For The People Of The Open Heart, by Steve Swell / Mark Tokar / Klaus Kugel

For The People Of The Open Heart

by Steve Swell / Mark Tokar / Klaus Kugel

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This music

It rolls uphill, startling
Cutting a searing presence
Swirling through the thickets of
an untrodden wilderness

It surprises astonishes amazes bewilders overwhelms

It moves moves moves

It ignores gravity

Compelling shapes take your hand
Coiled snakes vigorously modify expectations

Imposing images unearth
a panoramic awareness

Fierce tsunamis churn in all directions
Pressing sweeping urging baffling shoving

Its honesty delivers a yellow hibiscus to the gut
Blue alliums paste patterns of joy wonder triumph love awe
to cranium walls

Its intimidating confidence feeds the human rhizome

A known fact

Dull benign sheep flee
open hearts open minds open eyes

A good cry acknowledges the sweetness is real
Marveling at its remaining with you
Its echo jabs your memory

Having left nothing on the table

Steve Swell, August 4, 2022

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1.	Let It Grow 11:11	buy track
2.	Clarion Encounter 06:07	buy track
3.	Tone Detective 06:35	buy track
4.	Child's Play 05:54	buy track
5.	Found Poetry 05:11	buy track
6.	Other Worlds 07:37	buy track
7.	For The People Of The Open Heart 06:08	buy track
8.	The Ongoing 05:24	buy track
9.	FIssures of De-Light 05:03	buy track

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Three masters in their respective instrumental fields. Wybithy trombonist Steve Swell, one of Germany's most active percussionists Klaus Kugel and Mark Tokar, a Ukrainian double bassist who swapped his double bass for a rifle for the duration of the war with Russia.
They are not a working band, but when they stand on stage together you get the feeling that they have been playing together forever and understand each other in half a word and create music of great power and momentum.
All the music was recorded at the Evinger Schloss in Dortmund, Germany.

credits

released July 7, 2023

Steve Swell - trombone, flute
Mark Tokar - double bass
Klaus Kugel - drums

1. Let It Grow (11:13)
2. Clarion Encounter (06:07)
3. Tone Detective (06:35)
4. Child’s Play (05:54)
5. Found Poetry (05:12)
6. Other Worlds (07:38)
7. For The People Of The Open Heart (06:09)
8. The Ongoing (05:24)
9. Fissures Of De-Light (05:04)

Total Time: 59:20

"Child’s Play" by Steve Swell (Steve Swell Music-BMI); all other compositions by Steve Swell, Mark Tokar and Klaus Kugel (GEMA)
Poetry by Steve Swell
Recorded by Klaus Kugel 21 of February 2020 in Evinger Schloss, Dortmund, Germany
Mixed and mastered by Rafał Drewniany [www.dtsstudio.pl]
Contact: www.swell.tokar.kugel-trio.com
Many thanks to Hans Schreiber / MUSIC information and documentation center RUHR
Photos: Rafał Pawłowski (Steve Swell), Oleg Nitsko (Mark Tokar), Barka Fabianova (Klaus Kugel)
Graphic Design: SEMAFOR
Executive Producer: Maciej Karlowski

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