Bad Timing: Flower-Corsano Duo + Ashley Paul + Cambridge Improvisers
Wednesday 9th April 2014
Venue: Unitarian Church
Category: Gigs & Live Music
One Liner: Improv/hypnotic
Price Info: £8 adv
Time Info: 8-10:30
Flower-Corsano Duo is an acutely musical collaboration between kinetic DIY drummer Chris Corsano and Mick Flower (Vibracathedral Orchestra, MV & EE) on shahi baaja (Japanese banjo). A two-piece that possess the power to elevate through rhythm and primal harmonics but are also able to harness delicate moments, eastern harmonics, a widescreen expansiveness and a thrilling sense of noise and melody.
Mick Flower is also part of the recently re-activated Vibracathedral Orchestra while Chris Corsano has collaborated with the likes of (among others) Paul Flaherty, Björk, Jim O’Rourke, Thurston Moore, Joe McPhee, Evan Parker, Heather Leigh, Nels Cline, Jessica Rylan, Six Organs of Admittance, Keiji Haino and Christina Carter.
Live 2013: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcTZS9qgsgY
Clips and interview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sI51auV60Js
http://www.cor-sano.com/flower/bio.html
Ashley Paul is a New York-based multi-instrumentalist. Aiming to form 'A world away sound' her acoustic experimentation draws on delicate and brittle sounds that lend her intensely intuitive songs free-forming, introverted melodies, caustic tones and subtle dynamics that bear close attention.
Ashley has performed or recorded with Phill Niblock, Loren Connors, Aki Onda, C. Spencer Yeh, Anthony Coleman, Joe Maneri, Joe Morris, Seijiro Murayama, Greg Kelley, Bill Nace and Eli Keszler. She has appeared on such labels as REL, PAN, ESP-DISK, Tzadik and her own Wagtail.
http://vimeo.com/62787156
http://ashleypaul.net/
http://wagtailrecords.blogspot.com/
Cambridge Improvisers are a loose collective of student free-improvisers.
Organising regular DIY live events in Cambridge over the years and sharing stages with the likes of improviser Dominic Lash they have also featured in Bad Timing's events at Kettle's Yard and supported Dead Rat Orchestra. Today's set features David Grundy (synthesiser) and Ben Picard (clarinet).
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