Gustafsson / Lugo - Vertical

Format: LP
Catalogue No.: PANG1
Release Date: 27 May 2022
Genre: Jazz

01. Looking (at Silence)
02. Reduced Necessity
03. Gravel
04. Flesh Jazzz
05. Reciprocal Violence
06. Vertical
07. Orangutangu
08. Dismantle
09. Entropy Mate
10. Replaceable Silence

"Tony Lugo and Mats Gustafsson never met.
Drums & electronics. Sax & electronics.
A connection was made through a mutual record label and friends.
Music was sent back and forth.
A third player was invited. The machine.
AI tools and algorithms. Interactive improvised music. Extended techniques of humans and machines. Learning processes. Autopoiesis. Illogicity.

'Can a machine be responsible for its actions?' asks Christian Munthe (Professor of practical philosophy at Göteborg University, Sweden) in his essay Who is the player?

FLESH JAZZZ?
The new jazz? The old jazz?
WTF IS IT?
PLAY IT LOUD."

Written, performed, and produced by Mats Gustafsson & Tony Lugo.
Recorded May-July 2021 by Olof Madsen at Discaholic Studios, Nickelsdorf, Austria & Craig Bowen at Tempo House, Baltimore, MD.
Mixed by Craig Bowen.
Mastered by Lasse Marhaug.
Design by Tony Lugo.
Photography by Mats Gustafsson.
Artwork by Peter Brötzmann, Vertical (1963).
Produced by Christian Di Vito.