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MEND
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Out of 2 votes - Similar Artists: George Lewis, Paul Bley, Lutz Glandien, Ikue Mori, Chicago Underground Duo, Society Giants
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Editor's review
"Free jazz" may be the category, but that phrase doesn't begin to sum up the darkly hypnotic netherworld conjured by MEND, the New York duo of Mike Smith and John Kennedy. Employing an improvisational mode in which Smith emits a haunting trombone theme while Kennedy surrounds it with a live-sampled landscape, MEND's sound explores the inner order of chaos.
Biography
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MEND was born out of Dave Smith and John Kennedy's work together in the New York based free jazz group Society Giants. John Kennedy has been making electronic and experimental music for almost 20 years, but MEND marks his most ambitious project in collaboration with a live musician.
Dave Smith is an exceptionally creative and bold trombonist who seems nearly incapable of playing anything predictable. His interest in texture and extended techniques provide the perfect sonic materials for John Kennedy to sample and manipulate.
The collaboration is based wholly on improvisation. Mr. Kennedy uses no pre-recorded samples. He manipulates the sounds that Mr. Smith produces and spontaneously creates structures that Mr. Smith then embellishes and re- molds in shapes that reflect a true creative communication between the two artists.
It's beautiful territory, mysterious and grand.
