The titles Deep Fauna and Deep Flora allude to ways of looking at and listening more deeply to communities and forms of life as they might be ordered and expressed apart from humanity’s anthropocentric and exploitative purview. The titles are also metaphors for an aesthetic attitude that aims to skew prevailing genre conventions, mixing free improvisation and composition to develop an approach in which traditional musical elements are rendered not so much irrelevant as decoupled from their usual roles.
Deep Fauna moves between (mostly) highly distended but recognizable jazz standards by Bill Evans, Thelonious Monk, and Charles Mingus and improvised tracks that express the moods if not the forms or “singability” of these songs.
This version of Alfred Jarry is Eldritch Priest (guitar, Casio DH-100) and Brady Cranfield (Elektron Analog Rytm, Roland V-Drums).
Deep Fauna
1 By Clade or Taxon (1’42”)
2 Re: person I knew (take 3) (6’10”)
3 Zones of the Middle Sea (5’03”)
4 Cambrian Endgame. (4’17”)
5 Hive Retreat (3’47”)
6 Monk’s Mood (6’39”)
7 With Lungs for Ears (4’14”)
8 Lowland habitat (2’19”)
9 Self-portrait in Three Colors (6’50”)
10 Turn Out the Stars (4’51”)
11 Re: person I knew (take 2) (7’42”)