Red Arc: A call for liberación con salsa y cool
by Raúl R. Salinas
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Track List
- Song for Roland Kirk in a minor blues mode (Salinas/Ho) - 03:44
- Peltier 1 - (Salinas/Ho) - 02:49
- Peltier 2 - (Salinas/Ho) - 01:55
- Forest Desert Vision - (Salinas/Ho) - 05:02
- Combat Vision - (Salinas/Ho) - 03:32
- Today is Your Special Day, for the marriage of Paget Walker and Peter Adelman - (Ho) - 07:16
- Tree of Life - (Salinas/Ho) - 02:15
- History Crying for Change - (Ho) - 05:17
- Elegy on the Death of Two Indian Women - (Salinas/Ho) - 03:55
- Solidarite - (Salinas / Ho) - 03:36
- On the Police Murder of Jonathan Rodney - (Salinas / Ho) - 01:37
- Loud and Proud - (Salinas / Ho) - 03:22
Performance Notes from Fred Ho
- Track 1: I quote from Rahsaan Roland Kirk's classic "Volunteer Slavery" in my solo bari sax intro. The tune behind Ral is a combination of a fast 7/4 and 11/4 meter with some additives thrown in. Kirk, the blind multi-instrumental virtuoso who rejected the term "jazz" for his own sobriquet, "Black classical music," was an iconoclast of the '60s and '70s, who I was fortunate to hear and meet before he died. With marathon-like stamina, Kirk played several horns simultaneously and reclaimed obscure woodwind horns such as the manzello and stritch. Both an "inside" and "outside" player steeped in blues and gospel traditions, we pay homage to this late, great master and iconoclast.
- Track 4: I play a 3/4 or 7/8 meter dirge rhythm interspersed with the popular Chinese "Wong Fei-hung" martial arts anthem.
- Track 8: "History Crying for a Change" is one of my earliest compositions; it is a poignant "cry" for revolution.
- Track 12: Based on an opening 11/8 ostinato, I quote from the legendary Afro-Latin song "Manteca" as well as a 6/8 blues I composed entitled "Free New Afrika! Boogaloo" and "Big Red! (for Malcolm X and Mao Zedong)".
About the Recording:
Recorded at Edit Point Studios, San Antonio, TX on September 24, 2004. Engineered by Donney Meals. Mixed, edited and mastered by Jon Rosenberg at the Corner Store Studio, Park Slope Brooklyn, NY on September 28 and 30, 2004. Special Thanks to the 2004 Multi-Ethnic Literatures in the U.S. (MELUS) conference hosted by the University of Texas-San Antonio for the original impetus to this collaboration and recording project. Also to: Tomas Ybarra-Frausto, Louis Mendoza, Bill V. Mullen and Ben Olguin for their financial gifts which made this project possible. And of course to Bryce Milligan for his enthusiasm and energy.
All poems and vocal performance by Raúl R. Salinas (raúlrsalinas). Musical direction, compositions and performance by Fred Ho. Music published by Trans-formation Art Publisher/ ASCAP. All rights reserved. Copyright for all materials contained on this CD belongs to the individual creators. The text of the poems contained on this CD are from Indio Trails by raúlrsalinas, Wings Press © 2005.
CD design by Bryce Milligan. Fred Ho exclusively plays a Selmar Mark VI low-A baritone sax with a 9*b Lawton metal mouthpiece and #5 Rico reeds.
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Track List
- Song for Roland Kirk in a minor blues mode (Salinas/Ho) - 03:44
- Peltier 1 (Salinas/Ho) - 02:49
- Peltier 2 (Salinas/Ho) - 01:55
- Forest Desert Vision (Salinas/Ho) - 05:02
- Combat Vision (Salinas/Ho) - 03:32
- Today is Your Special Day, for the marriage of Paget Walker and Peter Adelman (Ho) - 07:16
- Tree of Life (Salinas/Ho) - 02:15
- History Crying for Change (Ho) - 05:17
- Elegy on the Death of Two Indian Women (Salinas/Ho) - 03:55
- Solidarite (Salinas / Ho) - 03:36
- On the Police Murder of Jonathan Rodney (Salinas / Ho) - 01:37
- Loud and Proud (Salinas / Ho) - 03:22
Performance Notes from Fred Ho
- Track 1: I quote from Rahsaan Roland Kirk's classic "Volunteer Slavery" in my solo bari sax intro. The tune behind Ral is a combination of a fast 7/4 and 11/4 meter with some additives thrown in. Kirk, the blind multi-instrumental virtuoso who rejected the term "jazz" for his own sobriquet, "Black classical music," was an iconoclast of the '60s and '70s, who I was fortunate to hear and meet before he died. With marathon-like stamina, Kirk played several horns simultaneously and reclaimed obscure woodwind horns such as the manzello and stritch. Both an "inside" and "outside" player steeped in blues and gospel traditions, we pay homage to this late, great master and iconoclast.
- Track 4: I play a 3/4 or 7/8 meter dirge rhythm interspersed with the popular Chinese "Wong Fei-hung" martial arts anthem.
- Track 8: "History Crying for a Change" is one of my earliest compositions; it is a poignant "cry" for revolution.
- Track 12: Based on an opening 11/8 ostinato, I quote from the legendary Afro-Latin song "Manteca" as well as a 6/8 blues I composed entitled "Free New Afrika! Boogaloo" and "Big Red! (for Malcolm X and Mao Zedong)".
About the Recording:
Recorded at Edit Point Studios, San Antonio, TX on September 24, 2004. Engineered by Donney Meals. Mixed, edited and mastered by Jon Rosenberg at the Corner Store Studio, Park Slope Brooklyn, NY on September 28 and 30, 2004. Special Thanks to the 2004 Multi-Ethnic Literatures in the U.S. (MELUS) conference hosted by the University of Texas-San Antonio for the original impetus to this collaboration and recording project. Also to: Tomas Ybarra-Frausto, Louis Mendoza, Bill V. Mullen and Ben Olguin for their financial gifts which made this project possible. And of course to Bryce Milligan for his enthusiasm and energy.
All poems and vocal performance by Raúl R. Salinas (raúlrsalinas). Musical direction, compositions and performance by Fred Ho. Music published by Trans-formation Art Publisher/ ASCAP. All rights reserved. Copyright for all materials contained on this CD belongs to the individual creators. The text of the poems contained on this CD are from Indio Trails by raúlrsalinas, Wings Press © 2005.
CD design by Bryce Milligan. Fred Ho exclusively plays a Selmar Mark VI low-A baritone sax with a 9*b Lawton metal mouthpiece and #5 Rico reeds.
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