Phil send me this cd asap !!! Can I send you money
via paypal?
Thanks buddy- look foreward to hearing this stuff!!
Isaac
--- Philip Gelb <phil@philipgelb.com> wrote:
> Hello
>
> I am very happy to announce the release of the
> second CD by the Natto Quartet!!
> Our first CD received rave reviews and we expect
> similar reactions to this one.
> Look for a CD release concert in the bay area this
> summer.
>
> The Natto Quartet is:
> Chris Brown - piano
> Philip Gelb - shakuhachi
> Shoko Hikage - koto
> Tim Perkis - electronics
>
> you can mail order the CD directly from me. Please
> send a check for
> $15 to Philip Gelb 840 warfield avenue, #9, Oakland,
> CA 94610
>
> My website is undergoing a radical reconstruction
> and CDs are
> currently not available on there but you will be
> able to purchase
> from my website in a month or so.
>
> By collectively leaving the traditional and cultural
> roles of their
> acoustic instruments behind, shakuhachi player
> Philip Gelb, koto
> player Shoko Hikage and pianist/electronic musician
> Chris Brown, join
> live electronics pioneer Tim Perkis in finding
> common ground in the
> extended and experimental technique associated with
> improvised music.
> The ability of manipulated electronics to create
> otherwise
> unavailable musical sounds meshes with the acoustic
> musicians' desire
> to reinvent the possibilities of timbre and
> instrumental interaction
> in a collectively improvising ensemble. The result
> is a beautiful and
> elastic music that creatively juxtaposes old and
> new, acoustic and
> electric, and tradition and innovation.
>
> The members of the Natto Quartet have performed
> together in various
> configurations for years, finally solidifying as a
> quartet in 2002 to
> perform both composed works and freely improvised
> music. Gelb has
> studied the shakuhachi, an ancient Japanese bamboo
> flute, since 1988,
> and is one of the only performers in the United
> States to use the
> instrument in the new improvised music context.
> Hikage grew up
> studying the koto, traditionally a 13-string chamber
> music instrument
> taught to women in Japan, and uses her extensive
> classical training
> on her instrument in both traditional and new music
> applications. A
> founding member of the influential interactive
> computer network
> ensemble The Hub, Perkis performs regularly on the
> improvised music
> scene where he utilizes customized software and
> hardware to create
> his unique and sensitive electronic approach. Brown,
> who frequently
> collaborated with Trio Natto before it officially
> became a quartet,
> is the Co-Director of Contemporary Music at Mills
> College in Oakland,
> an epicenter of live electronics performance. He is
> a composer,
> electronic musician, and pianist whose mobile
> preparations and
> inside-the-piano technique help redefine the
> instrument's role.
>
> Musicians: Philip Gelb (shakuhachi), Shoko Hikage
> (koto), Tim Perkis
> (electronics), Chris Brown (piano)
>
>
> "...each sound has the self-contained integrity of a
> stroke of
> masterful calligraphy... each musician seems to have
> a perfect bead
> on the other's next steps... the resulting
> anticipation is as
> rewarding as the music's frequently surreal hues." -
> The Wire
>
>
>
> "...exotic, exquisitely crafted and eye-opening." -
> Signal to Noise
>
>
>
> "...truly new music unlike anything I've ever heard,
> a strong
> candidate for best avant project of 2003, and sure
> to turn many a
> global thinking, progressive minded ear inside out."
> - Michael G.
> Nastos
>
>
> --
> xoxo
>
> Philip Gelb
> Bay Area Shakuhachi School
> vegetarian personal chef
> phil@philipgelb.com
> http://www.philipgelb.com
> http://www.bayareashakuhachi.com
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Seattle Shakuhachi Society
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