Temple Of Persuasion
Elastic Arts presents the newest incarnation of the ongoing transatlantic exchange project The Bridge, which matches Chicago and France-based musicians in creative and thoughtful groupings. Now in its 8th year, The Bridge has built a set of massive artistic connections between these scenes, and this latest incarnation is sure to be stellar. A first time encounter between two fantastic reedists from either side of the ocean kicks things off.
8:30 PM : ABDOU/JONES DUO
Sakina Abdou - reeds
Molly Jones - reeds
9:30 PM : TEMPLE OF ENTHUSIASM
Marvin Tate – voice, poetry
Erwan Keravec – bagpipes
Gerrit Hatcher - tenor saxophone
Lia Kohl – cello
Gaspar Claus - cello
$15 - Tickets Available at the Door
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ABOUT THE BAND
They began to think of it this way: as the creation of a magnetic field in music. Four Aces and a Queen, of course, and all combinations of the unimaginable, all balances, all imbalances.
First between a poet with a wide-open conscience (Marvin Tate), a hallucinating bagpiper (Erwan Keravec), a devilish saxophonist (Gerrit Hatcher), and two cellists in ambush (Gaspar Claus & Lia Kohl), in a racket. Each one of them having taken care to be rooted in a territory or a history (from the frankness of the Chicago ghetto to all the winds of Brittany, from jazz to pop or to improvisation, as long as crossroads are opened), while remaining free of its movements, to start again from scratch and to the infinity. Each one sees or hears things only in his own generous way, pulling in his own direction while being attracted by the directions that the four others discover. Pentacle.
Not only a heterodox instrumentation, and even unheard of, but above all a way to make a sound matter of an incredible density, of an incredible ductility, say something else. Because it doesn't stop there, it's not only a matter of instrumentation, as phantasmagorical as it may be, and this one certainly is: it's a matter of personalities, sensibilities and strategies. Negotiating the turns, the proximity and the distance, negotiating the crossroads and the intersections that The Bridge continues to favor with this third set of a second cycle.