Eono Jux, by Ben Stapp

Eono Jux

by Ben Stapp

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	1.	Eono Jux I : Compass 06:10
	2.	Eono Jux II: Baginy Tree 09:49
	3.	Eono Jux III: Baginy Fruit 06:21
	4.	Eono Jux IV: Gyrosmack 07:56
	5.	Eono Jux V: Trillax 04:44
	6.	Eono Jux VI: Trillax and the Hut 10:24
	7.	Eono Jux VII: Trillax's Wound 05:04
	8.	Improv - Avedium 05:48
	9.	Improv - Oss' Market 11:20
	10.	Improv - Spaceboyrd Call 03:39

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This album marks a new composition period for Stapp. Four years ago he came up with a theory of harmony and rhythm as applied to a fictional planet called Eono. This musical allegory helped him create and explore new systems of rhythm, harmony, and sound, allowing him to graduate from and evolve from his early works: Myrrha's Red Book and MCSD. This is the first product since its inception.

All though this album might appear at first glance as 'free', each tune was rehearsed with certain rhythmic and harmonic principle in mind. Each piece with exception to the improvised solo tracks are marked with written parts for each instrument.

For each piece, each instrument had a specific and unique rhythmic/harmonic role that was planned and practiced. This juxtaposition of melodies and rhythms that seem contrary create a chaotic yet compelling momentum. On Eono, this chaos is very predictable, on Earth, not as much.

There is a gestalt listening experience one can appreciate as well. (As third dimensional beings, we can listen one way or the other. On Eono, the simultaneous experience is a given.) If you listen to one instrument alone, you will hear its own specific musical zone and development, independent of the others. If you draw your focus to the sound of the group, you will hear a specific and stylized cacophony that creates the album's conceit, throughout.

If you can hear both, simultaneously, perhaps you should question what planet you are from.

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released August 30, 2021

Ben Stapp - Tuba/ Compositions
Rob Brown - Alto Saxophone
Satoshi Takeishi - Drums, Prepared Hammer Dulcimer
Shoko Nagai - Piano, Synth

Recorded at Bunker Studios on August 22nd, 2022
Recording Engineer: Alex Conroy
Mix and Mastering: Kamilo Kratc at Soundworks Studio
Album Cover Art by Jessica Stapp

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"...Stapp's imagination is limitless, his influences truly diffuse, and he realizes his vision due to a type of daring that few artists possess. This record is certain to appear on a number of best of 2015 lists." -- Cisco Bradley, Jazz Right Now

"...one of the best discs of the week and unlike anything I've reviewed in recent times." Bruce Lee Gallanter, DMG ... more

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