Martingale, by Denman Maroney, Steven Frieder, Ratzo Harris & Bob Meyer

Martingale

by Denman Maroney, Steven Frieder, Ratzo Harris & Bob Meyer

supported by

	/

Streaming + Download

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

Purchasable with gift card

€7 EUR or more

1.	Martingale 08:39	buy track
2.	Curl 04:51	buy track
3.	Blind Love 05:42	buy track
4.	Off Centerpiece 05:50	buy track
5.	All in the Loop 04:11	buy track
6.	New One Two 05:52	buy track
7.	Time's Out 04:42	buy track
8.	Peer to Peer 03:44	buy track
9.	Primal Sympathy 10:03	buy track
10.	Sea Set Wheat 08:17	buy track
11.	Set Sea Sank 07:45	buy track

about

A martingale is a betting strategy, popular in eighteenth century France, in which the gambler doubles the stakes every round. She is sure to win, if her pockets are deep enough. Tom Stoppard riffs on the idea in the first scene of his play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. They lose, of course.
Martingale is Maroney’s first album with Frieder and his third with Harris and Meyer. His first two with them were CRISPR and alt.timers.
On Martingale all eleven tracks are compositions by Maroney except Off Centerpiece, which is his arrangement of Centerpiece by Harry Edison and Jon Hendricks.
On two tracks, Time’s Out and Sea Set Wheat, Maroney plays what he calls hyperpiano, meaning he expands his instrument’s sonic palette by playing the keys with one hand and the strings with the other hand using steel cylinders, copper bars, rubber blocks, and plastic CD and cassette cases.
John Cage said time is the most important parameter in music, because it is common to sound and silence. Maroney agrees. All the tracks on Martingale involve what Maroney calls temporal harmony, meaning layers of time. There are two such layers in Blind Love, Off Centerpiece, All in the Loop, and Time’s Out; three in Curl, New One Two, Peer to Peer, Sea Set Wheat, and Set Sea Sank; four in Primal Sympathy; and six in Martingale. The titles Sea Set Wheat and Set Sea Sank are homonyms of the French words for 6:7:8 (Six Sept Huit) and 7:6:5 (Sept Six Cinq), the layers of time found in those pieces. Off Centerpiece is a blues in two keys (B and E) and two layers of time (4:3). Thus, three choruses in B take four choruses in E to complete. (B to E is a perfect fourth, an interval with a harmonic ratio of 4:3.) In addition, rhythmic palindromes, which Olivier Messiaen called non-retrogradable rhythms, are used in New One Two, Peer to Peer, Primal Sympathy, and Set Sea Sank.
For more information see www.denmanmaroney.com.

credits

released March 29, 2020

Compositions: Denman Maroney, except Off Centerpiece, his arrangement of Centerpiece by Harry Edison and Jon Hendricks
Reeds: Steven Frieder
Piano and Hyperpiano: Denman Maroney
6-String Bass: Ratzo Harris
Drums and Cymbals: Bob Meyer
Album Art: Sadatsugu Toboé
Recording: Ryan Streber
Mixing, editing, and mastering: John Guth
Recorded Feb. 6-7, 2020 at Oktaven Audio, Mt. Vernon NY, USA

license

about

Denman Maroney Durfort, France

Denman Maroney is known for his "hyperpiano" techniques (playing the keys with one hand and the strings with other using slides and bows of metal, plastic, rubber, and wood) and his “temporal harmonies” (composing and improvising in multiple tempos). He has recorded for Outnow, Porter, Innova, Clean Feed, Nuscope, Kadima, Cryptogramophone, New World, Mutable, Victo, and Erstwhile among others. ... more

denmanmaroney.com

contact / help

Contact Denman Maroney

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this album or account

If you like Martingale, you may also like:

Amaryllis
by Mary Halvorson

supported by 7 fans who also own “Martingale”

adventurous music with a distinct concept and expert rendition and interplay with the band members.Edgy and warm in equipoise . sagov
go to album
Idiom
by Anna Webber

supported by 6 fans who also own “Martingale”

I knew from the first four measures that I was going to ABSOLUTELY DIG THIS ALBUM! Another incredible creation by Anna Webber. Jonathan Pryor
go to album
The Day That Is
by Thomas Heberer

supported by 6 fans who also own “Martingale”
go to album
Singing Dust
by Singing Dust

featured on Bandcamp Radio Mar 5, 2024
go to album
DEVOTION
by Muriel Grossmann

featured on Bandcamp Radio Dec 5, 2023
go to album
The Air In Front Of You
by Jonny Mansfield

Serene and sublime chamber music with violin, cello, and vibraphone circling one another delicately. Bandcamp New & Notable Jun 26, 2023
go to album
Clockwise
by Anna Webber

supported by 6 fans who also own “Martingale”

This music has everything I need: acoustic instruments, a slow build, layers of atypical harmonies and rhythms being added each pass through, subtle melodies and combinations. Excellent work! Little James
go to album