Passwords, by Henry Kaiser & Paul Plimley with Danielle DeGruttola

Passwords

by Henry Kaiser & Paul Plimley with Danielle DeGruttola

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	1.	Stowaways 02:19
	2.	The Hard Decisions 04:36
	3.	Fringes 01:42
	4.	Helpful Disclosures 04:27
	5.	Clues In Verse 04:29
	6.	The Secret Of The Wooden Leg 03:01
	7.	An Elusive Ghost 07:06
	8.	More Trouble 06:06
	9.	Locked In 04:03
	10.	Jigsaw In Glass 02:07
	11.	Locked Out 07:31
	12.	The Unexpected Reunion 04:31
	13.	A Forgotten Secret 06:13
	14.	Dreams Come True 02:30
	15.	Key To A Mystery 06:58

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PAUL PLIMLEY 1953-2022

Paul was an amazing pianist; one of the greatest that I have ever been in the same room with. He had a strong connection to Cecil Taylor’s music. Paul studied with Taylor at the Creative Music Studio in 1978-79 and was the pianist on a Cecil Taylor record, playing on the orchestral LEGBA CROSSING in 1988.

The 40 or more albums that I have featuring Paul are always exciting and musically stimulating to listen to. He was an exceedingly special musician. I treasure my times playing with him.

I first met Paul Plimley back in 1977 or 1978 in his home base sector of Vancouver, Canada. We played together over more than four decades, until Paul’s sudden death from cancer in May of 2022. We recorded the tracks for this PASSWORDS album in Berkeley, back in 1996 and 1997.

Some of the other album projects that we recorded together were:
Wadada Leo Smith’s and my first YO MILES! project back in 1998,
THE STARBREAK SPLATTERLIGHT with Weasel Walter and Lukas Ligeti in 2010, and AT ONE TIME with John Oswald in 2021. The latter two may be found here on Bandcamp.

I am so happy to have resurrected and remastered this out-of-print PASSWORDS album with Paul and Danielle, here on Bandcamp. I’ve re-sequenced it to Paul’s preferred sequencing and greatly improved the audio with modern mastering tech.

Paul was one of those musicians who could create a telepathic connection with the musicians that he played with. That sort of live improvisation magic is definitely operating with the three of us here in PASSWORDS.

-Henry Kaiser June 2022

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released July 8, 2022

Cello – Danielle DeGruttola
Guitar, Bass Guitar – Henry Kaiser
Piano – Paul Plimley

Recorded by Michael Cogan at Bay Records, Berkeley, CA. October '96 and November ’97
Remastered by Henry Kaiser in June 2022
Originally released on the Canadian SPOOL label in 1999, as catalog # SPL103
New cover art by Brandy Gale
All tracks are free-improvised by the players.

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Henry Kaiser San Francisco, California

Henry Kaiser is an American guitarist and composer, known as an idiosyncratic soloist, a sideman, an ethnomusicologist, and a film score composer. Recording and performing prolifically in many styles of music, Kaiser is a fixture on the San Francisco Bay Area music scene. He is considered a member of the "second generation" of American free improvisers. ... more

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