| Monday
May 4
Tranzac Main Hall
292 Brunswick
(3 Blks
West of Spadina, South of Bloor)
THE THING (NO/SE)
plus
AARON
LUMLEY
and
DAVID
PRENTICE (CA)
Doors 8pm Show 9pm
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THE
THING
Mats Gustafsson (SE) – Reeds
Ingebrigt H. Flaten (NO) – Bass
Paal Nilssen–Love (NO) – Drums
The Thing was established in the spring of February 2000, when Mats
Gustafsson, Ingebrigt H Flaten, and Paal Nilssen–Love met to
play several concerts, and to record their first CD (on Crazy Wisdom,
a sub label of Swedish Universal). They recorded their second CD on
the same label as a quartet with Joe McPhee In 2001. Both are currently
out of print. The Thing is now signed on the Norwegian label Smalltown
Supersound.
This long–desired collaborative constellation is a highly energetic
outlet where several musical styles converge. All members are influenced
by different traditions of free music derived from Germany, England,
and America; the aim being that these influences will be felt, but
not necessary heard. When the trio started out, the book consisted
mainly of tunes by Don Cherry, hence the group's name. Since Joe McPhee`s
participation, the group's repertoire has included free jazz standards
by David Murray, Frank Lowe, and Norman Howard. The Thing's enthusiasm
for rock music is also heard on tunes such as "To Bring You My
Love" by PJ Harvey. Today, the book has expanded to include tunes
by The White Stripes, The Sonics, and Yeah Yeah Yeahs. This is an
example of the current interchangeability of disparate musical styles,
and how similar their energy is and can be, and the degree to which
today`s audience is melded together, enthusiastically devoted to creative
music.
Mats Gustafsson is counted among Sweden's free music royalty, and
is one of Europe's biggest names on the free music scene. Through
groups like Gush, AALY trio, and Peter Brötzmann's Chicago Tentet,
he has established himself as a powerful and influential saxophonist,
who has virtually reinvented the way of playing the saxophone.
Ingebrigt Håker Flaten and Paal Nilssen–Love have become
known collectively as Norway’s heaviest rhythm–section.
Since their collaboration began in 1992, they have worked in several
groups, among them are: School Days with Ken Vandermark, Scorch trio
with Raoul Björkenheim, and the Swedish/Norwegian jazz–group
Atomic.
"The sheer power they generate from wood, metal, breath, and
muscle is stunning!" BBC
"Absurdly cool!" DJ Magazine
http://www.paalnilssenlove.com/band_thething.html
http://www.ingebrigtflaten.com
AARON
LUMLEY (CA) – Bass
Aaron Lumley (1981) is a Toronto based double bass player working
primarily in the musical fields of improvisation and instant composition.
In the summer of 2006, after more than a decade of playing guitar,
Aaron discovered a deep affinity for the double bass. In the spring
of 2007, Aaron dedicated himself fully to the bass. His education
as a musician has been largely self–directed, drawn from practical
experience, the knowledge of generous friends, record collections,
etc. In the fall of 2008, however, Aaron traveled to the Netherlands
to study with Wilbert de Joode, one of his main inspirations for taking
up the bass.
Currently, Aaron can be found working in a wide array of musical contexts.
In addition to solo performances, he works in duos with violinist
David Prentice, drummer Daniel Gaucher, and dancer Neil Sochasky.
He co–leads the chamber–noise quartet Wodwos, plays bass
with a jazz trio called The Swyves, and is a member of the AIMToronto
Orchestra. He has also performed with numerous musicians and dancers
from across Canada, the USA, the Netherlands, Germany, and Australia.
Aaron's bass playing will be featured on upcoming recordings by Ronda
Rindone's Quorum and the Kyle Brenders Sextet (scheduled for release
on Porter Records). Aaron is also working to self–release a
solo double bass recording and a recording of his duo with David Prentice.
DAVID PRENTICE (CA) – Violin
Prentice was born in Sault Ste Marie Ontario in 1947. In his high
school years, Prentice played various fretted stringed instruments.
After graduating from the University of Waterloo with a degree in
mathematics, he became interested in the violin, and began studying
in Toronto. He has performed and recorded with an esteemed roster
of musicians, including John Oswald, Dominic Duval, Joe McPhee, Peter
Kowald, Jay Rosen, all on CIMP Recordings.
In 1981, he began making violins. Inspired by the work of Otto Erdesz,
and his students Joseph Curtin and John Newton, he set up a small
shop and began learning the craft. In 1988, Prentice left his job
as a mathematics teacher and began making violins and violas full
time in a shop in the village of Flesherton Ontario. In 1990 Prentice
was awarded a grant by the Canada Council to assist in further study.
In 1993 the Canadian Museum of Civilization commissioned a viola for
their permanent collection. Prentice has been working in Flesherton
for fourteen years building violins and violas for clients in North
America and Europe.
A member of the Violin Society of America and the Catgut Acoustical
Society, Prentice is involved in the study of instrument acoustics.
The work being done in this field is important to the understanding
and construction of high quality stringed instruments.
http://www.myspace.com/aaronlumley
http://www.davidprenticeviolins.com/index.htm
http://www.cimprecords.com/artists/?artist=David+Prentice
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Tuesday
May 5
Imperial Pub
54 Dundas St E
(East of Dundas Square @ Victoria Lane)
Doors at
8:00 screens at 8:30
SPACE IS THE PLACE - HYMN TO THE UNIVERSE:
REHEARSAL TO BALLROOM
plus
THE
THING - ALIVE AGAIN
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SPACE
IS THE PLACE
Coleman Lemieux and Compagnie/The Sun Ra Arkestra - Hymn to the
Universe
A celebration of music and dance at the outer limits
The Music Gallery/Rough Idea presentation of HYMN TO THE UNIVERSE
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the collaboration between the Sun Ra Arkestra (under the direction
of
Marshall Allen) and Coleman Lemieux and Compagnie, which launched
the
2008 X Avant SPACE IS THE PLACE Festival in October at the Palais
Royale. HYMN TO THE UNIVERSE was selected as one of the city's BEST
CONCERTS OF THE YEAR by the critics at Eye Weekly.
SUN RA ARKESTRA @ X AVANT
October 21, 2008 Palais Royale
A collaboration between the Arkestra and Toronto?s
Coleman Lemieux,
?Hymn to the Universe? brought avant-garde music into the upscale
Palais Royale. Fittingly, the result was a night of unreality, where
suited ushers (including myself) mingled with lifers wearing
Rivendell caps, Arkestra members in radiant cosmic-priest vestments,
and dancers wearing little of anything. The multi-generational band
swung expertly and with immense levels of energy; on the more
experimental pieces from their 50-year back catalogue, they lived
up
to their late, visionary namesake. By the end, hoofers, players,
and
the audience all danced together in the room?s centre, as that
refrain came again and again: ?space is the place?. We were no longer
somewhere here. CHRIS RANDLE - Eye Weekly
VTO9
will screen video clips of the work in progress, at the Coleman
Lemieux Citadel Studios, and segments of the Palais performance.
Special occasion will be introduced by choreographer/jazz tapper
Bill
Coleman. Hymn Archive is managed by Chris Wiseman.
The
Signal - CBC radio 2 recorded the performance, and it exists as
a
Concert On Demand:
http://www.cbc.ca/radio2/cod/concerts/20081021sunra
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Friday May 15
Studio 6
6 Nassau, in Kensington Market
(2 Blks
South of College @ Spadina)
OFFONOFF (SE/NL/IT)
plus
BRODIE
WEST and RYAN DRIVER (CA)
Doors 8pm Show 9pm
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OFFONOFF
Eye
Magazine interview, Tuesday May 11th
Massimo Pupillo (IT) – Electric Bass
Terrie Ex (NL) – Electric Guitar
Paal Nilssen–Love (NO) – Drums
OFFONOFF is a new trio that had its debut in November 2006. Prior
to that time, the three met in Original Silence, with Jim O`Rourke,
Thurston Moore, and Mats Gustafsson. This group did four shows in
Italy in the fall of 2005. It was at these gigs that Massimo, Terrie,
and Paal were struck by their immediate interplay. So powerful, it
was as if they had been playing together for decades. The trio decided
to establish OFFONOFF. If it is possible to describe their music,
it exists somewhere between Last Exit, James Blood Ulmer, Sonic Youth,
and Locust: noise, intense, hard, rapid shifts, and contrasts, heavy
grooves, all free improvised.
Terrie Ex is best known for his work with the Dutch rock group The
Ex. The Ex is probably one of Europe's most interesting and inventive
rock bands, relentlessly pushing the limits for the last 25 years.
Terrie Ex also runs his own label, where he´s collaborated with
Han Bennink amongst others. The label was also responsible for putting
out the incredible Konono No.1. As a guitarist, he breaks down all
borders, and is probably one of the most extreme guitar players around.
Very physical in his attitude to the music, he combines rhythm and
tonality in a way that is impossible to compare.
Massimo Pupillo is also well known within the rock scene, most notably
through his work with ZU. Zu has existed for over 15 years, and does
an average of 70 gigs per year, also collaborating with No Means No,
The Locust, Lightning Bolt, etc. Massimo is also quite physical in
is appearance. With the bass plugged straight in the amp, no special
effects, he kicks the music in such a way that no one can beat. Seldom
has one experienced a bass player who can squeeze as much power and
loudness out of just one instrument.
Paal Nilssen–Love is a powerful drummer, with extremely high
energy and endless stamina. In collaborations with musicians from
Sweden, Chicago, Japan, and Germany, he displays an ongoing willingness
and ability to break physical and musical borders as he continues
his quest for new collaborations and experiences. He continues to
work alongside such luminaries as Mats Gustafsson, Peter Brötzmann,
Ken Vandermark, Evan Parker, Sten Sandell, Raoul Björkenheim,
and Frode Gjerstad.
BRODIE WEST (CA) – saxophone
Alto saxophonist/composer Brodie West currently resides in Toronto,
Canada. He has been playing jazz and other improvised based music
for nearly 20 years. Brodie grew up in Nanaimo, British Columbia.
He first picked up the alto saxophone at the age of 12. He gained
his first performance experiences playing at old folks' homes with
his grandmother, a piano player and passionate music lover who encouraged
him to play the old popular standards. Throughout high–school,
he played in jazz bands and small combos. In 1993, Brodie moved to
Toronto. He attended Humber College for three years, where here he
studied the Jazz tradition with Pat Labarbera, Don Thompson, and Charles
Tolliver.
In 1997 he formed Zebradonk, an improvisational, free form trio, with
collaborators Shawn Abedin and Alfons Fear. Zebradonk was together
for five years, with residencies in Amsterdam and Berlin, four extensive
Canadian tours, and a residency at the Banff Centre for the Arts.
They released three full length CDs on Brodie's record label LORNA
Records, named after his grandmother.
Brodie found his role model in the "instant composing" of
Dutch masters, the I.C.P. Orchestra – namely Misha Mengelberg,
and Han Bennink. In 2001, Brodie traveled to Amsterdam to take up
studies in counterpoint and improvisation with Mengelberg. That same
year, he recorded a duo CD with Han Bennink; they also toured several
cities in Canada the following year. In 2006, Brodie returned to Amsterdam
for a longer duration to further these studies.
Brodie has toured extensively throughout France, Belgium, Switzerland,
Austria and Holland with The EX and Ethiopian Tenor Saxophone Legend
Getatchew Mekuria. In 2008, they toured in the U.S.A., with concerts
in Chicago, Washington, Boston, and New York, at the prestigious Lincoln
Centre for the Arts. They also performed at a music festival in Addis
Ababa, Ethiopia.
Brodie continues to play improvised based music in a variety of formats.
Current projects include: Drumheller, Deep Dark United, Goo! (Denmark),
Lina Allemano 4, The Cluttertones, The Ex and Getachew Mekuria (Holland,
Ethiopia), and a duet with bassist Brent Tanemura. His most emergent
Toronto based ensemble features Ryan Driver (keyboards); Alex Lukachevesky
(guitar) and Blake Howard (drums).
RYAN DRIVER (CA) – synthesizer, street sweeper bristle
Ryan Driver is a Toronto–based musician who plays, writes, and
sings music in spirals and swirls through the void of everythingness.
Quiet absurdity, free improvisation, psychedelic reinterpretation
of jazz ballads, performance as a soloist and in a multitude of peculiar
ensembles, and using a variety of instruments and aesthetics, have
long been his main foci. He is a prominent figure in the catalogue
of the Rat–Drifting record label, which was started in 2001
by Eric Chenaux and Martin Arnold. The sixteenth and most recent addition
to this catalogue is Feeler Of Pure Joy, the first album comprised
exclusively of songs by Ryan Driver. This collection features an array
of intimate psychedelic soul/country/folk songs with musical support
from Chenaux, Arnold, Jean Martin, Andrew Downing, and Jennifer Castle.
This album and the last album by The Silt (with Doug Tielli and Marcus
Quin) are being re–released in Europe and elsewhere by Fire
Records this year. Ryan has toured in Europe with Sandro Perri (aka
Polmo Polpo) and performed with The Reveries, a surreal lounge trio
that uses mouth–speakers and other unconventional instruments
to reconfigure popular love ballads, at the Angelica Festival of New
Music in Bologna.
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| Friday
May 29
Labspace
2A Pape
(2 Blks
East of Carlaw @ Eastern)
CHARLOTTE HUG (CH)
plus
NICK
STORRING (CA)
(solo
and trio with Germaine Liu and Araz Salek) (CA)
Doors 8pm Show 9pm
http://labspacestudio.com/ |
CHARLOTTE
HUG (CH) – Viola/Voice
In addition to solo performances at international music festivals,
theatres, and museums, Charlotte Hug is a member of the London Improvisers
Orchestra, the Swiss Centre for Computer Musik and, ROVATE 2009 –
Fissures, Futures (for Buckminster Fuller), with Larry Ochs, and The
Rova Saxophone Quartet (US). She has, and continues to work with Thomas
Lehn (analog electronics – DE), Carla Kihlstedt (violin –
US), Joan Jenrenaud (electric cello – US), Lisle Ellis (bass
– CA), and Kjell Nordeson (percusision – SE). She improvises,
both freely and conceptually, with such performers as John Butcher,
John Edwards, Phil Minton, Maggie Nicols, Evan Parker, Elliott Sharp,
and Phil Wachsmann. Her domain encompasses performance, composition,
improvisation, visual art, electro–acoustics, concert installations,
film, and musical theatre. Audibly influenced by her work with electronics,
Charlotte's experiments with tuning and bowing elucidate her profound
relationship with the viola. Rosin clouds burst and settle as her
bow scrapes across strings as thick as bullrushes. Hers is the sound
of friction and sonority.
Charlotte’s elemental cross platforms and visual art continue
to mature with a challenging magnificence. Her sonorous reinventions
on the viola continue to attract attention and respect. The promise
of her Son–Icons visual room scores (which drape and dress her
solo concert venues) hold Toronto audiences in awestruck anticipation
for our first exposure to her gallery installations, and her very
aquatic Anderwelten composition for voice and viola.
CH: Sonicons – In the beginning there is
always an improvisation, which I later visualise in graphite drawings.
I use both hands and four pencils simultaneously to create these drawings
as I listen to my own musical improvisations. Then I use these sonicons,
as I call the resulting characters, for a score. Music and sonicons
thus arise in a continuous circular process. I call them sonicons
because they are not a precise representation of sound, but rather
more like seismographic renderings, a visualisation and continuation
of the music. The sonicons should also be semantically coherent, and
not simply a sonic transcription. The eye often makes judgements other
than those made by the ear. Its focus is elsewhere, and it perceives
proportions differently. These incongruities interest me. In the end,
the drawing that emerges serves as the template for a new improvisation,
which in turn produces a new drawing, which then becomes music. The
score is elaborated in each step of the process, and the music changes.
CH: Layers – I draw the sonicons on semi–transparent strips
of paper, one stacked on top of the other. The most recent score is
at the top, with the older scores appearing vaguely through it. The
entire developmental spectrum, from the initial spark all the way
to the most recent layer, is thus visible. I do not discard the individual
sonicons, but allow them to remain parts of the whole. New elements
arise in the score at each and every performance. The most recent
layer is clearly visible, while the previous layers remain preserved
and accessible to the eye. The layers are subject to a different interpretation
at each performance.
http://www.charlottehug.ch/english.html
NICK STORRING (solo and trio with Germaine Liu and Araz Salek) (CA)
Nick Storring will perform solo on cello,other strings and electronics.
and in a trio with
Germaine Liu (percussion) and Araz Salek (tar, dutar)
Some composition and some improvisation.
http://www.nickstorring.com
http://www.arazsalek.com
http://www.arazsalek.com
Toronto
based musician, Nick Storring, was born in Kitchener in 1981, and
began Suzuki–Method cello training at the age of four. He still
credits this early ears–first–style training with spurring
on his interest in composition and improvisation.
Active as a performer, improviser, and composer, he is also an avid
collector, and sometime music journalist. He has been a member of
unsettling quiet–rock group Picastro since 2005, with whom he
recorded the group's third record, Whore Luck (released on Polyvinyl
Record Co), and toured across North America and Europe. Nick is also
one third of the electronics–heavy improv combo I Have Eaten
The City, and plays in the wayward cello duo, The Knot, and with ANAK,
alongside soul vocalist Saidah Baba Talibah, Araz Salek, Erik Katz,
and Andrew Timar, and with roots–rock singer Erika Werry. His
enthusiasm and eclecticism has also led him to collaborative encounters
in concert with Daniel Johnston, Rhys Chatham, Malcolm Goldstein,
Owen Pallett, Damo Suzuki, Laura Barrett, Eddie Prévost, and
Diane Labrosse.
Awarded first place in the Canadian Electroacoustic Community's Jeux
de Temps/Times Play competition in 2008 for his broken–violin
derived piece "Artifacts (I)", the piece has gone on to
be heard in Belfast, Berlin, Montreal, and Toronto.
His work has accompanied several plays for Kitchener–Waterloo
based company the MT Space, and has been programmed at the Open Ears
Festival, the EUCUE series at Concordia University, and the 20th Anniversary
of the Maison de la Culture NDG in Montréal. Nick holds an
Honours Bachelor of Music in composition from Wilfrid Laurier University
where he worked with Peter Hatch and Glen Buhr. He is currently working
on his MFA in Composition at York University under the supervision
of David Mott.
Nick also contributes as a writer to magazines Musicworks and Exclaim!,
and maintains the blog End(–)of(–)World Music.
http://www.reverbnation.com/nickstorring
http://www.reverbnation.com/nickstorringportfolio
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| Tuesday
June 9
Imperial Pub
54 Dundas St E
(East of
Dundas Square @ Victoria Lane)
VALENTINE TRIO (USA)
plus
JOHN
KAMEEL FARAH (CA) - piano
plus
THANDEKA
MABUZA (SA) – Voice
and
PRINCE
BULO (SA) - bass
(* see
program note below)
Doors 8pm
Show 9pm
* Important Note:
Due to a change in travel plans the orginally scheduled artist Mageshen
Naidoo will be unable to attend this evenings performance.
Our apologies.
-ri
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Photo- Jeff Kimmel
VALENTINE
TRIO
Fred Lonberg–Holm (USA) – Cello
Jason Roebke (USA) – Bass
Frank Rosaly (USA) – Drums
The Valentine Trio was begun as a tribute project to the jazz cello
great Fred Katz. The first record was titled "A Valentine for
Fred Katz" and featured Katz's compositions and other tunes that
he recorded. The bassist was Jason Roebke and the drummer was Glenn
Kotche. The second record, "Other Valentines" covered compositions
by a diverse collection of composers including Gil Scott–Heron,
Syd Barrett, Jeff Tweedy, Sun Ra, Cat Power, as well as originals
by Lonberg–Holm and Roebke. Eventually, Frank Rosaly replaced
Kotche. The third and most recent disc, Terminal Valentine, continues
with this line–up and features original compositions by Fred
Lonberg–Holm. The music for this record was conceived of for
Fred's quartet, Terminal Four, but after trying the charts with Roebke
and Rosaly, he decided to develop the book with the trio.
Fred Lonberg–Holm lives in Chicago. He plays the cello and other
things when he can get away with it. He also writes a bit of music
and organizes large ensemble improvised constructions under the name
Lightbox Orchestra. Currently, Fred is "leading" the Valentine
Trio (with Jason Roebke and Frank Rosaly) and is a member of The Vandermark
5, Joe Mcphee Survival Unit III, The Peter Brotzmann Chicago Tentet,
Guillermo Gregorio Trio, Keefe Jackson's Fast Citizens, Jorrit Dijkstra's
Flatland Collective, the Boxhead Ensemble, and The Friction Brothers.
He plays around in various ad–hoc formings as well as a few
solo gigs from time to time. He has played studio sessions for lots
of folks, including Simon Joyner, Wilco, Will Oldham, Daniel Givens,
Chris Mills, L'Altra, Califone, Paul Duncan, Freakwater, etc.
“Cellist Fred Lonberg–Holm is apparently the only person
to admit openly he's studied with both Morton Feldman and Anthony
Braxton. In an interview he gave a few years back, he confesses: "I
learned everything from Feldman. That's my biggest problem in life
is that I learned so much from Morton Feldman everything else is a
come down since then. I have to somehow smile and put up with a bunch
of idiots who don't know... It's a horrible thing". Since Tom
Cora's passing in the late 90's, he's been the closest contender to
the improvised cello throne.” – Tom Sekowski for Gaz–eta
http://www.lonbergholm.info/valentinetrio
http://www.lonbergholm.info/
http://www.jasonroebke.info/
http://www.frankrosaly.blogspot.com/
JOHN
KAMEEL FARAH (CA) – Piano
John Kameel Farah is a Toronto–based composer, pianist, and
electronic producer. Trained in composition and piano performance
at the University of Toronto, where he studied under William Aide,
John received the Glenn Gould Composition Award twice during his studies.
The influences of the classical and avant–garde composers whose
works he performed can be felt in his music, mixing with forays into
free improvisation, minimalism, jazz, electro–acoustics, eastern
scales, ambient and genres of electronic dance music such as Drum
& Bass and Techno. Toronto’s NOW Magazine named him Best
Pianist in 2006. In 1999 he studied privately with Terry Riley in
the Sierra Nevada mountains in California, and studied Middle–Eastern
classical music at the Arabic Music Retreat in Hartford. In 1998,
he performed the complete solo piano works of Arnold Schoenberg in
Toronto.
A virtuosic keyboardist simultaneously using piano, synthesizer sound
sculpture, computer sequencing, and at times even harpsichord, his
concerts are epic experiences, existing somewhere between a classical
concert hall and an experimental DJ set at a dance club.
Farah performs regularly in Toronto, and has performed his music at
festivals and venues across Europe, USA, Canada, the Middle–East,
South Korea and Mexico. In 1999 and 2002, he visited the Edward Said
National Conservatory in the West Bank, giving performances and masterclasses
in Ramallah, East Jerusalem and Bethlehem.
http://www.johnfarah.com
http://www.cbc.ca/radio2/cod/concerts/20080904johnf
THANDEKA
MABUZA (SA) – Voice
Thandeka Mabuza is a powerful, compelling Zulu jazz vocalist. She
has performed throughout South Africa, in Sweden, Scotland, Germany,
and New Orleans. Hailing from a township on the outskirts of Durban,
in KwaZulu Natal province, she follows in the footsteps of fellow
South Africans Jimmi Dludlu, Busi Mhlongo, Hugh Masekela, Miriam Makeba,
and Brenda Fassi, blending a vivid sense of African traditional styles
with contemporary African jazz sensibilities. She has toured with
the University of KwaZulu Jazz Band, as well as with her own combo.
This is a rare opportunity to hear her perform in Canada, alongside
the stellar South African bassist, Prince Bulo. Their repertoire will
include new South African jazz, and classic African standards.
PRINCE BULO (SA) – Upright and Electric Bass
Prince has made appearances at: Cape Town International Jazz festival,
Grahams town Jazz festival, MTN Durban Festival, Freedom Day Arts
Festival, Metropol Jazz Club–Sweden, Johannesburg Joy of Jazz,
Jazz Festival, Awesome Africa, Durban, Freedom Day Festival–Limpopo,
Jazz at the Lake–Qwa Qwa, Kimberly Arts Festival, Nefertiti–Sweden,
The Mill–Iowa City USA, performed before President (RSA) Thabo
Mbheki with the Burton Naidoo quartet featuring Jerry Kunene and Bruce
Baker on drums. Artists he works/worked with include AFRIQUE, Mafikizolo,
Sibongile Khumalo, Darius Brubeck, Young Nations, Ernie Smith, Black
Cheese, Quiet Storm, George Mari, Jerry Kunene, Melvin Peters , Mageshen
Naidoo, Burton Naidoo, Neil Gonsalvez, Shaun Peterson, Martin Sigamoney,
Natalie R, Nduduzo, Makhathini, Zee, Susan Barry, Marcus Wyatt, Andile
Mseleku, John Rapson, Steve Grismore(USA), Back Brothers, Karin Bengmark(Sweden),
and Zoco (Mozambique). He has shared the stage with artists such as
Palle Danielson, Avishai Cohen, Branford Marsalis, Jeff ‘Tain’
Watts, Voice, Shannon Mowday, Zamajobe, Todd Gustafson, Jack deJohnette,
Danilo Perez, Joshua Redman, to name just a few. Prince is currently
a member of The Standardbank National Youth Jazz Band (SBNYJB), with
performances at the Grahams town Jazz Festival, Grahams town Joy of
Jazz, Johannesburg Cape town International Jazz Festival, Cape Town,
as well as a tour of Sweden with the SBNYJB in October, 2006. Prince
has also performed as a jazz soloist with the KZN Philharmonic Orchestra
(Youth Concerts Durban City Hall).
http://www.mageshennaidoo.com/
http://wwwscf.usc.edu/~mnaidoo/biography.htm
http://www.myspace.com/princebulo
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| Tuesday
June 16
Rex Hotel
194 Queen St W
(2 Blks
West of University @ St Patrick)
TRIO BRAAMDEJOODEVATCHER (NL)
plus
THOMSON
TIELLI (CA)
EARLY SHOW!!! 6:30 - 9PM!!!
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TRIO
BRAAMDEJOODEVATCHER
Michiel Braam (NL) – Piano
Wilbert de Joode (NL) – Double Bass
Michael Vatcher (NL) – Drums
Trio BraamDeJoodeVatcher comprises three of the Dutch jazz scene’s
most idiosyncratic musicians, for whom freedom and adventure are essential
values. They all play an absolutely equal role in the music, which
can go in any which way, depending on decisions made on the spot.
The long musical friendship (since 1989) results in intuitive playing
of the highest order. Trio BraamDeJoodeVatcher shines in short powerful
pieces, honouring the jazz tradition by pushing it ahead with consummate,
dazzling skill. The trio combines a playful incorporation and expansion
of older forms with a great adventurousness.
For their June 2009 tour, the trio will be joined onstage by distinct
indigenous musicians. On the occasion of their Toronto stop at the
Rex, they will be joined by Toronto trombonists Scott Thomson and
Doug Tielli.
"Partnered by powerhouse bassist Wilbert de Joode and drummer
extraordinaire Michael Vatcher, Braam delivers some of the most confident
and enjoyable piano work I've heard in recent years." –
Dan Warborton
http://www.myspace.com/bikbentbraam
http://www.myspace.com/bikbentbraam
http://www.michielbraam.com/groups/braamdejoodevatcher/
http://www.doek.org/wDeJoode.html
http://www.doek.org/michaelVatcher_bioE.html
SCOTT THOMSON (CA) – Trombone
Scott Thomson is a key member of a new generation of improvising musicians
at work in Toronto. He contributes his very vocal trombone playing
to numerous regular ensembles in many styles, and prizes ad hoc improvising
activities as a way of meeting and collaborating with many creative
folks. He leads The Rent, a quintet dedicated to repertory by Steve
Lacy, with Susanna Hood (voice and movement), Kyle Brenders (saxophone),
Wes Neal (bass), and Brandon Valdivia (drums). According to David
Fujino at Live Music Report, The Rent played "the 2008 concert
of the year". Scott was a founding Board Member of the Association
of Improvising Musicians Toronto (AIMToronto) and plays and directs
the eighteen–piece AIMToronto Orchestra, formed for a celebrated
collaboration with Anthony Braxton in September 2007 that has been
documented as CREATIVE ORCHESTRA (GUELPH) 2007 (Spool Records). Scott
is also the Artistic Director of Somewhere There, a terrific little
performance space in Toronto’s Parkdale neighbourhood, that
hosts live creative music six nights a week. Plumb is Scott’s
record of solos and duets with marvelous Montréal clarinetist
Lori Freedman on Jean Martin’s Barnyard Records. It is a pretty
good record. As a composer, Scott makes site–specific, cartographic
pieces for creative musicians with the aim to animate public acoustic
spaces, including MUSIC(in)GALLERIES, Acoustic Orienteering, Terpsichorienteering
(with Susanna Hood), Arborienteering, and Sonorienteering. 2009 is
a big year for these works, with three premières scheduled,
two of which are commissions (The Western Front, Vancouver, and Productions
Supermusique, Montréal).
"Scott Thomson’s trombone at moments practically lifted
me out of my body." – Carl Wilson, zoilus.com
DOUG TIELLI (CA) – Trombone
Doug Tielli has his hands in many musical pockets. A multi–instrumentalist
(trombone, guitar, banjo, keyboards, junk, etc...), he finds himself
on the edges of many musical practices (free–improvisation,
composition, song–writing, jazz, pop, country, and noise). He
is currently a member of The silt, The Reveries, The Draperies, Drumheller,
and No Man Band. He has performed with such renowned musicians as
Marshall Allen, Eugene Chadbourne, John Oswald, and Evan Parker. Tielli’s
compositions have been commissioned by Arraymusic, Contact, and Neither/Nor.
http://somewherethere.org/
http://neithernor.com?page_id=7
http://www.myspace.com/nickfraser
http://www.myspace.com/nomanband1
http://www.myspace.com/thereveriesoftoronto
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June 20
Music Gallery Lawns
197 John Street
(East of
Beverley, North of Queen West, entrance on Stephanie)
INSTANT COFFEE (CA/USA)
plus TBA
co–produced with The Music Gallery
Doors 8pm Show 9pm
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INSTANT
COFFEE
co–pro
Music Gallery
Lisle Ellis (CA) – Bass and Circuitry
M.C. Schmidt (USA) – Hi hat, V–Synth, SH101 Synthesizer,
Objects
Jason Willett (USA) – Sidrassi Organ, Cocolace, Rubber Band
Bass, Objects
Instant Coffee was formed as the result of a pleasant evening's pastime:
playing music together. Lisle Ellis was visiting M.C. Schmidt in Baltimore,
and M.C. invited Jason Willet over to play. It went unnaturally well.
An ensemble was formed, and the trio hopes they can create a pleasant
evening's pastime for you, as well.
Lisle Ellis is a composer and improviser/bassist whose oeuvre spans
three decades and two countries (Canada and the US), and has brought
him international recognition as an artist with an exceptional vision.
He has shared the stage with august company, including Paul Bley,
Peter Brötzmann, Andrew Cyrille, Joe McPhee and Cecil Taylor;
leading contemporary players Marilyn Crispell, Dave Douglas, Fred
Frith, and John Zorn, and has made more than 40 recordings for international
labels such as Black Saint, DIW, Hat Art, and New World.
M.C. Schmidt is – with partner in crime Dr. Drew Daniel –
a member of the musique concrète pop/new music group Matmos.
Mr. Schmidt has shared the stage with Terry Riley, the Kronos Quartet,
Björk, Marshall Allen, David Serotte, So Percussion, Kid 606,
25 laptops, Pita Rehburg, 12 live snails, a lemon, and probably hundreds
of other people and things.
Jason Willett is an American musician, known largely for his work
with experimental rock groups including Half Japanese, Can Openers,
Pleasant Livers, X–Ray Eyes, The Dramatics, The Jaunties, The
Attitude Robots, Leprechaun Catering, and many more. He has also made
records with Ruins, Jac Berrocal, James Chance, Jon Rose, Michael
Evans, Ron Anderson, Benb Gallaher, Mick Hobbs, Chris Cutler, Little
Howlin Wolf, Yamatsuka Eye, and his various pet ducks.
http://www.myspace.com/instantcoffee3
http://www.myspace.com/instantcoffee3
http://www.lisleellis.com
http://www.brainwashed.com/matmos/bio.php
plus TBA
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