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  Leap of Faith is the core duet of the Leap of Faith Orchestra (LOFO) comprised of PEK on clarinets, saxophones, double reeds & flutes, and Glynis Lomon on cello, aquasonic & voice. The ensemble is based in Boston and dates back to the early 90s. We utilize a huge arsenal of additional Evil Clown instruments to improvise long works featuring transformations across highly varied sonorities. At times, the core unit has been a trio or even a quartet. The longest running core unit was comprised of PEK, Glynis and drummer Yuri Zbitnov, who played for the last couple of years of the archival period and the first 5 years of the reboot starting in 2015. The ensemble has always been highly modular, and our many recordings (now over 150) feature the various core unit in dozens of configurations with a huge list of guests and occasionally as only the core unit with no guests. Currently, the core unit is the duet of PEK and Lomon and we are regularly presenting LIVESTREAMs to YouTube from Evil Clown Headquarters with other guest performers.
  Over the years there have been recurring lineups for Leap of Faith where we do a series of performances with the same guests. There have also been recurring ensemble formations, for example, Glynis & me with drums and two additional horns. We had a number of these 3 horn sets when the core unit included Yuri.
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  The pandemic threw a wrench into the roster here at Evil Clown. People underwent a lot of change during those couple of years and many moved or made different lifestyle choices… So, some of my old school regulars are no longer available, which caused me to seek out new players, even more than usual. The ensemble for Leap of Faith – Geodetic Drift shares several of these stories.
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  Michael Knoblach is a percussionist who performs mostly on a very unusual set of very unusual instruments (see the list above). He showed up right before the pandemic on the recommendation of Eric Dahlman – A regular on trumpet for some time now. Michael and I have done a number of sets as Expanse, both as a duet and a larger group with guests. Last year we did a few sessions with Glynis and with the relatively new trumpeter Vance Provey. I met Vance at a session of Eric Zinman with other notable performers. Vance has appeared on multiple sessions with Leap of Faith and with Turbulence. So, one recurring Leap of Faith Line up recently has been the quartet with me, Glynis, Vance and Michael.
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  Another recurring line up is a trio with me. Glynis and trumpeter John Fugarino. Glynis and I played with John in the Masashi Harada Sextet in the early 90s. When that band dissolved, Glynis and I lost track of John even though he was still in the Boston area. Early last year, I ran into John on facebook. He is currently teaching music at the Elementary School level, and also performs regularly, although not much free improvisation. I encouraged him to come and join in on Evil Clown Livestreaming performances and he has appeared since with both Turbulence and Leap of Faith.
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  I wanted to do Geodetic Drift as a 3 horn LOF set with Michael on the weird percussion and two trumpets – basically smushing the two recurring units into a larger ensemble. The second trumpet ended up being Bob Moores, who is one of the most prolific members of the Evil Clown roster. These days, Bob plays mostly on Metal Chaos Ensemble, Simulacrum, and Turbulence sets, since we leverage his guitar and electronics playing in those settings and I have tons of horn players in the roster who can do Leap of Faith. Newcomer Keiichi Hashimoto, who filled out the second trumpet chair in this quintet on Taxonomic Dilemma from February, was unable to make this set and I was able to get Bob to sub on short notice…
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  The aesthetic problem posed to this ensemble is an interesting one. Michael’s unusual percussion is mostly pretty quiet (much quieter than drum set), and horns are louder. Joel did an excellent job with the mix, balancing the quieter sounds of the percussion with the dynamically restrained efforts from the horns and the amplified cello. Not less intense, but a bit quieter than other Leap of Faith configurations…
  I like this set and I bet you will too…
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