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Here is a poem written by Nicholas Power which was inspired by a set of improvised music performed by me, drummer/percussionist Germaine Liu and bassist Jim Sexton at the LoD Series in Toronto.

ProjectsKen Aldcroft Solo Projects

Solo Ken Aldcroft

Ken's solo music, as documented on Vocabulary, makes stylistic reference to several traditions that are key components of his composite sound-world: Especially, classic electric blues, modern jazz, and Derek Bailey-inspired free improvisation. He filters these through two key characteristics that are at the core of his improvising language: Tightly dissonant middle-register chording and a provocative tension between 'speaking style' parlando rubato phrasing (of both single lines and chording) and groove (whether implicit or explicit).

Though working primarily with a relatively clean tone of his electric hollow-body instrument, Ken judiciously exploits the possibilities of distortion and, with various looping and processing devices, can create spidery, multidimensional lattices of sound, as on the Vocabulary track, "Pre-am-ble." All told, Ken's solo music is a clear distillation (or, perhaps, the generative seed) of his entire musical output, and his concerns as a composer and bandleader are drawn logically and fundamentally from his seminal work as an improvising guitarist.

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Vocabulary
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