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Duo B : These Things Seem Natural to Us
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Improvising acoustic bass and percussion duo, inspired by but not limited to avant-garde jazz, contemporary chamber music, pop songs.
Genre: Jazz: Free Jazz
Release Date: 2006
These Things Seem Natural to Us Record Label: Duo B
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Preview Song Name Time Format Price Select
So It's Just the Two of You 2:29 Album Only
Upstream 5:12 Album Only
Etendue 5:43 Album Only
Half the Band, Twice the Trouble 3:14 Album Only
Counterclockwise 3:48 Album Only
Year of the Poached Egg 2:24 Album Only
(Intro To) No.29b (Or Not) 4:34 Album Only
Tokyo Elevator Heat 2:42 Album Only
Dozing At the Bottom of a Well 2:39 Album Only
Only Room for One of Us 3:42 Album Only
Soft Spot 1:44 Album Only
Hot Rodd Flamez 5:25 Album Only
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Album Notes

duo B. is an ensemble of acoustic bass + percussion that plays ethereal chamber music wrapped in dense improvised soundscapes. Drummer Jason Levis uses gongs, Tibetan singing bowls, bowed cymbals, marimba and drumset to create lush, delicate textures and abstract noise grooves. Bassist Lisa Mezzacappa draws on a palette of sinister drones, punchy vamps and acoustic bass manipulations to weave storylines through gnarly rhythms, pointillistic shapes and ecstatic melodies.

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