02/18 @ 8:00pm - Minerva Trio + Yuganaut
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To be on your toes, to hear ahead, to remember moments passed, to trust your instincts, to make each part as strong as the whole, to keep it fresh, to play your heart out, to keep cool, to try your very best, to be detached, to push it, to leave space, to play beyond yourself, to let go, to restrain yourself, to know when to play, to know when to stop…The music of the Minerva trio ranges from rigorous composition to free improvisation, oftentimes blurring the line where one ends and the other starts. Their music borrows elements and aesthetics from various musical genres and styles including jazz, avant-garde, rock and a variety of folkloric musical traditions. The players are JP Schlegelmich on piano, Pascal Niggenkemper on bass and Carlo Costa on drums. All three musicians contribute compositions to the band’s repertoire.
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JP Schlegelmilch is a Brooklyn-based pianist, accordionist and composer. Current projects include the experimental instrumental rock group NOOK; the jazz quartet Old Time Musketry, and the power-organ-trio Put a Motor in Yourself. JP also frequently plays with rock groups and the improvisational theatre group FACE.
In each of these projects and in the process of composition, JP seeks to synthesize his diverse musical interests, to create a personal and non-genre-specific music. He strives to continually enrich his musical language through studying various musical traditions including jazz, free improvisation, classical, and folk music from around the world.
www.myspace.com/jpschlegelmusic
Born in 1978, the German-French bassist Pascal Niggenkemper played from early age on the violin and the piano. At the age of 17, he experienced the impact of improvised music and started to play the double bass. Pascal co-lead the audio visual dance project Turbo Pascale. Elements of dance music are blended together with aspects of free improvised music and folk music. Two VJ’s who interact with the gesture of the music and project their visual expression on the screen are part of this group. This formation toured Germany, Kazakhstan, Czech Republic, Slovenia, and France. In 2005 Pascal Niggenkemper was granted with the DAAD Award to study in New York City. It is in NY that Pascal met Robin Verheyen and Tyshawn Sorey and formed the Pascal Niggenkemper Trio. They recorded the CD “pasàpas” (Konnex) and toured twice in Europe (Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, France and Austria) and played at different Festivals. Their performances were recorded for the WDR and the BR Radio. This band will be on tour in March 2010 to present their new CD. With guitar player Scott Dubois and drummer Jeff Davis Pascal formed his new band Pascal’s Newfield, that explores an area where post-modern jazz aesthetic, rock music and contemporary classic music fuse together. This ensemble will be on tour in December 2009 in Europe.
www.pascalniggenkemper.com
www.myspace.com/pascalniggenkemper
Carlo Costa is a drummer and composer from Rome, Italy. Since moving to New York about four years ago Carlo has been active in the local music scene performing with many musicians in a wide variety of genres ranging from country to free improvisation. In the past few years he has performed in Austria, Italy, Norway, Macedonia and the US with various groups including the Spaennkraft trio, the Felician Honsig-Erlenburg Trio and Quartet, and the Georgi Sareski band. Current projects include Hunter Gatherer, Land of Leland, Silent Flux, Oh Liza Jane, and Dive Bar Dukes.
www.carlocostamusic.com
www.myspace.com/carlocosta
Consisting of Stephen Rush (Keyboards, Toys, Euphonium & more), Tom Abbs (Bass, Tuba & Didjeridoo) and Geoff Mann (Drums, Cornet, Mandolin & Vibes), Yuganaut is a collective of improvising virtuosos. Playing pre-written and structured compositions, they explore sonic spaces by listening deeply to each others articulation and interpretation of the score. The surprising dialogue that results from this process is like watching an extremely well-honed basketball team pass the ball. Well-oiled, communicating, intuitive, and almost ESP-like in it’s performance, the group is comfortable in many styles/genres, so the music flows from funk to swing, open jazz, to avante-classical aesthetics. With training in diverse musics such as strict classical Western Music, jazz, rock, South Indian and electronica, Yuganaut pushes the notion of eclecticism swiftly out the window and proclaims loudly that the world is a lace where all musics can find a happy home, together.
