And so a return to the Vinyl Remix series (whereby I take 12" vinyl sleeves and use them as working canvasses - some adjustments being radical, others more subtle).

This is based on the 1975 release from Anthony Braxton, called Five Pieces (a quartet date with the great Dave Holland on bass). Braxton is of no relation to R&B dullomatic plastic surgery debacle Toni Braxton, but is very much related (he is the father) of Tyondai Braxton, frontman for art/post rock band Battles.

Anthony Braxton himself is an anachronism: a bebop and blues influenced improviser who veers heavily into the avant-garde and third stream realms of composition and performance, who is an accomplished competitive chess player and titles songs in cryptic references to mathematics, mysticism and even as diagrams. His style morphs with each instrument he plays: flutes; soprano, C-Melody, F alto, E-flat alto, baritone, bass, and contrabass saxophones, as well the entire clarinet family.

Some of his stuff is very accessible, some of it will have you scratching your head for days; case in point, I reviewed one disc he participated on here, and a video of one of his odder works is here.

This is done on the vinyl sleeve directly, with acrylic inks and paints, goache, brush pens, pigma microns, origami paper, a sharpie pen, water soluable colored pencil, and digital post-processing/construction.