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Of It But Not Is It

by Dave Sewelson, Ava Mendoza

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1.
Mangrove Sea 03:48
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Turnip Wine 04:01
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Dava's Dune 04:23
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I put a sign up the wall You were the only one to call You encouraged me to play The music every kind of way It was fifty years ago You encouraged me to blow It’s been that long that you’re gone And all we got is a song Is a song Is a song Yeah, I put that sign on that wall If you were the only one to call And if you hadn’t called I don’t know what would have happened It’s hard to say But this wouldn’t be happening This sure wouldn’t be happening
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Scaribari 02:48
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about

So when Ava and I started this project I thought it would be one of those freejazz records where you go in the studio for an afternoon and blow and get about an hour of music and make it into a record. On the way to this session I got William Parker to kick in some tunes. Didn’t realize that Ava would come up with beautiful arrangements for them and that I would end up singing them. We ended up with quite a collection of material that day including completely improvised pieces and grooves and songs.

We decided to come back to the studio to make this thing hang together as one cohesive whole. The way the material goes from completely out to soulful grooves to art songs makes a record that I could not have imagined.

Track Credits

1. Mangrove Sea - Ava Mendoza
2. Turnip Wine – lyrics by William Parker, arranged by Ava Mendoza
3. Don’t Buy the Lie – Mendoza/Sewelson
4. Do Nothing Man - lyrics by William Parker, arranged by Ava Mendoza
5. Dava’s Tune - Mendoza/Sewelson
6. Is It But Not Of It – Mendoza/Sewelson
7. Bill (for Bill Horvitz) - Dave Sewelson
8. Scaribari – Dave Sewelson
9. Where Are You – Dave Sewelson

credits

released March 15, 2024

Ava Mendoza - electric guitar and voice
Dave Sewelson - bari sax and voice

Recorded, mixed and mastered by Jim Clouse, Park West Studios, Brooklyn, NY, October 2021 and September 2022

Cover design - Chad Anderson

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Dave Sewelson New York

Dave is a baritone saxophone specialist, he arrived in New York City in the summer of 1977, settled in the East Village becoming a stalwart of the downtown scene, played in many bands of the area, probably best know as a founding member of the Microscopic Septet and lifetime member of William Parker’s Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra. ... more

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