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Imaginary Perspectives

by Leap Of Faith

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    ----Review by Bruce Lee Gallanter, Downtown Music Gallery
    LEAP OF FAITH with PEK / GLYNIS LOMON / BOB MOORES - Imaginary Perspectives (Evil Clown 9273; USA) Featuring PEK on clarinets, saxes, flute, oboe, gongs, bells and assorted percussion; Glynis Lomon on cello, aquasonic & voice and Bob Moores on trumpets, guitarron, Prophet synth and assorted percussion. It’s been a year since the ever-prolific Evil Clown label has released a new disc from their main band Leap of Faith. Due to the pandemic/close-down era, Dave PEK worked on and released nearly two dozen solo PEK projects/discs. I am glad they are back since Leap of Faith are/is the best and most enduring of the half dozen other projects that PEK is involved with. For this disc, the version of Leap of Faith is just a trio with two founding members, PEK and Glynis Lomon (mostly cello) plus a newer member, Bob Moores (mostly trumpets), who is already an established member of the Evil Clown empire and is found on some two dozen discs.
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    One of the things I like most about Leap of faith is that their music often sounds cinematic, three dimensional, like walking in an African or South American jungle with animal, insects and natural sounds floating around us. All three members of Leap of Faith play some sort of percussion instrument or at least an aquasonic (bowed or plucked vase), hence there is often a layer or two of percussive sounds: drums, gongs, cymbals, bells, chimes, crotales, xylophone, glockenspiel and much more. This disc starts with some solemn ritualistic percussion. PEK has also become a great producer, the balance, warmth, and organic diversity is quite special. The trumpet and cello eventually enter and take their time to express themselves. Even when Leap of Faith strip things down, their music is still evocative, fascinating. At one point, Mr. Moores takes a soft, solemn, lonely sounding trumpet solo, rather like a candle burning in the dark providing the only light. Haunting, with Ms. Lomon’s somber, plucked or bowed cello rumbling underneath. Following the trumpet, PEK comes in on clarinet, again taking his time with a long, slowly unfolding solo with rustling cello and shaken bells underneath. Much of the percussion is recorded close mic’d so that it sounds like the musicians are right next to us in the same space. Throughout this long 70 minute disc, the sound is most haunting, hypnotic and engaging.
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    - Bruce Lee Gallanter, DMG
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    ----Liner Notes by PEK
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    Leap of Faith is the core duet of the Leap of Faith Orchestra (LOFO) comprised of PEK on clarinets, saxophones, clarinets & 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 (well over 100) feature the core unit in dozens of configurations with a huge list of guests and occasionally as only the core unit with no guests.
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    Bob Moores, our guest for this performance, is an Evil Clown regular with over 50 appearances on albums by the Evil Clown Ensembles Leap of Faith, Leap of Faith Orchestra, Turbulence, Metal Chaos Ensemble, and Mekaniks. Originally a trumpet player, he now also plays guitar, electronics and percussion. We love multi-instrumentalists at Evil Clown, since more doubling in the ensemble leads to greater variety of Sonority in the improvisation.
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    This is the first Leap of Faith set since I opened Evil Clown Headquarters to fully vaccinated members of the Evil Clown Roster. I’m not really in a hurry to start public performances just yet. The LIVESTREAMING shows are performances that do not carry any Covid risk to either the musicians or the audience. Plus we have the studio recording equipment and the full Evil Clown Arsenal of instruments to select from…
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    This is a strong set as I expected, since everyone is still very excited to be able to play music again with others. Stayed tuned for a steady stream of new sets over the next few months from Leap of Faith and all the other active Evil Clown ensembles.

    - PEK 5/24/21
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Evil Clown 9273
LIVESTREAMED to YouTube
Evil Clown Headquarters, Waltham MA 22 May 2021

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released May 25, 2021

. PEK - clarinet & contrabass clarinet, tenor & alto saxophones, alto flute, piccolo oboe, sheng, guqin, guitarron, gongs, plate gong, brontosaurus & tank bells, Tibetan bells, almglocken, wood blocks, temple blocks, seed pod rattles, cowbells, orchestral chimes, xylophone, glockenspiel, chimes, crotales, cymbells, [d[ronin, chime & spring boxes, telstar, electric chimes
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. Glynis Lomon - cello, aquasonic, voice
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. Bob Moores - trumpet, piccolo trumpet, crotales, almglocken, gongs, chimes, wood blocks, temple blocks, cowbells, brontosaurus & tank bells, Englephone, [d[ronin, chime & spring boxes, telstar, electric chimes, talking drum, guitarron, prophet
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YouTube: youtu.be/DJUM8BAxu5g
Evil Clown album page: evilclown.rocks/lofcr-imaginary-perspectives/

-------------------------------------------Recent Leap of Faith sets:
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Resonance Energy (2/11/2024)
YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eAdTsuZUpA
Evil Clown album page: evilclown.rocks/lofcr-resonance-energy/
bandcamp: leapoffaith1.bandcamp.com/album/resonance-energy
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LOF Chinese Orchestra - Magic Squares (1/27/2024)
YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5DQ-is4Px0
Evil Clown album page: evilclown.rocks/lofcr-magic-squares/
bandcamp: leapoffaith1.bandcamp.com/album/magic-squares
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Radiation Patterns (1/20/2024)
YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YXDw5Qlb2Q
Evil Clown album page: evilclown.rocks/lofcr-radiation/
bandcamp: leapoffaith1.bandcamp.com/album/radiation-patterns
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Cyclic Models (12/9/2023)
YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfZxIvl7ug4
Evil Clown album page: evilclown.rocks/lofcr-cyclic-models/
bandcamp: leapoffaith1.bandcamp.com/album/cyclic-models
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Interconnected by Testable Relations (11/18/2023)
YouTube: LOF www.youtube.com/watch?v=5skEhdB9eC0
YouTube: KLH www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIJGxi4TS4E
Evil Clown album page: evilclown.rocks/lofcr-interconnected/
bandcamp: leapoffaith1.bandcamp.com/album/interconnected-by-testable-relations
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Quest for Uncertainty (11/12/2023)
YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdK3rpDia-k
Evil Clown album page: evilclown.rocks/lofcr-quest/
bandcamp: leapoffaith1.bandcamp.com/album/quest-for-uncertainty
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Lexical and Syntactic Ambiguities (10/14/2023)
YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySN9m9DWJ_c
Evil Clown album page: evilclown.rocks/lofcr-lexical/
bandcamp: leapoffaith1.bandcamp.com/album/lexical-and-syntactic-ambiguities
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Spooky Action at a Distance (9/19/2023)
YouTube: 1) www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRlgtfTP5No 2) www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIpJxBAKA_0
Evil Clown album page: evilclown.rocks/8650-2/
bandcamp: leapoffaith1.bandcamp.com/album/spooky-action-at-a-distance
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Graviton Propagates (9/9/2023)
YouTube: youtu.be/cL0KHY1KgMY
Evil Clown album page: evilclown.rocks/lofcr-graviton-propagates/
bandcamp: leapoffaith1.bandcamp.com/album/graviton-propagates
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Scrying (8/31/2023)
YouTube: youtu.be/omeLdl9kuho
Evil Clown album page: evilclown.rocks/lofcr-scrying/
bandcamp: leapoffaith1.bandcamp.com/album/scrying
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Emergent Spacetime (6/6/2023)
YouTube: youtu.be/RaJ4lgDpRNU
Evil Clown album page: evilclown.rocks/lofcr-emergent-spacetime/
bandcamp: leapoffaith1.bandcamp.com/album/emergent-spacetime
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The Origin of Mass (5/13/2023)
YouTube: youtu.be/9mTkoqM8Ny4
Evil Clown album page: evilclown.rocks/lofcr-origin-of-mass/
bandcamp: leapoffaith1.bandcamp.com/album/the-origin-of-mass
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Geodetic Drift (5/2/2023)
YouTube: youtu.be/0DJKI-6FK5s
Evil Clown album page: evilclown.rocks/lofcr-geodetic-drift/
bandcamp: leapoffaith1.bandcamp.com/album/geodetic-drift
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LOF Chinese Orchestra - Jade Mirror of the Four Unknowns (4/1/2023)
YouTube: youtu.be/ZGdXZ1JKiCc
Evil Clown album page: evilclown.rocks/lofocor-jade-mirror/
bandcamp: leapoffaith1.bandcamp.com/album/jade-mirror-of-the-four-unknowns
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Degrees of Freedom (3/18/2023)
YouTube: youtu.be/aveYETJNPX8
Evil Clown Album Page: evilclown.rocks/lofcr-degrees-of-freedom/
bandcamp: leapoffaith1.bandcamp.com/album/degrees-of-freedom
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Taxonomic Dilemma (2/11/2023)
YouTube: youtu.be/3bIBCS1vB6o
Evil Clown Album Page: evilclown.rocks/lofcr-taxonomic-dilemma/
bandcamp: leapoffaith1.bandcamp.com/album/taxonomic-dilemma
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Cosmic String Loops (5/7/2022)
YouTube: youtu.be/8HYHZsZCTNo
Evil Clown Album Page: evilclown.rocks/lofcr-cosmic-string/
bandcamp: leapoffaith1.bandcamp.com/album/cosmic-string-loops
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Ordered and Disordered Localities (4/14/2022)
YouTube: youtu.be/ZkWsiUK9Jqs
Evil Clown Album Page: evilclown.rocks/lofcr-ordered-and-disordered/
bandcamp: leapoffaith1.bandcamp.com/album/ordered-and-disordered-localities
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Quantum Jitters (4/10/2022)
YouTube: youtu.be/A08rK5JKyf0
Evil Clown Album Page: evilclown.rocks/lofcr-quantum-jitters/
bandcamp: leapoffaith1.bandcamp.com/album/quantum-jitters
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Spectral Sequences (3/26/2022)
YouTube: youtu.be/Yb-C8TUtxF4
Evil Clown Album Page: evilclown.rocks/lofcr-spectral-seq/
bandcamp: leapoffaith1.bandcamp.com/album/spectral-sequences
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Laws of Crystal Forms (2/26/2022)
YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDtxGGc8t0A&t=36s
Evil Clown Album Page: evilclown.rocks/7720-2/
bandcamp: leapoffaith1.bandcamp.com/album/laws-of-crystal-forms
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Undulations in the Spatial Field (1/15/2022)
YouTube: youtu.be/NZrKIiVFHoE
Evil Clown Album Page: evilclown.rocks/lofcr-undulations/
bandcamp: leapoffaith1.bandcamp.com/album/undulations-in-the-spatial-field
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Meaning Arising:
YouTube: youtu.be/R6iBbv6In08
Evil Clown Album Page: evilclown.rocks/lofcr-meaning-arising/
bandcamp: leapoffaith1.bandcamp.com/album/meaning-arising
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Revealing the Essence (10/13/2021)
YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_O3CtOlLPYk
Evil Clown Album Page: evilclown.rocks/lofcr-revealing/
bandcamp: leapoffaith1.bandcamp.com/album/revealing-the-essence
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Coherence Disturbed (9/29/2021)
YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyX8JIr8MEo
Evil Clown Album Page: evilclown.rocks/lofcr-coherence-disturbed/
bandcamp: leapoffaith1.bandcamp.com/album/coherence-disturbed
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Loops of Gravitational Force (9/25/2021)
YouTube: youtu.be/lkoUAEbB_fo
Evil Clown album page: evilclown.rocks/7754-2/
bandcamp: leapoffaith1.bandcamp.com/album/loops-of-gravitational-force
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Lattice (5/23/2021)
YouTube: youtu.be/XfEE1cEY0t0
Evil Clown album page: evilclown.rocks/lofcr-lattice/
bandcamp: leapoffaith1.bandcamp.com/album/lattice
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Imaginary Perspectives (5/23/2021)
YouTube: youtu.be/DJUM8BAxu5g
Evil Clown album page: evilclown.rocks/lofcr-imaginary-perspectives/
bandcamp: leapoffaith1.bandcamp.com/album/imaginary-perspectives
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True Representations of Reality (6/14/2020)
YouTube:
No 1: Symbols www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUZ1iHYNj3E
No 2: Ideographs www.youtube.com/watch?v=UM5JMJkUJaQ
No 3: Hieroglyphics www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFyjOPE26pI
Evil Clown album page: evilclown.rocks/lofcr-true-represent/
bandcamp: leapoffaith1.bandcamp.com/album/true-representations-of-reality
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Trajectories (2/27/2020)
YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhA8A9sXRYM
Evil Clown album page: evilclown.rocks/lofcr-trajectories/
bandcamp: leapoffaith1.bandcamp.com/album/trajectories
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The Observed Present (2/15/2020)
YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPgMBQqQw9A&t=485s
Evil Clown album page: evilclown.rocks/lofcr-observed-present/
bandcamp: leapoffaith1.bandcamp.com/album/the-observed-present
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Principles of an Open Future (1/23/2020, 2/13/2020)
YouTube:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUdL4D29g_o&t=2s
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJa-tgPtQZc&t=2s
Evil Clown album page: evilclown.rocks/lofcr-principles/
bandcamp: leapoffaith1.bandcamp.com/album/principles-of-an-open-future
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Phenomena (1/23/2020, 2/13/2020)
YouTube:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=chUg6ibsevk&t=5s
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WSg6cHOcxY&t=2s
Evil Clown album page: evilclown.rocks/lofcr-phenomena/
bandcamp: leapoffaith1.bandcamp.com/album/phenomena

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Leap of Faith is a long-term collaboration active from 1993 to 2001 and resuming in 2015 between Glynis Lomon (cello, voice) and PEK (clarinets, saxes, double reeds, voice) with various other regulars (Mark McGrain trombone, Craig Schildhauer bass, Yuri Zbitnov drums, James Coleman theremin, Steve Norton saxes, clarinets) + many guests. Pure improv with little or no planning prior to performance ... more

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