OAKLAND REDUCTIONIST ORCHESTRA
West and East Baying
(Queen Bee Records) CD $15.00
The house band for sfSound’s West Oakland Sound Series, with its predilection for lowercase, fricative, and reductionist improvisation, often sounds more electronic than acoustic. A live concert recording from The Lab in San Francisco and a studio work recorded in a controlled environment in Berkeley are both evolving long-form structures. On “West Baying,” sounds and textures gradually morph into the next, while “East of West Baying” treats the recorded instruments as source material for a work of musique concrète re-composed by Matt Ingalls. With Monica Scott (cello), Danishta Rivero (voice), Cody Putman (bassoon), Kanoko Nishi-Smith (koto), Lisa Mezzacappa (bass), Joshua Marshall (tenor saxophone), Kevin Ck Lo (violin, flute, piano, objects), Cheryl E. Leonard (natural-object instruments), John Ingle (alto saxophone, baritone saxophone), Matt Ingalls (clarinet, bass clarinet, contrabass gardenhose), Ron Heglin (trombone, tuba, voice), Diane Grubbe (flute, bass flute), Sarah Grace Graves (voice), Jacob Felix Heule (percussion), Tom Djll (trumpet), Kevin Corcoran (percussion), Chris Cooper (guitar, electronics), Kyle Bruckmann (oboe, english horn).