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Matt Crane plays drums. His playing is informed by Philly Joe Jones,
Billy Mintz, Tom Price, Cleve Pozar, Rashied Ali and any other traditional/not drummer who chooses to find a sound. Matt is happy about all his muscial experiences and plays as honestly as he can.

Contact:
206-326-0341
tympanicmembrane@hotmail.com

CISTERN

Our Band Could Be Your Life

CORRESPONDENCE

OBJECT

DOUBLENDS VERT

Various artists paying tribute to
D Boon and the Minutemen

West Coast Modern Day
Punk Rock Orchestra

BNSF

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Cistern was made in a two million gallon underground reservoir at Fort Worden, a de-commissioned military base overlooking the entrance to the Puget Sound. The space¹s resonance extended the instruments in a way similar to electronic processing. The acoustic properties of the cistern created new sonic relationships to which the group applied their musical concept. Cistern captures Doublends Vert¹s first experiences in the sound-world of the cistern.

Doublends Vert formed in 2003 through a common interest in creating restrained, acoustic music exploring the timbre blending possibilities of the violin, accordion, and clarinet.

Doublends Vert:

Clarinetist Adam Diller¹s
(b. 1980) music deals with the problems of composing for recorded medium, integrating electronic and acoustic sounds, and improvising with social and natural environments. His process draws on experience with jazz, composition, improvisation, and computer-based sound design. Since moving to Seattle in 2002, Diller has performed in many situations and produced 10 recordings.

Annie Lewandowski
(b. 1979) is a composer and multi-instrumentalist with backgrounds in classical, improvised, and experimental music. She has performed at festivals in the USA, Canada, and Europe with trio Doublends Vert and
duo Emma Zunz
(with Cristin Miller).
She currently lives in Seattle.

Tom Swafford
(b. 1972) is violinist and composer active in a wide variety of musical styles.
He studied composition in Boston, Berkeley, CA, and The Netherlands (with Louis Andriessen). He is a member of Cipher, Drumolin and Doublends Vert and also performs classical, bluegrass and rock music. He resides in Seattle, WA.

Matt Crane
joins on timbales for cistern tracks 4 and 5 and engineered this live recording. Crane has been playing drums from an early age. His profound interest in music has translated into the study of many different idioms. He currently engages in many improvised settings with an emphasis on environment and its shaping of the musical experience.

Released December 1994.
CD: not limited.
LP: first pressing 1000,
second pressing 1000.

Various artists paying tribute to
D Boon and the Minutemen.
Over two-and-a-half years
in the making.
74 minute-long CD or
50 minute-long LP.

Referenced/West Germany

Joe Baiza, guitar and vocals;

Jovi Butts, bass;

Matt Crane, drums;

and Ed Fromohio, trumpet.

All-star ensemble headed by Mr. Jovi Butts and featuring Nels Cline, Mike Watt, Rick Fork & others. These songs are in the instrumental free-rock realm (though "Jumpy" does have some muted vocals), buoyed by Mike Watt's big bass lines and Nels Cline's distinctive guitar.
Totally intense.

Recorded 1995
at Box Studio by Gar.

Bob P-23: synthetic strings, vocals, combustions

Matt Crane: drums

Rick Fork: guitar

Jovi Butts: bass

Nels Cline: guitar

Mike Watt: bass

Inspired by natural cycles of texture and repetition, BNSF creates music with an organic momentum. Building music from the melodic noise and polyrhythms of industrial activity, BNSF exists between aleatory structure and song form, music and noise. Adam Diller, Jason E Anderson, and Matt Crane met through their involvement with Open Music Workshop, an offshoot of the recent explosion in Seattle's improvised music scene. A sense of purpose was established during the first improvisations of the trio, spurring the formation of BNSF. Meeting at their practice space near a train junction in downtown Seattle, they realized the importance of the environment's influence on their music. Drawing on their surroundings, BNSF took their name from a passing train car. They began experimenting by playing in construction zones, under a highway overpass, through a huge metal tube in a shop yard, and next to
unloading freight trains.

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