Debut album of first musical encounter of Adam Lion on Percussion and Vibraphone and Evan lipson on Double Bass

Offering 'a tone so pure it is almost a sine-wave' (The Wire), Adam Lion is a percussionist concerned with improvisation, composition, and performance. Based in Los Angeles, his work has been featured in The New York Times, Pitchfork Media, Artforum Magazine, and Bandcamp Daily. In 2025 Lion performed over 40 concerts in 21 states, travelling to all regions of the contiguous US. Evan Lipson has lived with the incurable disease of music since early adolescence, seeking the liminal realms in which intellect and instinct, history and myth, and creative and destructive force intersect. Drawn towards aberrant perspectives at an early age, his formative activities were primarily rooted in extreme and discordant forms stemming from various traditions of 'underground' and ancient musics. He may or may not have some degree of affiliation with Rev. Fred Lane in addition to a social scientific think tank known as Meinschaft and a reunited Naval Air Force jazz band that underwent covert MKUltra experimentation in the late 1960s to early '70s known as Legion of Strategic Deception (LSD). That Which is Placed Upon the Altar was recorded in a single session on the penultimate day of Adam Lion's 2025 US solo tour which took him from Los Angeles, California to Asheville, North Carolina. This recording marks Lion and Evan Lipson's first musical encounter. After playing together as a duo and realizing that Lion had also never played with Jake Smith (the engineer of the session), Lipson suggested that the three record again as a trio, and so they did. Adam plays vibraphone and percussion, Evan plays double bass and Jake Smith plays electric guitar.

Track Listing

• That Which Is also Placed Upon The Altar

Additional Details

Label: Klanggalerie

Genre: Jazz

Language: English

Run Time: 72:15 mins

Region: 0

Release Date: 05/08/26

UPC: 5052571227626