Indie Label brings New Concert Series to Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
Brooklyn, NY, September 25, 2012 – Music Starts From Silence presents Brooklyn’s own Loop 2.4.3 and the Javier Arau New Jazz Quartet for the inaugural event on the new concert series at the Church of St. Joseph. Loop 2.4.3’s New York Percussion Duo will perform music from the highly acclaimed 2012 release American Dreamland, alongside world-premieres and older works by the Kozumplik/Watson writing team. Sharing the bill is the Javier Arau New Jazz Quartet led by saxophonist and composer Javier Arau. This concert is the first of many to follow in the historic garden of St. Joseph’s Church in Prospect Heights. Saturday, October 20, 2012, 3 p.m. The Church of St. Joseph, 856 Pacific Street, Brooklyn, NY 11238. Free Will Offering. ...
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Indie Label brings New Concert Series to Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
Brooklyn, NY, September 25, 2012 – Music Starts From Silence presents Brooklyn’s own Loop 2.4.3 and the Javier Arau New Jazz Quartet for the inaugural event on the new concert series at the Church of St. Joseph. Loop 2.4.3’s New York Percussion Duo will perform music from the highly acclaimed 2012 release American Dreamland, alongside world-premieres and older works by the Kozumplik/Watson writing team. Sharing the bill is the Javier Arau New Jazz Quartet led by saxophonist and composer Javier Arau. This concert is the first of many to follow in the historic garden of St. Joseph’s Church in Prospect Heights. Saturday, October 20, 2012, 3 p.m. The Church of St. Joseph, 856 Pacific Street, Brooklyn, NY 11238. Free Will Offering.
Brooklyn’s rapidly evolving Prospect Height’s neighborhood gets a new concert series through the collaboration of community members and DIY artists. The artist-led record label, Music Starts From Silence, joins forces with the Church of Saint Joseph to bring an exciting new concert series into the heart of the community. The inaugural event features Brooklyn artists Loop 2.4.3 and Javier Arau’s New Jazz Quartet.
Loop 2.4.3’s performance at St. Joseph’s will consist mainly of music from their newly-released 3rd album, American Dreamland, which Gramophone called “visceral and satisfying...a riveting aura, a genuine time warp.” Varied instrumentation showcases the steel drum, marimba, Native American flute, and two instruments of the artist’s invention: the Rose Echo, and the Elog (electronic log drum). Never idle, the duo will bring 2 new compositions and resurrect pieces from their previous albums.
Led by saxophonist and composer Javier Arau, the New Jazz Quartet explores new music and classics, creatively putting a modern jazz spin on all its repertoire. A front cover artist on the Saxophone Journal, Arau has been featured in DownBeat Magazine, the New York Times, and All About Jazz, and he has received national awards and recognition from ASCAP, BMI, and MENC, among others. Mr. Arau also directs the New York Jazz Academy, which has an active branch in Brooklyn.
More on Loop 2.4.3:
This performance is part of the American Dreamland Tour, a project developed in collaboration with NYC-based fine artist, Jon Waldo. Waldo’s paintings, throbbing, psychedelic renderings of emblematic American objects, are featured in the album’s artwork, and used as projections in live performance. Also featured are Waldo’s photographs of desolate, industrial areas of Brooklyn, NY, and pastoral settings of New England. These add to the poignant, dramatic, and widely varied musical compositions.
[Loop 2.4.3]’s much lauded live performances have earned responses such as “fascinating”, “richly detailed”, “hypnotic” (Time Out New York), “mesmerizing” and “stunning” (Time Out Chicago), “Transportive” (the Boston Phoenix), and in a nod to their originality, NPR’s Fresh Air said that “it all sounds like part of a well-thought-out tradition. Only the tradition has never existed until now.” Copies of the new album will be available on CD and 12” vinyl, as well as posters and T-shirts featuring Waldo’s colorful artwork. Please visit www.loop243.com.
More on Javier Arau:
An active performer in New York City, Arau has shared the stage with Dizzy Gillespie, Richie Cole, the Joe Henderson Quartet, Clark Terry, Diana Krall, Steve Lacy, and many more. An innovator in the field of jazz education, Javier's research and development has been recognized by leading music institutions worldwide. He has taught at New England Conservatory of Music and Lawrence University and has served on the national judging panel for the MTNA national collegiate music competition. Javier is the author of several influential music texts and articles, and he has been published by Jazz Educators Journal, UNC Jazz Press, and Dorn Publications. Javier is an artist-endorser for Virtuoso Saxophones and is the founder and director of New York Jazz Academy. For more about Javier, visit www.JavierArau.com.
Saturday, October 20, 3 p.m.
Music Starts From Silence presents:
Loop 2.4.3’s : “American Dreamland”
and The Javier Arau New Jazz Quartet
The Church of St. Joseph
856 Pacific Street (between Underhill and Vanderbilt)
Brooklyn, NY 11238
Admission is Free Will Offering.
Transportation To Prospect Heights, Brooklyn: 2, 3, 4, 5, N, R, D or Q trains to Atlantic/ Barclay's Center. C train to Washington Ave.
For more information, contact Paul Krassner:
Telephone: 347-687-5243; Email: [email protected]
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Paul Krassner
Music Starts From Silence (MSFS)
Recordings, Publishing, Producing
www.musicstartsfromsilence.com
718-254-0483 / 347-687-5243
Acclaim for Loop 2.4.3
"...intricate, energetic performances."
The New York Times
“A fascinating percussion ensemble...richly-detailed, hypnotic new [music]”
Time Out New York
“...mesmerizing... the group mingles taut compositions with a stunning improvisational sense”
Time Out Chicago
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