Echoes of the Ancestors, by Phil Schurger

Echoes of the Ancestors

by Phil Schurger

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1.	Lucid (soma) 12:09	buy track
2.	Scribe of Sanskara 08:21	buy track
3.	Gemini 09:38	buy track
4.	Air of the Forest 11:56	buy track
5.	Orisha 11:27	buy track
6.	the Tower 09:38	buy track

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Phil Schurger - guitar/compositions
Greg Ward - alto sax
Jeff Greene - bass
Clif Wallace - drums

Releasing Phil’s music is an honor and we’re incredibly lucky to work with a musician/composer who’s in more in touch with these songs and the inner workings of every aspect of them than ever before. He’s one of the most musically conscious artists we’ve worked with. The depth in which he connects with his bandmates, the audience at live shows, our conversations leading up to this release, as well as his literature writing, has been an adventure.

On a side note, he also wrote the pristine liner notes for Matthew Golombisky’s Cuentos release coming out Sept 1. This entire album, Echoes of the Ancestors, works on a whole, interweaving the themes of each so that each has a specific reason for existing. There’s nothing happen-chance here compositionally, though he allows the personalities of the Chicago-based band express themselves freely and openly as to interweave other aspects of the universe in which he finds himself in.

The energy that alto saxist Greg Ward and Schurger create during the complex, rapid-fire and often chromatic melodies is intense, especially when either of them blast off into their individual solos. It’s chilling. And the support that would be needed to keep the energy on the level they are dishing out is catapulted further by the solid and confident rhythm section of bassist Jeff Greene and drummer Clif Wallace. The “brothership” of the group goes deep. Ward and Greene have been playing in each other’s groups, blink. and Fitted Shards for more than 10 years and have multiple records together, on labels such as Thirsty Ear, ears&eyes, Whistler, and Nineteen Eight.

To get an even further idea of his thoughts on music, and only if you have a few extra hours lying around, check out his “articles” section on his website, most notably, “Emptiness and the Practice of Non-identification” and “Application of the Elementals in Performance: A Meditative Path to Captivating the Room” But first, start here, below, where Phil takes the lead on describing this album.

“The music presented on Echoes of the Ancestors is the expression of a dynamic journey through ten years of meditative and musical process. He has honed his skills as a composer in order to effortlessly act as a conduit of force and form, oscillating sounds up from the Emptiness of mind. Through meditation, he awakens the sensitivity of intuition, and navigates the tides of consciousness, catching compositions as they arise in the currents of thought. It is a conscious-intuitive act of retrieving sounds and images of nature and culture, and uniquely sculpting them through an inner-alchemical process. Any object held in the mind can become a musical entity as Schurger becomes attuned with the sounds emanating from the stream of Mind, transfixed by the rising sounds."

credits

released September 22, 2017

Recorded at I.V. Labs by Shane Henderickson in Chicago IL USA
Mixed and mastered by Mark Everetts in Ft. Wayne IN USA
Album layout/design by Rocio Galarza in Buenos Aires, Argentina

Website: philschurger.com
BandCamp: philschurger.bandcamp.com
FaceBook: facebook.com/philschurgermusic
Instagram: instagram.com/schurger_genrebender
SoundCloud: soundcloud.com/philschurger

Releases on Chicago-based independent label, ears&eyes Records, on September 22nd 2017.

ears&eyes Records: www.earsandeyesrecords.com, earsandeyesrecords.bandcamp.com, twitter.com/earseyesRecords, soundcloud.com/earseyesrecords, facebook.com/earsandeyesrecords, instagram.com/earsandeyesrecords

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The music Phil Schurger presents on Echoes of the Ancestors is the expression of a dynamic journey through ten years of meditative and musical process.

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