Audio Research Vehicle presents:

The Incense Merchants is an improvisational ensemble, an "avant/semble". Although nothing is predetermined in any detail, there are certain tendencies to the performances that reflect the various backgrounds and interests of the musicians--classical, conceptual, ambient, free jazz, pop, etc.

Although somewhat counterintuitive, this in practice results in a fairly consistent sound: a cinematic fusion of genres and periods that is frequently a melodic minimalism at base, with some self-indulgence free form expressionism on top, something akin to the Lounge Lizards, Kronos Quartet, and John Zorn.

 
- Chip Osborne    
 

01/08/2010 - incense merchants: Raul, Brad, Bill

11/14/2009 - incense merchants


10/28/2009 - incense merchant sans (mar)cello


07/08/09 - William Osborne (gtr),
Raul Gomez (vln) and Bill Kelley (syn) in trio


Brad Walker (ss/cl) and Eric Shuster (perc/insp) in duet, 9/11/09
part 1a   /   part 1b   /   part 1c   /   part 1d