Muzycy:
Joe Fonda - bass, leader
Anthony Braxton - alto saxophone, F Melody saxophone, sopranino saxophone, clarinet, contrabass clarinet, flute
Brenda Bufalino - Tap Dance
Vickie Dodd - vocals
Herb Robertson - trumpet, pocket trumpet
Grisha Alexiev - drums, percussion

Ostatnia, dziewiętnasta, płyta w katalogu wydawnictwa Fundacji Słuchaj! na rok 2023.
Wytwórnia zamyka rok silnym akcentem, bo przypomnieniem "From The Source" Joe Fondy z utytułowanym gremium.

New mixed and remastered material!!!!!!!!!
This session was multi-dimensional for me and I am still thinking about it, and feeling its effects and influences.

During the session, we bridged the gap that exists between the dance world and the music world by making our dancer (Brenda Bufalino) an equal part of our ensemble. She was incorporated into the collective group for her sounds, her rhythms, her tones, her time, and her music - not for her visual presence which historically has so often been the reason for bringing musicians and dancers together. Here we come together as equals. No one is, per se, the accompanist for someone else, or some small 20-minute addition to the show in order to bring about some variety to the program. My hope for the future is that we'll hear and see more of this way of thinking and collaborating. We all win when we do and we lose when we don't.

Another thing that was bridged during this session was the connection between
the healing arts and the performing arts. The music of Vickie Dodd, up to this point of time,
has primarily been focused in the healing arts. She has been a body worker for the last 15 years. I had visited Vickie Dodd a year or so ago, prior to this session because I had heard her of her work and my body was hurting. I was in need of some body work. The work she did on me that day was incredible, but the music that came from this woman's voice while she was working on me, was like nothing I had ever heard before.
It was so cosmic, so powerful that I never forgot it. I knew that there would be a time and a place for us to come together to do as Vickie calls it. "Sound ourselves and everything else."

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