PROTEST HEAVEN jazz and improvised music series
JOZEF VAN WISSEM
Jozef van Wissem - lute (Amsterdam)
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HERESY OF THE FREE SPIRIT
Jozef van Wissem - lute
Che Chen - multi-instruments (NYC)
Robbie Lee - multi-instruments (NYC)
Che Chen (true primes) & Robbie Lee (howling hex, baby dee) are Brooklyn, NY based multi-instrumentalists who have been steadily and intensively developing their unique approach to free improvisation over the last several years. Using a shifting constellation of instruments that has included bass clarinets, baroque recorders,reed and pipe organs, renaissance keyboard instruments, flutes, saxophones, bowed and plucked strings, little drums, bells, tape machines and their voices, Che Chen and Robbie Lee create earthy, slow moving improvisations that are informed as much by the ethnic folk traditions of the world as they are by 20th century composition and improvisation. Their music places precedent in listening, attention and dynamic interaction in the moment. Chen and Lee have released an LP and several cd-r's on their own Telegraph Harp imprint.
10pm, donation suggested