Brandon Ross - Off the End (2024) [Official Digital Download]

So much in the creative arts is determined by the choices of collaborators, environment, and performance goals. Guitarist, composer, and conceptualist Brandon Ross regularly creates situations with other musicians and artists to push their collective creativity to new destinations. The Phantom Station ensemble is a vehicle that Ross returns to with soundesign artist, Hardedge, to embark upon adventurous, uncharted musical journeys.

The idea behind Phantom Station was to assemble an “individual-directed” ensemble that could engage in an open musical discourse and instantaneous music-making without the borders of genre or preconceived musical ideas. One of the results of one of these meetings was recorded at Firehouse 12 in New Haven, Connecticut and is presented as Off The End, a fascinating document of spontaneous creation with an incredible cast of musicians, including cornetist Graham Haynes, keyboardist David Virelles, and drummer JT Lewis.

Ross began Phantom Station as a springboard for his creative pursuits with Hardedge, an electronic artist, whose singular soundesign work is employed to generate interactive sound worlds with textures and palettes conceived for the settings or ensembles. Hardedge’s electronics thus maximize the sonic and textural possibilities without overextending the size of the ensemble. Additionally, Phantom Station became an open-door invitational sound “crucible” for a round robin of Ross’s wide net of collaborators.

TRACKLIST

1. Brandon Ross - May Forever Pass Between
2. Brandon Ross - Through the Heart of My Demarcation
3. Brandon Ross - The Gate Is Open
4. Brandon Ross - Your Shoes Point Like Arrows
5. Brandon Ross - Unsharpened Angles of
6. Brandon Ross - I Can See All of This
7. Brandon Ross - How I Will Ornament Your Mouth
8. Brandon Ross - Sometimes I Stand Behind You
9. Brandon Ross - Immaculate Toes
10. Brandon Ross - Leave It On the Ground
11. Brandon Ross - Harmonic Convergence



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