Urchestra Bandcamp

I've been behind in updating my art blog, but that doesn't mean stuff isn't always going on Earlier this month the Urchestra Bandcamp launched featuring the recording done at the Clubhouse up in Woodstock this previous August . Sadly, within days of the site launch, Karl Berger passed. Karl and his wife Ingrid Sertso are/were both luminaries in the jazz and avant garde world and an incredible piece of the Ur Sonate recording and  additions to the list of musicians who have performed with Urchestra. 

https://urchestra.bandcamp.com/album/the-three-fates-sing-ur-sonata-by-kurt-schwitters-featuring-karl-berger-ingrid-sertso

For the 100th Anniversary of Kurt Schwitters "Ur Sonate", recording Urchestra in Woodstock

 

Around 2008, Eric and our friend Andy Laties founded Urchestra, a freeform experimental band dedicated to interpreting Kurt Schwitters tone poem, Ur Sonate (or Sonata In Primeval Sounds). They both share a love of jazz and dada, so this seemed natural. Rebecca Migdal, Andy's wife, joined on vocals. Over the years, a number of artists and musicians have participated. There's also been some of the participants who have passed. Valerie Caris- Blitz, Eric's first wife. Pronoblem. John Landino. So it seemed like the moment should be seized to do a definitive Urchestra recording. Though Glove, (aka Josh Selman) was not able to make it due to being across the country at his wife Alison Knowles retrospective . 

However we were joined by Clubhouse Studio owners Karl Berger and Ingrid Sertso (who's vocal work I'm now getting into as a result of this.) I would have loved to spend some time checking out Woodstock, but maybe another day.