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  ---Liner Notes by PEK
  Metal Chaos Ensemble was formed in early 2015 by PEK and Yuri Zbitnov as a working project to explore chaotic rhythms on metallic instruments. I had started to amass the Evil Clown Arsenal of percussion, electronic and wind instruments and we needed a workshop to develop this universe of sounds for the Leap of Faith Orchestra. It was immediately obvious that Metal Chaos Ensemble had a sound to itself and over the last nine years has been one of the most prolific Evil Clown ensembles. We have produced over 50 albums covering a wide range of sonority sets, but always with the presence of gongs, chimes, glockenspiel, Tibetan bowls and many other metallic sounds and the horns of PEK.
  
  More recently, MCE has been a recurring sextet unit with most of the sessions having exactly the same six performers. With drums and electric bass and electronics, this unit contains the most rock elements of any of the Evil Clown ensembles. Since Yuri retired from Evil Clown, drummer Steve Niemitz has been holding down the drum chair. He drives into Boston from Western Mass, so we don’t do quite as many sets as we did back in the day, but it tends to make them a bit special.
  
  Each session at Evil Clown Headquarters poses an aesthetic problem for the ensemble to solve which is: How to structure a concert length improvisation with the particular section through the Evil Clown Resources available to that set. Despite a longer than usual break (5 months) since the last MCE set in November 2023 due to difficulty with the scheduling, the sextet really comes out swinging… We are hungry for these sets and when they occur, the result is always special.
  
  I’m super happy with this album and I bet you like it too…
  
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