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Tonewheel

from Tonewheel by Leo Sherman

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Tonewheel is the last piece on the album and is the concept for the whole project. A tonewheel has many meanings: it’s the mechanical wheel inside of an organ that allows for it to sound, it’s a name for the color wheel, and it’s also an organizational model for emotions. The latter was really interesting. It comes from Plutchik’s Wheel of Emotions, a circle that arranges our primary emotions by intensity, combination, and relation to their opposite emotions. This to me felt like the perfect way to tell my story of immigrating to the US, growing up in the diverse and challenging environment of Baltimore, and moving to New York to make a musical statement. Tonewheel also nicely describes the different colors and functionality that each band member brings to the project.

To briefly describe the piece, it’s a movement through a color cycle. The beguine groove gives a circular feeling of motion and the tonal centers are purposefully ephemeral until the long 5/4 vamp in the end that brings everything, and everyone, together.

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from Tonewheel, released October 25, 2019

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