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  ---PEK Liner Notes
  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 units 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.
  
  The Evil Clown Roster is large, currently roughly 50 players, and the level of participation varies greatly. Some excellent players are very busy and can be somewhat hard to book. One such player is Melanie Howell-Brooks, who bought my original contrabass clarinet, and who has played 4 or 5 times with Leap of Faith and Turbulence. She is more jazz than most of us, but also comfortable in a much freer environment. Scrying was scheduled around her availability, but she had a late family conflict and could not make it. The original band for this would have been Melanie, Mike Caglianone, Glynis, and me – 3 reeds and cello. This would have been an interesting unit, and a new instrumental configuration.
  
  These scheduling snafus happen, and here at Evil Clown we are flexible and roll with it… I repurposed the session by adding Albey onBass and Michael Knoblach on percussion. This is the quintet version of what I sometimes call a balanced ensemble for winds and strings (2 horns, 2 strings & percussion). All the players are regulars (Mike C and Albey have each done roughly 30 Evil Clown sessions and Mike K has done roughly 20), but this configuration had not worked before. However, a few weeks back all but Glynis performed Extent as Expanse, so I knew that adding Glynis to that quartet would be a great ensemble.
  
  Larger balanced ensembles have a great feature – the strings interact with each other, the horns interact with each other, and the instrumental units interact with each other and the percussion. Mike C and I have made substantial progress over the last few years at performing together on the horns; same with Glynis and Albey on the strings.
  
  The resulting performance is an excellent example of the broad palette concept showing radical transformations across varied sonorities of the length of the work.
  
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