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Daniel A.I.U Higgs, Interdimensional Song-Seamstress and Corpse-Dancer of the Mystic Crags was born in the Harbor City of Baltimore, USA in the early-mid sixties of the previous millenium. He was the singer and lyricist of Lungfish, which is now, as it often has been, quasi if not entirely defunct.
Heresy of the Free Spirit is a trio comprised of Dutch lute player/composer, Jozef Van Wissem and Brooklyn-based multi-instrumentalists Che Chen (violin, bowed rewap, bass recorder, percussion and tape machine) and Robbie Lee (portative organ, bass recorder, electric guitar, banjo and tape delay). Using early European as well as non-western instruments and electronics, the trio plays arrangements of Van Wissem's lute compositions as well as free improvisations that draw on early music, folk traditions, modern composition and noise.
Fully utilizing the extended techniques, textures and tuning possibilities of their unusual instruments, the trio use both repetition and silence as ways of entering trance-like states. Their forthcoming record, "A Prayer for Light" is a radical re-imagining of early European and American primitive music in which the sources are stretched and re-purposed to accommodate free improvisation, repetitive song forms, feedback, and tape manipulations.
Composer-lute player Jozef van Wissem is renowned for his unusual approach of the renaissance and baroque lute. He cuts and pastes classical pieces, reverses melodies, adds electronics and processed field recordings made at airport lounges and train stations. The unusual wedlock of composition and improvisation creates an unheard amalgam of contemporary folk and late renaissance music. He has accomplished the strange feat of bridging the idiom of seventeenth century lute literature and twenty-first century composition. although van Wissem uses subtle electronic sound manipulation, he has largely stayed faithful to the particular timbre, resonance and playing technique of the lute. Van Wissem first came to be noticed a few years ago because of his radical conceptual approach to renaissance lute music: he deconstructed existing compositions, for instance by playing them backwards. He also composes his own pieces for lute, using palindromes and mirrored structures. His music therefore does not have a traditional linear progression, nor leads to a climax, it rather stays on the same level of intensity. His music is quiet and not so much demands concentrated listening, as it will bring the listener in a state of concentrated listening. Van Wissem runs the incunabulum record label, and performs extensively around the world. He has worked with Tetuzi Akiyama, Maurizio Bianchi, Smegma, Gregg Kowalski and James Blackshaw. With Blackshaw he has formed Brethren of the Free Spirit his latest solo records entitled It Is All That is Made and ex patris were released by Important records.
Che Chen is a sound and graphic artist based in Brooklyn, New York. As a solo performer, Che uses str...
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232 3rd Street, 3rd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11215
United States
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