Cutting Board, by Alan Sondheim (with Christopher Diasparra & Edward Schneider)

Cutting Board

by Alan Sondheim (with Christopher Diasparra & Edward Schneider)

supported by

	/

Streaming + Download

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

Purchasable with gift card

$8.99 USD or more
Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

Digipak with liner notes
Re-mastered from original tapes
Digital download included

Includes unlimited streaming of Cutting Board via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

ships out within 4 days

Purchasable with gift card

$12.99 USD or more
Full Digital Discography

5

releases

Get all 5 Alan Sondheim releases available on Bandcamp and save 25%.

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of GALUT: Ballads of Wadi-Sabi, Plaguesong, Cutting Board, T'Other Little Tune, and Ritual. , and , .

Purchasable with gift card

$33.73 USD or more (25% OFF)

1.	Xenon 05:40	buy track
2.	Argon 07:36	buy track
3.	Neon 03:20	buy track
4.	Krypton 02:22	buy track
5.	Helium 06:46	buy track
6.	Carbon 05:17	buy track
7.	Silicon 05:39	buy track
8.	Oxygen 05:38	buy track
9.	Nitrogen 04:20	buy track
10.	Germanium 04:18	buy track
11.	Platinum 05:04	buy track
12.	Iridium 09:54	buy track
13.	Cobalt 04:18	buy track

about

Alan Sondheim is the first artist from ESP-Disk's 1964-75 heyday to return, since it was revived in 2005, to issue an album of new material on the fabled label. Sondheim joined the roster with a 1967 session, Ritual-All-7-70, then followed up with 1968's T'Other Little Tune. (Drumming on the latter was Joel Zabor; now known as acclaimed writer Rafi Zabor, he reunited with Sondheim at ESP's 50th anniversary concert in November 2013.)

Sondheim got his musical start as a guitarist, but soon moved into a much more original sound utilizing a vast array of instruments from around the world. Cutting Board, his eighth album, is his first instrumental group album; his other albums have always either been solo (and there are two solo tracks on Cutting Board as well) or featured female vocalists. Though he's a pure improviser, Sondheim rightly insists that he doesn't play jazz; even playing with two saxophonists, he's outside that tradition's spectrum. The eclecticism of the sounds he's working with sonically can tenuously seem to connect him to world music, but he doesn't play the instruments in traditional ways. And on rare occasions you can hear the blues lurking, but it's not likely that Living Blues will be putting him on the cover. Maybe if somebody starts a music magazine (or website) called Beyond Category, then Sondheim can be a cover subject.

Personnel

Alan Sondheim: ghichak, cura, chromatic harmonica, Chinese mouth harp, saz, tro so, electric saz, sarangi, sung lisu, ukulele, flute, cura cumbus, classical guitar;

Christopher Diasparra: tenor and baritone saxophones;

Edward Schneider: alto saxophone

Press Quotes
Of Ritual-All-7-70: "...if there is a concept here, it’s extremely simple: you never heard such sounds in your life." – Clifford Allen, Bagatellen

Of Avatar Woman: "...be prepared to listen to universes growing and collapsing within their sound worlds." – disasteramnesiac.blogspot.ca