Drawing influence from the work of Cecil Taylor, Joane Hetu, Joe McPhee, David S. Ware and John Coltrane, the Craig Pedersen Quintet’s Approaching the Absence of Doing is a 7-part suite ranging from full-out intensity to the near-pastoral. Rapid fire trumpet lines, wailing saxophone squeals, punching bass articulation, and duel pummelling drums serve to push and pull against Pedersen’s compositions. This is music that often sounds like it’s falling apart and being put back together, only to fall apart again - held together by the indisputable fact that this band works together as a tight unit.
Formed in 2011, the Craig Pedersen Quartet came together to perform the compositions of Montréalbased trumpeter Craig Pedersen. Approaching the Absence of Doing saw the unorthodox addition of a second drummer.
Recorded by Howard Bilerman at Montréal’s iconic Hotel2Tango, mixed by Mark Molnar, and mastered by Harris Newman. The LP and CD jacket were designed by Bennett Bedoukian at Oh!
Underworld, and the LP pressed at Canada’s own Precision Pressing in an edition of 300.
Track listing:
1. Intervention (4:01)
2. Part 1 (1:11)
3. Blowing (4:44)
4. F-ery (3:51)
5. Introduction (4:33)
6. Part 2 (6:14)
7. Approaching (4:04)
Craig Pedersen, trumpet
Linsey Wellman - alto saxophone
Joel Kerr - double bass
Bennett Bedoukian - drums
Eric Thibodeau - drums
