This is a big band that is playing more dynamic marks that any other. Our featured bass clarinet player is craving for a rest here and there, but I like when people are red on their faces. When even our singer loses her breath singing a crazy line with the trumpets we can always resort to harp, vibraphone and a string quartet to provide some easily sustainable ambience with their evolving ostinatos. (I hope an evolving ostinato isn't too much of a contradiction)

This band is responsible for helping me out with my master's recital for which I wrote an hour long piece named Extreme Conditions - hence the name of the band. Everything was led, supervised and conducted by the great Ed Partyka, to whom I will forever be in debt for making something out of my score.