​On Leap of Faith: "Alien yet familiar, bizarre yet completely fascinating. Expanding, contracting, erupting, settling down, always as one force..." - Bruce Lee Gallanter, DMG

On Metal Chaos Ensemble: "... ​using unique strategies to yield densely active and eerily surreal music, an incredible excursion through experimental improvisation."   - Squidco website staff

Evil Clown ​

Main web page urls:
     http://www.giantevilclown.com/leap-of-faith.html
     http://www.giantevilclown.com
     http://metalchaosensemble.com

See the FreeJazzBlog review of the last LOF – Abstract Structures
      http://www.freejazzblog.org/2015/06/leap-of-faith-abstract-structures-vols.html

      Streaming and downloads
      https://leapoffaith1.bandcamp.com/album/abstract-structures-volume-1-implementations
      https://leapoffaith1.bandcamp.com/album/abstract-structures-volume-2-instantiations

      YouTube!
      Set 1:  New Language Collaborative
      https://youtu.be/9fvLk1q_gGc
      https://youtu.be/KMG7w6zGhqs
      https://youtu.be/-F_gJjxp6JU

      Set 2 - Leap of Faith
      https://youtu.be/acoIFZ5wyA0

Downtown Music Gallery’s Bruce Gallanter reviews Superalloys!!!

LEAP OF FAITH [With PEK/GLYNIS LOMON/YURI ZBITNOV/ERIC ZINMAN/SYD SMART/STEVE NORTON] - Superalloys - Studio 234 - Cambridge, MA - 7 April 2015 (Evil Clown 9057; USA) Featuring PEK on saxes, clarinets, double reeds, tarogato, aquasonic, Glynis Lomon on cello, metal & voice, Steve Norton on clarinets & saxes, Eric Zinman on piano, Yuri Zbitnov on drums and Syd Smart on metal (2nd track only). This disc consists of two long (35+ minute) tracks with a quintet version of Leap of Faith on the first piece. Aside from the usual suspects (PEK, Lomon, Norton & Zbitnov), the only musician here that I know is pianist Eric Zinman who has worked with Linda Sharrock, Ted Daniel and Francois Tusques. "Thermal Creep Deformations" starts with a dense layer of percussion, cymbals and metals.  Eventually both reeds players enter on clarinets, double & singles reeds as well as piano and cello. This music is completely improvised and quite free, reminding me of the Art Ensemble of Chicago, in the organic way hat their sets unfolds and are filled with the possessed spirits of various reeds and little instruments like percussive toys or chochkes. This disc is 74+ minutes long and most compelling throughout. - Bruce Lee Gallanter


Coming Soon:
     Metal Chaos Ensemble adds Electronics to the bag…


Sparkles proudly announces Evil Clown's 100th and 101st Releases!!!

     Leap of Faith - If and Only If - Neccesary and Sufficient Conditions
                                    Recorded live at the Lily Pad in Cambridge on 16 June 2015!!!

Check it out on the new Evil Clown Web page at http://www.giantevilclown.com/lof-if-and-only-if.html

Streaming, Downloads, and CD mail order at
     https://leapoffaith1.bandcamp.com/album/if-and-only-if-neccesary-and-sufficient-conditions-volume-i
and
     https://leapoffaith1.bandcamp.com/album/if-and-only-if-neccesary-and-sufficient-conditions-volume-ii

Evil Clown Newsletter 6/23/2015