Tim Brady - Actions Speak Louder, Act 1: Solos and a Quartet (2021)

Tracklist

01. Simple Loops in Complex Times: I. —
02. Simple Loops in Complex Times: II. —
03. Simple Loops in Complex Times: III. —
04. At Sergio’s Request
05. 60% (Just Water)
06. The Virtuosity of Time: I. —
07. The Virtuosity of Time: II. —
08. The Virtuosity of Time: III. —
09. The Virtuosity of Time: IV. —
10. Uncertain Impact

Actions speak louder than words, it is often said. And the words we use to describe and categorize music – jazz, rock, tonal, atonal, classical, experimental, world, spectral, minimal, whatever – often focus on the technical and cultural differences between musical actions that are, at their heart, remarkably unified in intent. The act of making music, the passion of composing, the happiness of playing guitar, have always been for me a single continuum of ideas and possibilities, never a series of discrete styles and rules.

The initial COVID-19 crisis in the spring and summer of 2020 gave me the time to think about these ideas, and to create these three interconnected recordings. They explore this fundamental idea of a single musical continuum with three different approaches, but always with the idea of making connections through musical actions, rather than creating divisions through technical discourse...

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