Chicago clarinetist and composer James Falzone uses his different Allos Musica ensembles to traverse modern chamber music, world music, and jazz — often within the same song. Lamentations, the debut album from his newest Allos incarnation, will be released on November 2 and derives a good deal of inspiration from Arabic music.
“I was working on a lot of this music in 2006 as US forces were more and more entrenched in the Iraq war,” Falzone says. “It did, and continues to, trouble me a great deal.”