Metal Chaos Ensemble The Nameless City by PEK (CEO of Evil Clown)

The Nameless City - 1:10:14

Evil Clown 9226
Evil Clown Headquarters - Waltham MA
29 August 2019

- PEK - clarinet & contralto clarinet, alto & tenor saxophones, mussette, game calls, wood flute, gongs, tank & brontosaurus bells, glockenspiel, mallet kat/moog subsequent, orchestral chimes, [d]ronin, wind siren, recitation, ableton mix
- Bob Moores - piccolo trumpet, guitar, synthesizer, signal processing
- Eric Woods - analog synth, gong, englephone - Mike Gruen - electric bass - Yuri Zbitnov - drums, englephone, orchestral chimes, tank & bronosaurus bells, Tibetan bells, [d]ronin, recitation
- Joel Simches - live to 2 track mix, real time signal processing
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YouTube:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehavieAZtpk
Evil Clown Facebook site:
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Evil Clown album page:
www.evilclown.rocks/mce-the-nameless-city.html
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Liner Notes by PEK:
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Metal Chaos Ensemble was formed in early 2015 by PEK and Yuri Zbitnov as a working project to explore chaotic rhythms on metallic instruments. I had started to amass the Evil Clown Arsenal of percussion, electronic and wind instruments and we needed a workshop to develop this universe of sounds for the Leap of Faith Orchestra. It was immediately obvious that Metal Chaos Ensemble had a sound to itself and over the last three years has been one of the most prolific Evil Clown ensembles. We have produced a bunch of albums covering a wide range of sonority sets, but always with the presence of Gongs, chimes, glockenspiel, Tibetan Bowls and many other metallic sounds and the horns of PEK. All Metal Chaos Ensemble sessions include at least myself and Yuri, along with a whole bunch of different guests.
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MCE has always contained more rock elements that the other Evil Clown projects. This aspect of the project has really come into focus in the sessions over the last year or two. Last May we did three rapid fire sets in 8 days with two different groove-oriented lineups. These sessions are some of the most groove-heavy sets yet, due to the driving bass of newcomer Mike Gruen on Azoth and Basilisk, and the incredible djembe of Moouse Traore on Reverberatory Furnace.
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This current set is the trio with Mike Gruen plus the modular analog synth of MCE regular Eric Woods and trumpet, guitar and synth from our pal Bob Moores. We now LIVE STREAM to YouTube all of the Evil Clown Headquarters recording sessions. With the help of Joel Simchez at the audio mixing console and Raffi at the video mixing console, we’re pushing a real quality 5 channel Stream!
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These more groove-oriented sessions are new ground for us. The solid contribution of Mike at the bass chair is really bringing us in a new direction. Make sure you check it out! Not to do so would be a serious mistake.