New Freedom Sound aims to capture the energy and spirit of its collaborators to provide the listener with illuminating shifts in consciousness, and a sense of joy, expanding possibility, and renewal.
The pieces are composed through a process of editing and arranging improvisations, but the original performances (voices, percussion, strings, keyboards, reeds) remain the guiding force and fabric of these recordings.
Versions of four of the Freedoms were released in June of 2021. Work continued in the subsequent months, and a second session, adding oboist Lenny Young to the group, yielded new approaches to the existing work as well as inspired performances for an additional four compositions, bringing the series to its current total of eight completed Freedoms.
Eight Freedoms
You can order Eight Freedoms on vinyl (2xLP, 45rpm) from Stickfigure via Arctic Rodeo, or Dischord.
Zach Barocas: drum kit, percussion, voices
Mark Cisneros: bass clarinet, flute, tenor saxophone, saxello, stritch, trombone, double bass, percussion
J. Robbins: piano, electric piano
Gordon Withers: cello
Lenny Young: oboe
Four Freedoms
Zach Barocas: drum kit, percussion, voices
Mark Cisneros: bass clarinet, flute, tenor saxophone, saxello, trombone, percussion
J. Robbins: piano, electric piano
Gordon Withers: cello