Pond Life, by Will Bernard

Pond Life

by Will Bernard

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1.	Will Bernard featuring Ches Smith, Chris Lightcap and John Medeski - Poor Man's Speedball 03:38	info	buy track
2.	Will Bernard featuring Ches Smith, Chris Lightcap and John Medeski - Type A 05:14	info	buy track
3.	Will Bernard featuring Ches Smith and Chris Lightcap - Surds 04:21	info	buy track
4.	Will Bernard featuring Ches Smith, Chris Lightcap, John Medeski and Tim Berne - Still Drinkin'? 02:59	info	buy track
5.	Will Bernard featuring Ches Smith, Chris Lightcap and Tim Berne - Pond Life 04:31	info	buy track
6.	Will Bernard featuring Ches Smith, Chris Lightcap, John Medeski and Tim Berne - Four Is More 05:01	info	buy track
7.	Will Bernard featuring Ches Smith and Chris Lightcap - Moving Target 02:59	info	buy track
8.	Will Bernard featuring Ches Smith, Chris Lightcap and Tim Berne - That Day 04:48	info	buy track
9.	Will Bernard featuring Ches Smith and Chris Lightcap - Motooz 04:53	info	buy track
10.	Will Bernard featuring Ches Smith and Chris Lightcap - Lake of Greater Remants 03:51	info	buy track

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Guitarist/Composer, Will Bernard’s 11th album POND LIFE highlights a more adventurous side of his many musical endeavors. In this recording, he investigates “The inner workings of swampy musical ecosystems and the dreamy afternoon of sun-drenched water lilies”. Bernard’s original compositions explore the use of improvisational space and tight ensemble passages that expand upon a core trio sound with New York “downtown” notables Chris Lightcap on bass (Regina Carter, Craig Taborn) and Ches Smith (Marc Ribot, John Zorn) on drums. Luminaries, Tim Berne on alto sax, and John Medeski on keyboards fill out the textures with their remarkable capabilities.

POND LIFE reflects Bernard’s lengthy musical development from his training in classical composition and jazz through his forays into funk, rock avant-garde, and world music.

Bernard expands on his guitaristic sonic explorations that range from bluesy panchromatic slide to dense electronic textures and disjointed bebop lines that interact with Smith’s symphonic drumming styles, Lightcap’s full rounded bass, Berne’s driving sax, and Medeski’s technicolor keyboards. POND LIFE can be seen as a return to the sound of an earlier trio with Ches Smith featured on Will’s 2004 record “Directions to my house”

“…a player who clearly deserves a wider audience for his imaginative genre-busting aesthetic”– John Kelman, All About Jazz

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released May 27, 2022

Will Bernard - guitar
Chris Lightcap - bass
Ches Smith - drums
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Tim Berne - alto saxophone
John Medeski - piano and Hammond B3

All songs written by Will Bernard 2022

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Will Bernard Brooklyn, New York

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Sky

Sep 2023
Pond Life

May 2022
Ancient Grains

Jun 2021
Freelance Subversives

May 2020
Out & About

Mar 2016
Just Like Downtown

Aug 2013
Outdoor Living

Jan 2012
Directions to My House

Jan 2004
Motherbug

Jan 2004

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