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----- Original Message ----- From: Amir Bey To: Amir Bey Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 9:00 PM Subject: SYNERGY at Bowery Poetry Club -Live!!!! FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE PLEASE FORWARD *** Contact: Amir Bey 917-685-2383 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Saco Yasuma 212-423-9890 [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** SYNERGY:  Sight and Sound *** At Bowery Poetry Club 308 Bowery 212-614-0505 *** Thursday, January 26, 2006, 10:00 PM                                                                         *** $12.00 ***   Synergy: Sight and Sound, a high-energy free-style Jazz band, the innovative collaboration between sculptor/designer Amir Bey and musician/composer Saco Yasuma, begins a series of concerts at Bowery Poetry Club on Thursday, January 26, 2006, at 10 PM.  This series follows a festive performance at Bowery Poetry Club that was held on October 14, 2005. The band, featuring Yasuma on reeds and percussion, Sabir Mateen, reeds and flutes, Ras Moshe, reeds and flutes, Jackson Krall, Drums, and Francois Grillot on Bass, wear mixed media masks and silkscreen prints on nylon costumes designed by Bey.  Bey's set design combines long sheets of silkscreen prints on nylon, and suspended mobile-like percussive instruments that are fabricated from canvas, aluminum screen mesh, and acrylic.  These instruments are formed into shapes such as clouds, swinging anthropomorphic figures, music notes, and masks with bells attached to them.  Yasuma's original compositions range from her forceful "The Roar of Wood", to the contemplative "Peace Dance", and "Rain".   Yasuma is at home playing percussive instruments or her bamboo saxophone as she is with her main axe, the alto saxophone.   Synergy's concept is based on weaving the visual and audio arts; the sounds and movements of the musicians are visually enhanced, and the audio potentials for sculpture are explored.  There are moments when the band plays the instruments from the on-stage installation, twirling, swinging, and dancing with them. Profiles of the SYNERGY Artists Mixed media sculptor and curator Amir Bey has worked with musicians and performers since the 1970s, including set designs and costumes for Idris Ackamoor and Rodessa Jones of Cultural Odyssey, Maria Mitchell of Black Pearl Dance Company, and Lorna Littleway, who have incorporated his art in their productions.  Bey is based in New York, where he has organized exhibitions since 1989; he has also exhibited internationally, including Turkey, Japan, Spain, Italy, Martinique, and Germany.  Recently, his "Procession of Folk #3", a series of 12 faceted glass windows, was permanently installed by the MTA at the Mount Eden station on the #4 line in the Bronx. Alto saxophonist, composer and band leader Saco Yasuma has written many styles of music since she was the age of ten. She intensely began composing for various ensembles since 2001 in NYC, including the annual Billy Parker concert at Rockland College. Recent work with musicians such as Ras Moshe, Roy Campbell, Billy Bang, Luther Thomas and Sabir Mateen has motivated her to new approaches for writing free improvisational music.   The iconoclastic and masterful multi-instrumentalist, Sabir Mateen, who plays "action music", has been called a "gentle giant" who can "display controlled intensity without falling into undisciplined methodology" (Cook, Collins). His current ensembles such as Juxtapositions, M.A.S.K., Shapes, Textures & Sound Ensemble, and Movement Of The Future Ark, and his other projects are leading influences on the international avant-garde scene. Ros Moshe, a third generation reed player who, although trained in earlier forms of "Jazz", says his preferred mode of improvisation is in the later or "free" developments of the music. He has led The Music Now Unit since 1999 and played with many original artists such as Billy Bang, William Parker, William Hooker, and Kali Z. Fasteau.  He is a firm believer in the positive effects of the new music for social and personal change. Jackson Krall, a drummer who is noted for his sensitive accompaniment as well as his precise playing, has been performing with Cecil Taylor since the mid 1990s.  Krall has been working with many of the "cutting edge" musicians of this time; of him bassist William Parker has said, "His multi-leveled drumming has propelled many bands in the New York music scene..."  Other artists he recorded or performed with are Rob Brown, Alan Silva, Chris Kelsey, and Don Cherry to name a few. Francois Grillot is a versatile bassist and composer who has performed and recorded with such artists as Daniel Carter, Steve Swell, Roy Campbell, Burton Greene, and many others. He has lived in New York City for the last twenty-five years and for the last five has rediscovered "a certain je ne sais quoi interest" for improvised music. He will be featured in the very latest recording of Dom Minasi, which will be released soon. Public transportation: B, D, F trains to Broadway Lafayette, #6 to Bleecker Street. ###