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Mike Keneally With Neil Sadler

theory of forms (Bleeding Arts)
released in 1999

  1. jazz bastards
  2. dna for beginners
  3. suehiro
  4. theory of forms
  5. sid sings
  6. runRim
  7. wFb

MK involvement:
Guitar on everything; Bryan Beller on bass on tracks 1, 2 and 7. Also appearing are Walt, Steve and Bruce Fowler, Kurt McGettrick, Albert Wing and Joel Woods.

Comments:
What a great album. Neil is a composer/keyboardist/percussionist who first got in touch with us by sending a cassette containing early versions of some of these songs to Beller. Bryan played me several of the tracks while he and I were shooting heroin in the front seat of his van, and I was completely taken with the weird dark visions that Sadler's music manufactured in my head. Here's what I said about Sadler for use on his website:

"Sadler's music sounds like some of the darkest dreams I've ever had - and I really like bad dreams. His is a unique voice and the absolute integrity of his vision oozes out of every fractured melody, foreboding rhythm pattern and sideways chord sequence he conjures up. I adore his music and I'm honored to have been a part of it."

These charts are REALLY complex, and soloing over them wouldn't have worked if I had tried to actually "play over the changes" - I had to invent melodies that felt right to me over Sadler's contanstly shifting soundscapes. Actually "soundscapes" is an appropriate term to use since I employed the same approach improvising with Fripp in '97: abandon intellect, trust that any needed technique will be there when it's needed, and fly. Sadler prepared very thorough charts for all this material, and I do play some composed lines, but for the most part Neil just handed me my head and let me loose in the playground. I am intensely grateful to him for that, and I'm really proud of this album.

Available from Bleeding Arts PO Box 3771 Glendale, CA 91221-0771
http://www.apc.net/sadler

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