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Jeff Gburek Live​@​CPA​-​Firenze, 2006

by AKASHIC RECORDS

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uwaga, caution, caveat lector. this is not for the faint of heart nor the impatient. it's about as irregular and uneven as I had imagined it could be while playing back then in 2006 because the deliberately confrontational reflected the feeling of being deliberately oppressed --and there came to me only the need to shred illusions, in that period of that life where there was the theater of the stage only left to deconstructed. it was musical theater and performance involving extremes of noise and silence. it's unedited. december of 2006 i came to italy, my first concert tour in italy, in fact. it's a document of performance alienation actually. the strict festival schedule meant that i had to be ready to play immediately after a pop-band. i recorded the ovation following them and then re-recorded it again and again. and again. that was unplanned. the rest followed a score i had developed for this situation in florence, where i had lived as a student ten years earlier and I knew i had to break up the block of identity this city and this culture had made inside me. the polarization in the audience was an important element. many moved as far away as possible. yet ten or more came directly up to my table. i was even offered something to smoke while i was playing, which i refused, of course. i was busy. refusal with agreement. polarization seemed important to me at that moment. it was not easy but I walked the line between what I felt I should do and did something other each time. it was not easy. after playing, i sought a dark place to crawl into. and yet i was found by some younger people, they approached me, thanked me and I was happy for this connection to such wonderful people who came from beyond the curtains of the spectacle and made the effort seem worthwhile. this description i am offering here is somewhat crude, i suppose. but feel free to ask me questions about the contexts. listening to this so many years later, i am stunned at times myself. it took a few listens for me to remember that the volume fluctuations one can hear are the result of an ongoing battle with the fellow working the main sound-board who kept kept changing my volume levels. some of the volume spikes you hear were in fact my attempt to send him strong signals, strong signals that he should stop messing with my levels. another aspect of the confrontation concerns unpleasant realities that perhaps we would rather not want to hear at a "art music festival". for example, the sounds of a funeral in Iraq and the sounds of a suicide-bombing aftermath. the idea that i might make a statement about cultural passivity and indifference lay at the roots of my motivation. the value of the recording is documentary rather than aesthetic, although i recognize a certain aesthetic adheres to the documentary as a form of historical expose.
-- JG, 4/17/2014, Poznan, Polska

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AKASHIC RECORDS Poland

Guitarist, composer, sound designer, field recordist, shortwave radio poet, blending electro-acoustic, electronica, spectral comp., cracked circuits, sounding organic objects with an ear towards earth voices. Studied Javanese and Balinese gamelan and theories of Partch and Xenakis. Working with dance/theater/butoh co. Djalma Primordial Science. More than 400 concerts throughout Europe since 2005. ... more

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