Monkeyworks’ latest recording - Wailing Without a Harpoon - is the product of three days of sessions of fully improvised music.

  • What’s With the Widgets?
  • Once the Elder, Always an Apprentice
  • The Inner Child’s Outer Afternoon
  • Follow My Feet
  • Never Always Again
  • Swampadelica
  • Shadenfraude Parkway
  • Thin Film...Deep Picture
  • Ian writes:

    The tunes were spontaneously composed by the players who performed them.  In the case of small ensemble groupings of which the instrumentation should be most apparent, unless of course Smit or Leaman are involved, those individuals are indeed the composers.  However, credit should be extended to those not heard on said encounter for having the good sense to lay out...The notes not heard are as important as those that are.

    The players on this batch of totally improvised tunes performed live in the studio in alphabetical order are:
     
    Kevin Brown - acoustic bass
    Alan Camlet - drums, mixing
    Jeff Eldredge - accordion, electric piano
    Barry Leaman - vocoder, electronic treatments of percussion and accordion
    Steve Meltzer - electronic percussion
    Steve Peckman - soprano sax
    Ian Smit - guitar, loops, effects
    Jim Stagnitto - trumpet