[JPL] AYLER RECORDS - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

[JEFFREY SHURDUT]

  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
   
  Ayler Records Announces Jeffrey Hayden Shurdut As First Living Artist Chosen For Box Set
   
  December 2007, Sweden, Jeffrey Hayden Shurdut (New York City) is chosen as the first living artist to have a box set released by the Scandinavian record label Ayler Records.
  Shurdut's Box Set documents the artist's journey into Environmental Tuning with the players who have been a part of his revolutionary vision.
   
  This very unique box will include collaborations with Joe McPhee, Blaise Siwula, Brian Osborne, Daniel Carter, Luther Thomas, Sonny Simmons, Frode Gjerstad, Lukas Ligeti, Tom Chess, Marc Edwards, Sabir Mateen, Dave Sewelson, Marcus Cummins, Laura Cromwell, and many many others.
   
  Jeffrey Hayden Shurdut's choice of venue has often been as much a part of the creative process as the music itself. He is best known for tuning his guitar to the sound of his environment.  He has also been known to tune his instrument while on the way to gigs by putting the bottom of his six string to the floor of the subway car.  "My recording studio is the rooftop, basement, empty retail office, apartment, balcony, church, old stripped down movie house ready for demolition, university, the industrial area, warehouse, lumber yard, waterfront scene in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and any place in, or around, my busy, living-loud space, all inclusive with its five lane highway of grinding metal, midnight sirens, 4am rotting food and shattering glass garbage pickups, homeless, addicts, middle class, talking trash, shouting matches, early morning petroleum drop offs, noxious oil and gaging truck fumes, wrapped in the sour smell of melting tar and hot black top called 3rd Avenue,
 New York," says Shurdut.
   
  Ayler records, founded by Jan Strom, has made a name for itself by releasing music by such artists as Albert Ayler, Peter Brotzman, Noah Howard, John Stevens, William Parker, Sunny Murray, and Charles Gayle.
   
  Shurdut is a "Visionary," Mike Szajewski (WNUR, Chicago); with "Talent and Vision to Spare," Steven Loewy (All Music Guide).