Artists
Album Info
Release Date: 2021-01-29Label: Out Of Your Head Records
Peter Formanek - Tenor Saxophone, ClarinetMichael Formanek - Double Bass
Michael and Peter Formanek started making music and improvising together before Peter started school. Regular visits to their home from friends and colleagues like Tim Berne, Jim Black, Marty Ehrlich and many others only served to normalize this as being an essential part of human interaction. During much of their time living in Baltimore and as Peter began to study music formally (first on guitar then on saxophones and woodwinds), it was just part of daily life to have musicians come by to play, rehearse, or just hang out. This eventually turned into regular groups and collaborations that performed in local venues in and around Baltimore. For Peter’s eighteenth birthday they played a night of Michael’s music at the Cornelia Street Cafe with a lineup of Tim Berne and Peter Formanek on saxophones, Jacob Sacks on piano, Jim Black on drums, and Michael Formanek on bass. Peter went to University of Michigan in Ann Arbor in 2013 to study with the great Andrew Bishop, and sometime after Peter’s graduation in 2017 he and Michael decided to perform as a duo. They embarked on their first tour together in November 2019 spanning the upper midwest, mid-Atlantic, and northeastern US, and soon after booked a studio date to record the music presented here as Dyads.
Composer Credits:
Tracks 1 and 3 - Peter Formanek
Tracks 5, 7, 11 and 13 - Michael Formanek (Formtone Music - BMI)
Tracks 2, 4, 6, 8, 9, 10, and 12 - Michael and Peter Formanek
Recorded by David Amlen at Sound on Sound Studio Montclair, New Jersey on December 30, 2019
Mixed by Nathaniel Morgan, Brooklyn NY in May 2020
Mastered by Nick Lloyd at Firehouse 12, New Haven CT in October 2020
Artwork, layout, and design by TJ Huff (huffart.com)
We would like to give our deepest, most heartfelt thanks to Sandra Eisner and Allison Prost for their love and support. We would also like to thank Adam Hopkins, David Amlen, Nathaniel Morgan, and Nick Lloyd.