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Gene Pritsker’s Sound Liberation ‘let’s Save The World Suite’ at Silvana

Courtesy of Gene Pritsker | Posted on August 15, 2022

Where

Silvana
330 West 116 Street
New York, NY
Map
(646) 692-4935

Gene Pritsker’s Sound Liberation ‘let’s Save The World Suite’ at Silvana

When

Wed, September 7, 2022
7:00 pm

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Musicians

Franz Hackl
trumpet
Paul Carlon
saxophone, tenor
Erik Thomas Johnson
poet / spoken word

About

Composers Concordance and Composers Concordance Records present the album release of Gene Pritsker’s ‘Let’s Save the World Suite’. The seven-movement composition, based on three poems of Erik T. Johnson, is scored for a quintet of trumpet, saxophone, electric guitar, electric bass and drum set, with poet Erik T. Johnson reciting the poems in three of the movements. The music and poetry deal with our feelings toward the world in the past few years during the time of the pandemic, though not directly mentioning it. The music is inspired by jazz, music of various cultures, contemporary classical techniques and has an overall unique sound...

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