U.F.O presents!
CHRIS CORSANO
Thread Pulls
Upstairs @ Whelan’s, November 23rd, 8pm
Tickets €10 plus booking fee from WAV Box-Office (Lo-Call 1890 200 078), City Discs, www.tickets.ie, Ticketmaster outlets nationwide
"...deadly drum explosions...swatting his kit as if it were covered in giant ants, with every component used to full effect - a tighly orchestrated beating of skins and rims resounding over the ensuing flow of inventive exploration" - Edwin Pouncey - The Wire
New England based Corsano is a multi-faceted drummer; capable of solo sets of the most beguiling inventiveness, featuring drums, gamelan-like metallic objects, tiny strings, saxophone mouthpieces and whatever else he has at hand. He's recorded and gigged with, among others, Paul Flaherty, Michael Flower, Björk, Jim O'Rourke, Thurston Moore, Evan Parker, Nels Cline, Jessica Rylan, Jandek, Six Organs of Admittance, Sunburned Hand Of Man, Okkyung Lee, MV&EE, Keiji Haino, Vampire Belt, Joe McPhee, Christina Carter and Heather Leigh Murray.
First spellbound by free improvised music in the mid '90s through witnessing performances by TEST, William Parker, Cecil Taylor and others, Corsano began a long-standing high-energy partnership with Paul Flaherty in 1998. Moving from western Massachusetts, USA to Manchester, England in 2005 and then Edinburgh, Scotland a year later, Corsano focused on developing expanded solo percussion music of his own, incorporating sax reeds, violin strings and bows, pot lids, adhesive tape and other household devices into his drumkit. In February 2006 he released his first solo recording, The Young Cricketer, and toured the UK opening for Jack Rose. In 2007 and '08 he was the drummer on Björk's Volta world tour. With a move back to Massachusetts, 2009 heralds a return to his own projects, most notably his duo with Michael Flower and solo work, now revamped to include synthesizers and contact mics in addition to his drum kit and home-made acoustic instruments.
http://www.myspace.com/chriscorsano
http://www.cor-sano.com
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Press Quotes:
"Corsano, despite being arguably the most riotosly energetic and creative drummer in contemporary free jazz, does far more than merely bash his kit into submission. Playing loud does not mean abandoning subtlety, and Corsano's sudden shifts of texture and dynamics are a wonder to behold." - Dan Warburton, The Wire (April 2006)
"At one point...Corsano even duos with himself, hurling spittle through a piece of horn while simultaneously pounding out a blurry beat. But that's just the tip of this massive iceberg, which drips with so many ideas and so much head-grabbing sound I almost wonder if Chris should retire now - this would easily qualify as the life-highlight of most sound-generating mortals." - Marc Masters' review of The Young Cricketer, Noiseweek (April 2006)
"Corsano is one of the best drummers of his generation" - Byron Coley, Arthur Magazine (Sept. 2002)
"Anyone who has ever seen him live already knows it, but this solo session [The Young Cricketer] slams the notion home; Chris Corsano is seriously one of the most exciting drummers on the planet." - Adam Richards, indieworkshop.com (Feb. 2006)
"drummer Chris Corsano, a young free player who already looks like becoming the most significant and syntactically advanced percussionist to come out of the free rock/jazz nexus. His playing is so exuberant and explosively alive that it transcends any kind of responsive playing, inhabiting instead a sublime zone where pure energy spontaneously gives birth to form." - David Keenan, Scottish Sunday Herald (May 18, 2003)
"Corsano updates the multi-directional freedom of Rashied Ali and deftly shudders about the drums with jaw-dropping skillfulness, coaxing a staggering array of rhythms and sounds from his traps. Laced through it all is an undeniable display of raw emotion laid out like a sacrificial lamb, offered to the gods to save us all" - Chris Scofield, Fake Jazz
CHRIS CORSANO
Thread Pulls
Upstairs @ Whelan’s, November 23rd, 8pm
Tickets €10 plus booking fee from WAV Box-Office (Lo-Call 1890 200 078), City Discs, www.tickets.ie, Ticketmaster outlets nationwide
"...deadly drum explosions...swatting his kit as if it were covered in giant ants, with every component used to full effect - a tighly orchestrated beating of skins and rims resounding over the ensuing flow of inventive exploration" - Edwin Pouncey - The Wire
New England based Corsano is a multi-faceted drummer; capable of solo sets of the most beguiling inventiveness, featuring drums, gamelan-like metallic objects, tiny strings, saxophone mouthpieces and whatever else he has at hand. He's recorded and gigged with, among others, Paul Flaherty, Michael Flower, Björk, Jim O'Rourke, Thurston Moore, Evan Parker, Nels Cline, Jessica Rylan, Jandek, Six Organs of Admittance, Sunburned Hand Of Man, Okkyung Lee, MV&EE, Keiji Haino, Vampire Belt, Joe McPhee, Christina Carter and Heather Leigh Murray.
First spellbound by free improvised music in the mid '90s through witnessing performances by TEST, William Parker, Cecil Taylor and others, Corsano began a long-standing high-energy partnership with Paul Flaherty in 1998. Moving from western Massachusetts, USA to Manchester, England in 2005 and then Edinburgh, Scotland a year later, Corsano focused on developing expanded solo percussion music of his own, incorporating sax reeds, violin strings and bows, pot lids, adhesive tape and other household devices into his drumkit. In February 2006 he released his first solo recording, The Young Cricketer, and toured the UK opening for Jack Rose. In 2007 and '08 he was the drummer on Björk's Volta world tour. With a move back to Massachusetts, 2009 heralds a return to his own projects, most notably his duo with Michael Flower and solo work, now revamped to include synthesizers and contact mics in addition to his drum kit and home-made acoustic instruments.
http://www.myspace.com/chriscorsano
http://www.cor-sano.com
.
Press Quotes:
"Corsano, despite being arguably the most riotosly energetic and creative drummer in contemporary free jazz, does far more than merely bash his kit into submission. Playing loud does not mean abandoning subtlety, and Corsano's sudden shifts of texture and dynamics are a wonder to behold." - Dan Warburton, The Wire (April 2006)
"At one point...Corsano even duos with himself, hurling spittle through a piece of horn while simultaneously pounding out a blurry beat. But that's just the tip of this massive iceberg, which drips with so many ideas and so much head-grabbing sound I almost wonder if Chris should retire now - this would easily qualify as the life-highlight of most sound-generating mortals." - Marc Masters' review of The Young Cricketer, Noiseweek (April 2006)
"Corsano is one of the best drummers of his generation" - Byron Coley, Arthur Magazine (Sept. 2002)
"Anyone who has ever seen him live already knows it, but this solo session [The Young Cricketer] slams the notion home; Chris Corsano is seriously one of the most exciting drummers on the planet." - Adam Richards, indieworkshop.com (Feb. 2006)
"drummer Chris Corsano, a young free player who already looks like becoming the most significant and syntactically advanced percussionist to come out of the free rock/jazz nexus. His playing is so exuberant and explosively alive that it transcends any kind of responsive playing, inhabiting instead a sublime zone where pure energy spontaneously gives birth to form." - David Keenan, Scottish Sunday Herald (May 18, 2003)
"Corsano updates the multi-directional freedom of Rashied Ali and deftly shudders about the drums with jaw-dropping skillfulness, coaxing a staggering array of rhythms and sounds from his traps. Laced through it all is an undeniable display of raw emotion laid out like a sacrificial lamb, offered to the gods to save us all" - Chris Scofield, Fake Jazz
