Artist: Tom Hamilton
Release Date: Fall 2009
Limited run of 500 on 2xCD
Reissue of 2 out-of-print works originally released on the artist’s own Somnath label. Formal and Informal Music contains the title piece Formal and Informal Music (1980), and Crimson Sterling (1973) for electronics, winds and percussion, and also features JD Parran, woodwinds and saxes, and Rich O’Donnell, percussion. Pieces for Kohn is comprised of four electronic pieces, musical responses to four paintings by artist Bill Kohn.

Tracks

Disc One – Pieces for Kohn

Modhera	Sample mp3
Bonampak	no audio sample
Girnar	Sample mp3
Fatehpur	no audio sample

Disc Two – Formal and Informal Music

Formal & Informal Music	Sample mp3	Tom Hamilton – E-mu microprocessor keyboard, Serge synthesizer, custom electronics. Rich O’Donnell – bass drums, bowed cow bells, tabla, gamelan gongs, talking drum, marimba bars, timpani, cymbals. JD Parran – flute, clarinet
Crimson Sterling mvt. 1	Sample mp3	Tom Hamilton – ARP 2500 synthesizer Rich O’Donnell – tubalum, koto-veen, aqua-lips, sprahng, Chinese cymbal, tom-toms, timpani, Roto-toms. JD Parran – alto flute, alto clarinet, nagaswaram, alto saxophone
Crimson Sterling mvt. 2	no audio sample
Crimson Sterling mvt. 3	Sample mp3

Album Art

Kvist006 - Tom Hamilton - Pieces for Kohn/Formal & Informal Music (front)

Kvist006 - Tom Hamilton - Pieces for Kohn/Formal & Informal Music (back)