IMC Dublin
New Member
Peter Brötzmann & Paal Nilssen-Love
Saturday 6th April, 8.30pm
Kevin Barry Room, NCH
€15 www.nch.ie
Peter Brötzmann – saxophone / clarinet
Paal Nilssen-Love - drums
"Brötzmann remains one of the most uncompromising and catalytic figures in Europe's post-war free music avantgarde" The Wire
"Nilssen-Love's mature style is a riveting blend of the power of a rock player, the rhythmic freedoms of a contemporary improviser and the sense of detail of an abstract percussionist" The Guardian
"the unrelenting earthquake of this pair's dialogues" The Guardian
Making his first Irish appearance at the tender age of 72, free jazz patriarch Peter Brötzmann shows no sign of going gently into the good night. Four decades on from the seismic statement of 1968’s Machine Gun, his tenor saxophone remains the ne plus ultra of liberated free jazz expression, powerful and life affirming. PNV has been a more familiar presence here, as one third of regular Irish visitors The Thing, everyone’s favourite Scandinavian noise trio.
Brötzmann and Nilssen-Love have been playing together since the late 90’s, in groups like Hairy Bones and more often in duo. Woodcuts (Republic of Music) is their latest release, and confirms that this is a pairing that echoes down the generations, making music of extraordinary vitality. Uncompromising? Possibly. Worth experiencing? Definitely.
Presented by Improvised Music Company
Saturday 6th April, 8.30pm
Kevin Barry Room, NCH
€15 www.nch.ie
Peter Brötzmann – saxophone / clarinet
Paal Nilssen-Love - drums
"Brötzmann remains one of the most uncompromising and catalytic figures in Europe's post-war free music avantgarde" The Wire
"Nilssen-Love's mature style is a riveting blend of the power of a rock player, the rhythmic freedoms of a contemporary improviser and the sense of detail of an abstract percussionist" The Guardian
"the unrelenting earthquake of this pair's dialogues" The Guardian
Making his first Irish appearance at the tender age of 72, free jazz patriarch Peter Brötzmann shows no sign of going gently into the good night. Four decades on from the seismic statement of 1968’s Machine Gun, his tenor saxophone remains the ne plus ultra of liberated free jazz expression, powerful and life affirming. PNV has been a more familiar presence here, as one third of regular Irish visitors The Thing, everyone’s favourite Scandinavian noise trio.
Brötzmann and Nilssen-Love have been playing together since the late 90’s, in groups like Hairy Bones and more often in duo. Woodcuts (Republic of Music) is their latest release, and confirms that this is a pairing that echoes down the generations, making music of extraordinary vitality. Uncompromising? Possibly. Worth experiencing? Definitely.
Presented by Improvised Music Company
