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refuge trio
refuge trio

TheoBleckmann [voice, live electronics]
John Hollenbeck [drums, percussion, crotales]
Gary Versace [piano, keyboard, accordeon]
Winter & Winter 910 149-2 [1 CD]
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"…a continuous chain of artistic jewels."
Five Points (out of five)
- Concerto, Germany
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Twelve songs by Charles Ives
Theo Bleckmann+KNEEBODY

Ben Wendel [tenor saxophone, bassoon, melodica]
Adam Benjamin [piano, Fender Rhodes]
Shane Endsley [trumpet, percussion]
Kaveh Rastegar [electric and acoustic bass]
Nate Wood [drums, guitar]
Theo Bleckmann [voice, live electronics]
Winter & Winter 910 147-2 [1 CD]
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“This is one of the best new music releases of the year – an impressive feat, given that these are century-old songs.  But by staying faithful to Ives’s spirit of experimentation, Theo Bleckmann and Kneebody have made these songs new again.” 
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John Schaefer-Host of New Sounds & Souncheck, WNYC
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Berlin
- songs of love and war, peace and exile
Theo Bleckmann and Fumio Yasuda

Theo Bleckmann [vocals/arrangements]
Fumio Yasuda [arrangements and piano]
Todd Reynolds String Quartet
Winter&Winter 910 138-2
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Somehow, the experience is completely thrilling and intense […] The message is clear; I could listen for hours without needing to know a single word."
- Democrat and Chronicle
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at night
Theo Bleckmann and Ben Monder

Theo Bleckmann [voice, live electronics]
Ben Monder [guitar]
with Satoshi Takeishi [drums, sampler]

Songlines Recordings SGL 1561-2
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"Two travelers on life's journey to perform an offering to the stars, to the universe, to all, to the night."
- Phil DiPietro, AllaboutJazz.com

Downbeat Magazine:
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Las Vegas Rhapsody
The night they invented champagne

Theo Bleckmann [voice]
piano and orchestrations [Fumio Yasuda]
Kammerorchester Basel
Bernd Ruf [conductor]
Winter&Winter N° 910 116-2
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"Th
e most transcendent vocal album in many a moon ..." - Francis Davis, The Village Voice
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anteroom
Theo Bleckmann

Theo Bleckmann [voice]
Traumton 4483
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PRESS:
"An unbelievable creature, a muse on wordless angels' tongues that descends in spirals down to earth." - Jazzthing, Germany
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origami
Theo Bleckmann

Theo Bleckmann [voice, piano, live electronics]
Ben Monder [guitar]
Matt Moran [vibraphone]
Skuli Sverrisson [electric bass]
John Hollenbeck [drums, percussion]
Songlines, SGL 1534-2
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PRESS:
Downbeat Magazine

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No Boat
Theo Bleckmann and Ben Monder

Theo Bleckmann [voice, live electronic processing]
Ben Monder [guitar]
Skuli Sverrisson [electric bass]
Jim Black [drums, percussion]
Songlines, SGL 1516
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PRESS:
"... an imperturbable cool worthy of the Bill Evans Trio"
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Kyle Gann, the Village Voice, NY
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static still
Theo Bleckmann and John Hollenbeck

Theo Bleckmann [voice, live electronic processing]
John Hollenbeck [drums, percussion]

gpe records, GEP 6823
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"Two players who explode all boundaries with their embrace-who commit to all, and all at once...a rich and strange world of noise, motion and melody, all of it infused with wit and unerring musicality."
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SEATTLE WEEKLY
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Looking-Glass River
Theo Bleckmann-Kirk Nurock Duo

Theo Bleckmann [voice]
Kirk Nurock [piano, composition]
Mike Richmond [bass]
Jeff Hirschfield [drums]
Traumton-Indigo, CD 2412
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PRESS:
"Genius in Tandem" -TIP Magazine
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Theo & Kirk
Theo Bleckmann-Kirk Nurock Duo

Theo Bleckmann [voice]
Kirk Nurock [piano, composition]

Traumton-Indigo, CD 2404
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