Description
Release Date: 2006
Label: Independent
Track List
- 12 Saxophones 11:33
- Ghosties 8:08
- St. Gallen 21:13
Notes
12 SAXOPHONES was recorded and mixed in 1997 by the late Dr. Tommy Comeaux in his home studio in Lafayette. “Tommy had about 50 vintage guitars and dobros on stands in one room,” Landry says. “I played a few notes on my saxophone and all the sympathetic strings started vibrating. I said ‘let’s record that but Tommy insisted we work on our original plan, so I helped him set up his mixing board for the recording of a quadraphonic piece. I began playing and stopped after about 12 minutes. He asked if we were finished and I said, ‘No, rewind the tape and let’s overdub another solo with the delays.’ When we finished with the second track he said, ‘I get it. It sounds like an orchestra.’ I then had him rewind the tape for a third pass, which resulted in ’12 Saxophones.’ A few months later, at a gig the night before he died, we planned to get together a week later to record my saxophone with his guitars. I am still searching for that situation.
GHOSTIES was recorded one evening in 1986 when I visited Richard Peck at his studio in New York City. His Roland D-70 synthesizer was set on a sound patch called Ghosties. I began playing and immediately asked him to turn his recorder on. This is my first pass, my breathing in and out yoga piece.
ST. GALLEN was recorded at the Kunstmuseum in St. Gallen, Switzerland in 1994 in a large rectangular room with a domed glass ceiling and incredible acoustics. Curator Roland Wespé invited me to perform for the opening of an art exhibition by friend and fellow Louisiana native Keith Sonnier. The day before the opening I played my tenor saxophone in this room for a few minutes and asked Assistant Curator Corrine Schatz if she could find a digital tape recorder with stereo mics. The reverb in the room was nearly identical to my quad delay performance system which utilizes four speakers, amps, a microphone, mixing board, engineer, etc. There’s nothing here but my saxophone and the room.
