NUMBER STATIONS
Curtis Hasselbring
Cuneiform Records, 2013Curha/trombone, guitar
Mary Halvorson/guitar
Ches Smith/drums, marimba
TD/basses
Matt Moran/vibraphone, marimba
Satoshi Takeishi/drums, percussion
Chris Speed/tenor sax, clarinet
Number Stations are shortwave radio stations from around the globe that broadcast a random series of numbers intermittently, often read by a female voice. They are widely believed to be a cold-war artifact by which clandestine agents receive instructions. The titles of the pieces of this recording are hypothetically decoded from the numeric information stored in the composed music and serve as cryptic instructions for the musicians in the ensemble.