INVOLUTION

Debut Solo Album

This is a collection of tunes and improvisations I did as part of research and creation grant funded by the Canada Council for the Arts.

I borrow the album name, Involution, from the book Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake. This word was recommended by anthropologists Myers and Hustak to best capture the entangled pushing and pulling of "organisms constantly inventing new ways to live with and alongside one another."

I felt like this was a guiding principle for my creative work over the past several years: that I wasn't seeking to use analogue devices to add "effects" to my saxophone but to integrate them, and all their noise and idiosyncrasies, into my setup to develop new techniques and sounds.

I will have a limited run of cassettes accompanying this release, all of which will be produced on second hand, Type I tapes that I have thrifted.

You can see performances of these tunes on my YouTube channel @gregthesquare4

credits

released March 3, 2023

All music and performances by: Greg Bruce on soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone, amp feedback, tape machines, OM-1, no-input mixing.
Recorded and Mixed by: Greg Bruce
Mastered by: Jake Nicoll @jake_nicoll_studio (IG)