Improvised Music from Japan / Discography

Dropp Ensemble

Safety

(either/OAR, either/2) (U.S.) (CD)

  1. Inlet (1:42)
  2. Everywhere Present and Nowhere Visible (9:13)
  3. The Vernacular Rooms (8:00)
  4. Forget Collapse (13:10)

Dropp Ensemble
Salvatore Dellaria: bass drum (1), treatment (2), oscillator (2-4), open circuits (2, 3), bells (3)
Adam Sonderberg: cello (1), bass drum (1), contact microphone (1), moog (2), open circuits (2), organ (3, 4), oscillator (3), bells (3), snares (4), amplified cymbals (4), treatment (4)
plus
Olivia Block: trumpet (2)
Steven Hess: percussion (3, 4)
Jason Kahn: analog synthesizer (4)
Ilja Komarov: electric bass (2)
Tomas Korber: treatment (2)
Brian Labycz: computer (3, 4)
Eric Lanzillotta: moog (3)
Joseph Clayton Mills: electronics (3), oscillator (4)
John Mueller: percussion (3, 4), cassettes (3, 4)
Jason Soliday: open circuits (4)
Jason Stein: bass clarinet (3)
Brendan Walls: electronics (2)
Christian Weber: contrabass (1)

Composed, assembled, mixed, and mastered by Salvatore Dellaria and Adam Sonderberg at Eightysevenwest, Chicago, October 2006-May 2007
Recorded by Salvatore Dellaria and Adam Sonderberg plus Jason Kahn, Ilja Komarov, Tomas Korber, Eric Lanzillotta, Jason Soliday, Brendan Walls, and Christian Weber, in Chicago, Seattle, Zurich, and Sydney
Research and development by Borah Bergman, Carol Genetti, Kai Fagaschinski, Boris Hauf, Anne Kim, and Anna Kolak
Design by Dale Lloyd

Released in March 2009