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Michael Zerang Assyrian Caesarean

Label / Holidays Records
Category / Free Jazz, Free Improv
Code / HOL 122

With ASSYRIAN CAESAREAN, Chicago-based percussionist Michael Zerang presents his first solo recording for percussion after a long career as an exploratory musician and composer. The album features a range of approaches to percussion that Zerang has developed over the years, including the use of vibrating drumhead surfaces, expressive friction passages, multiple timbre percussion, and straight up trap-set drumming - all infused with a rich sense of melodic, rhythmic and textural innovation. The album was recorded and mixed by Matt Bordin at Outside Inside Studio in Italy for Holiday Records. Zerang has performed and recorded with some of the most adventurous artists of his era, including a 14 year stint with The Peter Brotzmann Chicago Tentet, Joe McPhee’s SURVIVAL UNIT III, and a extended collaboration with drummer and percussionist Hamid Drake. Frequent collaborators also include cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm, pianist and synthesist Jim Baker, bassist Kent Kessler, trumpeter Axel Dorner, multi-instrumentalist/vocalist KA Baird, saxophonist Edward Wilkerson, Jr., violinist Biliana Voutchkova, pianists Elisabeth Harnik and Magda Mayas, along with an ever-widening pool of international improvisors. Zerang recently began performing with the experimental Middle-Eastern super group, KARKHANA with Mazen Kerbaj, Sharif Sehnaoui, Maurice Louca, Tony Elieh, Sam Shalabi and Umut Caglar, as well as with his own group, Michael Zerang & The Blue Lights, featuring, Kessler, Mars Williams, Dave Rempis and Josh Berman.

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