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Space Whale Orchestra

The Space Whale Orchestra is an improvisational chamber music ensemble sown and grown in Philadelphia, PA.

Drawn together over a love of collective improvisation and sonic experimentation, the group continues to explore the borders of music and the meaning of freedom, always striving to keep their sound new and evolving.

Current core members include Erica Corbo: piano;Steve Davit: saxes; Connor Przybyszewski: trombone; Mick Ricereto: Clarinets.

Other collaborators include Dan Moser: bass; Kyle Press: alto sax, bari sax, throat singing.

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Space Whale Orchestra: Born into Beauty

Read "Born into Beauty" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian


The Philadelphia based Space Whale Orchestra is a collaborative improvisational quartet that has been successfully forging a singular style. Led by keyboardist Erica Corbo, the group's Born Into Beauty goes beyond conceptual cohesiveness—it is, in fact, a single, spontaneously created, 17-part suite. The band members perform this stimulating, genre defying work with sensitivity and panache. On the opening title track, trombonist Connor Przybyszewski sets a tense and introspective mood with reverberating vamps. As saxophonist Steve Davit and clarinetist ...

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Born into Beauty

Self Produced
2021

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09.02.15

Self Produced
2016

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SWO Live at Eris...

Self Produced
2014

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New World...

Self Produced
2014

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From: Born into Beauty
By Space Whale Orchestra

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