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Cyclonic and Anticyclonic Streams

by Turbulence

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    ----Liner Notes by PEK
    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 2023, we have recorded over 40 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. A session gets credited to Turbulence Orchestra when the size of the band reaches 8 or more performers. 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.

    The most frequent way that new players join the Evil Clown Roster is from a recommendation from a current member. A while back, Albey recommended horn player Hilary Noble, and we booked him for a session. Hilary is a busy player, and also teaches at Berklee, so after we arranged a set, a conflict arose, and he couldn’t do it. We scheduled something else which also ended in conflict. Then the third attempt he got covid… However, It was clear that he was really interested, and I am always looking for new high caliber players, so it was just a matter of time until we worked it out and got him over for a session.

    The third session was meant to be a 5-horn septet with bass and drums for the Turbulence. The other horns were me, Michael Caglianone, Bob Moores, and John Fugarino, with Scott Samenfeld on bass and Jim Lucchese on drums. We did that set on 2/19 about a month ago as a sextet. It was an excellent performance with all the performers moving away from their primary instruments and playing on the auxiliary instruments. When this happens in broad palette long form improvisation, a steady flow of transformations across sonorities naturally occurs and creates the form of the work.

    Anyway, it would have been great for that to be Hilary’s first appearance, but of course covid is a deal-breaker. I immediately started work on scheduling a repeat of the session with Hilary added, and very nearly succeeded in getting everyone. Jim was not able to make the date, and I got Michael Knoblach to fill in on drums. Michael usually plays traditional and unusual percussion, but does play drum set when drums are needed. This version of Turbulence with Scott on the bass is more jazz oriented than most Evil Clown ensemble’s performances, so I use drums instead of percussion. Of course, there is a ton of percussion in the studio and nearly all the players double the percussion instruments along with their main axes. Hilary brought a very nice set of 3 conga drums, so between his running back and forth between conga and sax/flute and the others playing percussion there is a great deal of percussion texture.

    Anyway, I like this set and I bet you will too…

    PEK – 3/24/2024
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Evil Clown 9372
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Evil Clown Headquarters, Waltham MA
23 March 2024

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released March 25, 2024

. PEK - clarinet, contralto & contrabass clarinets, alto & tenor saxophones, English horn, piccolo oboe, alto flute, melodica, prophet, korg ms20, syntrx, novation peak, moog subsequent, arp odyssey, game call, soma pipe, Linnstrument controllers, theremin with moogerfooger, [d]ronin, 17 string bass, lfo percolator, array mbira, spring & chime rod boxes, spiny Norman, daxophone, gongs, brontosaurus & tank bells, cow bells, orchestral chimes, chimes, temple & wood blocks, log drums, danmo, orchestral castanets, seed pod rattles, Tibetan bells, bowls & chimes, almglocken, Englephone, bells

. Michael Caglianone - soprano, alto & tenor saxophones, clarinet, flute, melodica, tiny slide whistle, glockenspiel, crotales, almglocken, seed ped rattle, gongs

. Hilary Noble - tenor sax, flute, conga, gongs, almglocken, log drums, wood & temple blocks, cow bells, nord stage 3, ratchets, brontosaurus & tank bells, cow bells, chimes

. John Fugarino - trumpet, slide trumpet, flugelhorn, trombone, ocarina, Tibetan bells & bowls, bells, orchestral castanets, seed pod rattle, log drums, wood & temple blocks, shakers, array mbira, spring & chime rod boxes,nord stage 3, korg ms-20

. Bob Moores - trumpet, flugelhorn, large bell pocket trumpet, Carry-On digital wind instrument and midi controller, nord stage 3, novation peak, Linnstrument controllers, orchestral castanets, wood blocks, log drums, rattles, Tibetan bowls.

. Scott Samenfeld - electric upright bass, melodica, shenai

. Michael Knoblach - drums, percussion

. Joel Simches - Live to 2-track recording, real-time signal processing

. Paul Brennan – camera

. Raffi - video mix

YouTube: youtu.be/SMpqlidAukM
YouTube Shorties: www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7JVgF1zjWslRnq2F0Bi6zBiiQOvyd5QI
Evil Clown Album Page: turbulence2.bandcamp.com/album/cyclonic-and-anticyclonic-streams

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Other recent Turbulence sets
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Links to Turbulence Albums since 2019
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Turbulence – Effects of Channeling (2/20/2024)
YouTube: youtu.be/skhRGGDfh0E
Evil Clown Album Page: evilclown.rocks/turbr-effects-of-channeling/
bandcamp: turbulence2.bandcamp.com/album/effects-of-channeling
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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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