eLASTic MONDAY

Smouldering Door (Dec 10 ‘07)
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Charles-Éric Billard (slitars, toy piano, assorted pedals and etc, karimba, bamboo gun)
Jerry Gordon (tenor sax, Bb clarinet, djembes)

1. eLASTic Mantra 4:42
2. eLASTic Digestive Tract 5:26
3. eLASTic Satellite Orbiting a Bowl of Blue Radios 3:44
4. eLASTic SharpShave 6:07
5. eLASTic Tree of Birds Carrying the Seeds of Gods in their Beaks 6:18
6. eLASTic Senators 3:18
7. eLASTic Plastic 9:00
8. eLASTic Monday 6:58
9. eLASTic Under-Ocean Castle Painted on the Billboard in My Dream 7:41
10. eLASTic Metar Geal 3:53
11. eLASTic eLASTic 7:53

DADApera, Smouldering Door at The Cellar, Oct 28 (Sun)

Smouldering Door presents DADApera, Sun. Oct 28th at The Cellar

Smouldering Door, Sept. 30th at PILE

September 30th, Smouldering Door Gig

ExClarinetation

Song from the Court of Flying Insects

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Songs from the Court of Flying Insects
(September 18, 2004)

Smouldering Door
Charles Billard (ukulele, echo balls and plinkplunk)
Jerry Gordon (shakuhachi, recorder, drum and plinkplonk)

1. Flirtations of the Moth and the Flame 5:57 (Download Track)
2. The Ritual Dance for Changing the Candle Inside the Moon 2:38 (Download Track)
3. My Little Crime 0:47
4. The Beat of Hearts in the Bee Hive 6:21
5. The Past Life of Ralph Famularo as a Mechanical Silver Beetle 3:04
6. The Dance of the Mosquito Sages in Tribute to Dusk 4:55
7. Releasing the Moon from the Plum Tree 5:28
8. Dance for the Feast fo Ghosts at the Moon Palace of the Enormous Black Dragonflies 7:17

(Recorded live inside Takedao Tunnel--Hyogo, Japan)

Mundane Skies

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Mundane Skies
by Smouldering Door (May 7, ‘07)

Charles Billard (slitars, pianica, assorted plinkplunk, drums)
Jerry Gordon (recorders, shakuhachi, Bb clarinet, djembe, voice)

1. her mundane skies (film soundtrack) 9:54 (Download Track)
Part I--Road;
Part 2--Abandoned House;
Part 3--Riverside
2. Duals 3:21
3. Brushing the Goat 3:22
4. A Pixy Burning Photographs 1:52 (Download Track)
5. Batman Jive 4:58
6. Down the Up Escalator 2:15
7. Little Chocolate Bunny 5:27
8. Outside Down 3:17 (Download Track)
9. God Orbs 5:08
10. A Pixy Burning Letters 2:02
11. Song for a Three Sided Wheel 3:42 (Download Track)
12. What We Could 8:18

The Eat the Weaklings

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The Eat the Weaklings

Rick Tuazon and Jerry Gordon
Closing event for Eat the Weak (a video/film event)
at Cocoroom, Osaka, Japan
June 1st, 2007

Live improvised sound art performance in configuration with 18 minute video projection created by Rick Tuazon and Sean E.

Performers:
Rick Tuazon (laptop sound files and effects)
Jerry Gordon (slitar, clarinet, hose, tenor sax, shakuhachi)

(Download Full mp3 file)

Gravity Rainbow

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Gravity Rainbow
for paintings by Chika Yoshii

Jerry Gordon (solo tenor sax)

May 3rd, 2007 beneath Abikosuji Yamatogawa Bridge
1. On the Street It's Spring 2:46 (Download Track)
2. Looking Left Alone 4:15
3. Flower Girl 3:47
4. DM 3:01
5. Not Quite a Black Woman 6:27
6. Left Hand 2:06
7. Blue Head 4:31
8. Alien Tenders 3:52
9. Absinthe Blue 5:08 (Download Track)

May 2nd, 2007 at Cafe Absinthe, Osaka, Japan
10. On the Street It's Spring at Absinthe 2:13
11. Flower Girl at Absinthe 2:45
12. Looking Left Alone at Absinthe 3:47
13. DM at Absinthe 3:28

City

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City
March 18, 2007 Positive Thinking at Bridge, Osaka, Japan

Jerry Gordon (ts, p [I & VII], voi, perc. [III]); John Arunski (b, perc); Futoshi Moriyama (t [II], pedals); Katsura (voi, shaku); James Barret (t, p [VI], voi); Saito (d); boy (p [II], perc.); girl (p [VIII], perc.)

Part I: Blacktop, Concrete and Wood 8:11
Part II: Cats' Parade 11:35 (Download Track)
Part III: The Place Where Things Are and Are Not Things 7:27
Part IV: With--Weaving Down the Road 3:42
Part V: Echoes on Lock-Steppers' Lane 6:41
Part VI: Clouds Meeting Becoming Departing Clouds 6:54
Part VII: Skyline of Stairways 6:28 (Download Track)
Part VIII: Commuter Traffic 10:45

Her Omniscient Belly Button

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Her Omniscient Belly Button
(Feb 12, ‘07)

Smouldering Door
Charles Billard (pringle-string sticks, assorted plinkplunk, karimba, drums, voice)
Jerry Gordon (recorder, shakuhachi, duduk, djembe, assorted plinkplonk, voice, tubie)

1. Rebirth of PlinkPlonk 4:51
2. The Charcoal Pixy Contemplating Silence 4:59
3. Talks with Jacques 5:16
4. Abstracty 2:33
5. Walking into Battle with the Mind 6:26
6. 3 2 1 3:48 (Download Track)
7. Her Omniscient Bellybutton 2:53 (Download Track)
8. Listen Close 2:24
9. Mister in a Bottle 3:14
10. Prototype PlinkPlunk Machine 2:37
11. Play Times 1:58
12. Trippin' in Troll Land 3:52
13. Plural One 3:46
14. (Mini Mister in a Bottle 1:53)

BellyButton image 2004 (c) Nick Jensen www.hatetank.dk

Bruising Muses

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Bruising Muses
Positive Thinking at Bridge, Osaka (Dec 6, ‘06 and Jan 19, ‘07)

Positive Thinking is a regular open improvisation session organized by Futoshi Moriyama at Bridge atop Festival Gate in Dobutsuenmae, Osaka.

Personel: jerry Gordon (ts, voice), atsushi Tsubouchi (djimbe, d), kousuke Nakajima (g), james Barret (t, voice), futoshi Moriyama (sounds), Saito (d), Oni (g, d, voice), Uchihashi (loop pedals), mori (g), ? (elec d), ? (g), ? (g),

1. We Live Here (GN?B----) 2:11
2. Trio Pluses (GNBS?) 8:20
3. Osaka Funeral March, Skip and Pogo Mosh (GTNB?) 6:39
4. Positive Thinking Dec 06 (GTM) 5:31
5. Umeboshi (Gm) 4:12 (Download Track)
6. Muse Hair Rope (G??) 5:31 (Download Track)
7. Riding the Sands (GTB???) 9:18
8. Oni's Others (GOUTB??) 21:56
9. G’s loop 2:06
10. Little Garden in the Monster's Heart (GOT??) 2:02