Breathing Through Metal and Wood

CDR

Jerry Gordon
(alto sax, Bb clarinet and hand drums)

1. Very Short Skyscrapers 5:14

Nagai Stadium Solos
2. Stirring Up the Concrete Molecules 6:14
3. Pixi Time 4:32
4. Soliloquy for a Homeless Man 3:07

5. Pixies Dance for Electric Buddhas 5:11

Nagai Stadium Solos (cont.)
6. Narcissus and Echo 9:25
7. Subtle Betrayals 6:04
8. Lonely Woman 3:48

9. Walking in Underwater Shoes 14:47
Gordon (d, recorder); w/ Yoshiki Kato (g, oud);
Naoyo Yakushi (perc); Mitsuru Toshisato (laptop, v, hose); Uta-chan (acc);

June 25, 08 at Tempozan w/ Yangjah
10. A Reed's Song to the Water Grass
on the Intimacy of Terror and Beauty 5:12
11. Boat Motors and Believable Memories 5:48

Concrete Canyon

CDR

Improvised solos by Jerry Gordon for dances by Yangjah

Jerry Gordon (alto sax and Bb clarinet)

Concrete Canyon w/ Yangjah July 6. 08
1. Warming Up the Canyon 6:01
2. Visa for PixiLand 2:42
3. Chasing Eric Dolphy's Bike 2:38
4. Getting Lost on a One Way Street 3:10
5. "There's a Sky Up Above" 5:04
6. Absinthe Blue (pt 1 & 2) 8:12
7. Police Car 1:34
8. Invisible Dancer 5:21
9. Monkiefeet 1:50
10. Wildin' 3:43

June 18. 08 at Tempozan w/ Yangjah
11. 25 Minutes of a Curved Wall's Life 25:10

w/ Yangjah at Hoshigaoka Sewing School, Aug. 2, 2008

This performance was for an opening event of the Swimy Art Exhibition being held at various venues in Osaka. Concrete Canyon, the film Yangjah made of her and my playing in a space between two Osaka office buildings, is in the Swimy exhibition, at a gallery named Beyer.

A CD of the Concrete Canyon recordings is also available, from 3CMPress.

Jerry Gordon and Yangjah at UrBanGuild July 28, 08

Jerry Gordon and Yangjah at JunkRoom Vol 5, June 7, 08

Salads in Space w/ Yangjah at Gallery SoHo, May 31, 2008

Salads in Space 

is Rick Tuazon, Charles-Eric Billard and Jerry Gordon

with 

dancer Yangjah

g's Leaving

(CDR)
music by Jerry Gordon
(alto & tenor sax, djembes, guitar, Bb clarinet)
recorded late ‘07 & early ‘08, because a friend is goin’

1. Born Lost 5:11
2. g's Leaving (take 1) 4:08
3. As Willing As Gravity 7:17
4. Backyard Jack's Funeral 2:15
5. Jim Hall's Toupee 7:14
6. Isla Summer 3:16
7. Nomad 6:39
8. Lonely Woman 3:53
9. The Marshall Stacks 8:41
10. Cemental Moon 4:35
11. Vodka Martini 2:24
12. The Pixy Riding the Alligator on the Rooftop 4:54
13. Blurry Portrait of Derek Bailey 7:08
14. Cookie Factory 3:16
15. g's Leaving (take 2) 3:24

cover image by Gareth Jones