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    ---Review by Darren Bergstein, Downtown Music Gallery
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    TURBULENCE ORCHESTRA - Dynamos (Evil Clown 9311; USA) The latest missive from the Evil Clown in-house big band shakes the foundations gloriously, starting off like the slowly lumbering, calculating beast that it is, until the gargantuan soundstage simply swallows up its own field density whole. Naturally directed and lynch-pinned by master clown himself Dave PEK, Turbulence Orchestra’s mammoth sound creations are equal parts bombast, blim, bluster, and bodaciousness. PEK and his sparring partners (Joel Simches, Vance Provey, Bob Moores, Duane Reed and a host of others) wreak a tradition of ecstatic blowfests that summon the legacies of Ayler, Coltrane, Shepp, Roland Kirk, and the Art Ensemble of Chicago, and reunite their legacies in broad strokes which embrace the far-flung fantasies of Sun Ra, London Improvisers Orchestra, and Steve Lacy and Evan Parker’s multi-limbed outfits, lacing the entirety with an energy that is nothing short of interstellar. As usual, the company erect a widescreen piece over a hour in duration, through which their uncountable gaggle of horns, electronic interfaces, and percussive armament storm the countryside. Ten-plus minutes in finds PEK and his compadres reigning in the sonic lava to hesitantly probe about the studio, birthing ideas in bits and pieces, a sensitive move here, a more strident lick there, as atmospheric changes alter the barometric pressure until all hell eventually breaks loose. (The percussive stabs, gongs, and ring modulators buzz about like hornets in the distance.) This battle of the wills continues in varying fashion as our ears are treated to ever-shifting modes of saxophone irradiation, late-night meditative reverie, and explosions of sound that intermittently upset the equilibrium in a series of dazzling tours-de-force. Who knows what aural Evil lurks in the hearts of men? These Clowns do.
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    - Darren Bergstein, DMG
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    ---LINER NOTES BY PEK
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    I formed Turbulence in 2015 as I started to assemble players for the Leap of Faith Orchestra. Turbulence, the extended horn section for the Orchestra (along with guests on other instruments), also records and performs as an independent unit. As if this writing in 2021, we have recorded over 30 albums on Evil Clown with greatly varied ensembles. All the smaller Evil Clown bands are really more about a general approach, rather than a specific set of musicians. A session gets credited to Turbulence when it is mostly horn players and the only musician on all of them is me. The sessions range from an early duet with Steve Norton and me (Vortex Generation Mechanisms) to a 5-horn band with bass and two percussionists (Encryption Schemes) to four albums by the side project Turbulence Doom Choir which feature myself, multiple tubas, percussion, electronics, and signal processing and many other configurations.
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    Currently, the Evil Clown Roster has about 20 horn players. When I schedule Turbulence sets, I put one on the weekend and one on a weeknight since some players can only do one or the other. This is the first session of the third cycle of Turbulence sets since vaccines became available and I started having YouTube LiveStreaming sets at Evil Clown Headquarters. Since so many players are available, I’m working on the problem of large ensemble improvisation with big groups of Evil Clown regulars mixed with some relative newbies…
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    The ensemble ended up numbering 8, including four trumpeters, one lower brass and three reeds. The trumpet section is extraordinary including Ellwood Epps (who has played with Glynis Lomon’s NLC), Bob Moores (long-time Evil Clown regular), Vance Provey (relative new-comer to Evil Clown becoming a frequent contributor), and John Fugarino (blast from the past… Glynis and I played with John in the Masashi Harada Sextet for a few years in the early 90s). Low brass is handled by regular Duane Reed, and the reeds are myself, Michael Caglianone and new-comer Jared Jared Holaday.
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    I’m super happy with this session. The regulars and the newer arrivals really played extremely well together, listening intently and exercising admirable restraint. 8 players is a large band for pure improvisation; when an ensemble reaches 8 players in size or larger I refer to it as an improvisation orchestra, hence the name of this ensemble is Turbulence Orchestra. Generally speaking, as ensemble size increases, so increases the difficulty of making music which is well-formed and tight. I’m very interested in the aesthetic problems of larger group pure improvisations. My Broad Palate concept is a solution to this problem which works by introducing many different possible sonorities. Over the duration of the work, the combination of instruments undergoes tremendous variation, leading to a sequence of very different movements. Most of the players on Dynamos play several horns, and also auxiliary percussion and the other instruments which are strewn all throughout the studio.
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    Anyway, I like this set and I bet you will too…
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    PEK – 6/25/2022
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Evil Clown 9311
LIVESTREAMED to YouTube from
Evil Clown Headquarters, Waltham MA
23 June 2022

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released June 26, 2022

. PEK - clarinet, contralto & contrabass clarinets, sopranino, alto, & tenor saxophones, mussette, bass tromboon, medieval horn, bass flute, sheng, melodica, novation peak, moog subsequent, prophet, syntrix, Linnstrument controllers, [d]ronin, baby bomb piano, 17 string bass, [d]ronin, spring & chime rod boxes, almglocken, Tibetan bowls, crotales, chimes, wood blocks, brontosaurus & tank bells, gong, plate gong, temple blocks, log drums, orchestral castanets, crank siren, Englephone . Mike Caglianone - soprano, alto & tenor saxophones, gong, log drums, wood blocks, temple blocks, brontosaurus & tank bells, chimes
. Jared Holaday - bass clarinet, alto saxophone, piccolo, alto flute, 17 string bass, moog subsequent, novation peak, Linnstrument controllers, log drums, wood blocks, temple blocks
. John Fugarino - trumpet, slide/valve trumpet, flugelhorn, trombone, shofar, gong, brontosaurus & tank bells, chimes, Tibetan bowls, wood blocks, temple blocks, log drums, glockenspiel
. Ellwood Epps - trumpet, shofar, almglocken, balafon
. Vance Provey - trumpet
. Bob Moores - space trumpet, flugelhorn, shofar, almglocken, Tibetan Bowls, gong, brontosaurus & tank bells, wood blocks, temple blocks, log drums, balafon, almglocken, Englephone, moog subsequent, novation peak, Linnstrument controllers, prophet, [d]ronin, spring & chime rod boxes, baby bomb paino, Tibetan bowls, glockenspiel, voice
. Duane Reed - baritone horn, bass trombone, overtone voice, moog subsequent, novation peak, Linnstrument controllers, wood blocks, temple blocks, 17 string bass, Englephone, chimes, trine, temple bell
. Joel Simches - live-to-2 track recording, real time signal processing
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YouTube: youtu.be/hPQ4dC3mb04
Evil Clown Album Page: evilclown.rocks/turbor-dynamos/
Evil Clown Facebook site: www.facebook.com/GiantEvilClown/
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Other recent Turbulence sets
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Links to Turbulence Albums since 2019
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Turbulence – Wormholes (9/30/2023)
YouTube: youtu.be/d1_bU-M3TBA
Evil Clown Album Page: evilclown.rocks/turbr-wormholes/
bandcamp: turbulence2.bandcamp.com/album/gust-load
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Turbulence Orchestra – Gust Load (9/16/2023)
YouTube: youtu.be/d1_bU-M3TBA
Evil Clown Album Page: evilclown.rocks/turbor-gust-load/
bandcamp: turbulence2.bandcamp.com/album/gust-load
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Turbulence Orchestra – Jet Stream (8/22/2023)
YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTwk8H15diM
Evil Clown Album Page: evilclown.rocks/turbor-jet-stream/
bandcamp: turbulence2.bandcamp.com/album/trapped-in-a-whorl
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Turbulence Orchestra – Trapped in a Whorl (4/22/2023)
YouTube: youtu.be/Hwgf7Vnpc6E
Evil Clown Album Page: evilclown.rocks/turbor-trapped-in-a-whorl/
bandcamp: turbulence2.bandcamp.com/album/trapped-in-a-whorl
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Turbulence Orchestra – Finding the Loophole (4/13/2023)
YouTube: youtu.be/zK_DA6kXEPA
Evil Clown Album Page: evilclown.rocks/turbor-finding-the-loophole/
bandcamp: turbulence2.bandcamp.com/album/finding-the-loophole
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Turbulence Orchestra – Cyclonic Streams (8/27/2022)
YouTube: youtu.be/KB9xn3ul_bM
Evil Clown Album Page: evilclown.rocks/turbor-cyclonic-streams/
bandcamp: turbulence2.bandcamp.com/album/cyclonic-streams
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Dynamos (6/22/2022)
YouTube: youtu.be/hPQ4dC3mb04
Evil Clown Album Page: evilclown.rocks/turbor-dynamos/
bandcamp: turbulence2.bandcamp.com/track/dynamos
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Turbulence Orchestra – Wind Shear (4/20/2022)
YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvHOlZisrnQ
Evil Clown Album Page: evilclown.rocks/turbor-wind-shear/
bandcamp: turbulence2.bandcamp.com/album/wind-shear
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Inversion (3/19/2022)
bandcamp: turbulence2.bandcamp.com/album/inversion
YouTube: youtu.be/7_CDUdZeXGQ www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6789_I2yPw
Evil Clown Album Page: evilclown.rocks/turbr-inversion/
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Fluid Friction (12/8/2021)
bandcamp: turbulence2.bandcamp.com/album/fluid-friction
YouTube: youtu.be/qPhYeh8ifwc www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6789_I2yPw
Clown Album Page: evilclown.rocks/turbor-fluid-friction/
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Roughness of Surfaces (11/13/2021)
bandcamp: turbulence2.bandcamp.com/album/roughness-of-surfaces
YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6789_I2yPw
Evil Clown Album Page: evilclown.rocks/turbr-roughness/
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Updraft Intensity (8/1/2021)
bandcamp: turbulence2.bandcamp.com/album/updraft-intensity
YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulpkZAxVzgE
Evil Clown Album Page evilclown.rocks/turbr-updraft-intensity/
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Vertical Currents (7/14/2021)
bandcamp: turbulence2.bandcamp.com/album/vertical-currents
YouTube: youtu.be/sBaM44JpoM4
Evil Clown Album Page evilclown.rocks/turbr-vertical-currents/
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Information Paradox (30 May 2021)
bandcamp: turbulence2.bandcamp.com/album/information-paradox
YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=G27nTHZd-ao
Evil Clown Album Page: evilclown.rocks/turbr-information-paradox/
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Friction Coefficients (29 February 2020)
bandcamp: turbulence2.bandcamp.com/album/friction-coefficients
YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dIAK3TkPqs&t=7s
Evil Clown Album Page: evilclown.rocks/turbr-friction-coefficients/
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Upheaval (11 November 2019)
bandcamp: turbulence2.bandcamp.com/album/upheaval
YouTube:
Upheaval: www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8vqfmBGQOE&t=7s
Ten Minute Shorty: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9UsNhfExv4
Evil Clown Album Page: evilclown.rocks/turbr-upheaval/
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Paroxysmal Attack (3 November 2019)
bandcamp: turbulence2.bandcamp.com/album/paroxysmal-attacks
YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYz1YFZQqx0&t=118s
Evil Clown Album Page: evilclown.rocks/turbr-paroxysmal-attacks/
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Tumult for winds & percussion in Q flat minor (19 October 2019)
bandcamp: turbulence2.bandcamp.com/album/tumult
YouTube: youtu.be/H_CsK8APDFc
Evil Clown Album Page: evilclown.rocks/turbr-tumult/
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Eddy Flux (3 October 2019)
bandcamp: turbulence2.bandcamp.com/album/eddy-flow
YouTube: youtu.be/7pJwzS1_xHk
Evil Clown Album Page: evilclown.rocks/turbcer-eddy-flux/
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Son of Cosmocentric (5 September 2019)
bandcamp: turbulence2.bandcamp.com/album/son-of-cosmocentric
YouTube: youtu.be/FYtheJ8hpQk
Evil Clown Album Page: evilclown.rocks/turbcer-son-of-cosmo/
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The Conception of Sense (17 August 2019)
bandcamp: turbulence2.bandcamp.com/album/the-conception-of-sense-2
YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lXkzb03rC8&t=8s
Evil Clown Album Page: evilclown.rocks/turbcer-conception/
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Inelastic Collisions (15 June 2019)
bandcamp: turbulence2.bandcamp.com/album/inelastic-collisions
YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2nnrtMQHCM&lc=z23bt1ap2xf2hb1i004t1aokg3nc5wc0cv2oc0eoawjdbk0h00410
Evil Clown Album Page: evilclown.rocks/turbr-inelastic-collisions/
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Transient Boundaries (16 February 2019)
bandcamp: turbulence2.bandcamp.com/album/transient-boundaries
YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3MJ1234gOM
Evil Clown Album Page: evilclown.rocks/turbpzdr-transient/

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Turbulence is a wind ensemble formed to be the extended horn section for the Leap of Faith Orchestra. They also perform as an independent unit. The band features PEK and Steve Norton on woodwinds from Leap of Faith along with various other woodwind and brass players including David Harris, Charlie Kohlhase and Bob Moores. ... more

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