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Helen Gillet at Space
Courtesy of Ticketmaster | Posted on May 19, 2023
When
Mon, July 17, 2023
7:30 pm
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Musicians
Helen Gillet
celloAbout
Helen Gillet is a singer-songwriter and surrealist-archeologist exploring synthesized sounds, texture, and rhythm using an acoustic cello. For someone with her varied background, New Orleans, with its mix of cultures and musics, seemed like a natural place to call home. She was born in Belgium, raised in Singapore from the ages of 2 to 11, and routinely shuttled between the homelands of her Belgian father and American mother. Over the years working in New Orleans with musicians of all stripes, from avant-garde jazz and classical to pop and funk Gillet has developed a singular polyglot style. The core of her work is solo performance with live looping, layering cello parts and vocal lines...