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Ridgewood 09​.​X​.​2014 / 09​.​XII​.​2015

by Che Chen & Andrew Lafkas

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Met Lafkas playing open A and E strings, highly amplified. Karen was there too. Made a quartet with Barry, played in large ensembles, everybody eventually plays in 75 Dollar Bill. Eventually, we decide to do a duo, don’t know whose idea. Maybe Tasmanian Angus asked me? Not many people come but sometimes having fewer people in the audience makes more room for the music. Bass and violin share a spectrum. No amps. Room is radiant and we try to use all of it, play into booths, corners, up into rafters, play nothing. Inky, oily light in one corner. The next year the room is made of concrete instead of wood, a bunker, a sump but it won’t be called that til later and then not anymore. Watson invites us and this time we’re nestled amongst bodies and chairs, Katherine projects all night onto walls, corners, skin. Eyelids are screens. Rear projection. Shards of color cluster and swarm. Sun on foliage in the wind at 1,000 times the speed. Beating tones are strobing for the ears. We don’t move, but afterwards my black hood’s streaked with rosin.

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released July 3, 2020

Che Chen: violin, cloud bell
Andrew Lafkas: contrabass

Track 1 recorded at Trans Pecos, Ridgewood, NY on October 9, 2014 by Angus Tarnavsky.
Track 2 recorded at Poppers Locarno, Ridgewood, NY on December 9, 2015 by Che Chen.

Mastered by Steve Silverstein
Cover design by Che Chen

Special thanks to Angus Tarnavsky, David Watson, and Katherine Liberovskaya.

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Che Chen New York, New York

Che Chen is a creative musician and multi-instrumentalist interested in the overlapping fields of intuitive music, improvisation and tuning theory. In addition to the solo and collaborative projects here, he also plays guitar in the band 75 Dollar Bill, which he founded with percussionist Rick Brown in 2012. He is also a member of True Primes, and runs a small label called Black Pollen Press. ... more

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