TATSUYA NAKATANI with Horseman, Pass By. & Craig Pedersen

TATSUYA NAKATANI with Horseman, Pass By.  & Craig Pedersen

Thursday October 20

doors at 8:30 pm

music at 9:00 pm

$15 in advance, $20 at the door.

TATSUYA NAKATANI

Tatsuya Nakatani is an avant-garde percussionist, composer, and artist of sound. Active internationally since the 1990s, Nakatani has released over 80 recordings and tours extensively, performing over 150 concerts a year. His primary focus is his solo work and his large ensemble project, the Nakatani Gong Orchestra. He teaches master classes and lectures at universities and music conservatories around the world. Originally from Japan, he makes his home in the desert town of Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. With his activity in new music, improvisation, and experimental music, Nakatani has a long history of collaboration.

Nakatani's distinctive music centered around his adapted bowed gong, supported by an array of drums, cymbals, and singing bowls. In concert with his personally hand-carved Kobo Bows, he has spent decades refining and developing his sound as an arrangement of formations of vibrations, incorporated in shimmering layers of silence and texture. Within this contemporary work, one can still recognize the dramatic pacing, formal elegance and space (ma) felt in traditional Japanese music.

https://www.tatsuyanakatani.com/listen-now

with:

HORSEMAN, PASS BY. & CRAIG PEDERSEN

Horseman, Pass By. is a Havelock/Ottawa-based duo of Bennett Bedoukian (Drums and Electronics) and Mark Molnar (Cello and Electronics).
     Through playing together for years, they have ground gears out on 2 cars, wasted countless hours wandering half liminal and wrung out through truck stops on masticated highways across eastern Canada. Their material is comprised of improvisation, white noise transmissions across rural easement posts, and heavily choreographed rhythm and melody, combining the drone rattles of an old diesel engine with the frenzied calls of masses of mating passerines. Their music attempts to bridge the gaps between the echoes out of abandoned cold storage and the fractured voices of underestimated communities. They write songs for those with an ear for the persistent, and the desiccation of dead leaves clinging to beech trees at dawn amid the issued reports of the frost cracking forest. The music is at times startling and ecstatic on the two and four, while unflinchingly scraping around the crevices of the bottomlands in an attempt to lay low in the age of irony.

They are very excited to be performing this night with their good friend Craig.

Craig Pedersen is a trumpet player, and experimenting musician living in Montréal. He plays in the collaborative duos Sound of the Mountain (with Elizabeth Millar) and Provisional Mailorder (with Anne-F Jacques). He is a member of Ensemble Supermusique and the Ratchet Orchestra. He also leads the Craig Pedersen Quartet, a band currently featuring Mark Molnar (Horseman, Pass By.), Bennett Bedoukian (Horseman, Pass By.) and Thierry Amar (GY!BE).

https://mwrecs.bandcamp.com/

mwrecs.com

https://horsemanpassby.bandcamp.com/album/all-curses-are-mirrors

https://www.blackbough.ca/

‍