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  • Genre: Acousmatic / Tape music / Bluegrass / Christian

    Location BROOKLYN, New York, Un

    Profile Views: 6226

    Last Login: 8/16/2011

    Member Since 5/27/2010

    Record Label incunabulum

    Type of Label Indie

  • Bio

    Heresy of the Free Spirit is a trio comprised of lute player/composer, Jozef Van Wissem and Brooklyn-based multi-instrumentalists Che Chen (violin, bowed rewap, bass recorder, percussion and tape machine) and Robbie Lee (portative organ, bass recorder, electric guitar, banjo and tape delay). Using early European as well as non-western instruments and electronics, the trio plays arrangements of Van Wissem's lute compositions as well as free improvisations that draw on early music, folk traditions, modern composition and noise. Fully utilizing the extended techniques, textures and tuning possibilities of their unusual instruments, the trio use both repetition and silence as ways of entering trance-like states. Their forthcoming record, "A Prayer for Light" is a radical re-imagining of early European and American primitive music in which the sources are stretched and re-purposed to accommodate free improvisation, repetitive song forms, feedback, and tape manipulations. ...... ..Myspace Editor.... ..Pimp MySpace.. ....

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    Heresy of the Free Spirit, multi-instrumentalists Sun Chen (True Primes) and Robert Lee (Howling Hex, Baby Dee),a sublime mixture of country blues, old-time mountain music, and minimalist drone that features Jozef van Wissem playing his lute with a slide. Bill Meyer, Chicago Reader.

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