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Artist: THE FOCUS QUINTET [ANITA & DAN DeCHELLIS/ERNESTO DIAZ-INFANTE/CHRIS FORSYTH/JEFF ARNAL] Title: 1-8 in 1 Label: Sachimay 9357 Country: USA Format: CD Status: AVAILABLE $12.00
Description: This features Dan DeChellis on keyboards, Ernesto Diaz-Infante and Chris Forsyth on guitars, Jeff Arnal on percussion and Anita DeChellis on voice. Former Boston-based keyboard wiz - Dan DeChellis runs the industrious Sachimay label, which has three new releases, bringing their total number to about a dozen in just a few years. Dan played here once in a duo with percussionist Mat Hannafin and I was most impressed with both of their improv abilities. Both guitarists also once played a duo set here, Ernesto comes from the Bay area and Chris is a local guitar hero who plays in WOO Revelator and seems to keep pretty busy doing improv with many other local players. I don't know Anita or Jeff very much, but there has been a buzz about Anita's inventive vocal talents. I dig the ultra-subtle, delicate nature of the sounds on '1-8 in 1' - Anita's distant voice hovers as Jeff rubs his insect-like percussion, piano innards are utilized as are some other droning device(s). Like looking in a microscope and seeing the living fabric of life as it moves slowly across our view. Is someone bowing or just scraping their guitar(s)? Hard to tell. Sometimes these sounds are connected, sometimes they float in their own free space. On "foreward", textures slowly begin to get more dense and combine forces on a fragmented but focused level. By "acknowledgements", the spooky, other worldy sounds have grown even more dense with occasional short blasts of whispered babytalk vocals, fractured guitar, mutant piano and spastic percussion. As Jeff bows his cymbals, the immensely eerie blend of ghost-like vocals, dark, sustained piano drones and el. guitar noises combine to provide suspenseful scenery. This fascinating quintet have chosen the appropriate name, since they do seem quite "focused"!
| Artist: THE FOCUS QUINTET [ANITA & DAN DeCHELLIS/ERNESTO DIAZ-INFANTE/CHRIS FORSYTH/JEFF ARNAL] |
| Title: 1-8 in 1 |
| Label: Sachimay 9357 Country: USA |
| Format: CD Status: AVAILABLE $12.00 |
| Description: This features Dan DeChellis on keyboards, Ernesto Diaz-Infante and Chris Forsyth on guitars, Jeff Arnal on percussion and Anita DeChellis on voice. Former Boston-based keyboard wiz - Dan DeChellis runs the industrious Sachimay label, which has three new releases, bringing their total number to about a dozen in just a few years. Dan played here once in a duo with percussionist Mat Hannafin and I was most impressed with both of their improv abilities. Both guitarists also once played a duo set here, Ernesto comes from the Bay area and Chris is a local guitar hero who plays in WOO Revelator and seems to keep pretty busy doing improv with many other local players. I don't know Anita or Jeff very much, but there has been a buzz about Anita's inventive vocal talents. I dig the ultra-subtle, delicate nature of the sounds on '1-8 in 1' - Anita's distant voice hovers as Jeff rubs his insect-like percussion, piano innards are utilized as are some other droning device(s). Like looking in a microscope and seeing the living fabric of life as it moves slowly across our view. Is someone bowing or just scraping their guitar(s)? Hard to tell. Sometimes these sounds are connected, sometimes they float in their own free space. On "foreward", textures slowly begin to get more dense and combine forces on a fragmented but focused level. By "acknowledgements", the spooky, other worldy sounds have grown even more dense with occasional short blasts of whispered babytalk vocals, fractured guitar, mutant piano and spastic percussion. As Jeff bows his cymbals, the immensely eerie blend of ghost-like vocals, dark, sustained piano drones and el. guitar noises combine to provide suspenseful scenery. This fascinating quintet have chosen the appropriate name, since they do seem quite "focused"! |