Clouds

Eight years ago, Martin and I were at a jazz camp when Jamaladeen Tacuma — Ornette Coleman's bassist — pulled a small group of us into a room two hours before his flight and said: let's record something now. No plan, no rehearsal. Just play. That moment never left us. Clouds is what happens when you spend eight years saying yes to every chance to play together. Eleven pieces that moved through every shape we know — old compositions worn smooth by live performance, free improvisations caught in the moment, a twelve-tone row played in the spirit of Schoenberg, and layered studio constructions built slowly, sound by sound. Martin plays vibraphone the way a pianist thinks — four mallets, electronics, and an ear for what the instrument hasn't done yet. I work with the voice the same way: extended techniques, live processing, finding the sounds that live at the edges. Together we end up somewhere neither of us would reach alone. Clouds is mixed in Dolby Atmos spatial audio. Put on headphones.