Rhys Chatham's Guitar Trio All-Stars January 29, 2007

(((Non-Event Presents)))

RHYS CHATHAM'S GUITAR TRIO ALL-STARS (featuring Chris Brokaw,
Keith Fullerton Whitman, members of Devil Music and visuals by Robert Longo)

plus:
NEPTUNE
DAVID DANIELL
Great Scott
1222 Commonwealth Avenue
Allston, MA
617.566.9014
http://www.greatscottboston.com
9pm/18+/$10

A Non-Event Podcast, featuring Chatham's Guitar Trio is
posted at: http://www.rarefrequency.com/nonevent/.

About the performance:

Written in 1977, "Guitar Trio" is Rhys Chatham's signature composition, and with good reason. The word "seminal" was invented to describe it. With a single, repeated chord, Chatham permanently altered the DNA of rock by splicing the gritty, overtone-drenched minimalism of John Cale and Tony Conrad with the elemental fury of the Ramones. The amalgamation was inspired. It energized the downtown New York scene throughout the late 1970s and early 1980s, and made Chatham a founding father of the notorious No Wave movement. The influence of "Guitar Trio" spread even farther as former students and ensemble members carried its shimmering swagger into the rock mainstream. When Sonic Youth are inducted into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame (and you know it's gonna happen), listen for some G3. It's there.

In 2007 Chatham returns (he expatriated to Paris in 1987) to celebrate the 30th anniversary of "Guitar Trio" by performing it on tour throughout the US and Canada. And we don't mean it's on the set list; it is the set list. These will be no ordinary concerts, and the ensemble — will be no ordinary ensemble. Chatham will lead a band of all-stars in each city. The Boston show will feature David Daniell, Chris Brokaw, Keith Fullerton Whitman, Winston Braman and members of the Devil Music Ensemble. The concerts will also feature the original projections created for the piece in 1977 by famed visual artist and feature-film director Robert Longo.
The entire tour will also be recorded, with the choicest versions to be released on a G3-only CD. The title? It's obvious: Guitar Trio Is My Life.

"For years Rhys Chatham's music has been more heard about than heard. While his work languished out of print, disciples such as Sonic Youth have gone to the bank with his sound. Chatham's sonic vocabulary is an inspired marriage of minimalist structures, rock cadences and glittering overtones obtained from massed electric guitars played in unusual tunings at crushing volume. [His] knack for garbling indelible melodies in gorgeous sonorities makes them as attractive as ever today."
—Chicago Tribune

"Surging phosphorescence . . . Uplifting."
—Rolling Stone

Artist links:
http://www.rhyschatham.com
http://www.chrisbrokaw.com
http://www.keithfullertonwhitman.com
http://www.devilmusic.org
http://neptuneband.com
http://www.myspace.com/davidwdaniell

This concert is supported in part by a grant from the LEF Foundation -
http://www.lef-foundation.org/.

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