St. Louis Shuffle, by Darin Gray

St. Louis Shuffle

by Darin Gray

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1.	Get Rid Of This St. Louis 03:07	buy track
2.	Karyn Kusama 01:14	buy track
3.	Mild Peril 00:25	buy track
4.	Ernest Trova 01:24	buy track
5.	Lemur Attack! 01:11	buy track
6.	Kate Chopin 03:16	buy track
7.	Where Are You Number Seven? 02:54	buy track
8.	Eugene B. Redmond 01:14	buy track
9.	St. Louis Slide 01:23	buy track
10.	T.S. Eliot 03:56	buy track
11.	Happy Birthday Bug 01:14	buy track
12.	Miles Rutlin 00:59	buy track
13.	Alexander Salamander 01:21	buy track
14.	St. Louis Stop 02:09	buy track
15.	Bessie Lowenhaupt 03:07	buy track
16.	St. Louis Boogaloo 03:03	buy track
17.	Shirley Leflore 01:05	buy track
18.	William S. Burroughs 01:17	buy track
19.	The St. Louis Shuffle Is Driving Me Bananas! 01:57	buy track

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Debut solo album from bassist Darin Gray -- associate, sideman and partner to Jim O'Rourke, Jeff Tweedy, Akira Sakata, Chris Corsano, Loren Connors, and percussionist Glen Kotche in their ongoing duo On Fillmore. Gray has also been a member of the genre-defying groups Dazzling Killmen, Grand Ulena, Brise Glace, and You Fantastic.

This 2002 release is 19 complex and short improvisational vignettes. The music on St. Louis Shuffle is informed more so by the extended technique composition of Helmut Lachenmann, the microscopic music of Francois Bayle, the films of Andrei Tarkovsky and Takeshi Kitano, and the cut-up trilogy of William Burroughs, than by free improvisation.

Dealing more with huge dynamics, timbre, and stillness than melodic or motivic improvisation and using a vocabulary of rumbling bass/ discomforting silences/ crackles/ hums/ scrapes/ clicks/ pops/ and switches/, Darin has made St. Louis Shuffle an album that is as beautiful as it is disturbing.

"Gray plays everything, everything, about his bass. The strings, the channel switches, the input jacks, the amp, the power switch, the silence of his instrument at rest all contribute to an expansive vocabulary of sound that Gray exploits and manipulates in puzzling, galvanizing ways." -- Paul Friswold, The Riverfront Times

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released September 3, 2002

Electric bass — Darin Gray

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