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"Come Out Tonight" was written after a visit
to David Gilmore, the producer of Outright Radio, at his home in
Tucson. We agreed that the show needed some music to knit things
together. When I got back to San Francisco I gathered together some of
my favorite musical friends who comprise the band we like to call "Oz"
and we recorded the theme for the show as well as a bunch of
instrumental variations. These feature John R. Burr on piano, the
pedal-steel guitar of David Phillips and Jim Kassis on percussion. The
sessions were recorded at Studio P in Sausalito, and engineered by Joe
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David liked what we'd done and he and Jesse Rose DeRooy (also known as
"The Audio Goddess") did a great job weaving these tracks into their
Public Radio season. Last I heard, Outright Radio was syndicated in
eighty cities. So our Tucson daydream has entered the public domain.
About the vocals: Aina Kemanis is a native of Berkeley, California.
From 1979 to 1984 she toured and recorded with bassist Barre Phillips
(ECM records). Since 1987 she has worked with Alex Cline (ECM,
Cryptogramophone) and continues to tour Europe and Scandinavia
regularly with Danish percussionist Marilyn Mazur (Intuition, ECM). In
the Bay Area she has sung with Kitka (the Eastern European women's
chorus), in a wide variety of theater and film projects and of course,
with Oz.
Aina has this unusual set of gifts: her voice has a vulnerability, an
emotional directness that I associate with folk singers like Joni
Mitchell and Jane Siberry (and Aina has sung that sort of music quite
a lot). But she's also comfortable scatting intricate melodic lines,
the sort of jazz vocal tradition that Flora Purim put on the map with
Chick Corea. When Aina and I began our collaboration some years back I
had a lot of fun writing pieces for her that were songs, that had
lyrics but would also incorporate her voice into the instrumental
arrangements, so she was integrated into the ensemble.
There's a backlog of Oz tracks that we are very fond of that have this
sort of aesthetic and we're making this collection available on CD for
those who'd like a larger helping of this sound you hear on Outright
Radio.
Thanks for listening and for visiting with us.
Clark Suprynowicz
bassist / composer
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