Nealson by Bent Spoon Trio

In 2006, the Bent Spoon Trio was at the height of its anything-goes stage. Their core instruments were still largely alto sax, upright bass, and drumset, playing in a sort of free jazz/free improv style.

Around this time, Munro revealed his trombone prowess and added various pedals & electronic enhancements to his upright; Laing began adding his homemade devices, started experimenting with the melodica, and tried his hand at some random percussive interjections; and Dadge, he received a flea-market-clarinet and started messing with tapes & contact mics.

This session was recorded in parts, during a day-long session at Artunit studios, which was owned by Dan Grisdale, who makes an appearance on a couple tracks. (Jay Crocker, along with Dadge and Munro, also recorded a ton of stuff here over a few-year period around here.) These tracks were intended to be used as a collaborative-via-mail-album, but the project never materialized, and the resulting tracks, while occasionally quite stark, are a good representation of the types of things this group was working on in this era. The hard editing is an appealing post-production choice that is a recurring device in Bug Incision releases. It was also around this time that this technique appeared, having been exposed to various FMP releases featuring radical edits.

Tracklist

1.	One	2:11

2.	Two	2:07

3.	Three	2:10

4.	Four	4:20

5.	Five	2:48

6.	Six	0:23

7.	Seven	2:35

8.	Eight	5:03

9.	Nine	1:16

10.	Ten	1:04

11.	Eleven	1:37

12.	Twelve	0:16

13.	Thirteen	1:11

14.	Fourteen	3:09

15.	Fifteen	2:21

16.	Sixteen	8:55

17.	Seventeen	0:23

18.	Eighteen	0:51

19.	Nineteen	3:45

Credits

released September 1, 2011

Chris Dadge, David Laing, Scott Munro: drums, percussion, upright bass, alto sax, trombone, clarinet, melodica, tapes, electronics, voice, Laingdon (?)

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