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Feeling To Thought

An Independent Label Created by Phil Treloar

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read Reflections, Projections
A note on my work in Collective Autonomy

read Recollections One - Cecil Taylor

read Recollections Two - Rashied Ali

New Release - Of paradox once found

paradox Of Paradox Once Found

Pathways Of The Mind: Exploring Sympathetic Resonance - Third Series

Phil Treloar - Written Text and Marimba

Conceived of as a large scale "Work", Of Paradox Once Found explores transformations of textural readings and their interpretation into interdependent expressive forms rendered as written text, and spontaneous improvisations for solo marimba

This remarkable work, featuring three CDs of music and a thirty page text booklet, comes in stunning limited edition packaging and is available only from this site for the special price of $80

Spectrum
IMPROVISATION
John Shand
27 February 2010
The Sydney Morning Herald

Of Paradox Once Found

Phil Treloar has never done things by halves. Australia's most significant and influential improvising percussionist has always engaged in the creative process with life-and-death intensity. That the third instalment of his Pathways of the Mind series is a triple CD of solo marimba improvisations is therefore only mildly surprising.

It often beggars belief that these pieces were not fully composed. Japan-based Treloar's instinct for real-time devising of form is phenomenal.

But form is a hollow shell if the content it encompasses does not engage, move and transport in some combination and his melodic-harmonic content is so lush and multifarious as to be like gazing at a vast field of diverse flowers as they dance in a breeze.

Simple ideas, meanwhile, receive complex extrapolations without losing their immediacy.

Binding the work is the magnificently recorded resonance and warmth of Treloar's marimba and the pervading meditative mood — echoed in an accompanying perceptive, candid and affecting essay on cultural imperialism.

I should disclose that one piece is generously dedicated to me.

shades Shades of There - Converging Paths

Phil Treloar/Hamish Stuart

Interaction is as important as melody, rhythm, texture, dynamics, emotion, or imgaination in making any music. Even solo performers interact with instrument, room, audience, and the peice. Such engage,ent helps beckon in the listener.

Duetting as Convergent Paths, Phil Treloar and Hamish Stewart generate a feast of interaction across all facets of their intimate music-making, as the paths of the former's marimba and the latter's drum-kit and percussion converge.

Each can be intensely reactive to the other, or they can rove along largely parallel courses that meet at an imaginary horizon.

Treloar generates the warmest marimba sound I've heard, each note arriving plump and round, with a finely tapered decay, and his enchanting improvisations bubble up as naturally as spring water. Stuart, meanwhile, long considered among the grooviest drummers in the land, here displays a splendour of textural invention to rival the great free drummers, and the fluency of his improvising ensures the two instruments are equal voices throughout. Outstanding.

review: John Shand - Sydney Morning Herald

pathways2 Pathways of the Mind Second Series

Exploring Sympathetic Resonance - second series

Phil Treloar - Solo percussion

Following the creative intentions embraced by the Pathways project, this second series presents a perspective very different to that of the first series. Again, a recorded live concert performance in Kanazawa, Japan, this time on August 31, 2006, Phil Treloar explores percussion set-ups designed specifically for the occasion. Each of the three set-ups employed here were developed as an aspect intrinsic to performance preparation.

"The eight pieces are improvisations within predetermined and very different sound worlds, each providing startling evidence of the beauty of Treloar's conception and execution." John Shand - SMH

Pathways of the Mind - Exploring Sympathetic Resonance