Description
The upcoming live set at the ShapeShifter Lab consists of a selection of works from the ensemble’s latest EP Drunken Raccoon (2020) and the group’s first album Purple Ego (Centaur – 2019). Drunken Raccoon is the ensemble’s recent exploration in trio format that fuses elements of tango, jazz, free improvisation and electronics. The EP includes new works that feature the tenor saxophone in trio format. Drunken Raccoon, Polish Vodka, and Recontextualizations (a personal homage to Anthony Braxton)are included in the live set among other works.
The Domino Ensemble transits a path between jazz, tango, free improvisation and electronic music. Its sound is at the same time all of those things and none of them. The unique programming and receptiveness of the ShapeShifter Lab are an excellent fit for our experimentations. We are thrilled to be part!
http://dominoensemble.com/
Description
Take Off Collective members Ole Mathisen (sax), Matthew Garrison (bass) and Marko Djordjevic (drums) became friends at Boston’s Berklee College of Music as the second millennium was winding down. Since then, they have built careers as bandleaders; sidemen to world renown notables as well as unique and innovative instrumentalist.
Their eclectic tastes, penchant for honest and unpremeditated improvisation and a thirty-year strong friendship brought them to a musical situation different from any other they have taken part in to date.
Neither leaders nor sidemen, they are real-time composers and performers of music that is invented on stage in front of an audience. Their music has been described as virtuosic, adventurous, intense, innovative, disorienting, provocative, engaging…
Each Take Off Collective concert is a moment ceasing, supremely intimate, music-transcending event.
