Chris Golinski & Drew Ceccato's 2nd Brains Album Unloaded; Pianist Joe Lasqo's Turquoise Sessions
em>Turquoise Sessions from Joe Lasqo takes a fresh look at two of the world's most powerful music cultures - India and Japan - through the lenses of 20th-century compositional/piano techniques and jazz improvisation and uses Asian musical forms to surprising effect on modernist material. The result is elegantly startling - ragas played in a style as if Debussy had lived in Mumbai and ancient Japanese shakuhachi and gagaku "standards" refracted through the serialist prisms of Messiaen, early Stockhausen, and Paul Bley. Reflecting a repertoire of Indo-Modernist and "Neo-Gaku" work pioneered in residency at San Francisco's legendary Viracocha, Joe takes a unique approach to the combination of piano and Asian music that is a sound all his own.
- Chamber Music/Avant-garde
Also available at: Emusic, iTunes Music Store, Amazon, mTraks, Rhapsody
December 11 - Joe Lasqo CD release set @ SIMM Series Musicians Union Hall 116 9th Street, San Francisco 7:30 pm
Unloaded unravels from the bipolar fusion of Chris Golinski and Drew Ceccato. Their most recent ideo-motor outpouring serves up a journey of raw sonic viscera for the listener in three cathartic courses. Through timbre, texture and time - Brains' improvisations wail forth in sheer acoustic spears that open ears to tame your unsuspecting reptilian brain.
Drew Ceccato - winds, Chris Golinski - percussion
- Avant garde/Free Jazz
Also Available at: Emusic, iTunes Music Store, Amazon mp3, mTraks, Rhapsody
[Source: Edgetone Records]