Norman Salant

New recordings:
Postcards From The Hanging (new material)
Saxophone Duo (from the archives)

New video:
Jack Hardy's Ponderosa (live trio performance)

The real news is the Archive Project. Three new CDs are imminent and a fourth is nearing completion: first is Saxaphone Demonstrations II containing the ridiculous recording known as Bad Loops and offered as follow-up to the original Saxaphone Demonstrations album; followed by The 40-Saxophone Orchestra's only known recording; and then After Ours, a commissioned instrumental score for Laura Schandelmeier Dance Co. from back in 1992. The fourth CD will contain a collection of scores for various dance projects, also dating back to the early 1990s in nyc. As for Tag, the follow-up to Postcards, after a hiatus of several months recording is back underway. Let It Shine has been radically transformed, and the others (Virgin Highway, The Stranger, Canes of Fire) are being tidied up. Oh, and there are ducks.

Postcards From The Hanging, a 4-song EP, is now in general release. Tracks are also up on the Songs page and linked here: Feels Like Rain, At The End Of The World, Pray For Rain, and Heaven.

The archival Saxophone Duo full-length album (Norman Salant & Benjamin Bossi) is out. Remastered at Mark Dann's Tribeca studio, it features NYC and SF performances spanning several years: Mazes, a later NYC commission by Overfoot Dance Co. (aka Jody Oberfelder Dance Projects), an early concert at SF's Noe Valley Ministry featuring pieces from the group's standard repertoire: Intro, Madrigal, Doo-Wop, and Country, and a bonus track, Truxton, a newly discovered NYC recording originally intended for Ralph Records but never released.
Video footage of The Moving Planet Orchestra's benchmark performances at the original Knitting Factory on Houston Street and the former Gargoyle Mechanique Laboratory on Avenue B plus the sole performance of the 40-Saxophone Orchestra at the Fete de la Musique is still in the editing stage.

An old music video from the saxophone days was recovered: Kiyo from the Sax Talk album. It was created by Carol Millican in NYC, and features some crazy-beautiful animation effects.

Norman Salant is a songwriter, singer, saxophonist, composer and martini-maker extraordinaire based in New York City. Recently he has focused primarily on songwriting, guitar playing and singing with all their euphorias and discontents, while the saxophone part of his music-making has been on hiatus. The martini-making sometimes rears its happy head at random Salon parties set in a NoChe loft. He performs in public rarely, meanwhile building up a unique catalog of songs rivaled by few artists past or present, although largely unheard.

A full-fledged return to the public arena may or may not materialize, but songs invariably trickle out here and there and a series of formal EP releases has now become an actuality. As for the earlier saxophone/compositional work, that part of the website equation has begun as well and will long be a work in progress, but the idea is to make it all available eventually, with pictures and music and press along with the whole ecstatilogical story. So stay tuned and check back for updates.

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	Latest New recordings: Postcards From The Hanging (new material) Saxophone Duo (from the archives) New video: Jack Hardy's Ponderosa (live trio performance) The real news is the Archive Project. Three new CDs are imminent and a fourth is nearing completion: first is Saxaphone Demonstrations II containing the ridiculous recording known as Bad Loops and offered as follow-up to the original Saxaphone Demonstrations album; followed by The 40-Saxophone Orchestra's only known recording; and then After Ours, a commissioned instrumental score for Laura Schandelmeier Dance Co. from back in 1992. The fourth CD will contain a collection of scores for various dance projects, also dating back to the early 1990s in nyc. As for Tag, the follow-up to Postcards, after a hiatus of several months recording is back underway. Let It Shine has been radically transformed, and the others (Virgin Highway, The Stranger, Canes of Fire) are being tidied up. Oh, and there are ducks. Postcards From The Hanging, a 4-song EP, is now in general release. Tracks are also up on the Songs page and linked here: Feels Like Rain, At The End Of The World, Pray For Rain, and Heaven. The archival Saxophone Duo full-length album (Norman Salant & Benjamin Bossi) is out. Remastered at Mark Dann's Tribeca studio, it features NYC and SF performances spanning several years: Mazes, a later NYC commission by Overfoot Dance Co. (aka Jody Oberfelder Dance Projects), an early concert at SF's Noe Valley Ministry featuring pieces from the group's standard repertoire: Intro, Madrigal, Doo-Wop, and Country, and a bonus track, Truxton, a newly discovered NYC recording originally intended for Ralph Records but never released. Video footage of The Moving Planet Orchestra's benchmark performances at the original Knitting Factory on Houston Street and the former Gargoyle Mechanique Laboratory on Avenue B plus the sole performance of the 40-Saxophone Orchestra at the Fete de la Musique is still in the editing stage. An old music video from the saxophone days was recovered: Kiyo from the Sax Talk album. It was created by Carol Millican in NYC, and features some crazy-beautiful animation effects. Norman Salant is a songwriter, singer, saxophonist, composer and martini-maker extraordinaire based in New York City. Recently he has focused primarily on songwriting, guitar playing and singing with all their euphorias and discontents, while the saxophone part of his music-making has been on hiatus. The martini-making sometimes rears its happy head at random Salon parties set in a NoChe loft. He performs in public rarely, meanwhile building up a unique catalog of songs rivaled by few artists past or present, although largely unheard. A full-fledged return to the public arena may or may not materialize, but songs invariably trickle out here and there and a series of formal EP releases has now become an actuality. As for the earlier saxophone/compositional work, that part of the website equation has begun as well and will long be a work in progress, but the idea is to make it all available eventually, with pictures and music and press along with the whole ecstatilogical story. So stay tuned and check back for updates. Be Seeing You [Facebook link]

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