(forwarded from Dave Brown)
Adam Simmons and I are getting close to completing a
recording project for our duo titled “Crushing Thatch”. So in order to
celebrate the soon to settle relief of completion we’re performing this Sunday
evening at Monkey ahead of another show in Ballarat to take place at L’Espresso
cafe on the evening of Sunday 30th March.This Sunday we’ll be supported by
Brett Evans and David Palliser on saxophones. So it’ll be an intimate woodwind
fest.
In a peculiar
interpretation of East meets West, Crushing Thatch enjoin absorption in the
beauties of refined control of breath and pitch with attention to a
multiplicity of atonalities derived from prepared guitar. Simmons’ longtime
study of the Traditional Japanese repertoire for the Shakuhachi alongside an
even more lengthy involvement with a broad range of other woodwind instruments,
primarily through the Jazz milieu, mesh with Browns’ two decade long
development of a plethora of extended techniques and refinement of a collection
of everyday utensils for manipulation of the semi-acoustic guitar. These
instrumental combinations open into a world of enlarged tiny sounds and
textures intertwined with the sonic passage of air, woody timbres and melody
that draw and tug at each other coaxing unforeseen aural elements from one
another. Together
Simmons and Brown instantaneously compose a new, odd, free Folk music.
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