Thing with Joe McPhee April 27, 2007

.:. Epistrophy Arts presents .:.
.:. .:. The Thing with Joe McPhee .:. .:.

Friday April 27, 2007 8PM
Victory Grill (1104 E. 11th Street)
http://www.historicvictorygrill.com

$13 advance Tickets available now at Waterloo Records and End of An Ear (2209 S 1st St)
$15 Door.

All Ages Welcome
www.epistrophyarts.org

Mats Gustafsson (Sweden) - baritone and tenor sax
Joe McPhee (Poughkeepsie NY) - tenor sax and trumpet
Ingebrigt Haker-Flaten (Norway) - bass
Paal Nilssen-Love (Norway) - drums

* "Tapping into rock's most primal forces with a fire and fury that?s
something to behold" MOJO

* "The Thing Convert nouveau punk and vintage garage-rock into a roaring scream up, but the sheer energy and love of the music keep gimmickry at bay"
UNCUT

* "The sheer power they can generate from wood, metal, breath and muscle is stunning" BBC

* "Absurdly cool." DJ Magazine

Free Jazz ecstasy meets the intensity of Garage Rock. The Thing blends the spontaneity and imagination of classic free jazz with the emotional immediacy of underground garage rock. With acoustic traditional jazz instrumentation, the three young Scandinavians can match the power of the fiercest rock band. The Thing's repertoire consists of 60's era new-jazz (Don Cherry, Ayler, James Blood Ulmer, David Murray) and reinterpretations of underground rock classics (PJ Harvey, White Stripes, Sonics). This is no watered down jazz-rock. The Thing take the most uncompromising aspects of both genres and turn up the heat.

The Thing are joined by living legend Joe McPhee. The American multi-instrumentalist is a veteran of the 60's New York "Fire Music" that is at the heart of The Thing. In his lyrical and soulful playing lies the true cry of the blues. McPhee is one of the most in-demand artists in Jazz and an authentic and vital messenger of its radical avant-garde.

Epistrophy Arts is proud to collaborate with Austin's historic Victory Grill for this exciting event. The Victory Grill is Austin's original home for blues and jazz. Opened in 1945, this historic venue has hosted performances by some of the most important figures in American music. In addition to concerts by R&B and blues legends like Chuck Berry, Bobby 'Blue' Bland, B.B. King, and others, the Victory featured appearances by new jazz luminaries like Ornette Coleman, Bobby Bradford, Dewey Redman, Prince Lasha, Charles Moffett, among others.
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About the artists.

Mats Gustafsson - Sonic Youth?s Thurston Moore once described Mats as "the most modern of players where the genre tags of jazz, noise, experimental, avant-whatever are finally transcended to a new millennium where compositional concepts are at once in check with open improvisation and a super-modernism what we always wanted: rock & roll". Mats is currently Sweden's and perhaps Europe's most well-known artist within free improvised music. He has established himself as a saxophonist with a broad repertoire of extended techniques on level with Evan Parker and John Butcher. Mats'
list of collaborators is impressive; Jim O?Rourke, Barry Guy, Paul Lovens, Han Bennink, The Ex, Fugazi?s Guy Picciotto, Peter Brotzmann, David Grubbs, Hamid Drake, Ken Vandermark and many more. In addition to the Thing, Mats is a regular member of GUSH, The Peter Brotzmann Tentet, Aaly Trio, Diskaholics Anonymous etc.

Bassist Ingebrigt Haker-Flaten and drummer Paal Nilssen Love are considered to be Norway's heaviest rhythm section. Both are graduates of Norway's prestigious Trondheim Musical Conservatory. They have played in numerous settings and have performed and recorded with the likes of Pat Metheny, Evan Parker, Wibutee, Peter Brotzmann, and many others. Both are members of School Days with Ken Vandermark, the Scorch Trio and Atomic who won last years Norwegian Grammy award for best jazz album.

JOE MCPHEE - The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD calls Joe McPhee "one of the most consistently impressive and adventurous composer / instrumentalists in the music industry." McPhee, as with many visionary American artists, enjoys wide acclaim in Europe. A Jazz renegade whose visions were forged in the fires of the 1960's free-jazz underground and honed by a lifetime of experiences, Joe is featured on numerous recordings on a wide assortment of prestigious labels such as Hat Art, Atavistic, CIMP, Deep Listening, OKKA, Leo and many others.

* http://www.shef.ac.uk/misc/rec/ps/efi/mgustafs.html
* http://www.ingebrigtflaten.com/
* http://www.paalnilssen-love.com/news.php
* http://www.joemcphee.com/

About Epistrophy Arts:
http://www.epistrophyarts.org

Epistrophy Arts is a grass roots cultural organization dedicated to
presenting the finest in adventurous music in Austin Texas. Since 1998 we have organized over 50 concerts with internationally renowned figures in improvised and experimental music. The music we present is on the cutting edge of world culture. Our aim is to widen the cultural horizons of the 'Live Music Capital of The World' by bringing the most daring and uncompromising artists in the world to Austin.

Official Website: http://www.epistrophyarts.org