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Background -

Dean Peer's Think... It's all good CD, his live European release recorded in a 300 year old Mennonite church in Amsterdam, is a very live, very raw, 2 track recording of some friends jamming in a church recorded straight to disc. Only a selection of the actual material was transferred to CD. No dubs, editing or any other type of shenanigans. This way of working captures the moment as it was. Mistakes, background noises? It's all there, but not in any annoying way. Dean Peer is an innovative bass player who produces unknown sounds from his bass guitar. The addition of tabla and other percussion instruments plus such rarities as ocarina and Jew's harp make the palettes of sounds very rich. The purist recording techniques without any mixing and the minimalist miking techniques produce a highly dynamic sound. Few recordings have ever achieved such a sonically holistic effect. Fewer still with as diverse an array of musical elements. The music seems almost to bypass the senses, leaving an impression that remains in the mind long after the disc has ended.

A true master on the electric bass guitar and famous for his groundbreaking harmonic techniques, Dean Peer from Boulder, Colorado, has always been into creating new sounds and for this album Think...It's All Good, bass player Dean Peer put together an unusual ensemble in which equal parts of folk, funk, jazz and Indian music in an exciting amalgam using tablas and various other percussion, violin, jews' harp and harmonica. Recorded in a Mennonite church in Amsterdam, Peer teamed up with violinist Steve Trismen, percussionist Ty Burhoe and Howard Levy on harmonica, jews' harp and various types of ocarinas and even a Spa mineral water bottle. The musical ingredients reveal musical traces from all over the world, through the first impressions of freedom, funky grooves and virtuoso, sometimes electrically manipulated (violin) playing, give Think...It's all good a particularly Western, contemporary feel. After starting out on saxophone and tuba in a high school marching band, attending a Return to Forever concert at the age of fifteen got Peer hooked on the electric bass: "I was knocked out by Stanley Clarke". Over the years, Peer developed his advanced personal style that is characterized by the use of harmonic, alternate and open tunings, false harmonic, stopped notes and bends, chords and root notes, often all at once. This way his playing got layered: lots of -often subtle- things were going on simultaneously and according to Peer, this allows the listener to get involved on any level they want. His earlier albums Ucross and Travelogue also explored these concepts fully. To help other bassists understand his innovative use of harmonic, in 1988 Peer published a book on the subject which got rave reviews in leading magazines such as "Guitar World' and "Guitar player'. A seamless melding of dynamic fundamentals intertwined with the subtle overtones of each individual voice, without distortions of time or space. Few recordings  have ever achieved such a sonically holistic effect. Fewer still with as  diverse an array of musical elements. The music seems almost to bypass the senses, leaving an impression that remains in the mind long after the disc has ended.

TURTLE Records released this CD in 2000 (first pressing).

This listing is for a rare audiophile CD title, in BRAND NEW (but not sealed), Near MINT overall condition, featuring -

Dean Peer

CD Title -

Think...It's All Good

Musicians -

Ty Burhoe, tabla & percussion
Steve Trismen, violin
Howard Levy, harmonicas, ocarinas, etc.
Dean Peer, electric bass guitar
Track Listing -

1. Air Circus # 1
2. 12 Tribes
3. Mars
4. Think
5. I'd give my right Arm to be ambidextrous
6. It's all good
7. Saint Thomas Magnum
8. Uncle Denny Hrone
9. I Remember Maya Reyes
Bonus Tracks:
10. Mars Extension
11. Picasso's Garden
12. River Running
13. Monument Valley

CD catalog # CD 599008

CONDITION Details:

The CD and outer case are assumed to be in Near MINT overall condition as this item comes in a resealable outer plastic slip and is actually BRAND NEW and NEVER PLAYED!

The CD is an audiophile quality pressing (any collector of fine MFSL, half speeds, direct to discs, Japanese/UK pressings etc., can attest to the difference a quality pressing can make to an audio system).

Do not let this rarity slip by!