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***G.E Stinson's Vapor is a compilation of several groups that were assembled to perform at New Music Monday, the improvised music series originated by Nels Cline and currently curated by Stinson in Los Angeles. Performers include Nels Cline, Steuart Liebig, Gregg Bendian, Kaoru, and DJ Chowderhead, among many others. 10 FACTS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT G.E. STINSON
1. He's not that guy from Saturday Night Live.
2. He's from Oklahoma and spent his formative years as a blues/rock boy in Chicago, where he opened for and hobnobbed with blues legends like Muddy Waters and Willie Dixon.
3. Warped by early '70s jazzrock mind-seepage and the global embrace of Brown Rice-era Don Cherry, he and his associates became accidental architects of what is now loosely called New Age music. Whoops!
4. Further destroyed by influential Los Angeles based pianist/improviser Richard Grossman, he almost completely abandoned composition and began to focus on totally improvised music.
5. All the music on Vapor is live and improvised.
6. His serious pursuit of the spiritual has not made his music "mellow."
7. He's a wizard with processed and prepared guitar sounds who occasionally deigns to rip some burning leads.
8. He plays with many wonderful musicians on this disc, some of whom may be unknown to you.
9. He includes the amazing bass guitarist Steuart Liebig in all six of the improvising groups represented here.
10. He's older than even me. |
