Starting Tuesday July 13th, Oxygen Music Collective begins another improvised music series at The Tank in the heart of New York City.
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Every Other Tuesday beginning July 13th - $8, all ages
The
Tank is located at 354 West 45th Street
Focusing on
Improvised music, < LISTEN> will consist of two 45 min sets
of improvised music by local and touring groups from around the world.
Schedule:
Tuesday
July 13th - 9:30pm - $8, all ages
The Brooklyn Bears / BIGMAN
The
Brooklyn Bears were born in a yellow house in Talkeetna, Alaska.
They play improvised music.
Dalius Naujo-drums, Dmitry Ishenko-bass,
Mike Irwin- trumpet, with special guests tba..
Tuesday July
27th - 9:30pm - $8, all ages
Ideosynchronic
http://soundcloud.com/ideosynchronic
Led
by Grady Gerbracht: www.gradygerbracht.net
Grady Gerbracht's
cross disciplinary work focuses on the ordering systems of everyday
life. His projects employ art, architecture, experimental improvised
music, sound and social dynamics to render these systems temporarily
visible and have been published and exhibited in the US, Canada, Brazil,
Asia, and across Europe and the Nordic countries. Gerbracht is
Assistant Professor of Art at Stony Brook University, Visiting Artist at
The Cooper Union School of Art, and serves on the Board of Directors of
Fundacao Lomba Alta, which administers Projeto Lomba Alta, an
international artists' residency he co-founded in the south of Brazil.
As a percussion oriented multi-instrumentalist, Gerbracht performs in
and organizes events and festivals for varioius venues in New York and
Vermont. With collaborator John Loggia, he composes sound tracks for
films and regularly perfoms with, among others, IDEOSYNCHRONIC, The
Re:Percussions Collective and Anarcho Art Lab, a loosely structured
collective of interdisciplinary artists and performers presenting
monthly themed events at The Living Theater.
Cloud
Cloud is musical group organized by Michael Durek. Their music is a
blend of motivic instrumental sequences and spontaneous experimental
explosions. For each performance, they offer something fresh and new.
The music may contain drone notes, different tunings, and looping
elements that are reminiscent of La Monte Young or Philip Glass. These
hypnotic textural elements are at-times infused with chaos and a touch
of humor in the vein of John Zorn. Cloudcloud makes use of vintage
keyboards, theremin, upright bass, electronic elements, guitars and an
assortment of other percussive and melodic instruments.
http://www.myspace.com/cloudcloud
http://www.michaeldurek.com/
Tuesday August 10th - 9:30pm - $8, all ages
On Ka'a Davis with
The Famous Original Djuke Music Players
A sound of jazzed-out expressionism woven into afro-beat / geechie rhythmic pulse-beat grooves lilting pointed lyrics on social commentary. Derived from the Seneglese Woloff language that means to 'pull up' or to 'draw', this word survives in the southern United States mainly to African-American culture as the word 'jook', meaning to 'pull along' to 'jerk' or to 'jump up' as in the dancehall atmosphere of a 'jook joint'. On Ka'a Davis' pioneering approach to introduce these traditional polyphonic-polyrhythmic elements found in the root of the music of the African diaspora seeks to bring out a new face of American music.
Along with On Davis, this stellar group will feature legendary bassist Juini Booth along with David 'Riddim-Athon!' Pleasant, Nick Gianni and Electric Meg Montgomery.
Tuesday
August 24th - 9:30pm - $8, all ages
UNTYTE (oon-TEE-teh) resurrects ancient Lithuanian polyphonic
folk tunes
that almost became extinct under the Soviet occupation of Lithuania.
Conducted by dynamic drummer Dalius Naujo, the band takes the simple
melodies and trance rhythms for a flight into the parallel universe.
Members:
Dalius
Naujo, drummer, conductor (plastic recorder on Light in the
Grass): Mike Williams, bass trumpet: SandRA Koponen, alto sax,
recorders, plastic flutes, whistle and rib-a-phone (percussion), : Matt
McDonald, electric guitar; Mike Irwin, trumpet; Nick Gianni, tenor sax
and flute; Jonathan Haffner, alto sax; On Davis, guitar, Dmitry Ishenko,
double bass; and guests
Tuesday Sept 7th - 9:30pm - $8, all ages
Oxygen Ensemble
www.oxygenmusiccollective.org
Oxygen Ensemble is a collective of musicians led by New York bassist Thomas Bell. The group takes an improvised collective composition' approach to its music which provides a relentless groove heavily steeped in the traditions of Funk & Free-Jazz, with tinges of Drum n Bass, Hip-Hop, & the experimantal Avant-Garde. The Ensemble's improvisations are reminiscent of Miles Davis' early 70's groups with a modern and often futuristic feel. The music is based on rhythm, spontaneous composition and group improvisation which allows exploration of all styles of music and creates a captivating sound that pushes the envelope of today's music.
GETTING TO THE TANK
The Tank @ 45th Street
The Tank is located at 354 West 45th Street (between 8th and 9th Avenues).
To get to The Tank by subway:
Take the A,C,E to 42nd Street/Time Square. Walk West.
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TO PURCHASE TICKETS FOR UPCOMING SHOWS
Visit http://www.brownpapertickets.com/producer/9726 or call Brown Paper Tickets at 1-800-838-3006.
Please note: Presale tickets are only available through Brown Paper Tickets-- The Tank does not have a box office at the venue and we do not take reservations over the phone.
On the day of the show, tickets will be available for CASH
ONLY at the door 30 minutes before the start time of the show.
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CONTACTING THE TANK
Phone: 212.563.6269
Email: info@thetanknyc.org
