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* Also includes full art & notes PDF booklet
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Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
CD in paper sleeve w/ flap & cello window (no digipak!!) Recent re-discovery of extra CDs from original run of strictly ltd. edition digipaks (long time out of print). Buy and insert with one of your other DSW-AUM digipaks; you'll be glad you did. / Included download has a PDF with full artwork & great vintage photos. /// These CDs are also currently available in special bundle w/ reprint/repress of the essential & also vital Birth of A Being (Expanded) 2CD set: davidsware.bandcamp.com/album/birth-of-a-being-expanded
Includes unlimited streaming of Organica (solo saxophones, volume 2)
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
David S. Ware: sopranino & tenor saxophones, compositions
"Mesmerizing .. not only has Ware not been weakened by his recent illness, he has reached new heights of invention." –DownBeat
"[In the last two years] David S. Ware has made some of the most extraordinary music of his career. He has employed differing instrumental configurations, bringing musicians from his past into new aggregates and exploring fresh soundworlds. Despite a steady stream of releases, there is nothing repetitive about his recent music, and this second volume of solo saxophone performances presents yet another evolution of Ware’s art. .. A dip into gut-bucket blues or ghostly sentimentality is just as soon erased from memory by a long-held note, redolent of jasmine, or a quick trip to the East and back. He knows history and transcultural import, brings his knowledge to bear, then moves along." –Dusted
"It is as if he has been unshackled from the Earth’s gravitational field, and his music is free to travel like a light beam across the Universe. .. David S. Ware remains one of jazz’s most ardent musical explorers .. his creativity knows no bounds." –Music and More
Each David S. Ware solo concert performance is a rare and magisterial happening. There were two such events in 2010, and both concerts are presented here in their entirety. The first took place in March at an intimate, invite-only event in Brooklyn; the second took place at the Umbrella Music Festival in Chicago in early November.
In 2009, Ware had added a sopranino (pitched one full octave above the alto) to his collection, and these concerts were his public debut on the new horn. This was the 2nd volume in a planned series of DSW solo recordings. It was originally published in a CD digipak edition of 1000.
“Saxophonist David S. Ware’s unaccompanied performance at Elastic on November 5th left the deepest emotional impression [of the Festival],” wrote DownBeat’s Aaron Cohen in his live review of the Chicago set. “His authoritative delivery of bold, stark melodies was reassuringly familiar,” added Signal To Noise’s Bill Meyer in his own review of Ware’s Umbrella Music Festival set, “but the tonality had an exotic Eastern quality. His music was absolutely complete, both at the level of needing no accompaniment but also in the totality of its emotional, spiritual and physical impact.”
* Full art & notes included as PDF booklet with Digital Album.
credits
released October 25, 2011
All compositions by David S. Ware; published by Gandharvasphere/Daswa (ASCAP)
Tracks 1 & 2 = the entire concert performance of March 13, 2010
Park Slope, Brooklyn
Tracks 3 & 4 = the entire concert performance of November 5, 2010
Umbrella Music Festival, Chicago
Produced by Steven Joerg
Mixed & Mastered by Petr Cancura
David S. Ware was a major saxophonist, composer and bandleader. As major as they come. He began practicing meditation as a
young man. Going forward, his spiritual and musical development were inseparably intertwined.
Featured here are his premier works for AUM Fidelity, including the ongoing DSW-ARC series which began 3 years following his spirit's evolution.
supported by 15 fans who also own “Organica (solo saxophones, volume 2)”
I really appreciate that with such a large group of musicians the overall sound and experience of listening is really spacious, never cluttered. The lovely recording helps that a lot, and of course the compositional aspects that make it breathe are superb- it gets more and more fun as I listen again and again. Jasper Skydecker
supported by 15 fans who also own “Organica (solo saxophones, volume 2)”
This record has such a magical flow to it, it seems to capture so directly the ups and downs of life, the joy of music and dance, and it's just so damn catchy and fun to listen to as well. Giles