Paul Dresher & Ned Rothenberg – Opposites Attract

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Label:	New World Records – 80411-2, CounterCurrents – 80411-2
Format:	CD, Album
Country:	US
Released:	1991
Genre:	Electronic, Jazz
Style:	Free Improvisation, Experimental

Tracklist

1	Orient And Tropic Bass Clarinet – Ned Rothenberg Hihat [High Hat], Percussion [Electronic Percussion] – Gene Reffkin Soloist [Octoban Solo In Final Section] – Samm Bennett	11:04
2	The Long Seven Cymbal [Cymbals] – Samm Bennett	3:17
3	Yuuniik Cymbal [Cymbals] – Samm Bennett	2:30
	The Untold Story
4	Sidi Infi / Bolero In Straight Jabs	4:13
5	The Edge Of Sleep	3:57
6	Shriek	4:10
7	The Paddling Floes	7:02
8	This Endup	4:15
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9	Opposites Attack Computer [Processing] – Paul Dresher	5:13
10	Skronk	4:16
11	Straight Jabs Redux/Finale	6:07

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Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Recorded Anthology Of American Music, Inc.
Copyright © – Recorded Anthology Of American Music, Inc.
Published By – Minmax Music
Published By – Thenro Music
Recorded At – Home Base Studio, New York City
Recorded At – Radio City Music Hall Studio
Recorded At – Nash Studios
Recorded At – Minmax Music
Recorded At – Park Place Studio, Brooklyn, New York, NY
Glass Mastered At – DADC – DIDX-009757

Credits

Alto Saxophone – Ned Rothenberg (tracks: 2 to 8, 11)
Bass Guitar [Electric Bass Guitar] – Anthony Jackson (tracks: 1 to 8, 11)
Bass [Solo Arco] – Mark Dresser (tracks: 4 to 8)
Design [Cover], Artwork [Art] – Steve Byram*
Double Bass [Acoustic Bass] – Mark Dresser (tracks: 1 to 3)
Drums – Bobby Previte (tracks: 1 to 3), Samm Bennett (tracks: 4 to 8, 11)
Electronic Drums, Shaker [Shakers] – Samm Bennett (tracks: 4 to 8)
Engineer – Andrew Milano
Engineer [Additonal Recording At Nash Studios] – Laeticia de Compiegne Sonami*
Engineer [Additonal Recording At Radio City Studios] – Don Hunerburg*
Engineer [Assistant] – Joseph Bartoldus, Lance Neal
Executive-Producer – Arthur Moorhead
Guitar – Paul Dresher (tracks: 1 to 9, 11)
Loops [Loop System] – Paul Dresher (tracks: 1 to 8)
Music By, Liner Notes – Ned Rothenberg, Paul Dresher
Producer [Produced By] – Lee Townsend, Ned Rothenberg, Paul Dresher
Sampler [Sampling] – Ned Rothenberg (tracks: 4 to 8, 10), Paul Dresher (tracks: 1 to 8, 10, 11)
Sequenced By [Sequencing] – Ned Rothenberg (tracks: 1 to 8, 10), Paul Dresher (tracks: 2 to 8)
Shakuhachi – Ned Rothenberg (tracks: 1, 4 to 8)
Technician [Tape Loop System] – Paul Dresher, Paul Tydelsky*
Tenor Saxophone – Ned Rothenberg (tracks: 4 to 8)

Notes

Recorded and mixed at Home Base Studios, NYC, July & December, 1990
Additional recording at Radio City Studios, July 1987, and at Nash Studios, Oakland California, June 1987
Tape loops and sample recording at Minmax Studios, Berkeley, California 1986-90
Additional sample recording at Park Place Studio, Brooklyn, New York, 1990
Finished sampling was done with an Akai S1000 Stereo Digital Sampler, some earlier work on Akai S900 and 612 (no synthesizers used)
Sequencing done with C-Lab Notator program
Additional sample editing: Digidesign Sound Tools and Dound Designer
Initial work was made possible by a Nonesuch Commission award from the American Music Center to Paul Dresher
This recording was made possible with grants from the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund, the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, and the National Endowment for the Arts

"We would like to thank the contributing musicians for their improvisational and compositional input"
Special thanks to: Kathryn King, Margaret Jenkins, Richard Eisenstein, Mark Helias, Jay Cloidt, Tim Berne, Adam Rudolph, Yale Evelev, Elliott Sharp, Robin Kirck, Lois Ellison, and Jamie Lowerly

℗ & © 1991 Recorded Anthology of American Music, Inc.

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