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Rhys Chatham

Rhys Chatham is a composer, guitarist and trumpet player from Manhattan, currently living in Paris, who altered the DNA of rock and created a new type of urban music by fusing the overtone-drenched minimalism of the early 60s with the relentless, elemental fury of the Ramones — the textural intricacies of the avant-garde colliding with the visceral punch of electric guitar-slinging punk rock. Starting with Guitar Trio in the 1970s and culminating with A Crimson Grail for 200 electric guitars in 2009, Chatham has been working for over 30 years to make use of armies of electric guitars in special tunings to merge the extended-time music of the sixties and seventies with serious hard rock. Parallel with his rock-influenced pieces, Chatham has been working with various brass configurations since 1982, and recently has developed a completely new approach to collaborations, improvised and compositional pieces involving trumpet through performances and recordings that started in 2009

Colin Fisher / Mike Gennaro: Tactile Stories

by Mark Corroto
November 1, 2022

Does the world need another free jazz duo recording? Absolutely not, unless (dammit) it is as intoxicating as Tactile Stories by the Canadian duo of Colin Fisher and Mike Gennaro. Fisher's talents are spread across both the saxophone, which he hoists for three tracks, and electric guitar heard on the final “Epinoia." Elsewhere, he can be ...

Space Quartet: Directions

by Mark Corroto
July 7, 2021

Listen closely to Directions by Rafael Toral's Space Quartet and try to ignore the voice in your head of June Tyson chanting, “space is the place, space is the place." While this is an instrumental production and Toral was born more than fifty years after Sun Ra, a similar aura permeates these six tracks. It's not ...

StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: The music of Rhys Chatham

May 14, 2016

Today, let's look at some videos featuring the music of Rhys Chatham, who's coming to St. Louis to perform a solo show on Sunday, May 22 at The Luminary. Chatham, who's 63 years old, is a composer, guitarist, and multi-instrumentalist who's been a notable figure in American avant-garde and minimalist music for nearly five decades. Living ...

Live Guitars From Birmingham: Rhys Chatham, David Grubbs & Pierre Bensusan

by Martin Longley
June 19, 2014

Rhys Chatham Birmingham Town Hall June 7, 2014 When the guitarist/composer Rhys Chatham performs with his small combo, he's usually clad casually, but in his role as conductor for this large-scale performance, he was suitably be-suited. There's an immediate dichotomy here, when this New Yorker's epic 2006 piece, “A ...

Outdoor Spell

By Rhys Chatham

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Released: 2011
Track listing: 01. Outdoor Spell - 7:41; 02. Crossing the Sword Bridge of the Abyss - 18:01; 03. Corn Maiden's Rite - 6:31; 04. The Magician - 12:19.

Rhys Chatham: Outdoor Spell

by AAJ Italy Staff
April 18, 2011

Musica post minimalista recita il retro di copertina dell'ultimo lavoro di Chrys Chatham, Outdoor Speel. Per chi scrive questo disco ricorda piuttosto un mantra modulato in quattro parti, una quasi opera, a carattere intimista e autobiografico, in cui si riflettono pensieri e meditazioni in circolo da tanti anni, che ora trovano fiato e forma. Sensazione confermata ...

Intervista a Rhys Chatham

by AAJ Italy Staff
April 18, 2011

Rhys Chatham è un personaggio. Peculiare. Complesso. In perenne ricerca. Dunque eclettico. Dispersivo e concentrato, a seconda. È una figura chiave per capire un pezzo, e che grande!, della musica d'avanguardia contemporanea, in particolare newyorchese. Un mix, come potete leggere, che in una sola voce (che sia tromba o chitarra poco importa) fa confluire pezzi diversi ...

Interview | Rhys Chatham

February 9, 2011

Rhys Chatham has played trumpet since the early-1980s but it’s still appropriate to recognize his new Brass Trio as a significant sea change. Known for organizing terrifyingly large ensembles with up to 400 guitarists, the pioneering composer who has found a common thread running through punk fury, minimalism, and avant-garde jazz displayed the strongest trumpet work ...

Die Donnergötter / An Angel Moves Too Fast to See

By Rhys Chatham

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Released: 2006
Track listing: CD 1 01. Die Donnergötter (1985/86) - 21:48; 02. Waterloo, No. 2 (1986) - 7:57; 03. Drastic Classicism (1982) - 7:49; 04. Guitar Trio (1977) - 8:11; 05. Massacre on MacDougal Street (1982) - 18:42 CD 2 01. - 05. An Angel Moves Too Fast to See - 42:45