WRIGHT, DRURY, CIROTTEAU--Jack Wright, Andrew Drury, and Sebastien Cirotteau explore sound and energy between and beyond genres, sometimes beyond what they have ever done before. Stripping their instruments of conventional timbre and technique, they construct a musical architecture using texture, timing, and attention to the present. Though each musician possesses deep technique and experience, collectively their music is raw and feral. Wright and Drury have played as a duo and with others since 2004, veterans of tours in the U.S. and Europe, including performances at Zagreb's N.O. Jazz Festival, Metelkova in Ljubljana, and in several cities in Bosnia and Herzegovina. For their November 2008 tour in Europe they will be joined by French trumpeter Sebastien Cirotteau, with whom they have performed in Europe, the U.S., and Canada. Cirotteau and Drury can be heard on the CD “Bszent Hun” (Creative Sources 078).........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
JACK WRIGHT. After teaching at Temple University in the 1960s and leaving academia in the early 1970s to engage in radical politics and community organizing, by the late 1970s Wright directed his energies into music. He is one of a very small group of musicians in North America that has played improvised music exclusively since the 1970s. Through years of near constant touring, often performing for audiences in cities and towns where improvised music had never before been heard, he came to be regarded as something of an underground legend, one who deliberately eschewed the conventions and socio-aesthetic limitations of musical careerism to pursue his own vision. Although his de-professionalized approach sets him apart from most musicians at his level of accomplishment, his art has always grown, expanded, and synthesized new information. He is an original and virtuosic saxophonist, a master improviser who is deeply lyrical, with humor never far away.
Today Wright tours frequently in Europe and North America (and in Japan in 2006), making new musical and human connections, bringing European musicians to the U.S. and bringing musicians everywhere together. His inspiration has provided crucial impetus to hundreds of musicians and has motivated several people to establish music venues in order to present him and other improvisers (e.g. Baltimore’s High Zero festival). His vast list of collaborators includes some luminaries (William Parker, Axel Dorner, Andrea Neumann, Michel Doneda, Bhob Rainey, Denman Maroney to name a few) but more significant may be the many more obscure greats he has played with. Jack Wright has made over 40 recordings (many published on his own Spring Garden label), performed in over 20 countries, and written extensively and insightfully about music and society for journals such as Improjazz (France) and Signal to Noise (US), as well as on his own website www.springgardenmusic.com .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
ANDREW DRURY is a drummer/composer/improviser active in jazz and free improvisation, with occasional forays into other genres and media. In improvised settings he typically employs a single floor tom as an acoustic amplifier, filter, and staging ground for vibrations produced on all kinds of objects—dustpan, faucet parts, gears, sheet metal, bamboo slivers, bells, cymbals... With long hair cascading over his face and spilling on the drum, he animates his objects, drawing unexpected frequencies from them, recontextualizing them visually and sonically. His performances are captivating theater as well as music. Drury has performed and recorded in Europe, North and Central America with his own groups as well as with Michel Doneda, Jason Kao Hwang, Mazen Kerbaj, Myra Melford, Steve Swell, Danijel Zezelj, Jessica Lurie, Kenny Wolleson’s Himalayas with Butch Morris, Reuben Radding, Nate Wooley, and others. His most recent projects as a bandleader are “Content Provider (a horns plus drums quartet featuring Peter Evans, Briggan Krauss, and Chris Speed) and a new percussion quartet featuring Jim Black, Mike Sarin, and Mike Pride. Drury also has a community focus which has led him to teach drumming, composition, improvisation, etc. in prisons, homeless shelters, museums, remote Central American villages, Native American reservations, and with special education populations. He has led nearly 1,000 workshops in public and private schools, for graduate students at the Columbia University School of Social Work, and with the Manhattan New Music Project and the Carnegie Hall Weill Institute. For more information visit www.myspace.com/andrewdrury and www.andrewdrury.com ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
SEBASTIEN CIROTTEAU began studying the trumpet at the age of ten, first at the National Music School of Le Mans, then at the National Conservatory of Rennes. He then studied sound recording techniques and semiology in Toulouse which brought him a sensitivity to listening to the ambient sonic world and modified his perception of the trumpet. Influenced both by electroacoustic music and soundscapes, he now focuses his practice on improvisation and audio recording.
Since 1999, he has collaborated in several improvised projects (Ensemble Nodal, Aérophone, Collectif Ordulu, Clochepate…) and collaborations with musicians in France, Germany, Spain and Argentina—Michel Doneda, Fabrice Charles, Le Quan Ninh, Isabelle Duthoit, David Chiesa, Jean Sébastien Mariage, Laurent Hoovenaers, Heddy Boubaker, Gabriel Paiuk, Diego Chamy, Lucio Capece, Wade Matthews, Ute Völker, Mazen Kerbaj, among others... He has done sound design for contemporary dance and performed electo-acoustic concerts for silent movies of Duchamp, René Clair, Bunuel, Hans Richter, and the Brazilian film maker Leon Hirzmann. Since 2000 he has also explored theatric technique with director Christophe Bergon and played in the well-known brass band La Friture Moderne, led by composer/saxophonist Marc Démereau. He has performed in many clubs and festivals: Instants Chavirés (Paris), Le 102 (Grenoble), Centro Nacional de Mùsica (Buenos Aires), Trytone Festival (Amsterdam), Europa Jazz Festival (Le Mans), Musique Quotiden Sonore (Albi), Beta Project (Pau), Perpignan, etc….......................................................................................................................................................................................................................
For more information and sound clips please visit............................................................................................................www.springgardenmusic.com....................................................................................http://s.cirotteau.info/....................................................................................................................www.myspace.com/andrewdrury
Check http://otompotom. addlimb. org/ for the new release: live extracts from the SWISS-BALKAN CREATIVE MUSIC TOUR 2008. Electro-acoustic improvised music with musicians from Switzerland, Bosnia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Kosovo.
Recorded in Sarajevo, Belgrade, Sofia, Skopje and Prishtina. Free download. Good listening!
Greetings from Italy for the moment... I hear from Ron Stabinsky You played a concert together, great great great! I hope You are all well... Life, Thollem
5 concerts with some of the finest young musicians in electro-acoustic improvisation from the Balkan and Switzerland.
ENSEMBLE RUE DU NORD (CH) : Anne Gillot, recorders / Laurent Bruttin, clarinets / Jonas Kocher, accordion / John Menoud, electric guitar, electronics Dragos Tara, doublebass / Benoît Moreau, piano, clarinet
SARAJEVO, 26th March, 20:00 Collegium Artisticum, GUESTS: Vedran Tuce, bassclarinet / Miran Zrimsek, cello / Svetlana Marash, piano / Robert Rozsa, electronics / Lukatoyboy, electronics, toys
BELGRADE, 28th March, 20:00 Rex Kulturni Centar, Jevrejska 16 GUESTS: Biliana Voutchkova, violin / Miran Zrimsek, cello / Vladimir Blagojevic, accordion / Srdjan Muc, guitar, electronics / Lukatoyboy, electronics, toys / Robert Rozsa, electronics / Svetlana Marash, piano
SOFIA, 30th March, 20:00 Red House, 15 Ljuben Karavelov GUESTS: Rosen Zahariev, trompet, percussion / Biliana Voutchkova, violin / Visar Kuçi, violin / Lukatoyboy, electronics, toys / Every kid on speed, laptop
SKOPJE, 1st April, 20:00 City Museum GUESTS: Dugagjin Muhaxheri, saxophon / Kaltrina Shala, flute / Biliana Voutchkova, violin / Liburn Jupolli, piano / Lukatoyboy, electronics, toys / Every kid on speed, laptop
PRISHTINA, 3nd April 20:00 Teatri ODA GUESTS: Dugagjin Muhaxheri, saxophon / Kaltrina Shala, flute / Visar Kuçi, violin / Liburn Jupolli, piano / Lukatoyboy, electronics, toys / Every kid on speed, laptop
I had a blast playing with You guys as well!!! Greetings from Rennes, France! I'm playing tonight with Nusch at Le Bon Accueil, they tell me Jack played here last year...
this sounds wonderful, just finished listening to metelkova d, playful, direct, simple, especially liked the courageous drumming by mr. drury:) let me catch up with the rest now... missed you last year in belgrade, looking forward to november, it's great news!
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