Featuring
Recorded Live, July 10, 2008 at 1st International Animated Film Festival ANIMATOR, Poznan', POLAND www.animator-festival.com.
- Francis Wong - tenor saxophone
- Tatsu Aoki - bass
- Chad Taylor - drums
Tracklisting
- Early Abstractions ... for Harry Smith (11:04)
- Cross Country (8:18)
- Return to Alishan (6:17)
- Taylorism (8:17)
- Swing to Tatsu (6:40)
- The Animator Suite (22:21)
- To Poznan' With Love (5:27)
All compositions by Francis Wong, Tatsu Aoki, Chad Taylor
2009
Estrada Poznan'ska MIC02
5 907796 319024
www.estrada.poznan.pl
Album Description, Editorial Review
Recorded Live, July 10, 2008 at 1st International Animated Film Festival ANIMATOR, Poznan', POLAND
www.animator-festival.com.
Harry Smith EARLY ABSTRACTIONS (c) Harry Smith Archives, www.harrysmitharchives.com.
"A new live recording from my performance last year at Animator Festival in Poznan, Poland will soon be available on CD. Released by Estrada Poznan, this recording features Tatsu Aoki on Bass and Chad Taylor on Drums. It is called Early Abstractions, named for the animated film presentation of Harry Smith's work for which we were asked to provide sound accompaniment at the Festival. It is an honor to have a really nice document of the work and the relationship that we have with our friends in Poland!"
- FrancisWong, Sunday, 05 July 2009
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What an honor to accompany Harry Smith's work in this most significant
festival! And what good fortune - double happiness! - that this concert
was so expertly captured and edited by Eryk Koztowski and Kasia Palicka
- Koztowska. It is certainly a high point in my life to have performed
with my friends Tatsu Aoki and Chad Taylor in the Animator Festival,
celebrating the long lasting contributions of this art form to our
global humanity.
The music in this recording was collectively spontaneously composed
in-the-moment-improvised-that evening. And in so many ways it was the
environment of the gathering that week in Poznan that provided the
inspirational impetus for our creative adventure.
Tatsu, an accomplished film maker, served on the Festival jury, was
treated to the breadth and depth of the entries to this firs animation
festival in Poznan.
In a rare moment of rest during the festival, the tireless Director (and
this CD's producer) Wojciech Juszczak shared with me the story of the
historic role of animation artists in Poland's democratic culture -
providing the motivation for perhaps the culminating piece of the
evening, The Animator Suite.
Great thanks to Wojciech and ESTRADA POZNAN'SKA for this opportunity to
share in the celebration, to perform our music, and to enjoy the
tremendous hospitality of the audience that evening. It was a joyous
moment.
In Unity In sound.
Francis Wong
San Francisco, USA
6/16/2009
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