Cardiff Giant: Five Improvisations

CML call number: CD/JAZZ/Cardiff
Contents: Stalagmites, Sonores de Krell, Yester-Morrow-Never, Flight into Night, Through the Lens of a Dream. Broadcast live on radio statio WWUH November 3, 2004.
Personnel: Evan Foreman, percussion, electronics; Jim Belanger, drums, percussion, marimba; Chris Payne, electric violin, theremin, flutes.
Cardiff Giant describe themselves as "an improvisational music performance group composed of like-minded musicians from the greater Hartford area. Typically playing as a trio, the group uses both acoustic and electronic instruments to create a unique musical experience for the listener. At certain times melodic and reflective, at others abstract and aggressive, the music reveals the group's unique talent and perspective. … Tibetan horn, shakuhachi flute, theremin, tongue drum, bhodran and udu are just some of the unusual instruments the band uses." Putting this disc in our jazz category only begins to categorize their music. They performed at Case Memorial Library April 29, 2006 as shown above, and kindly donated this excellent recording on that occasion. Thank you, Cardiff Giant!