[ Glacial Erratic, 2018 ]
CD - very limited run press in lovely gatefold UV Gloss paperboard sleeve.
Produced/released by Joe Morris in 2018 on his Glacial Erratic imprint.
Joe Morris: guitar
DoYeon Kim: gayageum
This recording was first made available here in 2018. We re-visited it in 2025 while preparing DoYeon Kim's Wellspring for release, and were knocked out anew by the depth & breadth of these wholly improvised duos. This is a very special work indeed, displaying both artists' improvisational and instrumental prowess in full. We reached out to Joe to see if he had any copies of this beauty left to make available to you now; thankfully he did.
// Additional Words on this work from Joe Morris, when we received this batch of original press in early 2026:
DoYeon and I worked together for 3 years at NEC. As with all of my students she played Ayler, Ornette, Dolphy, Cecil, Sun Ra, Braxton and worked on the methodologies of all of that and also that of Derek Bailey, Evan Parker, and Barry Guy, to name a few.
We did lessons for years. We played using those methodologies and it became a very good collaboration. I was concerned that she was happy going that far with her playing (because when I first met her she had never played free music and was a classical virtuoso trained in Korean Music) and she repeatedly told me that she felt that for her it "opened up the universe."
We made the recording and released it quickly because she had arranged for us to play in Seoul. We also did 2 workshops at universities there. I talked and she translated and we played a duo concert.
In Korea, like at NEC, I could see the way people respected DoYeon. She's brilliant, a true soul and virtuoso who can do anything, and a tremendously focused performer.
Macrocosm
1. Animate (7:48)
2. Expanse (10:53)
3. Parsec Story (11:34)
4. Crystallinity (6:27)
5. Orchard (19:27)
Produced by Joe Morris
Recorded September 18, 2018
Dimension Sound Studios, Jamaica Plain, MA
Engineered, mixed, and mastered by Joe Stewart