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	1.	Preludio nello Studio 01:40
	2.	Studio Violentio 04:09
	3.	Adagio della Studio 06:16
	4.	Violoncello Intermezzo 05:19
	5.	Dolce Fluido 03:30
	6.	Cashio della Largo 07:33
	7.	Cashio del Adagio 05:19
	8.	Concludio con Studio 03:34
	9.	Sea of Phantoms Free Air 08:16
	10.	Live at Beyond Baroque 17:04

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These days Mal Occhio is nearly imperceptible. Its performances are events of singular rarity, usually marked with some significance beyond the performance or the sounds it makes. Since the death of Jhim Pattison the group name is emblematic of wider concerns.
This performance called Sea of Phantoms – Free Air is the collaboration of Will Alexander, Byron Baker, Thom Burns and Stephen Lock in Los Angeles, 2013. With the inclusion of Alexander in reading mode, words become integral. Here he reads the entirety of Asia, his epic poem of 1995 accompanied by the instrumentation of the others. Along with the traditional devices initially used by Mal Occhio (an array of diaphragmatic rattles, micro-phonographs and aluminum) is added a collection of newly invented water drums and drone strings both bowed and hammered.
Here are eight minutes of the performance pulled from the one hour and thirty minute recording, including this moment from “Asia.”
the point being
a Yak in motion
a series of exterior glossaries condensed
in strange botanical causeways
from ‘Yamdok Lake’
across the ‘Kamba pass’
with startling inherence
with tinctures of apparent perception
the Yak
bionomic with chimera
from ‘the valley of the Tsangpo’
up the peaks of the ‘Lord’ & ‘The White Horned Lady’
disappears through vertical columns
as a strange alchemical soldier of burden
a darkly enveloped mystagogue
now a beautiful peculiar treatise on absence
--Thom Burns, 2015
Note: The first eight tracks here come from the Mal Occhio 1980-82 CD, a limited edition release including two live tracks. Participants were Jhim Pattison, Steve Lock, Byron Baker, Thom Burns. The live track from Beyond Baroque (2015), recorded on a cell phone and remixed, features Brian Lucas, Joyce Baker, Byron Baker, Steve Lock and Will Alexander. -- Craig S. Wilson.

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released November 7, 2015

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