Robert Dick & Tiffany Chang - Raise The River (ROGUEART 2018)

“Robert Dick and Tiffany Chang keep the ear moving from beginning to end, a measure of how successfully they avoided redundancy”

Material is the output of freely improvised music, not its input. The deliberate shaping of materials risks, at the very least, giving them a studied feel, and, at worst, rendering them inert. Dick and Chang instead use the materials they generate in one moment as a springboard to the next.  In the process – and improvisation is a process, not a genre – their music surprises. Bill Shoemaker, excerpt from the liner notes

Robert Dick: flute, alto flute, bass flute, bass flute in F, contrabass flute, flute w. Glissando Headjoint®, open hole, little flute in G, piccolo

Tiffany Chang: drums, thumb piano

Thieves (5:23)

Swedge (6:39)

Bricolage (5:42)

Nine Portions (6:56)

Raise The River (8:03 ) Play

This Once (3:28)

Palindromida (6:43)

Pirarucu (8:01)

Recovered Memory (5:42)

All compositions by Robert Dick and Tiffany Chang

Recorded on February 15th 2015 by Peter Karl at Peter Karl Studios, Brooklyn, New York, USA

Mixing and mastering: Peter Karl

Liner notes: Bill Shoemaker

Photograph: De’Lon Grant

Cover design: Max Schoendorff

Cover realization: David Bourguignon

Executive producer: Michel Dorbon