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New Year’s 2020, Part One

New Year’s 2020, Part One

From the sixth annual New Year’s Improv
in the CHEER-AX Basement

Billie Jean Howard- violin
Paul Velat- alto sax
Jeff Libersher- trumpet
Thymme Jones- trumpet
Jeff Kowalkowski- trombone
Rebecca Himelstein- electronics
Jim Drummond- presence

Mastered by Todd Rittmann

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Chicago XX (2019, CD)

Chicago XX (2019, CD)

CHEER-ACCIDENT

We’ve made it to XX!! Yes, it took longer than it took Chicago to make it here, but that didn’t prevent us from calling it “Chicago XX,” did it? It’s a potent little sucker, too. Maybe we shouldn’t still be rocking out this much at “our advanced age,” but… well, we are! Harmony and dissonance, love and hate, oboes and drums… they all help to form this delicious and strange bedfellowship.

 

CD, $17.00

Song of the Month

The Ancient Present

The Ancient Present

We have a tradition (five years old now) of improvising our way
into the new year from the CHEER-AX Basement. This is a
particularly delectable moment from 2019.

Johanna Brock- viola
Jim Becker- violin
Julie Pomerleau- violin
Jeff Libersher- prepared guitar
Thymme Jones- keyboards
Angie Mead- melodica
Billie Jean Howard- just got there
Unknown- accidentally bumped the floor tom

Mastered by Todd Rittmann

Song of the Month

Cold Comfort

Cold Comfort

Jeff Libersher- guitar, bass, trumpet, vocals, keyboards
Thymme Jones- vocals, drums
Lyrics: Scott Rutledge

Mastered by Todd Rittmann

I am the problem
And I’ll take all your blame
For there is no one to save
Wrapped in the cold comfort
Of my shame

Rub out all the stains
And bleed

And bleed
Again

I live in the void of what remains
As I watch my dreams collapse around me

I’m reminded of what it used to feel like
Long ago is not far enough away

I am the promise
And I break just the same

Wrapped in the cold comfort
Of my shame

Rub out all the stains
And bleed
Again