Spontaneous Combustion

Spontaneous Combustion

LIQUID TRIO EXPERIMENT

(Mike Portnoy, Jordan Rudess, Tony Levin)

SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION

In October 1998, Liquid Tension Experiment reunited at Millbrook Studios in upstate New York to record their 2nd album. A few days into the sessions, John Petrucci's pregnant wife went into premature labor leaving Mike Portnoy, Jordan Rudess and Tony Levin stranded in an already set-up and booked recording studio. So like any creative and productive musicians would do, they decided to stay and JAM...and JAM they did!

Over the course of two days, they played for hours on end. The Trio consciously did not "compose" or "write" anything. They simply went wherever the music took them.

Several of these jams ended up being used on LTE2. The rest of this music has remained unreleased until now.

For some bizarre and still unexplained reason, the master tapes of these jams were misplaced during the mixing process. But, luckily, Portnoy records almost everything he ever does and as a result his live 2-track stereo DAT mixes are the only remaining traces of this historic jam.

So what you have here is as live and raw as it gets. No overdubs, no editing, no mixing. Just 3 guys, their instruments and their spontaneous imaginations feeding off of each other.

So finally - almost 10 years later - here is Mike Portnoy, Jordan Rudess and Tony Levin flying by the seat of their collective, musical pants.

Better late than never!
Country USA
Brand Castle
Manufacturer MAGNA CARTA RECORDS
Binding Audio CD
ItemPartNumber 90602
Model 90602
ReleaseDate 2014-07-01
UnitCount 1
UPCs 614286906026
EANs 0614286906026

Country	USA
Brand	Castle
Manufacturer	MAGNA CARTA RECORDS
Binding	Audio CD
ItemPartNumber	90602
Model	90602
ReleaseDate	2014-07-01
UnitCount	1
UPCs	614286906026
EANs	0614286906026

Spontaneous Combustion

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