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Live Recordings

by MAW

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Mise-en-Place A 09:39
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Mise-en-Place B 13:07
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Opus 40 A 11:48
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Opus 40 B 10:26
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Live Recordings presents MAW—the trio of Frank Meadows (bass), Jessica Ackerley (guitar), and Eli Wallace (piano/synth)—fully testing the possibilities of their creative dialogue in front of a live audience for the first time. Two concerts in Brooklyn and Saugerties, both staged in October 2021, display the performance of an acute democratic understanding, acquired across formative years of private sessions and conversation, including the late 2020 recording session that produced their Atlantic Rhythms debut “A Maneuver Within”.

Notice Recordings became aware of the trio via Jessica, a recent Notice artist who recorded a blistering album with Patrick Shiroishi. Having then become familiar with Eli and Frank's engaging playing in other configurations, we were immediately allured by the prospect of this new trio.

On this album, MAW traces a broad rhythmic and dynamic range, engaging in fierce rhythmic interplay and patiently suspended motion, all the while maintaining a controlled emphasis on colorful gesture and textural counterpoint. The trio’s knowledge of each other, as well as a diverse range of influences, are carefully condensed into a hard-won syntax which produces the concise recorded summaries presented here. Each set has a heaviness, but they are never imposing. They are taught and physical, yet their fluidity is inviting. Atmosphere becomes important here: One can feel the dark, open, resonant room of Mise-en-Place and its industrial surroundings on Side A, augmented by Eli's prepared piano, a thunderous and haptic blend with Jessica and Frank's playfully interwoven string work. Alternatively, Side B's recording has the close intimacy of the small gallery setting at Opus 40 in upstate New York, albeit with the door open to a rainy evening, permitting the occasional pastoral ambiance, such as cawing of crows, to settle into the recording. Despite this, Side B is an intense endeavour, with swathes of Eli's synth laced throughout the performance, a fine example of an unhinged and untamed "electric MAW".

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released July 1, 2023

released June 30, 2023

Frank Meadows - upright bass
Jessica Ackerley - electric guitar
Eli Wallace - prepared piano, synth

Side A recorded at Mise-en-Place, Brooklyn, Oct 12 2021 by Nathaniel Morgan

Side B recorded at Opus 40, West Saugerties, Oct 3 2021

Mixed by Frank Meadows
Mastered by Weston Olencki
Layout by E. Lindorff-Ellery
Letterpress printed by Small Fires Press
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MAW Brooklyn, New York

Frank Meadows (bass)

Eli Wallace
(piano + synth)

Jessica Ackerley
(guitar)

North American trio exploring collective composition

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