Peter Kuhn plays clarinet, bass clarinet and tenor sax in a completely different pair of situations on these free range recordings.
Sticking to clarinet and bass clarinet in a trio format, Kuhn joins with Kyle Motl/b and Nathan Hubbard for nine intuitive collective improvisations. His bass clarinet gets frisky on the kinetic “ChaWang” and growls warmly for “The Stream,” floating over the scurrying rhythm on “Perception Deception.” On the licorice stick, he gets dreamy on the floaty and soft “Gift in the Ground” and contrasts by pulling back while the rhythm gallops ahead on the tensile title track. Frisky!
Kuhn adds tenor sax to his repertoire for a concert in swinging Eagle Rock, CA with Alex Cline/dr-perc, Dan Clucas/ct, Dave Sewelson/bs-sss and Scott Walton/b. There are only three songs. The longest at 38 minutes is filled with crying saxes, sustained tension and cataclysmic climaxes. A three minute “The Nibbler” features Clucas’ muted cornet weaving around a traffic jam, while “The Way Out (Is In) features intuitive communication between brass, bari, tenor and the shifting sands of rhythm. Jamming on quicksand!