Richard Kimball & Lloyd McNeill | X • TEM • POR • E

Richard and I met in 1971. From the early days of our friendship we fgot together regularly to improvise. Both of appreciate the adventure, the exhiliration, and the risks in making music spontaneously. We have no fear of getting lost, and we usually manage to find ouur way to a new and different place, to a new and worthwhile composition.

Richard plays the piano with the sensitivity, power, and scope of a full orchestra. He can create the impression of a whisper, or call forth the ominous force of a thunder storm. I imagine my flute sound as a kind of textured thread that weaves itself through the substances of the world he describes for my ears.

Lloyd McNeill

What I've enjoyed most about producing this CD is that from the very first session, we just turned on the recorder and one or both of us began playing with no pre-discussion. It is truly music of the moment, which is both its strength and its vulnerability.

With both the composing process and the performance taking place simultaneously, you can hear the players thinking. In this context, an idea which otherwise might be censored, once uttered, must then be dealt with, and often very fresh music develops. Once a flow is established, a certain letting go must take place. This keeps any over-intellectualizing to a minimum, allowing something more subliminal to prevail. And, in the pauses, there is a more intense spark of anticipation, for it's not just the listener who doesn't know what's hanpening next. We don't either.

Richard Kimball

Play List

1. Prelude | 3.40

2. Tundra | 9.26

3. White Crane Strut | 6.37

4. Underbrush | 7.38

5. Inside Out | 8.05

6. Under a Blue Umbrella | 7.31

7. Bedouin Landscape | 9.58

8. Old New Milford, NY | 7.28

Credits

Recorded at Kimball Recording Studio, New Milford, NY
Engineer: Richard Kimball
Mastering: Doug Pomeroy, of Pomeroy Audio, Inc., Brooklyn, NY
Disk manufacturing and graphics by Europadisk, New York
Cover Painting: Lloyd McNeill
All compositions by Richard Kimball and Lloyd McNeill, published jointly by Kimball Publishing Company, ASCAP, and McNeill Publlishing Company, BMI
© by Richard Kimball and Lloyd McNeill

Piano, Hamburg Steinway Model D

Special thanks to: Andrea Kimball. Doug Pomeroy. John (Rolls) Reilly, and to Anne Macksoud for the selection of the piece "Bedouin Landscape," for her 1997 documentary film Arms for the Poor (commissioned by Maryknoll World Productions.

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New Milford Recording Company
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Contact Richard Kimball via e-mail on WarwickInfo.net


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