Edmund Welles

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Edmund Welles
Origin Oakland
InstrumentBass Clarinet
Years active1999-2015
Members Cornelius Boots, Jonathan Russell, Jeff Anderle, Aaron Novik
Website http://www.edmundwelles.com

Edmund Welles (full name Edmund Welles: The Bass Clarinet Quartet) was an American bass clarinet quartet from Oakland, California. Its members were Cornelius Boots, Jonathan Russell, Jeff Anderle, and Aaron Novik, playing what the group refers to as "heavy chamber music." [1] The group performed many different genres of music, including avant-garde, gospel, jazz, and heavy metal. They have performed cover versions of songs by such groups as Radiohead, Primus, Black Sabbath, The Residents, Iron Maiden and Spinal Tap, as well as approximately 50 original compositions.

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History

In 1996, Boots developed the concept for Edmund Welles, and began arranging and composing for it. Some of the group's compositions were an outgrowth of repertoire of Magnesium, a power trio in which Boots had played "robot bass clarinet," a specially modified bass clarinet played with amplification and effects, and performing a bass role.

Edmund Welles's first performance took place in 1999. The group's first CD, Agrippa's 3 Books, which was made possible by a grant from Chamber Music America, [2] was released in August 2005. Their second album, Tooth & Claw, came out in 2007. Tooth & Claw has a companion CD-ROM which contains archival versions of four of the group's songs, 69 pages of music notation for the CD's 12 songs, eight brief instructional videos, and nine drum machine click track recordings to practice with.

The group was effectively dissolved in 2015 when Boots retired from bass clarinet. [3] [4]

Discography

Full releases

Demo albums

Live albums

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Notes

  1. ↑ Welles, Edmund (2005). "Agrippa's 3 Books". CDbaby. Archived from the original on April 16, 2015. Retrieved April 16, 2015.
  2. ↑ "Edmund Welles: the bass clarinet quartet" (PDF). Chamber Music America. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 4, 2016. Retrieved April 26, 2015.
  3. ↑ Alder, Jason; Boots, Cornelius (2015), Email Correspondence between Boots and Alder
  4. ↑ Boots, Cornelius. "Post by Boots". Facebook . Retrieved January 27, 2023.
  5. ↑ https://edmundwelles.bandcamp.com/ [ bare URL ]

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