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All funds raised with the sales of LIP, will go to Trans Lifeline (translifeline.org) who connects trans people to the community support and resources they need to survive and thrive.

“We envision a world where trans people have the connection, economic security, and care everyone needs and deserves—free of prisons and police.”

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This first meeting of two like-minded experimentalists took place in August of 2022, when New York-based violinist Gabby Fluke-Mogul made their first visit to Chicago to explore the improvised music scene there. The focal point of that visit was a solo performance on the Pleiades Series at Elastic Arts organized by Emily Beisel. But as a second “get-to-know-ya” opportunity, Beisel and percussionist Bill Harris also organized a night of mixed groupings at the Beat Kitchen, a rock bar mostly known in the improvised music scene as the home of the longstanding Monday night residency by Extraordinary Popular Delusions. For one of those sets, Fluke-Mogul met up with Chicago mainstay Dave Rempis on saxophones.

As many fans of the music will recognize, there can be something incredibly special about first-time encounters, and this was one of those sets. Exploring spiky counterpoints, turn-on-a-dime dynamics, and sputtering articulations, these two found an extraordinary common ground in the music. This limited release for Catalytic Sound supporters provides a quick glance into what will hopefully lead to more collaborations down the road!

Gabby Fluke-Mogul – violin
Dave Rempis – alto/baritone saxophone

Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Bill Harris
@ The Beat Kitchen in Chicago
August, 20th 2022

Special thanks to Emily Beisel and Bill Harris
Artwork & Design by Federico Peñalva

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