Discreet Music(60:00)

Part I (9:44)
Part II (10:36)
Part III (5:24)
Part IV (7:08)
Part V (7:29)
Part VI (8:00)
Part VII (11:37)
Published by Universal Music MGB Ltd
Arranged by Jerry Pergolesi

Recorded at Revolution Recording, Toronto, August 19, 2011

Produced by Jerry Pergolesi andJoo Carvalho
Engineered by Rhonda Bruce
Assistant Engineer Jason Dufour
Edited by Bryan Lowe and Tony Smith
Mixed by Joo Carvalho
Mastered by Joo Carvalho at Joo Carvalho Mastering

The challenge of paying homage to an iconic piece of music is whether to attempt to recreate it
or to give it your own spin. Discreet Music is an experimental work; a way of creating music thats
more concerned with how things are made than how they finally sound; its music of process rather
than product. Discreet Music itself is also a tributary to the ambient music that was soon to follow
from Brian Eno. With this recording, we had to decide whether to recreate the artifact of the original
recording, or to try to recreate the circumstances that led to realizing the piece in the first place.
According to Eno, his preference was to make plans rather than execute them; to initiate situations
and systems that once in place, could create music with little intervention on his partmuch like
John Cage, who often liked to set a process going which had no necessary beginning, middle or
end.
In keeping with the spirit of the original, my arrangement consists of seven mutually compatible
melodies (the result of Enos original two melodies after being occasionally altered) and instructions
that render the band itself into the looping apparatus that Eno describes as the score for the
original. The arrangement sets parameters for the musicians to follow, while giving them some
leeway to make decisions with regard to what they play and when. Once the performance starts,
however, the resulting sound is out of anyones hands. This recording was done in one take, off
the floorlive, in a senseand the result of this process is what you have here. This recording is
actually the last of three takes in as many years, with each take being an hour long, so as to fill a
CDanother nod to the original, which filled one side of a vinyl album.
In the end, my hope is that this recording pays homage to an influential piece of music and fulfills
its own purpose as, in Enos words, not something intrinsic to certain arrangements of things to
[a] certain way of organizing sounds but actually a process of apprehending that we, as listeners,
could choose to conduct. Music is something your mind does.
Jerry Pergolesi, August 2015

Executive Producers: Michael Gordon, David Lang, Kenny Savelson and Julia Wolfe
Label Manager: Bill Murphy
Cantaloupe sales manager: Adam Cuthbert
Cover painting and interior panels: Giuseppe Garisto
Art direction: John Brown @ cloud chamber
Photography: Karen Reeves (inside wallet), Colin Savage (inside booklet)
Contact thanks: Brian Eno, Jane Geerts and Opal Ltd, Suzanne Bocanegra,
Glen Boomhour, Egle Pergolesi, Dan Pergolesi, Oliver and Morgan,Jill Allen,
Rob MacDonaldandEvan Ziporyn.
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Mary-Katherine Finch cello
Sarah Fraser Raff violin
Wallace Halladay soprano saxophone
Rob MacDonald electric guitar
Peter Pavlovsky double bass
with
Jerry Pergolesi vibraphone
Emma Zoe Elkinson flute
Allison Wiebe Benstead piano
Dean Kurtis-Pomeroy gongs

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