Some Tennessee Jar

Chris Corsano

VDSQ and Black Editions present two nights of **Bill Orcutt** and **Chris Corsano**. Saturday night features the celebrated **Orcutt / Corsano Duo**, preceded by a set with the sludge sledding duo **Eloe Omoe**.

**Bill Orcutt** is one of experimental music's most influential guitarists; he weaves looping melodic lines and angular attack into a dense, fissured landscape of American primitivism, outsider jazz, and a stripped-down re-envisioning of the possibilities of the guitar. Whether he’s playing his decrepit Kay acoustic or gutted electric Telecaster (both stripped of two of their strings, as has been Orcutt’s custom since 1985), Orcutt’s jagged sound is utterly unique and instantly recognizable, compared with equal frequency to avant-garde composers and rural bluesmen. The New York Times has called him a "powerful musician... a go-for-broke guitar improviser," and described his sound as "articulated sprays of arpeggiated chords and dissonance.”

**Chris Corsano** is an upstate NY-based drummer who has been active at the intersections of collective improvisation, free jazz, avant-rock, and noise music since the late 1990's. He began a long-standing, high-energy musical partnership with saxophonist Paul Flaherty in 1998. Their style, which they occasionally refer to with (semi-)tongue-in-cheek humor as "The Hated Music", combines modern free-jazz's ecstatic collectivist spirit and the urgency and intensity of hardcore punk. Corsano's dedication to collective improvisation has led to collaborations with many kindred spirits and his appearance on over 150 records and 1000 live performances. He's worked with, among others: Paul Dunmall (released by the label: ESP-Disk), Joe McPhee (Roaratorio), Okkyung Lee (Open Mouth), Mette Rasmussen (Hot Cars Warp Records & Clean Feed), John Edwards (OTOroku & Dancing Wayang), Sylvie Courvoisier (Relative Pitch), Nate Wooley (No Business & Astral Spirits), Jim O'Rourke & Akira Sakata (Drag City & Polystar), Merzbow (Family Vineyard), Jessica Rylan (Load Records), Nels Cline (Strange Attractors) and many more.

**Eloe Omoe** is the Boston, MA duo of Sam Rowell (bass) and Tim Leanse (drums). For the uninitiated and other strangers to Eloe Omoe's aural assault, I have described them as relentless 'free-sludge.' Their challenging and rewarding sound could be compared to both the depths of early free-jazz and the over-the-top amplifier worshipping metal of the legendary godheadSilo. But more than anything, the music is akin to the unpredictable shift of a group of sharks than to normal song structure.

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Bill Orcutt / Chris Corsano duo, Eloe Omoe

Alan Bishop, Bill Orcutt & Chris Corsano - Parked Chrysanthemums

Chris Corsano - How To Cook A Wolf

Bill Orcutt

Eloe Omoe

Gigs

Los Angeles

VDSQ and Black Editions present the second of two nights of **Bill Orcutt** and **Chris Corsano**. Sunday night features Bill and Chris each performing solo, and concluding with a Supersession quintet featuring three of Los Angeles's most vital current players: **Patrick Shiroishi**, **Marta Tiesenga** and **Lina Tullgren**.

**Bill Orcutt** is one of experimental music's most influential guitarists; he weaves looping melodic lines and angular attack into a dense, fissured landscape of American primitivism, outsider jazz, and a stripped-down re-envisioning of the possibilities of the guitar. Whether he’s playing his decrepit Kay acoustic or gutted electric Telecaster (both stripped of two of their strings, as has been Orcutt’s custom since 1985), Orcutt’s jagged sound is utterly unique and instantly recognizable, compared with equal frequency to avant-garde composers and rural bluesmen. The New York Times has called him a "powerful musician... a go-for-broke guitar improviser," and described his sound as "articulated sprays of arpeggiated chords and dissonance.”

**Chris Corsano** is an upstate NY-based drummer who has been active at the intersections of collective improvisation, free jazz, avant-rock, and noise music since the late 1990's. He began a long-standing, high-energy musical partnership with saxophonist Paul Flaherty in 1998. Their style, which they occasionally refer to with (semi-)tongue-in-cheek humor as "The Hated Music", combines modern free-jazz's ecstatic collectivist spirit and the urgency and intensity of hardcore punk. Corsano's dedication to collective improvisation has led to collaborations with many kindred spirits and his appearance on over 150 records and 1000 live performances. He's worked with, among others: Joe McPhee, Okkyung Lee, Mette Rasmussen, John Edwards, Sylvie Courvoisier, Nate Wooley, Jim O'Rourke & Akira Sakata, Merzbow, Jessica Rylan, Nels Cline and many more.

**Patrick Shiroishi** is a Japanese-American multi-instrumentalist & composer based in Los Angeles and one of the most active and exciting musicians to emerge in the last 10 yeats from the city's verdant underground. He has also performed as part of Godspeed You! Black Emperor and will be joining Sumac on their upcoming European tour.

**Lina Tullgren** is an artist, improviser, performer and poet. their work explores space, duality, relationships and the divine . recent works of both song music and improvised violin have been released under astral spirits , ba da bing! and captured tracks record labels . they live in los angeles. She has releases albums on the Captured Tracks and Astral Spirits labels among others.

**Marta Tiesenga**, originally from Chicago, IL, is an LA-based interdisciplinary artist, multi-instrumentalist, composer, and animator currently pursuing a dual Master’s degree in Composition - Experimental Sound Practices and Experimental Animation at California Institute of the Arts. In their work work, Marta explores and experiments with intersections between music cognition, music theory, repetition, composition, language and nonverbal communication, transience, and experience.

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Orcutt, Corsano Solos +Shiroishi/Tiesenga/Tullgren

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