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Peter Kerlin is a composer, musician, occasional video maker and teacher from Brooklyn. His band, Peter Kerlin Octet's album, Salamander was released on Innova Recordings in Nov 2013, and was featured on WNYC’s New Sounds. Host John Schaefer called it ”ambitious.” He is the bass player of Solar Motel Band, led by Chris Forsyth, of which John Mulvey of Uncut wrote, "I am struggling to think of a band I’d like to see more right now.” With Christy & Emily (KLANGBAD, The Social Registry) Kerlin has toured extensively in Europe and recorded their album Tic-Tac-Toe, with Hans-Joachim Irmler (Faust); Kerlin’s trio, Source of Yellow, whose release The Said (Twin Lakes Records, 2012) garnered praise around the web; and Chris Forsyth’s Paranoid Cat Band, whose LP, Paranoid Cat (Family Vineyard, 2011) Kerlin engineered. Kerlin’s 2010 album, Snake Eats Electric Blanket, featured an outstanding lineup of intrepid musicians: Chris Forsyth, Mike Pride, Nate Wooley, Emily Manzo, and Chris Peck. Kerlin is a member of the experimental electro-acoustic band, Christmas Decorations (Wodger), with whom he has recorded four albums since 2006. He was a longtime member of The Holy Childhood, touring extensively throughout the US from 2000 to 2003. In their LP, Up With What I’m Down With, Greil Marcus described “a cracked vision in this sprawling music.” Kerlin played on Ted Leo’s seminal 2001 album, Tyranny of Distance, which Pitchfork called “one of the best pop albums of the year.” Kerlin worked with pianist Emily Manzo creating the soundtrack for the feature film The Rooms (2010), by Paul Rowly and Tim Blue, which showed internationally and was subsequently purchased by The Centre Pompidou. Kerlin’s short film Cenozoan Warp (2011) was shown in a three night run at Henry Street Settlement as part of Catch 45. His collaborative video with his wife, Anna Sperber, Between Scans (2008), was featured in em>
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Peter Kerlin Octet: Salamander
by Claudio Bonomi
Ormai la legge del crossover o della commistione tra generi regna sovrana. Se al jazz, ma la regola vale per qualsiasi genere, non si sommano almeno un paio di ritmi e sonorità presi da qualche altra fonte musicale si è decisamente fuori moda. A questa legge non sfugge nemmeno questo ottetto americano capitanato da Peter Kerlin, bassista e compositore di Brooklyn. Le cinque bass driven compositions (il collettivo, oltre a Kerlin, allinea altri due bassisti elettrici e due ...
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by Karl Ackermann
Brooklyn continues to build on its reputation as a breeding ground for some of the finest modern jazz in the Northeast. Bassist Peter Kerlin adds to that distinction with Salamander, an octet powered collection with a very unique structure that includes three basses, double vibraphones and a string trio. Kerlin is no stranger to the unusual having played with the genre defying group Source of Yellow and cutting edge trumpeter Nate Wooley. In contrast to those outings as a side ...
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by Glenn Astarita
With an unconventional group setting, initial impressions might suggest chamber-jazz of some flavor, but Brooklyn bassist Peter Kerlin's debut effort as a leader is framed on several tangents of classical and jazz. And the young musicians impart aspirations and ingenuity, often intimating the outcomes of a thirst for knowledge and unhindered commitment. Here, the band abides by an unhurried stride as Kerlin's unique and enlivening compositions honor the modern jazz and nouveau chamber strata. But these pieces also contain doses ...
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All About Jazz members are invited to enter the Innova Recordings Peter Kerlin Octet - Salamander giveaway contest starting today. We'll select FIVE winners at the conclusion of the contest on February 18th. Click here to enter the contest (Becoming a fan of Peter Kerlin at AAJ automatically enters you in the contest.) Good luck! Your Friends at Innova Recordings About Salamander Pieces morph and shift all the while retaining hypnotic core elements. Salamander is a non-conventional and intriguing album ...
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