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Mike Pride’s From Bacteria To Boys
From his adopted home of New York, percussionist composer Mike Pride has backed Anthony Braxton, MDC and Boredoms and has collaborated with Jamie Saft, Peter Evans and many others. Here with his From Bacteria To Boys project, which includes Jon Irabagon (alto & tenor saxophone), Alexis Marcelo (piano & synthesizer), Peter Bitenc (doublebass) and Mike Pride (drums, percussion & compositions), the same line up from his 2013 album Birthing Days released by Aum Fidelity.
Le trio Paul Cram, Clinton Ryder & Pierre Tanguay
PAUL CRAM TRIO was born in 1981 with the release of Paul Cram’s Juno nominated LP Blue Tales in Time before touring Canada and Montreal and Toronto extensively for several years during the eighties. Original members were Lisle Ellis/bass and Gregg Simpson/drums. Current reincarnations draw primarily from Cram’s compositions up til now.
Paul Cram – tenor saxophone/clarinet
has a career that spans over forty years mostly in Canada. Originally from Vancouver he spent his formative years playing in R&B bands and burlesque houses before studying composition with Elliot Weisgarber at UBC and jazz great Sam Rivers at Banff. He co-founded the New Orchestra Workshop, a improvising orchestra before he moved to Toronto and toured extensively with nominations for Juno Awards for Best Jazz Album. He settled in Nova Scotia and co-founded UpStream Music Association an organization that produces cutting-edge collaborations in Halifax of local, national and international artists. He has worked with Barry Guy, Julius Hemphill, Peter Lieberson, Alain Trudel, Matt Brubeck, Lori Freedman and Han Bennink to name a few. His CD “Campin Out” on Victo Records with the Paul Cram Orchestra was released to rave reviews and nominated for National Jazz Awards before performing at the prestigious Jazz em Agosto Festival in Lisbon, Portugal in 2004 before releasing “Live in Lisbon” on Montreal’s Ombu Records. He is also an award-winning film composer and sound designer . He has also been commissioned to write concert music for Bradyworks, New Orchestra Workshop, Hemispheres and Symphony Nova Scotia. Currently, he is Artistic Director of Halifax’s Open Waters Festival while performing with the 18-piece UpStream Orchestra, various PC configurations, A Love Upstream and the blues with The Spokes!!
Clinton Ryder – contrabass
For years Clinton Ryder has been present in the world of Canadian music. With over 20 album credits, he has worked with musicians of all genres and generations. He is currently working with Montréal and Toronto ensembles Lieuxdits (Isaiah Ceccarelli), Félix Stussi’s 5, Dream Algebra (Rainer Wiens), Steppe (with Alexandre Grogg and Isaiah Ceccarelli), The Tania Gill Quartet and Pierre Labbé. He has led his own group Nord Perdu since 2008.
Pierre Tanguay – drums
A percussionist, composer and inveterate inventor, Pierre Tanguay’s music shows the wide range of his experience in ancient and contemporary music, jazz, and music for dance, theatre and cinema. Born in Quebec City in 1957, he has devoted himself to music full-time since 1978.??He plays with some twenty established groups, such as Dangereux Zhoms, Évidence, Castor et compagnie and Karen Young, and is the founder of Strada, Midi Tapant and Derome Tanguay Danse. He has produced five albums and collaborated closely on some fifty others, and has more than twenty compositions for dance (Lucie Grégoire, Andrew Harwood, Irène Stamou and Francine Gagné) and a number for theatre and film (Allan Booth, Imago and Roberto Ariganello) to his credit. He regularly tours throughout Canada and Europe.
