Working on a Building: Collected Solos 2002-2021

by Ellwood Epps

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	1.	Copper Harmon Song 05:01
	2.	Fontana Mix 07:27
	3.	Flames 04:11
	4.	the opening of the field (for John Heward) 04:04
	5.	butoh (for Katelyn Clark) 05:09
	6.	souchong/elora salem (for Catherine Chan) 15:13
	7.	Xarah (dawn) 08:46
	8.	ghost dance (for Pierre-Yves Martel) 02:07
	9.	beautiful enemy of my soul's peace 04:14
	10.	Monk's Mood 04:30
	11.	essense 04:03
	12.	doing 04:01
	13.	doubt 04:05
	14.	souchong, elora salem 02:19
	15.	burning delusion 04:08
	16.	The Crust 03:29
	17.	remembering, abiding, ascending and descending light 10:33
	18.	sorrow 04:28
	19.	inviolata 02:35
	20.	intention, stillness 04:55
	21.	Chase to the Cut 01:57
	22.	Touch 02:14
	23.	Tongue Whim 03:15
	24.	Follow Three Into Yellow 03:24
	25.	Bronze Thorax Matriculate 04:16
	26.	Struggling in Magic 05:08
	27.	Into Cold Mountain (for David Mott) 07:25
	28.	this his is s 04:20
	29.	Mindside Out 03:37
	30.	(Un)wrought 03:12
	31.	Signal Change (for Cornel West) 01:27
	32.	What or How 03:57
	33.	Column 03:33
	34.	White Pine is Ready, White Pine is Bending 03:02
	35.	Ravel 02:32
	36.	Sparking Edges 03:44
	37.	Changes 09:28
	38.	A Study in This 03:16
	39.	Working on a Building 03:24
	40.	Alight 01:05

about

Here are the four solo albums that I have made so far. And one more album's worth of music, drawn from the same recording sessions that produced 'Follow Three Into Yellow'. Music from 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2008 and 2021. Made in Guelph Ontario, Banff Alberta, and Montreal, in a living room, an art gallery, an arts centre in the mountains, inside a cold silo in the pitch black, and in a good recording studio. Almost all of the music was as improvised as possible, and even the pieces by others were also improvised.

I hope that this ongoing work can let in some light and air, and suggest some ways that the trumpet might be used for making its own music.

credits

released November 3, 2022

Recording Information:
Track 1 recorded at home in Guelph Ontario, January 2004
Track 2 recorded in performance at the MacDonal-Stewart Art Centre in Guelph Ontario, circa 2003
Track 3 recorded at home in Guelph Ontario, winter 2002
Tracks 4-10 recorded at the Banff Centre for the Arts by Michaela Wiesbeck and Celine Grangey in June 2005
Tracks 11-20 recorded inside silo #5, Old Port of Montreal, by Emmanuel Maddan in fall of 2008
Tracks 21-40 recorded at Hotel2Tango by Shae Brossard, Montréal July 11 & 12 2021

All pieces composed by Ellwood Epps except:
'Fontana Mix' by John Cage
'Monk's Mood' by Thelonious Monk
'The Crust' by Steve Lacy

Photo by Ellwood Epps

This is Mr. E Records #27