Ole Mathisen Outlier Ensemble And Take Off Collective at ShapeShifter Lab

From the Village Voice! Saxophonist Ole Mathisen's Outlier Ensemble’s 7 Seconds to Sundown is at once environmental call to arms, challenge to the standard distribution model (it’s available on thumb drive only, no streaming or label releases), and hybrid experiment in improvisation; somewhere between Henry Threadgill’s brand of free jazz and Olivier Messiaen’s boldest chamber classical. With Julian Pollack doubling on keyboards and synth bass and veteran drummer Marko Djordjevic, Mathisen’s metrically complex but immediately accessible grooves, originally composed for a classical setting, become a jumping-off point for three of the most exciting improvisers working today. Also on the double bill is the equally dizzying and irrepressibly genre-defying Take Off Collective, featuring Mathisen, Djordjevic and bassist Matthew Garrison....

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From the Village Voice! Saxophonist Ole Mathisen's Outlier Ensemble’s 7 Seconds to Sundown is at once environmental call to arms, challenge to the standard distribution model (it’s available on thumb drive only, no streaming or label releases), and hybrid experiment in improvisation; somewhere between Henry Threadgill’s brand of free jazz and Olivier Messiaen’s boldest chamber classical. With Julian Pollack doubling on keyboards and synth bass and veteran drummer Marko Djordjevic, Mathisen’s metrically complex but immediately accessible grooves, originally composed for a classical setting, become a jumping-off point for three of the most exciting improvisers working today. Also on the double bill is the equally dizzying and irrepressibly genre-defying Take Off Collective, featuring Mathisen, Djordjevic and bassist Matthew Garrison.

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