Joe Moffett - Stress Positions (April 1, 2021 Neither/Nor Records)

Stress Positions is Joe Moffett's second solo studio album release. In this collection of pieces he produces mangled, oscillating, chittering noises, a collision of muscle, bone, and metal. The contortions herein were carried out in the spirit of the glossolalic and obsessive.

1. Milkweed Salad

2. Feinting Bulb

3. Luxury Drywall Manouver

4. Steel Die Crocus

5. Succulent Midnight Quicksilver

Joe Moffett - trumpet

Recorded by Joe Moffett at home in Brooklyn, NY in the spring of 2020. Mixed and mastered by Nathaniel Morgan. All music by Joe Moffett.

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Sean Ali - A Blink in the Sun (April 1, 2021 Neither/Nor Records)

A Blink in the Sun is the second solo album by bassist and poet Sean Ali. The album is composed of many layers of bass and spoken word that have been shaped into seven musical pieces that depict an inner journey, a joyful dive into the interior rabbit hole. Speaking, whispering, and breathing combine with spectral and timbral double bass performances to create a series of self-portraits in sonic hues and oratorial pigments.. The album’s journey through density to translucence is a musical meditation on the multi-faceted nature of the self.

Sean Ali has been performing solo double bass concerts for a decade. In 2017 he released his first solo album, My Tongue Crumbles After, on Neither/Nor Records.

1. Salutations II

2. The Same Brisk Pace

3. Out Of-

4. Something Wrong Here

5. The Backs Of Eyelids

6. And Danced

7. Dialogue

8. The Reptilian Throat (digital-only bonus track)

Sean Ali - double bass, voice

Recorded by Nathaniel Morgan at Buckminster Forest in Brooklyn, NY on January 4th and 26th, 2020. Mixed and mastered by Nathaniel Morgan. All music and text by Sean Ali.

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Carlo Costa - Silos (April 1, 2021 Neither/Nor Records)

In the summer of 2018, while in Rome, Carlo recorded a long-form improvisation inside an old grain silo. For the recording he solely used found objects that were close by: branches, bricks, logs, metal pipes, stones, gardening tools, etc. The piece explores the reverberant acoustics of the silo and the interaction between Costa’s gestures and the sounds of the surrounding environment: cicadas, passing vehicles and planes, dogs barking, etc.

Carlo Costa has been performing solo percussion concerts since 2012 and has had the opportunity to present his solo project in Switzerland, Germany, France and the US. In the fall of 2018 he released his first solo album, Oblio, on Neither/Nor Records.

1. Silos (excerpt)

2. Silos

Carlo Costa - found objects

Recorded by Carlo Costa in Rome, Italy on July 28, 2018. Mixed by Nathaniel Morgan and Carlo Costa. Mastered by Joe Branciforte. All music by Carlo Costa. Cover photo by Carlo Costa. Inside photo by Georgia Fraleigh.

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