ROBERT DICK - TIFFANY CHANG

RAISE THE RIVER

“Robert Dick and Tiffany Chang keep the ear moving from beginning to end, a measure of how successfully they avoided redundancy”

Robert Dick: flute, alto flute, bass flute, bass flute in F, contrabass flute, flute w. Glissando Headjoint®, open hole, little flute in G, piccolo
Tiffany Chang: drums, thumb piano

Thieves (5:23)
Swedge (6:39)
Bricolage (5:42)
Nine Portions (6:56)
Raise The River (8:03 ) Play

This Once (3:28)
Palindromida (6:43)
Pirarucu (8:01)
Recovered Memory (5:42)

All compositions by Robert Dick and Tiffany Chang

Recorded on February 15th 2015 by Peter Karl at Peter Karl Studios, Brooklyn, New York, USA
Mixing and mastering: Peter Karl
Liner notes: Bill Shoemaker
Photograph: De’Lon Grant
Cover design: Max Schoendorff
Cover realization: David Bourguignon
Executive producer: Michel Dorbon

Material is the output of freely improvised music, not its input. The deliberate shaping of materials risks, at the very least, giving them a studied feel, and, at worst, rendering them inert. Dick and Chang instead use the materials they generate in one moment as a springboard to the next. In the process – and improvisation is a process, not a genre – their music surprises. Bill Shoemaker, excerpt from the liner notes

How dare we spend so much valuable energy answering such questions as "What is Jazz?".

JUST LISTEN!

ROBERT DICK - TIFFANY CHANG

RAISE THE RIVER

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