The Red Microphone at ShapeShifter Lab

AN EVENING OF NEW JAZZ AND INTERNATIONAL POETRY

The recently-founded revolutionary Jazz/New Music quartet THE RED MICROPHONE will head a bill at Shapeshifter Lab, the experimental music space in Gowanus, Brooklyn. Another feature of the evening will be the celebrated poet from Italy ERIKA DAGNINO on her latest US tour. The band will also be accompanying Ms. Dagnino during her opening set.

-TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 8PM
-SHAPESHIFTER LAB
18 Whitwell Place ( bet. 1st & Union Streets, near 3rd Avenue), Brooklyn NY 11215 www.shapeshifterlab.com

THE RED MICROPHONE is a NYC-based ensemble of seasoned improvisational musicians who engage in ongoing progressive arts activism. The influence of earlier revolutionary cultural workers is brought to light in the quartet’s performance through sound, statement and intent. The band recently performed at ABC No Rio and the Brecht Forum and can be heard on the December 2012 IFAR Compilation; they have also recorded their debut CD, ‘The Red Microphone Speaks’, which will be available shortly. At Shapeshifter Lab the ensemble will present a set with works of Hanns Eisler, Pierre Degeytor and seldom-heard 1930s composer Janet Barnes, pieces dedicated to the likes of Paul Robeson, and performances inclusive of the prose of Langston Hughes, John Howard Lawson and others....

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AN EVENING OF NEW JAZZ AND INTERNATIONAL POETRY

The recently-founded revolutionary Jazz/New Music quartet THE RED MICROPHONE will head a bill at Shapeshifter Lab, the experimental music space in Gowanus, Brooklyn. Another feature of the evening will be the celebrated poet from Italy ERIKA DAGNINO on her latest US tour. The band will also be accompanying Ms. Dagnino during her opening set.

-TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 8PM
-SHAPESHIFTER LAB
18 Whitwell Place ( bet. 1st & Union Streets, near 3rd Avenue), Brooklyn NY 11215 www.shapeshifterlab.com

THE RED MICROPHONE is a NYC-based ensemble of seasoned improvisational musicians who engage in ongoing progressive arts activism. The influence of earlier revolutionary cultural workers is brought to light in the quartet’s performance through sound, statement and intent. The band recently performed at ABC No Rio and the Brecht Forum and can be heard on the December 2012 IFAR Compilation; they have also recorded their debut CD, ‘The Red Microphone Speaks’, which will be available shortly. At Shapeshifter Lab the ensemble will present a set with works of Hanns Eisler, Pierre Degeytor and seldom-heard 1930s composer Janet Barnes, pieces dedicated to the likes of Paul Robeson, and performances inclusive of the prose of Langston Hughes, John Howard Lawson and others.

John Pietaro: vibraphone, percussion, voice
Ras Moshe: tenor & soprano saxophones, flute, voice
Rocco John Iacavone: soprano & alto saxophones
Nicolas Letman-Burtinovic: double bass


ERIKA DAGNINO, writer and poet, has toured many nations in collaboration with free improvisational and new music artists . Her poetry, fiction and drama have appeared in various anthologies and have won several awards. Musical collaborations include the CD liner notes for Anthony Braxton’s Italian Quartet, Standards (2006), recorded live at PP Café, Brussels, and works with Italian avant-garde violinist Stefano Pastor, English saxophonist George Haslam and American pianist and composer Chris Brown. She has performed in New York with Ken Filiano, Steve Dalachinsky, Dominic Duval, Satoshi Takeishi, the members of the Red Microphone and many others, threading her bi-lingual spoken word into layers of improvised music carefully structured by the poet.


-For more info see www.DissidentArts.com-

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