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    Artist: Thomas Buckner

    Label: Mutable Music

    Solo, duos and quartet: Thomas Buckner, voice; David Darling, cello (track 2); Borah Bergman, piano (track 3); Earl Howard, electronics (track 4); Gustavo Aguilar, percussion (track 4); Wu Man, pipa (track 4).

    For more than 30 years, baritone Thomas Buckner has dedicated himself to the world of new and improvised music. As a performer, producer, and promoter, Buckner has enabled the creation of an extensive body of new works by some of the world's leading, most exciting and most challenging composers. Currently, Buckner works regularly with composers Robert Ashley, Roscoe Mitchell, Alvin Lucier, Annea Lockwood, Bun-Ching Lam, Jerome Cooper, David Wessel, Tom Hamilton, Leroy Jenkins, Phill Niblock, Wadada Leo Smith, among others. More than 70 composers have written works exclusively for him over the last 20 years. Buckner has been featured on over 40 recordings, including 5 of his own solo albums as well as recordings by Annea Lockwood, Sorrel Hays, Alvin Lucier, the Deep Listening Band, Jin Hi Kim, Roscoe Mitchell, Muhal Richard Abrams and many others.

    "I first played with Borah Bergman as a guest on his album with Roscoe Mitchell…. Borah is a true original, with a formidable technique and a fierce dedication to improvised music." -Thomas Buckner.