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Live
Recommendations for Tuesday, March 7, 2006
CHRISTIAN
MARCLAY
Andrea
Parkins and Christian Marclay Duo – The Stone 8 pm $10
Andrea Parkins and Christian Marclay Duo plus Shahzad Ismaily
– The Stone 10 pm $10:
If I
had to pick only one show tonight, it’d be Andrea
Parkins and Christian
Marclay Duo (click his name for a really amazing
site) plus Shahzad
Ismaily at The Stone. Marclay is a towering figure
in contemporary art and music whose turntable innovations
occurred simultaneous with those of the Bronx hip hop scene
in the 1970s. He is perhaps the figure the most responsible
for the turntable’s early legitimacy as an instrument
in the avant garde (though composers have been playing with
turntables at least as far back as John Cage’s "Imaginary
Landscapes No. 1" in 1939). Marclay’s importance
is much more than that of the innovator as his music tends
to be much more playful, interesting, and well-conceived than
most of the abstract stuff out there. In addition to Marclay's
turntables, Andrea Parkins, who often collaborates with one
of the top five living guitarists, Nels
Cline (I ain’t tellin’ you the other
four), is an accomplished electronic musician whose weapons
of choice tonight will be electronics, piano, and her trademark
electric accordion. Parkins, like Marclay, work is also informed
by musique concrete. Finally, you may know multi-instrumentalist
Shahzad Ismaily for his wild drumming with the likes of Doveman
and Gregory Tate’s Burnt
Sugar.
Gospel,
Racebannon, Unearthly Trance - Northsix $8/$10
If electronic improv ain’t your thing, Gospel
and Racebannon
also deserve a shout out for making some of the most monstrous
noise going.
Also
recommended:
Boostamonte
and Colin Stetson’s Transmission – Zebulon
Dana Kline, Feathers, The Black – Tonic $8
Nicole Scnheit, Earl St. Ives, Winning Looks – The Cake
Shop $6
The Subways, The Shys, Surefire Bowery Ballroom $13
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to NYNT's Live Archive here.
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