Eli Keszler ‘Oxtirn’ from eli keszler on Vimeo.
| Eli Keszler Releases “Oxtirn” Music Video |
June 17th, 2011
| ESP LIVE Presents: Oxtirn CD Release Party, This Wednesday May 25th |
May 24th, 2011
| ESP Disk’ Announces Oxtirn Limited Edition |
May 16th, 2011
Brooklyn, New York
Oxtirn Limited CD
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ESP-Disk’ is proud to announce the May 17 release of Eli Keszler’s ESP – Disk’ debut Oxtirn on CD in two editions: a regular one-CD version and a deluxe two-CD set including a concert version. ESP-Disk’s 2010 limited LP release of Oxtirn sold out immediately, prompting the label to issue Eli’s masterwork for the first time on CD for global distribution. The beautifully packaged CD recreates the original album art executed and designed by Eli. Additions to the gatefold package include a six-panel foldout showing the intricately detailed musical score to Oxtirn; the other side features a new piece of original art dedicated to the CD reissue, one of Keszler’s beautiful abstract artworks. Musically, Oxtirn has never sounded better, as it was remastered for stunning high-quality digital sound. Oxtirn now includes not only the two tracks originally released on the vinyl but also the rarely heard third movement featuring Keszler plus Mori on prepared piano, making this CD the most complete-in-one-place edition of Oxtirn available.
Oxtirn Outside Cover
Oxtirn Limited Inside Cover
Oxtirn will also be available in a 250-copy limited-edition deluxe release that includes a second CD, Oxtirn Live and a limited print. Although it is a concert version of the same notated score that produced Oxtirn, it’s with a different instrumentation of three guitars, drums, voice, motor harp, tenor harp, bass harp, microphones, clarinet, alto saxophone, crotales, and cymbals, played by the lineup of Keszler, Paul, and Geoff Mullen. And Keszler’s notation allows for interpretational freedom by the players, so while stylistically there are similarities between Oxtirn and Oxtirn Live, they don’t sound the same. Thanks to the guitars, Oxtirn Live sounds a little closer to the rock avant-garde than Oxtirn as keening high frequencies collide and intertwine, free of standard tunings, setting up ear-cleaning vibrations.
Oxtirn Limited Hand Screened Poster
ESP-Disk’ will celebrate the arrival of Oxtirn with a release party/concert on Wednesday, May 25, 7-10 PM, at Tribes Gallery, the famed Lower East Side loft space run by poet Steve Cannon and his organization A Gathering of the Tribes.
Oxtirn has received rave reviews:
“a major work; for once i agree with the supplied hyperbole – this really does transcend genre, equally incorporating the areas-of-interest that fuel eli’s quest; brutal free jazz, scaled back euro improv, the confined roar of late 70’s no-wave/art punk, and various aspects of post-war compositional dictates …”–Mimaroglu Music Sales, which also named it one of the top 20 releases of 2010
“Oxtirn is an excellent introduction to Keszler’s work and, if Steven Stapleton ever updates his Nurse With Wound List, Keszler’s name should be on it.”–Clifford Allen, Paris Transatlantic Magazine
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| ESP Disk’ Announces May Releases; Eli Keszler “Oxtirn” on CD |
May 5th, 2011
Brooklyn, New York
Oxtirn Cover Art
ESP-Disk’ has released some far-out albums in its 47 years, but Eli Keszler’s Oxtirn raises the bar. Keszler is a percussionist and composer like no other; some connoisseurs of outside music will know him from his work with the singular guitarist Jandek. Oxtirn is Keszler’s ESP-Disk’ debut and most widely distributed album after prolifically self-releasing micro-edition CDRs, tapes, and vinyl via his label REL Records.
On Oxtirn, Keszler plays drums, guitar, piano, prepared piano, motors, cymbal, crotales (bowed and unbowed), snare drum, prepared/riveted sheet metal, spring harp, bass board, and microphones. He’s joined by clarinetist Ashley Paul (his partner in Aster) on two tracks, plus Andrew Fenlon (trumpet, tuba, French horn, trombone) and Sakkiko Mori (prepared piano) on one track each.
There are few musical analogies to what Keszler is doing here. It might sound like freely improvised noise, but it’s actually meticulously composed – and if you don’t believe it, you can check out his graphical-notation score for all three tracks, included on a six-panel fold-out. The Italian Futurists of the 1920s would have loved this magnificent din, so full of startling timbres and arresting textural combinations, like a cross between Xenakis and free jazz.
The LP received rave reviews:
“a major work; for once i agree with the supplied hyperbole – this really does transcend genre, equally incorporating the areas-of-interest that fuel eli’s quest; brutal free jazz, scaled back euro improv, the confined roar of late 70’s no-wave/art punk, and various aspects of post-war compositional dictates …”–Mimaroglu Music Sales, which also named it one of the top 20 releases of 2010
“Oxtirn is an excellent introduction to Keszler’s work and, if Steven Stapleton ever updates his Nurse With Wound List, Keszler’s name should be on it.”–Clifford Allen, Paris Transatlantic Magazine
ESP-Disk’s initial limited LP release of Oxtirn sold out immediately, prompting the label to issue Eli’s masterwork for the first time on CD for global distribution. The beautifully packaged CD recreates the original album art executed and designed by Eli. Additions to the gatefold package include that six-panel foldout showing the intricately detailed musical score to Oxtirn; the other side features a new piece of original art dedicated to the CD reissue, one of Keszler’s beautiful abstract artworks. Musically, Oxtirn has never sounded better, as it was remastered for stunning high-quality digital sound. Oxtirn now includes not only the two tracks originally released on the vinyl but also the rarely heard third movement featuring Keszler plus Mori on prepared piano, making this CD the most complete-in-one-place edition of Oxtirn available.
Oxtirn poster included with CD
Graphic score included with CD
CD Release Celebration on May 25th
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| Video from ESP Disk’ Live 1/20/2011 |
February 10th, 2011
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January 6th, 2011
| ESP – Disk’ Brooklyn Hosts an Album Release Party: Thursday, January 20th @ 7:30pm |
January 3rd, 2011
Featuring Live Performances by Paul Thornton of The Godz, Alan Sondheim and Friends, and The Giuseppi Logan Quartet
Who: An Ecclectic Mix of ESP-Disk’ Artist’s Past and Present
What: Performing Live; “you never heard such sounds in your life”
Where: 990 Bedford Ave,Brooklyn, NY, 11205 -G Train to Bedford/Nostrand Stop
When: Thursday, January 20th. 2011
Why: For Fans, Friends, and Original Music
