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Rev Dwight Frizzell – Natural Selection – Compact Disc

Rev. Dwight Frizzell’s project Natural Selection is an intriguing piece that exemplifies his experimental and avant-garde approach to music and sound art. Dwight Frizzell is an artist and educator known for his unconventional exploration of audio, radio, film, and other media. ‘Natural Selection’ highlights his penchant for blending environmental sounds with musical instruments and electronic elements to create immersive, often abstract soundscapes.

This work often delves into the relationship between nature and technology, exploring how sounds from the natural world can be manipulated and intertwined with electronic music to reflect on ecological and philosophical themes. Frizzell’s approach is both experimental and contemplative, pushing the boundaries of traditional music and sound art to engage listeners in a deep auditory experience.

Natural Selection incorporates a range of audio elements, from field recordings of natural environments to synthesized sounds, creating a tapestry that challenges and expands the listener’s perception of music and sound. This project is typical of Frizzell’s innovative style, which is both educational and exploratory, inviting listeners to reconsider the sounds that surround them daily.

Multi-talented jazz/experimental artist Dwight Frizzell is probably the only person in history to have interviewed freeform jazz legend Sun Ra over a ten-year period and played with former U.S. president Harry S. Truman (an ancient snippet of Truman playing piano is heard on Frizell’s 2001 release, Bullfrog Devildog President). Frizzell grew up in Independence, MO, just a few blocks from the home of Truman and, in 1976, issued the obscure recording Beyond the Black Crack, an album based on the ‘time-shifting effects of black holes.’

Although the album was mostly sold to friends and family to finance its limited pressing, the album would eventually be listed by future experimental outfits as Nurse With Wound and Morphogenesis (and later surface on CD). By 1980, Frizzell had befriended Sun Ra, conducting interviews over ten years, with portions of their conversations later appearing in John Szwed’s book Space is the Place: the Lives and Times of Sun Ra.

Soon after, Frizzell formed the Black Crack Revue, a self-described ‘Afro-nuclear wave funk swing reggae Turska band,’ which Frizzell has performed with on a regular basis ever since. Frizzell also does experimental audio/theater work, utilizing graphic notation from both physical and biological phenomena, archaic folk sources, texts, and ambient recordings. In addition to his music and theater work, Frizzell is member of the board of directors for the New Ear Contemporary Chamber Ensemble.

Paradign Records

UK Import

Track Listing
1. Scrat
2. Body of the film
3. first painting
4. the rising surfs of the body opening
5. nocturnal
6. building the earth
7. film making