Celebrating the release of my first solo recording for Loyal Label, I will be playing music from the new CD at Cornelia Street Café for the Festival Of New Trumpet Music, Thurs. Sept. 18th at 9:30
with help from the electronic-acoustic duo "Opsvik & Jennings".

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Up the Turret Mil Band

Rich Johnson - trumpet, laptop
Aaron Jennings - guitar
Eivind Opsvik - bass

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Up the Turret Mil
out now on Loyal Label

“Up the Turret Mil” explores a mix of trumpets, guitars, and pianos combined with laptop glitch, sampling, and musique concrète. Many of the songs began as experiments with laptop and electronic-acoustic treatments on the trumpet and bridge Johnson’s many influences – from free jazz to folk music.

Available here -

eMusic

CDBaby

Reviews:

Toxicpete.co.uk:

"'Up The Turret Mill', I suppose, could be likened to Terry Riley meets Stockhausen; take the more melodic, trance-like Riley and shake in some of Karlheinz's angular and spiky outpourings and you'll start to get a little closer to where Rich Johnson is going... His music has a feeling of intelligence from an intuitive perspective - it's as if the inner, slightly more introspective musician is vying with the outer, extroverted techno-wizard... 'Up The Turret Mil' by Rich Johnson is experimentation with heart and soul - there is a point to this work and there is an end product - if you can get your head aligned with Rich Johnson's oscillating musical world you might just find that heart and soul for yourself and be able to drink in its unique and quite intoxicating elixir - you might just find the gold in the potion..."