" by ROSCOE MITCHELL
as well as pices by Tishawn Sorey and Johannes Boris Borowski
by
EMSEMBLE INTERCONTEMPORAIN