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Craig Pedersen Quartet: Ghosts

April 13, 2015

Hi everyone.

I’m very excited to announce the release of the Craig Pedersen Quartet’s latest album, Ghosts. To celebrate we are touring through Quebec and Southern Ontario. Tour dates are below.

Ghosts is available for purchase from my new webstore in CD and digital (320kps mp3/flac) formats. Also available are new Craig Pedersen Quartet T-shirts, my new book Trumpet Sound Effects, as well as back catalog CDs. Visit http://store.craigpedersen.com to buy. They will also be available on tour!

(FYI, the store is safe and secure. Payment can be made by Visa or Mastercard through Paypal.)

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Ghosts is a contemplative work, exploring themes of darkness, suffering and the pleasure of ensuing release. Coming in at just under 18-minutes, the album is musically concentrated. Like running with weights, the musicians are squeezed to their limits, forced to express within tight constraints. The results are uncontrolled saxophone wails, soaring bass melodies, and explosive drumming all reigned in by haunting trumpet playing and compositions. This is music that shows that from here, we need not answer to our suffering, but see that it has stood in front of something all along.

It is available in hand-packaged letter-pressed CD sleeves with vellum inserts.

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I’m very excited to share this music with you!

Tour Dates:

We regret to inform that our CD release concerts in Quebec City have been cancelled, and will be rescheduled in the coming weeks. Also note the change of date for the Ottawa event. Concert dates are below!

April 16, 9pm – Resonance Café – Montreal, QC
https://www.facebook.com/events/1585337315076343/

April 19, 8pm – New Music at the Boathouse – Kitchener, ON
http://experimentalmusic.ca/

April 20, 830pm – The Spill – Peterborough, ON
https://www.facebook.com/events/919209254796113/

April 21, 8pm – Musideum – Somewhere There, Toronto, ON
https://www.facebook.com/events/842288435864510/

April 22, 8pm – Silence – Guelph, ON
https://www.facebook.com/events/660035067435343/

April 23, 8pm – Artword ArtBar – Zula Presents, Hamilton, ON
https://www.facebook.com/events/708254579292107/

April 24, 8pm – Black Squirrel Books – Ottawa, ON
https://www.facebook.com/events/955838551177820/

Listen:

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Quotes from Reviewers:

“A taut work in which composition and improvisation engage almost violently at times, the music winning.” -Stuart Broomer, Point of Departure

“Craig Pedersen’s trumpet...suggests cinematic desolation and a creeping dread.” -Guy Oddy, The Arts Desk

"Should you be without any information and listening to this music, you could easily believe this is some electro-acoustic music; maybe of objects pushed round on a carpet, but then heavily amplified; very soft in volume but very powerful at the same time." -Frans De Waard, Vital Weekly (writing about Sound of the Mountain's amplified clarinet and trumpet)

" An astringent tea for the ears." - Philip Coombs (Free Jazz Blog)

"It’s consistently playful, imaginative work that’s somehow true to both the emotional directness of country music and the oblique abstraction of current improvisation, just not at the same time. - Stuart Broomer (The WholeNote)

"I hear in it something Robert Wyatt-ish" - François Couture (Monsieur Delire)

"...reminds this listener of the halcyon days of the 1970s when the Art Ensemble of Chicago, Julius Hemphill and Henry Threadgill first entered my consciousness. " - Richard B. Kamins (Step Tempest)

Quotes from Fans:

“Perfect and much enjoyed, even if a bit tragic” – Massimo Corvi, Greece

“great show at the musideum! love the tunes and the tones.” – Dave Clark (Woodshed Orchestra), Toronto

“I was glad to get and hear your group again. I like the CD very much, it is living in my car stereo just now. The Ghosts tune really grows on me. Keep on swingin’, or whatever you want to call it!” David Fraser, Ottawa

“As for your performance… facemelter! What a great show!” – Aaron Sennitt, Guelph ON

"myself and a group of music faithful had our brains exploded tonight at The Spill by the Craig Pedersen quartet. these are four pros giving you a live evolution of jazz from traditionalism to free form fuckery and back again in a spiral, and you should not miss it. oh, and if you think you don't "get" jazz, just show up and listen. you will get it. promise." - Karol Orzechowski - Peterborough

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