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Clackamas Pri
Wednesday, March 1, 2006
Student jazz trio performs
in cafeteria every Friday
Elizabeth Hitz
The Clackamas Print
Elizabeth Hitz Clackamas Print
Music students Zach Sears, Jesse Liebman and Eli Sears play
bass, drums and piano (respectively) in the Impermanence Trio.
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Thich Nhat Hanh, a Buddhist
monk, believed impermanence
was a necessity.
“If we are not empty, we
become a block of matter,” he
said. “We cannot breathe, we
cannot think. To be empty means
to be alive, to breathe in and to
breathe out. We cannot be alive
if we are not empty. Emptiness
is impermanence, it is change.
We should not complain about
impermanence, because without
impermanence, nothing is pos
sible,”
Those words perfectly sum
marize Clackamas’ newest jazz
group, The Impermanence Trio.
Impermanence strives to change
and evolve old classics into
something new, something bet
ter. As bass player Zach Sears
stated, “there’s not anything
I hear that does not influence
me.”
The Trio may play the same
song more than once, but always
in a different key, or accompa
nied by an impromptu improvi
sation in the music.:
All three Impermanence
members have strong person
alities. From Eli Sears, the pia
nist, with his laid back style
and spontaneous “play it again,
Sam” solos; Eli’s brother Zach
Sears, the bass player, whose
fire and sincerity are burned
into his face; to Jesse Liebman,
the drummer, whose steady beat
and occasional wry comment
balance the other two. Yet for all
their differences, the three share
an intensity that flows into their
music.
Blues, Bossa Nova, Latin
and Funk are all in the group’s
repertoire. However, the group
plays mostly modem jazz stan
dards which are “songs or musi
cal compositions that has been
widely played and interpreted
by jazz singers and instrumen
talists for many years.” Songs
like “Nardis,” by Miles Davis,
or “Giant Steps,” by John
Coltrane.
Impermanence has played for
several college staff functions,
and currently plays in the caf
eteria from noon till 1:30 or 2
p.m.
“They seem pretty good,” said
David Smith, a Clackamas weld
ing student. “It’s calming music
so I like it.” Smith and other
students come to the Coffman
Lobby, where the Impermanence-
Trio played before switching to
the cafeteria, to study.
The Trio is in the middle
of recording their first demo
CD, which will be finished “as
soon as we get the studio time,”
laughs Liebman.
Impermanence has only
been playing as a group since
November. Future plans for the
group are vague, but include
playing at more places in the
city, and eventually* as they put
it, “release a decent CD.”
Anyone interested in The
Impermanence Trio should
check out their websites at
www.impermanence.us
or
www.myspace.com/imperma-
nencetrio.
The group is also participat
ing in the college Jazz Festival.
They will play March 17 and#18
at noon in the Coffman Lobby.
“We want to evolve and
change,” Zach Searts said.
“The whole point of music is to
express yourself.”
‘Clockwork' brainchild
of Clackamas students
Kimberly Schiewe
The Clackamas Print
The Niemeyer parking lot may
not seem like an ideal place to make
friendships and business partners, but
for Chris Hoppie and Isaac Liss, it
was perfect.
Hoppie andLiss had no idea jump
ing a car would create Clockwork
Entertainment (nameunoflicial). Sean
Nacoste and Sam Schmitz collabo
rate with Hoppie and Liss composing
beats, lyrics and demos. Clockwork
Entertainment records all music in
Liss’s poolhouse in Milwaukie, but
they plan to expand and eventually
record in various locations.
Schmitz describes their-music to
be, “almost like a diary... nothing is
pre-meditated.”
“When you take the beat away it’s
like poetry in motion,” said Hoppie.
Liss said, “The lyrics accentuate
die beat It’s mood music.” -
Their CD proves that they have
serious talent. The group describes
their work as a sort of musical diary,
and their writing focuses on real
life subjects. Self-taught Clockwork
Entertainment’s members show true
potential, and their music brings more
opportunities to grow melodically.
The tracks include songs about
love, spiritual innuendo, getting
down at the club, personal experi
ences of the members and shout-outs
toCCC
“Cougars” was all about
Clackamas girls’ basketball team.
Behind the music they added sounds
from an actual game, such as squeak
ing shoes on the gym floor and the
crowd’s cheers. It was catchy and
original, and will probably get a lot
of great reviews from basketball fens
and players.
The women’s basketball team
warmed up to “Cougars” by
Clockwork Entertainment before
their game. Many of the players sang
along and moved to the beat
‘Tf they arereally all self taught,
then I’m impressed,” said Logan
Danforth, an underground music fen
and student at CCC. “The quality of
the music is really good. I’d play it
in my car.”
After promoting their first demo
last year, the group landed a show at
the Paris Theater on Dec. 23 . “The
show went really good,” Hoppie
said.
Clockwork Entertainment is
looking at producers such as LA
Connections and Flameworkx in Las
Vegas, Hoppie’s hometown, to pro
mote their group, and allow their
music to be heard.*
If they continue to make music
with the same style and originality
that they have been, it would not be
surprising if they get a record deal.
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