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  ---Review by Bruce Lee Gallanter, Downtown Music Gallery
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  PEK SOLO - Requiem for Raymond (Evil Clown 9254; USA) Featuring Dave PEK on clarinets, flutes, dronin, gongs, bells, chimes & siren. This disc is dedicated to Raymond Sheldon Peck, Dave Peck’s father who passed away in September of this year (2020). I know that when my own father passed in 1980 at the age of only 54, I was devastated. He died way too young and was a wonderful father and all-around great person. He influenced in many good ways, especially to be honest and stand tall for what I believe. No doubt that Pek’s father was an inspiration to him as well. Of all of the many (dozen plus) solo efforts from Leap of Faith founder Dave Peck, for this session PEK plays just 12 instruments instead of the usual 20-30 oddities that he usually draws on. The name of the piece here is called, “Grief”. The one thing I noticed about the recent batch of solo efforts by PEK is that they are consistently focused, all sounds well chosen, selectively placed, often one note or sounds at a time, slowly building by adding one layer at a time with some overdubbing device. Pek starts with a singular pounding of a gong which reverberates slowly. Soon switching to contrabass clarinet and cautiously bending and weaving his notes in a most hypnotic way. The air is filled with mystery and suspense, the contrabass clarinet bathed in echoplex, sounding closer to a monster from your fave Japanese science fiction film. PEK often uses selective amounts of reverb to add some eeriness to his reeds or percussion arsenal. Eventually PEK picks up his clarinet and starts to bend his notes inside out, further and further out, making us all feel disoriented, the way our current situation has made us feel day in and day out. The overall vibe here is one of the balance between the strength of music to inspire us with the loneliness of having to stay in solitude inside our homes either by ourselves or with some of our loved ones. Dark yet hopeful. - Bruce Lee Gallanter, DMG
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  --- Liner Notes by PEK
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  For Raymond Sheldon Peck on the day of his passing 17 September 2020
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  I have been very sad since the news arrived a few days ago of my father’s passing. He has had a hard time the last few years, falling several times and sustaining injuries exacerbating his other health issues. He passed suddenly and quickly at home in the company of my mother and my brother after a long and productive life.
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  I recorded Requiem for Raymond several hours after hearing the news. I am not usually a musician who drives my music with emotion, I describe my approach as cerebral. However, over many years I have noticed that in my infrequent moments of highly charged emotion something fundamentally different comes about in my playing…
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  I knew right away that I needed to play music as soon as possible to express my grief. Throughout much of the performance I am weeping at the same time I was playing. A fair amount of this is audible in the recording. Although I am still very sad, I felt much better afterwards.
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  This recording is by far the most profoundly intimate and personal expression I have ever created.
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  I miss him terribly.
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  PEK - 19 September 2020
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  Obituary from my mother on 24 September 2020...
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  Raymond Sheldon Peck
  March 20, 1934 - September 17 , 2020
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  Ray was born in Twin Falls, Idaho., to Dorcas and Earl Peck. He was husband tp Angela, father to David, Steven (Kristen) and Karen (Josh) and grandfather to Andrew, Isaac and James, He earned degrees in structural engineering at MIT and UCBerkeley He served a two-year stint in the U.S Army in Korea after the war. Seeing that computers were going to be very important to engineering he joined IBM for a 33-year career. Ray was a supportive and nurturing husband and father…attending, leading, coaching…Boy Scouts, YMCA, sports, concerts, camping activities. He was an enthusiastic volunteer at The Computer History Museum in Mountain View and Foothills Congregational Church in Los Altos. We miss him terribly. ... more
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