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The Elm City Guitar Quartet +3, celebrates the release of the new CD, CRASH, with a concert at Cafe Nine on Friday night, January 29th, 2010. This
evening also celebrates the
fifth anniversary of the New Haven Improvisers Collective.
Cafe
Nine: 250
State St, New Haven, CT www.cafenine.com
Set1 10pm Brett Bottomley Group Set2
11pm Elm City Guitar Quartet+3
Set3
12am Mayhem Circus Electric
The
Elm City Guitar Quartet +3
plays electric avant improv rock. Four Electric Guitars, drums
and reeds, deconstructing and reconstructing rock's most
primal elements and adding twists from everywhere else. In
an early review of CRASH, Signal to Noise Magazine raved about the
"riotous stew of juggernaut chords and feedback skronk" "righting
itself towards blistering conclusions". High energy, high art.
Mayhem
Circus Electric
plays edgy electric low-down rockfunk jazz with a nod to
the deep groove of electric miles and some lubricitous modern mob
fun. MCE will do the late night set bringing its
tunes and improv's as well as original interpretations of a
few rock classics to take the evening higher and groovier.
Mayhem Circus electric just finished recording its debut CD at
Firehouse 12 capped off by a memorable live performance that
had the audience on its feet. Look for the CD later in 2010.
Brett
Bottomley plays
the
Chapman
Stick, a bass/guitar hybrid played by tapping the strings
with both hands. Brett's recent jazz CD Journeys
showcases his jazz chops and original compositions. Brett
also leads a progressive rock group, Toy Masheen,
that played 2009 prog festivals in the Northeast
including Toads Place in New Haven. He brings a small group to
this performance, getting the evening moving with some seriously
original rock/funk.
THE NEW HAVEN IMPROVISERS COLLECTIVE The
New Haven Improvisers Collective held its first workshop on January
31st, 2005 and has held them every month for the last five years.
NHIC is a
far-reaching collective of creative musicians forming into a particular
group to play particular music in a particular moment. NHIC holds
monthly workshops, sponsors performances of various ad-hoc combinations
of NHIC members and hosts visiting jazz and new music ensembles.
A
growing number of musicians and composers pass through the group
bringing insights and enthusiasm from distant corners of the music
world. Monthly open workshops welcome new members, new instruments and
new ideas.
Elm City Guitar Quartet +3 Bob
Gorry,
Tom
Gogola,
Jeff Cedrone, Christopher Venter - Guitars
Steve
Zieminski - Drums, percussion
John Venter - Reeds Adam
Matlock - Clarinet, Accordion
Mayhem Circus Electric Steve Zieminski -
Drums, percussion
Pete Brunelli - Bass Bob Gorry - Guitar Jeff Cedrone - Guitar Paul McGuire - Alto and Soprano Saxophone John Venter - Bass Clarinet + special guests |