New From Pi Recordings

JSngry · September 8, 2004

Greetings from Pi Recordings,

To coincide with the release of our tenth CD, Wadada Leo Smith and Anthony Braxton's Saturn Conjunct the Grand Canyon in a Sweet Embrace, Pi Recordings has launched a redesign of our website. New features to the site include an events section, featured artist section, and steaming MP3s. We hope that you will find the new design easier to navigate and the information more accessible.

In 2004 we will release five new CDs. Pi10 Wadada Leo Smith and Anthony Braxton's Saturn Conjunct the Grand Canyon in a Sweet Embrace, is the second set and the follow up to last year's Organic Resonance, which was set one from Wadada and Braxton's live performance in the spring of 2003 at Tonic in NYC. Both CDs capture the sets unedited just as they happened that night.

Pi11 The Art Ensemble of Chicago's Sirius Calling, is the last recording by Malachi Favors Maghostut. Malachi's passing January 30th of this year, came as a shock to everyone. We had already mixed and mastered this CD, but it was not until Malachi's passing that we realized the significance of the title, chosen by Malachi. The album was recorded in the same sessions that produced last year's The Meeting, but the results are startlingly different. The quartet returns to fire off fourteen tracks of duo, trio and of course quartet Art Ensemble music.

Pi12 Various Artists Juncture is released in conjunction with SofkSkull Press' release of a collection of 25 short stories called Juncture. The book with 12 accompanying illustrations, photos and paintings features work by some of the most recognized names in art today. The CD follows suit with tracks by Vernon Reid, Mike Ladd, Vijay Iyer, High Priest and DJ Spooky amongst others. The music in many cases is meant as an accompaniment to the stories and in some instances is purely inspired by the writing. Liner noted by Carl Hancock Rux detail this.

Later in October we will release Pi13 a new recording by The Revolutionary Ensemble, And Now... The Revolutionary Ensemble release is their first in 27 years and features all new work by the band that was recorded shortly after their standing room only show at this year's Vision Festival. We will also release our first recording with Rudresh Mahanthappa Mother Tongue, Pi14. Rudresh's CD is the second by his quartet, and the follow up to 2002's Black Water. We will send out more information about these releases once they are available.

We hope that your summer has been a good one and that you enjoy our new 2004 releases as well as the site. Thank you all again for your continuing support of the label and the musician's work.

- Seth Rosner and Yulun Wang

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Glad to see The Revolutionary Ensemble back together. Hope the magic is still there.