ATTENTION SCREEN
Modern Jazz Integrating World Music and Classical Textures

The quartet Attention Screen integrates jazz, world music, and classical vocabularies into flowing musical explorations.

Their music is composed spontaneously, immediately accessible, and backed by four lifetimes of experience in jazz, classical, world music, and sound design. The group has released three CDs on Stereophile Recordings, an audiophile label.

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Live At Merkin Hall from 2007, showcases the group’s broad range in front of a sold-out audience at Manhattan’s intimate hall with near-perfect acoustics.

Click here to see it named one of Stereomojo’s Best Jazz albums of 2007 along with Herbie Hancock and Arturo Sandoval.

Click here to read the review from Downtown Music Gallery.

Click here to read The Making of Live at Merkin Hall written by Wes Philips and John Atkinson and click here for Wes Phillips’ original concert review, Miracle at Merkin.

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 MANSOUR’S GIFT
 FRUIT FORWARD
 NELL’S BELLS

Live at Otto’s is a more of a documentary/cinema vérité feel. Its track-list culled from two year’s worth of live recordings (also) by Stereophile editor John Atkinson. Released 2009.

Click here for John Atkinson’s Stereophile article about Live at Otto’s.

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 TAGINE BLEND
 ICE CRUSHING AT ALL SPEEDS
 CONSPIRACY OF FRETLESSNESS

Attention Screen Takes Flight At Yamaha from 2011, documents a concert partly commissioned by Yamaha to showcase their innovative AvantGrand piano.

Click here for Jason Victor Serinus’ review and interview.

Click here for John Atkinson’s article Live Recording: Documentary or Artifice.

Click here to watch the LIVE video of “13 Trojans of Vundo” also from ASTFAY.

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 SLEEPING METRONOMES LIE
 EAR TOPOLOGY
 THE DEER AND BUFFALO GOD CHURCHES

Although the group is based in New York City, they have performed internationally, and their compositions have received radio airplay from the West Coast of the U.S. to Madrid. Their roster of guest collaborators include: Daniel Carter (horns), Dee Pop (drums), Andy Haas (horns), David Gould (drums), Blaise Siwula (horns), and Mia Theodoratus (harp).

For 2012 and beyond, the group has been adding new instruments (mandolin, glissentar, free bass accordion, and upright bass) to the mix and plan another live recording with a recently refurbished pipe organ. Pre-production has also begun on an upcoming studio project produced by AS bassist Chris Jones and Stereophile editor/AS producer John Atkinson.

Contact:
Bob Reina
917.593.8536

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