ARTIST: MRT (Marcus Cummins, Reuben Maher, Tony Maimone)
TITLE: MRT
LABEL: AM800
CAT. NO: MRT001
FORMAT: LP / ALBUM / 12’’
GENRE: AVANT-GARDE JAZZ / EXPERIMENTAL / INSTRUMENTAL
FEATURES: FULL COLOUR SLEEVE
RELEASE DATE: OUT NOW

One night Reuben Maher and Tony Maimone were sitting in a Brooklyn bar called Troost watching Marcus Cummins play solo soprano sax accompanied by one of those wind up toys that is a monkey playing cymbals.

Several weeks later the trio met at Studio G Brooklyn and recorded several hours of improvised music. There were no overdubs. Mixes were done quickly and without much editing.

Tony (Pere Ubu) plays an old EML synthesizer which goes from pastoral clouds to industrial wreckage.Occasionally slide bass slinks through these mixes as well as a 70’s RMI electric piano playing ambient chords that cycle around and around.

Reuben Maher (FCAC) plays acid drenched psychedelic Fender Jazzmaster through pedals and loopers and two Fender Princetons, add to that Moog and Roland synthesizers all live.

Throughout this weaves Marcus playing soprano,and alto saxophones sometimes individually sometime together ala Rahsaan Roland Kirk.

The music veers from post industrial heavy electronics with doomsday guitar punctuated with free jazz like woodwinds to ambient drone surf guitar found sound collage and back again.