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Description
Edition Redux releases its second album on Audiographic Records this January. Entitled Broadcast Transformer, it was recorded at Palisade Studios in Chicago by Nick Broste in March of 2024 directly after their second tour in the States. The group, which features Chicagoans Erez Dessel on keyboards, Lily Finnegan on drums, Beth McDonald on tuba & electronics, and Ken Vandermark on reeds, issued their first recording, Better A Rook Than A Pawn, to great acclaim, called “Essential New Music”, by Magnet Magazine and picked as one of “The Best Jazz on Bandcamp, January 2024”. Throughout the rest of 2024 the band was extremely busy, with a special recording project including poet John Yau in July, a weekly residency at The Hungry Brain in Chicago during October, and a tour in Europe in November where Edition Redux was featured at both the Festival Internacional de Jazz Madrid and the Music Unlimited Festival 38 in Wels, Austria.
Broadcast Transformer features 14 new compositions by Vandermark that explore his interests in the experimental jazz of the AACM and different schools of improvised music developed in Europe, all investigated with a post-punk/free-funk attitude. After continuous work during the year before the second album was recorded, the musicians’ understanding of Vandermark’s goal to perpetually reinvent material by not only re-arranging individual pieces from performance to performance, but to also reorganize their sequence as unique “suites”. The response to this new collection of music both at home and abroad has been extraordinary. Listeners everywhere can now experience the ensemble’s creative achievement with Broadcast Transformer, the next step in documentation for this innovative and exciting ensemble.
Music performed and improvised by:
Erez Dessel: piano and Nord synthesizer
Lily Finnegan: drums
Beth McDonald: tuba and electronics
Ken Vandermark: reeds
Recorded by Nick Broste at Palisade Studios, Chicago on March 3, 2024.
Mixed by Nick Broste and Ken Vandermark at Kind Wizard.
Mastered by Kate In at Experimental Sound Studio.
Produced by Ken Vandermark for Audiographic Records.
Released in:
2025