FABULEUX DUO CONTRE BASSE BATTERIE CALIFORNIEN = BASSHATERS
FABULEUX TRIO D IMPROVISATION NORVEGIEN = SKASM
DEMAIN SOIR
CE DIMANCHE 01/11/09 SOIR A HUY
12, rue poyoux-sarts, 4500 huy
- Basshaters (San Francisco)
Basshaters is a duo utilizing double bass, drum set, and electronics to integrate acoustic free improv and electronic noise, two genres thriving in the San Francisco Bay Area. They use extended techniques to activate their large resonant instruments. Striving to match the fluidity of their acoustic music, electronics expand the timbral and dynamic options to new extremes. The duo seeks directness and intensity in execution; subtleties emerge from the bold statement of simple ideas.
In addition to Basshaters, Dryer & Heule have released an album on Creative Sources with clarinetist Jacob Lindsay. They have a trio CD with saxophonist Jack Wright, and have performed live with diverse musicians such as Michel Doneda, C Spencer Yeh, Gino Robair, and Damon Smith. Dryer has toured with the Flying Luttenbachers and Usurp Synapse; Heule remains active with his brutal improv duo Ettrick.
Tony Dryer: double bass, electronics
Jacob Felix Heule: drums, electronics
http://www.heule.us/basshaters
http://www.myspace.com/basshaters
http://www.heule.us
http://www.myspace.com/tonydryerbass
- Skasm (Oslo)
Skasm combines the qualities of acoustic and electronic sounds into a whole. Two electric guitars with a range from noisy sounds and feedback to pure tones, voice processed or pure scream, acoustic bass rumbling in low frequencies or high pitched frenetic chaos.
Skasm builds the music from fractions or layers, in opposition to each other or built as a unison movement. Sometimes hazardous, sometimes most careful, but always with a focus on the present. Always open. The main focus is to keep looking for new meetings and new ways of building or maintaining whatever stream of music they have found.
Skasm is based around the guitar and double bass duo of Haavard Skaset and Guro Skumsnes Moe. For this tour Harald Fetveit (guitar) will complete the trio. During the last four years they have toured Norway, the rest of Europe, and the US with bands like Art Directors, Peninsula Project, Bay/Oslo Mirror Trio, and Bak-truppen.
Haavard Skaset, guitar
Guro Skumsnes Moe, double bass, voice
Harald Fetveit, guitar (November only)
http://www.myspace.com/skasmpage
http://www.myspace.com/gurosmoe
