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Our Thing (Meum Et Tuum)

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Our Thing (Meum Et Tuum) --- 2008-09-05

PBK: "For most of 2005 I was a member of De Fenestra. Late in 2004, Adam Mokan, Will Soderberg and Uncle Dave Lewis performed a one-off basement gig in my hometown of Flint, Michigan under the name De Fenestra. Soderberg later asked me to sit in with the trio at another Flint gig, the infamous Buckham Alley Noise Festival with headliners, Wolf Eyes.(documented on the Solarii release) I was invited to become a member of the group after that. I put a lot of effort into this project and suggested new directions to bring what we were doing originally, a kind of electroacoustic-based noise, towards a more free jazz/fusion sound. I'd previously formed the Four-Fourths Quartet in 1999 (I'll post some of that material here as well), and in that group I'd been trying for a Sun Ra reworking, so when I joined up with De Fenestra I soon began thinking of free jazz and started by suggesting giving guitarist, Uncle Dave Lewis, a more prominent role. This new sound opened up a lot of possibilities, we recorded many studio sessions and performed a number of concerts throughout 2005. It was sort of a tumultuous summer, with both Mokan and Uncle Dave leaving the group, but the project boiled down to a duo partnership between Soderberg and myself by late fall. This recording, which I've retitled "Our Thing", was the last time I performed with this group. Recorded live at the Elbow Room in Ypsilanti on Dec. 10, 2005, it was the core-duo of Soderberg and myself with some special guests: Piotr Michalowski, a free-jazz saxophonist who'd previously done an excellent studio session with us; John "Wolf" McIntyre, the theremin player, I believe this was the first time he'd performed with the group; James Cornish and Jim Ryan, both of the Rattling Wall Collective, who spontaneously joined in on the long third track."