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Dangerous Odds: Live at Fyfe's Corner Bistro, 4 January 1996

by Dangerous Odds

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Hey Kurt Cobain 07:04
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Beta Tester 07:06
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Dangerous Odds 07:34
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Gene Splicer 05:33
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Cellular 06:59
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Preoccupied 08:19
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Bone Flute 05:54
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Ethiopia 05:51
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SaxMbira 05:09
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Dangerous Odds
Live at Fyfe’s Corner Bistro, 29 August 1996

(The Best of Dangerous Odds Series)

This is a live performance at Fyfe’s, recorded and mixed to digital stereo. Fyfe’s was a vibrant community tavern with a live music stage that featured many renowned local jazz musicians, one or two of whom occasionally sat in with the band. On this occasion, local master jazz bassist Hans Sturm stepped up to play one piece with us.

This set has a few unusual moments, across a wide range of moods and musical styles. There is some groove-based hard bop jazz, and some almost-avant-garde ambient-experimental playing. There are a few instrumental appearances that step over the free jazz line into pure experiment, as on "SaxMbira."

It was a fun set for us to play, although a little unusual. Yet in many ways this kind of musical adventure was the stock in trade of Dangerous Odds, a band after all where 99.5% of the music was improvised, played without a safety net.

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released July 11, 2022

Ron Ellis: poetry, voice
Al Jewer: flutes, WX7 wind controller, synth, fretless bass, sax, cello
Art Durkee: Chapman Stick with Infinite Sustain, 5-string bass, sub-contrabass mbira
Deidre Buckley: electrified viola, sax
Tom Hamer: drums, berimbau, percussion

with guests:
Toshiba Laptop Computer: random algorithmic composition
Hans Sturm: a rare bass guitar appearance (on track 6)
John Gritzmacher: lasers

Written & Produced by Dangerous Odds
© 1996, 2022 Dangerous Odds. All Rights Reserved.

Recorded live to digital stereo
at Fyfe’s Corner Bistro, Madison, WI
4 January 1996
Engineered by The Man In Black from Laughing Cat Remote

Remastered 2022 by AD at Dragonsweyr

Album artwork by Arthur Durkee © 2022

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Arthur Durkee is a composer & songwriter who records & performs on Chapman Stick, bass, analog modular synths, bamboo & wood flutes, keys, frame drums, and voice. He has won awards for composed, notated music as well as for his recordings, & is a published poet, & designer & illustrator. ... more

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