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Little Bigby

by Byron Asher & Brad Webb

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  • Cassette + Digital Album

    Beautiful O-card cassette packaging featuring cover photograph by Byron Asher, design by Matthew Golombisky. Comes with a digital download immediately!

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about

Little Bigby is the debut duo recording from New Orleans-based clarinetist and saxophonist Byron Asher and drummer Brad Webb. Born out of a many years-long relationship of performing and recording together in each other’s projects as well as a 4-year long stint as next door neighbors in New Orleans’ 7th ward (resulting in countless listening sessions and wanders to the coffeeshop), Little Bigby explores their friendship through improvised composition and free improvisation confined by the technical limitations of their direct-to-cassette recording medium.

Putting the time away from active performing during the pandemic to good use, in January 2021, Asher began experimenting with a busted 4-track cassette recorder he purchased off Craigslist for $40, recording onto blank cassette tapes found in a “free box” on the side of the street. With only three working tracks on his Tascam recorder and a single direct microphone input, he and Webb began trading free improvisations back and forth, overdubbing takes on top of each other, improvising against already recorded material, and developing the tracks released here in a sort of long-form call and response.

Given the medium of the recording project, the performers felt a cassette and digital only release was ideal. The album artwork features a photograph shot by Asher himself, depicting a container ship floating down the Mississippi River from the vantage point of the French Quarter, New Orleans.

credits

released November 9, 2021

Byron Asher - saxophones and clarinets, synthesizer
Brad Webb - drums, pots and pans

Recorded direct to cassette by Byron Asher and Brad Webb in New Orleans, LA
Mixed by Byron Asher and Jeff Albert
Mastered by Jeff Albert
Produced by Byron Asher and Brad Webb

Music by Byron Asher BMI and Brad Webb My Music Faces BMI except 3 and 7 by Asher

Photo by Byron Asher
Design by Matthew Golombisky

byronasher.com
bwebbmusic.net

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Byron Asher New Orleans, Louisiana

saxophonist/ clarinetist and composer in New Orleans.

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