With a stunning array of slap-tongue drumming, clarinet power chords, and fuzz box-sounding multiphonics, Bang on a Can All-Star Ziporyn changes the instrument forever. An ambient/ethno/noise travelogue.

Evan Ziporyn, clarinet and bass clarinet

Produced by Evan Ziporyn and Joel Gordon
Recorded by Joel Gordon, assisted by Patrick Keating and Violeta Dontcheva
Mixed and mastered by Joel Gordon and Evan Ziporyn
Recorded Summer 1999; mixed Fall 1999 and Winter 2000
Mastered early 2001 at chez Joel, Lexington, MA

Partial Truths is dedicated to Arnold Dreyblatt; Four Impersonations are based on transcriptions of traditional music by anonymous composers, as performed by Kohachiro Miyata, Semar Pegulingan of Banjar Binoh, and unidentified Nairobian guitarist from the 1950s, and Gamelan Gender Wayang Kayu Maus (further information available at cantaloupemusic.com).

Evan Ziporyn's music published by Airplane Ears Music (ASCAP); David Lang's music published by Red Poppy, Ltd. (ASCAP); Michael Tenzer's music published by Bridge of Monkeys Music (ASCAP).

Package design by Carla Leighton at gloo design
Photos of Evan by Peter Serling
Photos of clarinets by Nadine Goellner and Ken Thomson

Thanks to Erin, Leonardo, Ava, Iris and Mason; to Gamelan Galak Tika and the Bang on a Can All-Stars; to I Made Lebah (almarhum), I Wayan Loceng, and I Wayan Suweca; to Christine Williams (for "Honshirabe"); to Albert Alphin (for his masterful repair work); to Andrew Cotton (for the touch and for the feel); to John Schaefer; to Kenny Savelson and Rachel Cohen

Thanks also to MIT: the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, Music Section, Office of the Arts, and Class of '58; Dean Philip Khoury, Professors Peter Child, John Harbison and Ellen Harris; Mary Cabral, Maureen Costello, Mary Haller, John Lyons

This recording has been made possible, in part, by generous support from the MIT Provost's Fund and the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Inc.

www.ziporyn.com

Cantaloupe thanks Paul Baumgarten and Jennifer Chin, Carla Leighton, Adam Wolfensohn, Bang on a Can, Nadine Goellner, and Rachel Cohen.

Cantaloupe Music

Executive Producers: Michael Gordon, David Lang, Kenny Savelson, and Julia Wolfe
Label Manager: Ken Thomson
Publicity: Aleba Gartner Associates, NYC

cantaloupe@bangonacan.org
www.cantaloupemusic.com