theory of forms (Bleeding Arts)
released in 1999
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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