ONE LP, EIGHT CDs & ONE 45 FROM MARGARET EXPLOSION
MARGARET EXPLOSION CD – FIELD RECORDINGS
Margaret Explosion “Field Recordings” song titles include: Improvisations recorded live in stereo at little theatre café in Rochester New York
01. CLOUD LIBRARY – 02.07.24_08 Peggi Fournier – soprano sax, Phil Marshall – guitar, Melissa Davies – cello, Ken Frank – double bass, Paul Dodd – drums
02. HELLO ERIC – 04.13.22_11 Peggi Fournier – soprano sax, Jack Schaefer – guitar, Ken Frank – double bass, Paul Dodd – drums
03. FELICITY – 10.04.23_03 Peggi Fournier – soprano sax, Jack Schaefer – bass clarinet, Phil Marshall – guitar, Ken Frank – double bass, Paul Dodd – drums
04. SPANISH EYES – 04.13.22_09 Peggi Fournier – soprano sax, Jack Schaefer – guitar, Ken Frank – double bass, Paul Dodd – drums
05. MIDNIGHT CAPER – 01.17.24_11 Peggi Fournier – soprano sax, Jack Schaefer – bass clarinet, Melissa Davies – cello, Ken Frank – double bass, Paul Dodd – drums
06. FIELD RECORDING – 10.19.22_08 Peggi Fournier – soprano sax, Phil Marshall – guitar, Melissa Davies – cello, Ken Frank – double bass, Paul Dodd – drums
07. RADIANT – 02.07.24_13 Peggi Fournier – soprano sax, Phil Marshall – guitar, Melissa Davies – cello, Ken Frank – double bass, Paul Dodd – drums
08. SLEEPWALK – 11.23.22_05 Peggi Fournier – soprano sax, Phil Marshall – guitar, Melissa Davies – cello, Ken Frank – double bass, Paul Dodd – drums
09. BENEDICTION – 10.04.23_11 Peggi Fournier – soprano sax, Jack Schaefer – bass clarinet, Phil Marshall – guitar, Ken Frank – double bass, Paul Dodd – drums
10. INVOCATION – 04.27.22_04 Peggi Fournier – soprano sax, Phil Marshall – guitar, Ken Frank – double bass, Paul Dodd – drums
11. SLOW DANCE – 11.23.22_05 Peggi Fournier – soprano sax, Phil Marshall – guitar, Melissa Davies – cello, Ken Frank – double bass, Paul Dodd – drums
12. RODEO – 08.23.23_13 Peggi Fournier – soprano sax, Phil Marshall – guitar, Ken Frank – double bass, Paul Dodd – drums
13. SOBREMESA – 10.04.23_12 Peggi Fournier – soprano sax, Jack Schaefer – bass clarinet, Phil Marshall – guitar, Ken Frank – double bass, Paul Dodd – drums
14. ECSTASY CLUB – 10.04.23_07 Peggi Fournier – soprano sax, Jack Schaefer – bass clarinet, Phil Marshall – guitar, Ken Frank – double bass, Paul Dodd – drums
15. BRIEF BLUES – 01.17.24_04 Peggi Fournier – soprano sax, Jack Schaefer – guitar, Melissa Davies – cello, Ken Frank – double bass, Paul Dodd – drums
16. VAGABOND – 10.04.23_01 Peggi Fournier – soprano sax, Jack Schaefer – bass clarinet, Phil Marshall – guitar, Ken Frank – double bass, Paul Dodd – drums
17. NORTH COUNTRY – 11.22.23_10 Peggi Fournier – digital sax, Phil Marshall – guitar, Melissa Davies – cello, Ken Frank – double bass, Paul Dodd – drums
Margaret Explosion “Per La Prima!” song titles include:
a side 1. DISAPPEAR (Dodd, Fournier, Frank, Martin, Schaefer) Peggi Fournier – soprano sax, Jack Schaefer – tenor sax, Bob Martin – guitar, Ken Frank – double bass, Paul Dodd – drums
2. ROSARY (Dodd, Fournier, Frank, LaBonne, Marshall) Pete LaBonne – piano, Peggi Fournier – soprano sax, Phil Marshall – guitar, Ken Frank – double bass, Paul Dodd – drums
3. DAYDREAM (Dodd, Fournier, Frank, Marshall, Martin) Peggi Fournier – soprano sax, Phil Marshall – guitar, Bob Martin – guitar, Ken Frank – double bass, Paul Dodd – drums
b side 1. PUNGI PIE (Davies, Dodd, Fournier, Frank, Marshall) Peggi Fournier – soprano sax, Phil Marshall – guitar, Melissa Davies – cello, Ken Frank – double bass, Paul Dodd – drums
2. CLOUDS TO PART (Dodd, Fournier, Frank, Marshall) Peggi Fournier – soprano sax, Phil Marshall – guitar, Ken Frank – double bass, Paul Dodd – drums
3. YARD BARD (Dodd, Fournier, Frank, Schaefer) Jack Schaefer – bass clarinet, Peggi Fournier – soprano sax, Ken Frank – double bass, Paul Dodd – drums
4. EDGE OF TOWN (Davies, Dodd, Frank, Fournier, Schaefer) Jack Schaefer – guitar, Peggi Fournier – soprano sax, Melissa Davies – cello, Ken Frank – double bass, Paul Dodd – drums
All songs performed live (per la prima) at the Little Theatre Café in Rochester, New York Post production by Arpad Sekeres Earring Records EAR18 2023 All Rights Reserved
Margaret Explosion “Civilization” song titles include:
1. En Plein Air 5:22 2. High Life 4:21 3. Let’s Do That Again 5:38 4. Big Bass Bounce 6:04 5. Descending a Staircase 5:11 6. Possibility 4:31 7. Bar Car 5:21 8. Super Eight 5:33 9. Seventeen 3:33 10. Tonic Party 8:01 11. Speak Easy 6:11 12. Patron Saint 5:27
Peggi Fournier – Soprano Sax Bob Martin – Guitars/Pedals Pete Labonne – Piano, Synth, Guitar; Ken Frank – Upright and Electric bass Paul Dodd – Drums; Jack Schaefer – Bass Clarinet on Big Bass Bounce
This cd is sold out. The songs are available here as free downloads.
Margaret Explosion “Disappear” song titles include: 1. Contemplation 5:55 2. Fisterra 5:46 3. When We Were Young 6:21 4. Journeyman 5:38 5. Fertile Crescent Moon 5:54 6. Happy Mobiling 7:06 7. Girls With Balloons 4:46 8. Dump Truck 5:54 9. Fallopian 6:04 10. Dreamland 5:58 12. Sugar Salt 5:39
Margaret Explosion is Peggi Fournier – Soprano Sax Bob Martin – Guitar Ken Frank – Upright Bass Jack Schaefer – Bass Clarinet PeteLaBonne – Grand Piano Paul Dodd – Drums
Margaret Explosion “Live Dive” song titles include: 1. Lakeshore Boulevard 7:03 2. Five Star Surf 5:39 3. Live Dive 6:12 4. Lyell Avenue 5:15 5. Forever Wild 4:27 6. Rain Dance 7:18 7. Beautiful Iraq 6:19 8. Super Slinky 6:37 9. Into the Dream 6:30 10. Hyperlinks 6:19 11. Sleep Michael Jackson 6:50
Margaret Explosion is Peggi Fournier – saxophone; Bob Martin – guitar; Ken Frank – bass; Paul Dodd – drums;
Pete LaBonne plays piano on Five Star Surf and Super Slinky Jack Schaefer plays guitar on Lyell Avenue and Super Slinky Phil Marshall plays guitar on Rain Dance Charles Jaffe plays piano on Forever Wild
Margaret Explosion “1969” song titles include: 1. Galicia 6:27 2. Tip Toe 3:38 3. Drop Out 3:29 4. New Gait 5:24 5. Lullaby 3:22 6. Excuse Me 3:46 7. Stretched Out 4:29 8. Assembly Line 6:12 9. Rewind 1:30 10. 1969 8:53 11. Don’t Wake Me 4:25 12. Greg Sings 5:53
“1969” is an organic exploration of wide open sonic landscapes. Recorded live to four tracks at Studio 55, the sax, guitar, drums and bass lineup seeks to recapture that period that zoomed by when rock met jazz. The Margaret Explosion lineup includes three former members of Personal Effects and the new cd includes an instrumental of “Don’t Wake Me” from Personal Effects’ 1983 debut album.
Outtake from “Happy Hour “featuring Phil Marshall on guitar
Margaret Explosion is Peggi Fournier – sax Greg Slack – bass on all tracks and guitar on Peggy Lee, Paul Dodd – hand drums/percussion Michael Rizzo – drum kit Pete LaBonne – Yamaha electronic piano and Farfisa organ Jack Schaefer plays guitar on Floating at the Bug Jar, guitar and cello on Kronos and clarinet and bass clarinet on N.O. Shuffle Bob Martin plays guitar on Eco Tourist, Tunisia and Melancholy Drift. Phil Marshall plays guitar on Cowboy and Train Scott “Fex” Smith plays trumpet on Funky Clave, Jungle Extraordinaire and N.O. Shuffle
Invisible Idiot is actually the original Margaret Explosion and this is the first cd. It was recorded and released while a new Margaret Explosion lineup was performing around town.
Invisible Idiot song titles include: 1. son of telly savalis
2. kudzoo 3. slinky 4. pimientos de padron 5. suitcase of beer 6. sparky’s shed 7. mega lounge 8. abstract express 9. millions of brazilians 10. harmonium continuum 11. coconut 12. knight shifter 13. pipedreams 14. beach fires 15. jujubee 16. as is 17. jack lord 18. lava lamp 19. spit
Invisible Idiot is: Peggi Fournier -sax Jack Schaefer – guitar, bass clarinet, cello, tenor sax, flute, piano, glockenspiel, field tapes Pete LaBonne – bass Paul Dodd- percussion Shelley Valachovic – shakers, dancing
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Here are six songs from Sunday’s Little Theatre performance Peggi Fournier plays soprano sax, Phil Marshall plays guitar, Ken Frank plays the double bass, Melissa Davies plays cello, Paul Dodd plays drums.
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