JUNE 27
ELLIOTT SHARP
The Velocity Of Hueworld premeire
Elliott Sharp’s “The Velocity Of Hue” is a new collection of pieces performed on acoustic guitar as well as acoustic guitar processed with laptop computer. This music, while based upon Sharp’s personal sonic vocabulary of textures, densities, and groove, also filters it through the string traditions of the music of central Asia, India, and North Africa, country blues, and the “American primitive” strain of John Fahey and Robbie Basho.
“The Velocity Of Hue” will be released as a CD in November by England’s Emanem label.
JUNE 14
TRIBUTE TO FRANTZ CASSEUS
Guitarist Marc Ribot with classical guitarists Michael Newman and Laura Oltman come together in special evening paying tribute to life and work of Haitian guitarist and composer Frantz Casseus.
In conjunction with Tuscany Publishing’s release of the first print edition The Complete Works of Frantz Casseus, Volume One: Work for Solo Guitar, this night also marked the inauguration of The Frantz Casseus Scholarship, an endowment to aid aspiring musicians/composers of Haitian descent in pursuing a formal musical education.
Listen to Oltman & Newman play selections of Casseus on John Schaeffer’s WNYC radio show, Soundcheck.
JUNE 5
ANTHONY COLEMAN’S PROFESSIONALES
Anthony Coleman (composer/piano), Brad Jones (bass), Roberto Rodriguez (drums)
For several years, these three musicians traveled the world as the rhythm section for Marc Ribot’s Los Cubanos Postizos. But now they have wander off to slightly more dangerous, unknown territory. However, all this time working as a rhythm section has contributed to a muscularity that allows them to leap over arcane and ambiguous hurdles. Friends of the Spaghetti Western may appreciate the fact that they like to consider themselves the Lee Vam Cleef, Strother Martin, and Tomas Milian of new music.