About Me:
The world's only composing group of four bass clarinetists, Edmund Welles are purveyors of Heavy Chamber Music. Combining equal parts from jazz, classical, and rock, guided by the deep sonority and expressive range of the bass clarinet. Muzak for conspiracy theorists, songs of Lunacy & Purpose. Influences include Black Sabbath, Howlin Wolf, and Wendy Carlos.
Contact:
ew@edmundwelles.com
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Style:
Heavy Chamber Music, Muzak for Conspiracy Theorists. Instrumentation is always exactly four bass clarinets, and the sonorous timbre of this potent instrumentation takes woodwind chamber music into the realm of Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd and Melt-Banana. The style might be called "...'clarinet rock.' Never have you heard the clarinet take on so much attitude, so much angst, so much personality. Mixing in styles and approaches from contemporary classical writing to jazz to just good old rock 'n roll licks..." [CD Baby, review 10/05]
Expertise:
Innovation, precision, low-reed pulsation, vibrational combinatorial resonance.
Forte:
Presenting music that is unusual and thoroughly conceived, energetically executed.
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Heavy Chamber Music, Muzak for Conspiracy Theorists.
Edmund Welles: the bass clarinet quartet's debut CD, Agrippa's 3 Books, explores the expressive extremes of the four bass clarinets, inspired by occult philosophy heavy metal music. Agrippa's 3 Books, mixed and mastered by sound alchemist Oz Fritz, features the piece of the same name (commissioned by Chamber Music America), composed by founding member, Cornelius Boots, as well as a classic metal trilogy of cover tunes from Black Sabbath, Sepultura, and Spinal Tap.
Available at CD Baby, iTunes, and elsewhere. Featured on All About Jazz NYC's Top Ten of 2005 in both the live performance and album categories. The Editor's review of the album is available at
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=19357
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