Fire Museum Presents:
Alan Sondheim/ Chris Diasparra/ Azure Carter Trio Bhob Rainey & Chris Forsyth Cotton Poodle Saturday, November 17th 8:00PM Highwire Gallery 2040 Frankford Ave Philadelphia, PA $6-$8 sliding scale Alan Sondheim/Chris Diasparra/Azure Carter (Brooklyn): Starting with releases on the ESP Disk and Riverboat labels in the late 60's, multi-instrumentalist Alan Sondheim returns to Philadelphia this time performing in a trio with Chris Diasparra (sax) & Azure Carter (vocals). About his Fire Museum release Ski/nn, The Wire had this to say: ?He wades into each track using a strong sense of rhythm to tame and shape his often harshly dissonant figures. Whether at a stately pace or in rapid scrabble, the music evokes an ethnographic hybrid of countless string instrument traditions, from koto to bluegrass, vigorously wiping past idiomatic technique as it does so.? Christopher Diasparra is a multi-instrumentalist, composer and improvisor. He is an active performer, playing a range of diverse styles including punk rock, soul, and freely improvised. In addition to performing, Christopher works as a freelance consultant to record labels where he has had the great fortune of working alongside his musical heroes. Christopher Diasparra is currently recording his debut release as a leader which will fuse his broad musical tastes. Azure Carter is an artist/performer/vocalist living in New York City with her husband/collaborator, Alan Sondheim. She has a bachelor's degree in contemporary art history from UCI and a master's degree in environmental conservation from NYU. She writes songs and texts, makes videos and costumes, and performs live. Bhob Rainey/Chris Forsyth (Philadelphia): Bhob Rainey, a soprano saxophonist and composer, is best known as a solo artist and as one half of Nmperign, with whom he plays alien extended technique effects that are influenced by electronic music, environmental sounds and free improvisation. Rainey studied at the New England Conservatory of Music with free jazz saxophonist Joe Maneri. Rainey's music during his early- to mid-twenties was, like Maneri's, characterized by long microtonal lines. Rainey's first CD, Ink, featuring Dan DeChellis, was released in 1997. After a controversial 1998 solo concert in Washington D. C. attracted a considerable amount of attention to Rainey's music, he and trumpeter Greg Kelley formed Nmperign with the goal of avoiding linear approaches to form and melodic contour. Nmperign, including Rainey, Kelley and Tatsuya Nakatani, recorded its first CD in 1998. Since 1998, Rainey has recorded extensively, including a number of projects with nmperign (minus Nakatani) and collaborations with musicians and composers like Jason Lescalleet, Le Quan Ninh, Ralf Wehowsky, etc. He continues to pursue a more sound-based (as opposed to note-based) approach in his work with nmperign, whereas his solo work, while far from traditional, often involves the use of more melodic lines. Since 2000, he has also led the bsc, a large ensemble that uses both acoustic instruments and electronics.- bio ?Chris Forsyth?s resonant, incisive sound is a cosmic abstraction of the American guitar tradition, reducing blues, rock, folk and improvisation into their spare, hypnotic base elements. He takes that approach to its most audacious extreme with his score for Robert Frank?s infamous Rolling Stones doc Cocksucker Blues, the first 10 minutes of which is excerpted on his latest CD, Kenzo Deluxe (Northern Spy). As Frank?s jittery camera pans across Mick, Keith and the boys, Forsyth kaleidoscopically represents their swagger, youthful excess and leering appropriation of the blues with echoing slapback licks that pout and strut airily like an unmoored Jagger wandering in the wilderness. Lately based in Philly, the ex-Peeesseye guitarist regularly collaborates with a wide array of free-thinking experimentalists, honing a concept that reframes the American primitives of John Fahey?s Takoma school amid the rubble of modern rock.? - Shaun Bradey/Citypaper Cotton Poodle (Philadelphia): For this Performance Cotton Poodle are Sam Cusumano, Eugene Lew, Sam Belkowitz and possibly Aaron Igler via remote. Cotton Poodle perform in ensemble an experiment in tonal dynamics and aural placement. Please come and enjoy! _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
