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duo improvisation jeremy strachan . alto saxophone joe sorbara . drums, percussion recorded live by blair langley @ the leftover daylight series in toronto, 22 december 2006 jeremy and i made this music as a part of a company improv night at the leftover daylight series in december 2006. mr. strachan was visiting us down south while living and studying in st. john's newfoundland, so his usual arsenal of reed instruments was stripped down to a lone alto. [copyright by joe sorbara & jeremy strachan 2006, SOCAN]	[ launch ]
you make me feel queasy and odd ken aldcroft . guitar, effects evan shaw . alto saxophone joe sorbara . drums, percussion from remnants [ OWR002 ] you make me feel queasy and odd is an awkward, interlocking duet line meant to evoke the way new love actually feels. the two parts don't articulate anything at the same time until the last note. here we play the line as ballad, pause, and then play it quite fast. after a trio improvisation based on the mood of the composition, we come to a second pause and play the line fast again. [copyright by joe sorbara 2003, SOCAN]	[ launch ]
left right left ken aldcroft . guitar, effects evan shaw . alto saxophone joe sorbara . drums, percussion recorded live by blair langley @ the leftover daylight series in toronto, 07 april 2006 this recording was made on a gig we played opening for the dave rempis percussion quartet (with tim daisey, frank rosaly and anton hatwich...) at the leftover daylight series. also visiting from chicago that night was the wonderful flautist, nicole mitchell, who joined us in a long improvised piece right after we played "left right left" to begin the night. [copyright by joe sorbara 2005, SOCAN]	[ launch ]
to and from ken aldcroft . guitar, effects recorded live by blair langley @ the village playhouse in toronto, 13 feb 2006 this is ken's solo guitar interpretation of my large ensemble piece, to and from. written for the pickle juice orchestra in 2005, the piece begins with tonal improvisation, almost through a set of "changes": from the full chromatic scale through the c major scale, a c major 7 chord, a c triad and finally to the pitch "c" alone. there is then a list of instructions to follow before playing back through the intro in reverse from the lone pitch "c" back to the full chromatic scale where the ensemble finds an ending. [copyright by joe sorbara 2005, SOCAN]	[ launch ]
a lightbulb rolling ken aldcroft . guitar marcel aucoin . fender rhodes evan shaw . alto saxophone joe sorbara . drums, percussion recorded by john sorenson @ reaction studios in toronto, dec 2002 this is an old composition of mine that we recorded during the session for ken aldcroft's "from our time" record. my friend, jason cline, made this wonderfully odd cartoon for it some time later for his now defunct website, envirojay [dot] com. feel free to ask, but i'm afraid i have absolutely no idea... [copyright by joe sorbara 2002, SOCAN]	[ watch ]