Sun 26 Feb 2012 - 8: pm
Brooklyn, NY
Faster – 8PM
Kayla Milmine – soprano sax/vocals
Brian Abbott – guitar/electronic effects/junk percussion
The duo FASTER is Kayla Milmine (soprano sax/vocals) from Montreal, and Brian Abbott (guitar/electronic effects/junk percussion) from the New York area. They play a mixture of freely improvised music, reharmonized (and often hilarious) jazz standards, and punk songs in the style of Ella Fitzgerald. In addition to music they also venture into performance art in their live sets and have been spotted performing with popcorn poppers, and doing onstage carpentry to frightened, confused, and ecstatic audiences.
The two met in the summer of 2010 in Montreal when Brian was touring Canada with the punk band Grub Animal. At the time Kayla was performing in a duo with dancer Allison Burns. After Brian invited himself to one of their rehearsals and played with Kayla FASTER was born!
This international duo has done numerous performances in the U.S. and Canada since it’s inception. The show are always filled with great playing, humour, intense emotion, and weird theatricality, sometimes all at the same time. FASTER is something not to be missed. Go speed!
Cacaw – 9PM with special guest Andrew D’Angelo
Landon Knoblock – keyboards
Jeff Davis Drums
“Ca Caw prudently locates a luscious sonic zone” -Elliot Sharp, Philadelphia Weekly
“They certainly can build up the intensity” -Shaun Brady, Philadelphia City Paper
Cacaw is a fierce and edgy trio making music as raw naked emotionalism. Their sounds range from modern angular songs to experimental noise. Oscar Noriega plays beautifully unpredictable saxophone, veering from clear lyricism to melt your face screams. He has lived in Brooklyn since 1992, and has worked with Tom Rainey, Cuong Vu, Brad Shepik, Chris Speed, Jim Black, and Slavic Soul Party, among others. He is currently a member of Tim Bern’s Los Totopos and Endangered Blood. Drummer Jeff Davis has been featured in Eivind Opsvik’s Overseas, Tone Collector, Michael Bates’ Outside Sources, and the Pedro Giraudo Jazz Orchestra. He recently released his debut album as a leader, “We Sleep Outside”, on Loyal Label. Landon Knoblock’s music has been described by as “unpredictable, energetic, beautiful, loud, soft, subtle, and surprising” (Bruce Lindsay of All About Jazz ). Knoblock has performed with Ron Horton, Ben Allison, Michael Blake, and Jeff Lederer. His latest album, Gasoline Rainbow on Fractamodi Music, “takes improvised jazz to the next level” (Jon Neudorf, SeaOfTranquility.org).
Dirty Virgin – 10PM
Jonathan Lindhorst – tenor saxophone
Sebastian Ammann – piano
Kate Pittman – drums
Dirty Virgin is a trio comprised of Jonathan Lindhorst (sax), Sebastian Ammann (piano) and Kate Pittman (drums). Inspired by a range of modern improvised music, Dirty Virgin is a collective project that seeks to combine long form and fragmental composition with extended free and motif based improvisation. Since forming the group in late 2011, these three musicians have become integeral parts of each other’s musical lives, rehearsing and performing regularly around Brooklyn.
