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    In this age of environmental, political, and economic crisis, accentuated by “social” media that attempts to make everyone feel as though they are intricately connected to every event, even when they don’t want to be, we find ourselves more alone, more isolated, more individualized than ever we were before. On the other hand, we, as human beings, have always been alone. Intrinsically, we know we are ultimately alone. We enter the world alone, we die alone. In short, there is little in this universe we can depend upon, other than that we must recognize our aloneness, embrace it even, before universal oneness can even be considered.

    But here is the thing. We are alone together, as part of one great whole. We navigate this world as an amalgamation of molecules and atoms, made of the same basic material as a rock, a star, a bear, a tree, or a sidewalk. We are alone, but we are also all one. Thus, we are AlOnE. That word, written just that way, evokes both feelings at the same time. To resonate in both frequencies is to be ambient, to be of the emergent space and time.

    After decades of being in, out, and on the periphery of what it is to be a "musician," even taking long enough hiatuses to pursue graduate and postgraduate degrees in unrelated areas, I find myself drawn back - full tilt - to the oneness of creative improvisation and exploration of sound. This compilation of solo recordings marks the return to my now 40-year relationship with this difficult, unique, beautiful instrument called the trombone.

    Perhaps most importantly, this recording marks my return to a path started a long time ago. From this many other paths will arise. In the coming months I have lots of performances, tours, and recordings planned and in the works. I hope you can hear the simultaneity of aloneness and oneness in the sounds emanating from my horn.     ... more
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Papered and Foiled 04:26
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Recalibration 08:18
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Midnight in the Alley 01:30
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Don't Do Anything 02:38
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A Response 01:40
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The Calling 10:26
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Apocalyptical Garden 02:02
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Those of you who pay the full price and buy the whole album are not just supporting the music that I play and the time it takes me to record and edit, but the funds will go directly to future projects. I will not be buying eggs and bread with this money. I will be investing in my ability to take my music to other countries and play it live. I will also send you personal updates as to when and where I am traveling if you give me your email.

One of the key project this will fund is my goal of flying to the US to record and perform with my very long-time friend and genius sound designer(though he is a composer first and sound designer second), engineer, and musician David R. Molina. Plane tickets and costs are very high, so every cent counts.

The Backstory

When my family and I picked up and left the United States, it was not because we had decided to take our American money and make it go further in a country like Hungary. We had nothing. No money, no property, hardly any possessions. I lost both my teaching positions, one at the University of Washington and the other at Skagit Valley College, both due to funding cuts that hurt a lot of people, not just me.

My son Oliver was only 3 1/2 when this happened. We were living in the idyllic location of Bellingham, Washington, but hanging on by a string. My PhD dissertation was still unfinished, and I was determined not to allow those previous 4 years to be time wasted. I would go on to finish that dissertation and receive my PhD in Geography in 2021, two years after I left America.

Those days were hard. We left our whole life behind. We sold everything we had, down to the rings on our fingers, in order to have enough funds to take care of our basic bills, book our flight, and head to Budapest in April of 2019. Szilvia, my wife of now 18 years, is Hungarian, and we had first met here in Budapest way back in 2002. She and I went to the US in 2004, got married, and next thing you know, it was 2019. While we had always hoped to come back to Budapest and live, we had wanted to do it on better terms. Leaving your own country, feeling beaten down by its brutal capitalist and psychotically competitive culture, is no picnic.

Just after we got here, in March of 2020, Covid came and hit everyone like a ton bricks, just like it did all over the world. We spent months on full lock-down. At the time, we were living in a terrible old tenement-style apartment in the heart of the city and our only respite from its confines was taking our dog Zoli (RIP) on walks to the nearby park. Eventually, we got out of there and moved to a better place, and that is when life started to ease up a bit.

During the first three years that we were here in Hungary, one of the only real escapes for me from a near constant stress, was learning how to record myself, use Audacity, and put together enough basic editing skills that I could make music without the ability to play much with others. I was learning how to create alone.

The following tracks were recorded during that time, with last two or three tracks being added very recently.

In the last 4 years, much has changed. My family is in a much better position now. We own our own home (thanks to Szilvia's family), and our debt is very minimal in comparison to the life we were living in the US. My son is thriving, going to a wonderful music-focused public school. And slowly, but surely, we are piecing our life together from the ashes of what was.

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released June 16, 2023

Christopher Robin Cox: trombone, electronics, hosszú furulya, and zurna.

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Christopher Robin Cox (trombone-electronics) Budapest, Hungary

Christopher is an experimental and improvising trombonist, originally from the U.S. who now lives in Budapest, Hungary.

After a long career of playing everything from jazz and blues to political hip-hop, he took an extended hiatus and began playing again in 2020, around the time he earned his PhD.

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