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In The Same Room

by Doug Tielli & Nick Fraser

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Something has changed.

Nick and I recorded duets in 2018. When I listen to it now, I hear something avoidant in it … we were avoiding getting caught up in anything - this is my familiar improv language … rather than risking heading towards something. There’s a willful disconnect. There is a trying be something rather than being something, being in something.

Part of it is about who we are communicating with, the necessity of that communication. The need that our playing addresses. I’ve had some transformation around this, in terms of seeing the benefit of playing with people rather aspiring to something. But in the music from 2018, I hear ‘free-improv’ in quotations. We were doing something together called free-improv.

The feeling of meeting in 2020 (the music presented here) was more human. We both had a need for human connection and expression. The values of some external body called free-improv didn’t matter. We had the time and space to meet during a time in which that was a rare occurrence, and make something together. Nick was not the drummer steeped in playing with others that he was in 2018. He was removed from his way of life and musical creativity. There is a little desperation and no point in pretending that we are part of a scene. There is no scene. We are not proponents of anything.

-Doug Tielli, 2021


One of the things that I love about working with Doug is that he has a near total willingness to follow his artistic whims. Not only that, but he manages to make something of that approach that is not merely whimsical. The music that results is not wedded to any style, genre, approach or even instrumentation. The overriding question that concerns us when we make music together is not "what do we WANT to do?" but rather "what does this music NEED us to do?"

When we played this session, it struck me that there was a certain slowness and consideration to the music-making that (I think) came from our surroundings in rural Ontario. The space that is Doug's "music room" is an old church in Neustadt, ON. This "zone" (i.e. not only Neustadt and the space itself, but also the artistic impulses that came naturally to us there) was an oasis for me as an artist in 2020.

-Nick Fraser, 2021

credits

released February 11, 2022

Doug Tielli: trombone, piano

Nick Fraser: drums



Recorded at Church of All Sounds, Neustadt, Ontario, November 2020

Recorded and mixed by Doug Tielli.

Mastered by Aaron Hutchinson.

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Rat-drifting music searches for specificity, celebrates detail. It experiments with radical particularity and wonders about the possibilities and potentials of those experiments. If the music drifts, it does so in the hopes that the listener drifts with it—her/his imagination experimenting with the possibilities of the music as well, as they find their own route through their own experience. ... more

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