6/9 - Jaimie Branch vs the Party Knüllers (Fred Lonberg-Holm & Ståle Liavik Solberg) & Dromedaries (Neuringer/Dulberger/Masri)
fire museum presents
Fire Museum Presents:
Jaimie Branch vs the Party Knüllers (Fred Lonberg-Holm & Ståle Liavik Solberg) & Dromedaries (Neuringer/Dulberger/Masri)
Jaimie Branch is an avant-garde trumpeter known for her “ghostly sounds,” says The New York Times, and for “sucker punching” crowds straight from the jump off, says Time Out. Her classical training and “unique voice capable of transforming every ensemble of which she is a part” (Jazz Right Now) has contributed to a wide range of projects not only in jazz but also punk, noise, indie rock, electronic and hip-hop. Branch has worked as a composer and a producer, a sideman for the likes of William Parker, Matana Roberts, TV on the Radio and Spoon and received many accolades for her quartet’s album “Fly or Die” (International Anthem) released last year.
Chicago based cellist Fred
Lonberg-Holm has played and studied music in a variety of situations
from the Juilliard School to the gutter. A former student of Anthony
Braxton, Morton Feldman, Bunita Marcus and Pauline Oliveros, his
primar projects are his Valentine Trio and The Lightbox Orchestra. He
is also a member of a number of ongoing collective projects (The Boxhead
Ensemble, The Friction Brothers with Michaels Zerang and Colligan, The
Flatlands Collective, Keefe Jackson’s Fast Citizens) as well as
participating in numerous one off “ad-hoc” or infrequently convening ensembles. He also plays in groups led by Joe McPhee (Survival Unit III), Peter Brotzmann (Chicago 10tet), and Ken Vandermark (Vandermark 5, Frame 4tet, Territory Ensemble). Improvisors he has worked with include Jim Baker, John Butcher, Wilbert DeJoode, Axel Doerner, Mats Gustafsson, Charlotte Hug, Glenn Kotche, Peter Kowald, Nicole Mitchell, Torsten Muller, Jim O’Rourke, Jeff Parker, David Stakenas, Ben Vida, and Michael Zerang,
Ståle Liavik Solberg (drums/percussion) has established a base for himself as a central part of Oslo’s thriving improvised music scene. Working with ensembles VCDC, Will it float? (with John Russell, Steve Beresford & John Edwards), Silva-Rasmussen-Solberg trio and in duos with Fred Lonberg-Holm and John Russell. His open and attentive drumming has received many positive responses from musicians and audiences in both Europe and the USA. Solberg is also known as one of the driving forces behind the series Blow Out! in Oslo, and he curates the festival with the same name together with fellow drummer / percussionist Paal Nilssen-Love.
Dromedaries (Keir Neuringer/Shayna Dulberger/Julius Masri)
“Strands of light flare through the atmosphere when DROMEDARIES play, it’s true; the experience is a prismatic adventure, where both cool, soothing blue notes and hot, solar bursts emanating from Keir Neuringer’s electrifying alto saxophone rise over Shayna Dulberger’s lurching, moonlit wanderings on the upright bass. Once Julius Masri’s chaotic, obsessed clatter that rains down like boulders on rusting tin—drums finds its way through to the listener, there’s barely a lung in the building left with any breath. Still, the trio, who vacillate as both veterans of the ash-laden dystopia of the underground noise-n-blast beats scene as well as prodigy under the micro-focused tutelage of international jazz masters, want to do more than just give way to unseen, propulsive cosmic forces that only inspire face melting and/or staid stage gawking. No, they’re good on that. As Dromedaries, the trio seeks to exhaust themselves as well, hurling their bodies at and through their instruments in fits of physicality that speak to their music’s measured rage and its transcendent exploration of love.” – Alex Smith
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