subconsciouscaf @ Pierre Menard Gallery presents
Thursday, 7 June, 8:00pm
WRIGHT/PALIER/TOUTLEMONDE - free improv
Jack Wright - muted saxes (Easton PA)
Agnes Palier - wordless vocals (Rambouillet, France)
Olivier Toutlemonde - glasses, kitchen objects, springs and paper (Bourg en Bresse, France)
Opening:
KEVIN FRENETTE - guitar & RYAN MCGUIRE - bass
Pierre Menard Gallery
10 Arrow St., Harvard Sq. Cambridge
617.868.2033 ~ All Ages ~ $5/10 donation
This trio is the convergence of two duos, Jack Wright and Agns Palier, which performed the first time in Paris in April 2005, and Agns and Olivier Toulemonde, who have performed extensively in Europe. The three toured together in Fall 2006 in Mulhouse and Strasbourg France, Bern Switzerland, Munster, Hamburg, and Berlin Germany. They will be on tour in June 2007 in Quebec Canada, and numerous cities in the US
Jack Wright has been a full-time saxophonist of strange music since the late 70's, one of the most tour-obsessed musicians around. In Europe he finds like-minded players and drags them back to the states to tour and make friends here. He plays a lot of different ways, from the “real notes" of free jazz to no-recognizable-sax-sound. He wears shorts in all kinds of weather so he can mute against his bare leg, which is his trademark. Known to play with everyone, but actually he only plays with people who interest him musically, which is still a lot. He may be obscure but he comes close to doing exactly what he wants, and that is no simple matter for any of us.
Agnes Palier is a vocalist of sound who lives in Rambouillet France (close to Paris). She tours extensively with the latest crop of brilliant French improvisers: Stephane Rives, Pascal Battus, Bernard Denzler, Sophie Agnel, Christine Sehnaoui and Olivier Toutlemonde. Agnes also teaches Feldenkreis Method in Paris, incorporating spoken voice and improvisation in her work. She met and played with Jack Wright in Paris in 2004, and then Olivier joined the collaboration last fall for a European tour.
Olivier Toutlemonde improvises with objects that can be found in any kitchen--wine glasses and metal wisks, as well as springs and taut string, all of which are scraped or coaxed slowly across a simple board. He is unamplified, on this tour, his preference. His finesse is in his exquisite timing--the right sound at exactly the right moment. His playing is neither minimal nor maximal but perfectly appropriate to the setting. He performs at all the usual festivals in which Europe cultivates its avant-garde. He and Agnes have collaborated frequently, and have an album together, Rocco.
ON JACK WRIGHT
The Washington Post “In the rarefied, underground world of experimental free improvisation, saxophonist Jack Wright is king". And a German publication, Bad Alchemy, had this to say of his solo: “Wright does not make music, he embodies it, he transforms it with a naivet of another order. It grows into a sound river, he is part of the diaphragm through which the heterogeneous whispers."
Review of Palier and Toutlemond: Rocco (cd)
“Agns Palier seems to find her sounds inside a small cave within herself, enervated emissions of breath and tiny vibrations of vocal cords coalescing into a highly personal fairyland - without the happy ending. Although a singer coming from a classical/jazz background, she uses her tools with a sort of repressed anxiety that sets the overall tone of Rocca close to those transcendental absurd theatre pieces which have the audience either scratching their heads or wailing in approval. Embryonic phonemes and timbral nuances coagulate according to their own strange morphology, at times sounding like a cassette player left on a towel at the beach with the batteries running out and the tape melting. Olivier Toulemonde's discreet amplified objects are the perfect complement to Palier's frail digressions, microsonic crumbles, and percussive clucks and snaps; the deconstructed machinery of his caressing whispers underlines Palier's suffering postures, like those muffled earthquake thump-and-drag sounds made by children at play in the apartment above you. A valuable experience in uncomfortable pleasure and an inquisitive dismemberment of your listening attitudes."-MR
Opening: KEVIN FRENETTE - guitar & RYAN MCGUIRE - bass
Guitarist Kevin Frenette began playing music at the age of eleven and began working professionally in the 1990s. He studied guitar, composition, and music theory at UMASS-Dartmouth where he received a BA in Theory/Composition and has performed throughout the Northeast USA making music that is inspired by both contemporary improvisation and avant-garde jazz. Frenette is also a freelance recording engineer. He has performed and/or recorded with such artists as Tatsuya Nakatani, Joe Giardullo, Andy McWain, Forbes Graham, Gordon Allen, Sarah Weaver, Harvey Sorgen, Brian Melick, Michael Snow, Gwen Laster, Martha Colby, Lori Freedman, Adam Dotson, Jonathan LaMaster, Andrew Hickman, Eric Platz, Todd Keating, Erik VanDam and Gabe Cabral. In 2007, Fuller Street Music released Kevin's first date as a leader: Connections. That album featured Frenette with Tatsuya Nakatani on percussion, Andy McWain on piano and Todd Keating on bass.
Bassist and composer Ryan McGuire has performed with Jim Hobbs, Raqib Hassan, Forbes Graham and others, and has toured the U.S. and Canada on several occasions. Originally from Cape Cod, McGuire studied composition and performance at UMass-Lowell and Berklee, and has recordings on Tzadik, Hydrahead, Robotic Empire, and Holy Roar Records. He currently performs with Dilettante, Raqib Hassan's Interdimensional Science Research Orchestra, and the Forbes Graham Quartet
Thursday, 7 June, 8:00pm
WRIGHT/PALIER/TOUTLEMONDE - free improv
Jack Wright - muted saxes (Easton PA)
Agnes Palier - wordless vocals (Rambouillet, France)
Olivier Toutlemonde - glasses, kitchen objects, springs and paper (Bourg en Bresse, France)
Opening:
KEVIN FRENETTE - guitar & RYAN MCGUIRE - bass
Pierre Menard Gallery
10 Arrow St., Harvard Sq. Cambridge
617.868.2033 ~ All Ages ~ $5/10 donation
This trio is the convergence of two duos, Jack Wright and Agns Palier, which performed the first time in Paris in April 2005, and Agns and Olivier Toulemonde, who have performed extensively in Europe. The three toured together in Fall 2006 in Mulhouse and Strasbourg France, Bern Switzerland, Munster, Hamburg, and Berlin Germany. They will be on tour in June 2007 in Quebec Canada, and numerous cities in the US
Jack Wright has been a full-time saxophonist of strange music since the late 70's, one of the most tour-obsessed musicians around. In Europe he finds like-minded players and drags them back to the states to tour and make friends here. He plays a lot of different ways, from the “real notes" of free jazz to no-recognizable-sax-sound. He wears shorts in all kinds of weather so he can mute against his bare leg, which is his trademark. Known to play with everyone, but actually he only plays with people who interest him musically, which is still a lot. He may be obscure but he comes close to doing exactly what he wants, and that is no simple matter for any of us.
Agnes Palier is a vocalist of sound who lives in Rambouillet France (close to Paris). She tours extensively with the latest crop of brilliant French improvisers: Stephane Rives, Pascal Battus, Bernard Denzler, Sophie Agnel, Christine Sehnaoui and Olivier Toutlemonde. Agnes also teaches Feldenkreis Method in Paris, incorporating spoken voice and improvisation in her work. She met and played with Jack Wright in Paris in 2004, and then Olivier joined the collaboration last fall for a European tour.
Olivier Toutlemonde improvises with objects that can be found in any kitchen--wine glasses and metal wisks, as well as springs and taut string, all of which are scraped or coaxed slowly across a simple board. He is unamplified, on this tour, his preference. His finesse is in his exquisite timing--the right sound at exactly the right moment. His playing is neither minimal nor maximal but perfectly appropriate to the setting. He performs at all the usual festivals in which Europe cultivates its avant-garde. He and Agnes have collaborated frequently, and have an album together, Rocco.
ON JACK WRIGHT
The Washington Post “In the rarefied, underground world of experimental free improvisation, saxophonist Jack Wright is king". And a German publication, Bad Alchemy, had this to say of his solo: “Wright does not make music, he embodies it, he transforms it with a naivet of another order. It grows into a sound river, he is part of the diaphragm through which the heterogeneous whispers."
Review of Palier and Toutlemond: Rocco (cd)
“Agns Palier seems to find her sounds inside a small cave within herself, enervated emissions of breath and tiny vibrations of vocal cords coalescing into a highly personal fairyland - without the happy ending. Although a singer coming from a classical/jazz background, she uses her tools with a sort of repressed anxiety that sets the overall tone of Rocca close to those transcendental absurd theatre pieces which have the audience either scratching their heads or wailing in approval. Embryonic phonemes and timbral nuances coagulate according to their own strange morphology, at times sounding like a cassette player left on a towel at the beach with the batteries running out and the tape melting. Olivier Toulemonde's discreet amplified objects are the perfect complement to Palier's frail digressions, microsonic crumbles, and percussive clucks and snaps; the deconstructed machinery of his caressing whispers underlines Palier's suffering postures, like those muffled earthquake thump-and-drag sounds made by children at play in the apartment above you. A valuable experience in uncomfortable pleasure and an inquisitive dismemberment of your listening attitudes."-MR
Opening: KEVIN FRENETTE - guitar & RYAN MCGUIRE - bass
Guitarist Kevin Frenette began playing music at the age of eleven and began working professionally in the 1990s. He studied guitar, composition, and music theory at UMASS-Dartmouth where he received a BA in Theory/Composition and has performed throughout the Northeast USA making music that is inspired by both contemporary improvisation and avant-garde jazz. Frenette is also a freelance recording engineer. He has performed and/or recorded with such artists as Tatsuya Nakatani, Joe Giardullo, Andy McWain, Forbes Graham, Gordon Allen, Sarah Weaver, Harvey Sorgen, Brian Melick, Michael Snow, Gwen Laster, Martha Colby, Lori Freedman, Adam Dotson, Jonathan LaMaster, Andrew Hickman, Eric Platz, Todd Keating, Erik VanDam and Gabe Cabral. In 2007, Fuller Street Music released Kevin's first date as a leader: Connections. That album featured Frenette with Tatsuya Nakatani on percussion, Andy McWain on piano and Todd Keating on bass.
Bassist and composer Ryan McGuire has performed with Jim Hobbs, Raqib Hassan, Forbes Graham and others, and has toured the U.S. and Canada on several occasions. Originally from Cape Cod, McGuire studied composition and performance at UMass-Lowell and Berklee, and has recordings on Tzadik, Hydrahead, Robotic Empire, and Holy Roar Records. He currently performs with Dilettante, Raqib Hassan's Interdimensional Science Research Orchestra, and the Forbes Graham Quartet
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