Evil Clown 9236
LIVESTREAMED to YouTube from
Evil Clown Headquarters - Waltham MA – 12/5/2019
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--liner notes by PEK
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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 three years has been one of the most prolific Evil Clown ensembles. We have produced a bunch of 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. All Metal Chaos Ensemble sessions include at least myself and Yuri, along with a whole bunch of different guests.
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MCE has always contained more rock elements that the other Evil Clown projects. This aspect of the project has really come into focus in the sessions over the last year or two. Last May we did three rapid fire sets in 8 days with two different groove-oriented lineups. These sessions are some of the most groove-heavy sets yet, due to the driving bass of newcomer Mike Gruen on Azoth and Basilisk, and the incredible djembe of Moouse Traore on Reverberatory Furnace.
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This current set is the trio with Mike Gruen plus the modular analog synth of MCE regular Eric Woods and trumpet, guitar and synth from our pal Bob Moores and relative newcomer saxophonist Mike Caglianone. We now LIVE STREAM to YouTube all of the Evil Clown Headquarters recording sessions. With the help of Joel Simchez at the audio mixing console and Raffi at the video mixing console, we’re pushing a real quality 7 channel Stream! Subscribe to my YouTube for notifications
www.youtube.com/channel/UClfRlTeeHnSxRsJTkFakiJw/videos)
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PEK 12/7/2019
from
Best of MCE 2015 to 2019 (26 albums),
released March 22, 2020
- PEK - alto & tenor saxophones, clarinet & contralto clarinet, tromboon, mussette, guanzi, wood flutes, game calls, [d]ronin, orchestral chimes, glockenspiel, balafon, wood blocks, gongs, Tibetan bells & bowls, brontosaurus & tank bells, crotales, metal, wood, wind siren, recitation, Ableton mix*
- Mike Caglianone - soprano, alto & tenor saxophones, game calls, Tibetan bells, rattles, daiko, brontosaurus & tank bells, glockenspiel, metal
- Bob Moores - piccolo trumpet, guitar, synthesizers, signal processing
- Eric Woods - analog synth, gongs, metal
- Mike Gruen - electric bass, signal processing
- Yuri Zbitnov - drums, Englephone, gongs, crotales, brontosaurus & tank bells, metal, recitation
- Joel Simches - live to 2 track mix, real time signal processing
*Samples from the Evil Clown catalog and specially recorded at Evil Clown Headquarters
YouTube:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAT4i5dZcGM&t=6s
Evil Clown album page: www.evilclown.rocks/mce-call-of-cthulhu.html
Evil Clown Facebook site:
www.facebook.com/GiantEvilClown/
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Other recent MCE sets
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The Nameless City (8/29/2019)
Bandcamp:
metalchaosensemble.bandcamp.com/album/the-nameless-city
YouTube:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehavieAZtpk
Evil Clown Album Page: www.evilclown.rocks/mce-the-nameless-city.html
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Proteus IV (7/11/2019)
Bandcamp:
metalchaosensemble.bandcamp.com/album/proteus-iv
YouTube:
youtu.be/YFXVVcSP4Ik
Evil Clown Album Page: www.evilclown.rocks/mce-proteus-iv.html
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Reverberatory Furnace (5/30/2019)
Bandcamp:
metalchaosensemble.bandcamp.com/album/reverberatory-furnace
YouTube:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMgh_SzUChE&t=1996s
Evil Clown Album Page: www.evilclown.rocks/mce-reverberatory-furnace.html
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Basilisk (2/25/2019)
Bandcamp:
metalchaosensemble.bandcamp.com/album/basilisk
YouTube:
youtu.be/fb-kjy8wNtM
Evil Clown Album Page: www.evilclown.rocks/mce-basilisk.html
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Azoth (5/23/2019)
Bandcamp:
metalchaosensemble.bandcamp.com/album/azoth
YouTube:
youtu.be/_aoUrSskLx0
Evil Clown Album Page: www.evilclown.rocks/mce-azoth.html
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Beyond the Holy Mountain (2/23/2019)
bandcamp:
metalchaosensemble.bandcamp.com/album/beyond-the-holy-mountain
YouTube:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkDB_upwW0c
Evil Clown Album page: www.evilclown.rocks/mce-beyond-the-holy-mountain.html
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Luminiferous Aether (1/10/2019)
bandcamp:
metalchaosensemble.bandcamp.com/album/luminiferous-aether
YouTube:
youtu.be/yzEbl47WVsk
Evil Clown Album page: www.evilclown.rocks/mce-luminiferous-aether.html
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Electric Sword Machine (12/8/2018)
bandcamp:
metalchaosensemble.bandcamp.com/album/electric-sword-machine
YouTube:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DDdQfwhkE4&feature=youtu.be
Evil Clown Album page: www.evilclown.rocks/mce-electric-sword-machine.html
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Electric Universe Theory (9/7/2018)
bandcamp:
metalchaosensemble.bandcamp.com/album/electric-universe-theory
YouTube:
youtu.be/Fi8gyL9JiMg
Evil Clown Album page: www.evilclown.rocks/mce-electric-universe-theory.html
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Syncretic Discipline (8/2/2018)
bandcamp:
metalchaosensemble.bandcamp.com/album/syncretic-discipline
YouTube:
youtu.be/3mNnMrZ8qMg
Evil Clown Album page: www.evilclown.rocks/mce-syncretic-discipline.html
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Cryptomorphisms (6/2/2018)
bandcamp:
metalchaosensemble.bandcamp.com/album/cryptomorphisms
YouTube:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pY0k4sgQIY&feature=youtu.be
Evil Clown Album page: www.evilclown.rocks/mce-cryptomorphisms.html
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Blast Furnace (4/12/2018)
bandcamp:
metalchaosensemble.bandcamp.com/album/blast-furnace
YouTube:
youtu.be/ZJtHC63EeNc
Evil Clown Album page: www.evilclown.rocks/mce-blast-furnace.html
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Shape Memory (2/15/2018)
bandcamp:
metalchaosensemble.bandcamp.com/album/shape-memory
YouTube:
youtu.be/LMdW-qYz_yg
Evil Clown Album page: www.evilclown.rocks/mce-shape-memory.html
