Freeing Form, by The Stratos Ensemble

Freeing Form

by The Stratos Ensemble

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THE STRATOS ENSEMBLE'S FREEING FORM
This latest LP by the Stratos Ensemble, entitled Freeing Form, is more versatile than any of the band’s previous releases. It covers a selection of work from 2013-2023, focusing mainly on the last two years of material performed by the band’s most current lineup of players. Various vocal elements are also introduced, a development following the arrival of a lead singer, Nichole Michelle Jones, in 2022. The music of Freeing Form, much like the rest of the Stratos Ensemble’s work, began as complete improvisations tracked at various studios. Later, De Benedictis mixed and edited these recordings to make them sound more like a production, supplementing the esoteric audio abandon typically associated with improvised music recordings.

The title of Freeing Form is a play-on-words to the term free-form and is a comment on the world of free and improvised music. One of the ideas it intends to suggest is that true freedom comes in many forms, even binding ones, and can be thought of in that way rather than always being considered a product of uncompromising will or whim.

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released April 12, 2024

Except where indicated otherwise, the band's main line-up consists of:

Coco Roussel — drums, drum pads, additional synth
Robert Gross — bass
TJ Sammut — guitar
Dean De Benedictis — piano, synths, samplers, processing, melodica, secondary vocals
Nichole Michelle Jones — vocals, improv lyrics
Shaunte Palmer — trombone

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The Stratos Ensemble Los Angeles, California

THE STRATOS ENSEMBLE is a band and music project that has been expanding the margins between ambient electronic soundscapes and improvised jazz sensibilities officially since 2004. It is lead by producer Dean De Benedictis, originally a fusion keyboardist who is known as electronic musician Surface 10. ... more