Fire Museum Presents:
Tim Motzer
Amirtha Kidambi Trio
Saturday, December 6th 8:00 PM
The First Banana
2152 E. Dauphin Street
Philadelphia, PA
$8-$10 sliding scale
Tim Motzer (Philadelphia):
"Like a benevolent spell that refuses to break this hour long set is a work the listener visits, not merely listens to. From wild color and barely controlled chaos, where its sheer strangeness sustains our curiosity, to an odd sonic emptiness Motzer plays lithe and liquid solos with breathtaking ease. Part of the now legendary 3 November 2013 all live music broadcast of STAR'S END Ambient Radio Motzer's set seems to be more about shaping form than about the playing of ordered notes. In some places the music seems like a self-organizing system - and that once the work gets to a certain level of complexity it goes in its own direction, while elsewhere it is coaxed and guided by the artist in beautiful sonorities, textures and harmonies. While Tim Motzer's live musical ideas presented on STAR'S END provokes thought and binds genres, his work here is really about the plasticity of time, and how it may be felt as both infinite and finite, elusive and recognizable." WXPN-fm...
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Fire Museum Presents:
Tim Motzer
Amirtha Kidambi Trio
Saturday, December 6th 8:00 PM
The First Banana
2152 E. Dauphin Street
Philadelphia, PA
$8-$10 sliding scale
Tim Motzer (Philadelphia):
"Like a benevolent spell that refuses to break this hour long set is a work the listener visits, not merely listens to. From wild color and barely controlled chaos, where its sheer strangeness sustains our curiosity, to an odd sonic emptiness Motzer plays lithe and liquid solos with breathtaking ease. Part of the now legendary 3 November 2013 all live music broadcast of STAR'S END Ambient Radio Motzer's set seems to be more about shaping form than about the playing of ordered notes. In some places the music seems like a self-organizing system - and that once the work gets to a certain level of complexity it goes in its own direction, while elsewhere it is coaxed and guided by the artist in beautiful sonorities, textures and harmonies. While Tim Motzer's live musical ideas presented on STAR'S END provokes thought and binds genres, his work here is really about the plasticity of time, and how it may be felt as both infinite and finite, elusive and recognizable." WXPN-fm
HIs latest release, Live from Stars End, finds Motzer in SOLO guitar soundscape mode, but you'd hardly recognize the guitar. Live from Stars End was recorded live in WXPN Studio in Philadelphia as part of a live broadcast last November 2013.
PHILADELPHIA-BASED GUITARIST AND COMPOSER Tim Motzer finds infinite joy in diversity. His output as a leader and sideman crisscrosses multiple musical universes, including jazz, fusion, prog, hip-hop, soul, electronica, and the avant garde. Motzer gets to explore these genres and the intersections between them via his ubiquitous presence in the wildly deep and varied Philly scene. After 16 years of world touring, stunning collaborations, and over 60 albums of credits this Philadelphia-based guitarist continues to traverse manifold territories in music and has developed a distinct textural guitar voice utilizing looping, bowing, electronics, and prepared techniques. He has collaborated with David Sylvian, Burnt Friedman, Jaki Leibezeit (Can), Ursula Rucker, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Markus Reuter, King Britt, Dino JA Deane, Kurt Rosenwinkel among many others.
Amirtha Kidambi Trio (NYC):
Amirtha Kidambi is invested in the performance and creation of exploratory musics, ranging from South Indian Carnatic, Improvisation, Experimental Rock, Early Music, New Music and the Avant-Garde. As a soloist, collaborator and ensemble member in groups such as, the experimental Medieval gothic-folk band Seaven Teares, the percussion and analog electronics group Ashcan Orchestra, and vocal quartet Elizabeth-Caroline Unit, Amirtha has performed in a variety of venues from DIY spaces to concert halls including Carnegie Hall, ISSUE Project Room, Roulette,Clocktower Gallery, Zebulon, Death by Audio, Silent Barn, Le Poisson Rouge and The Kitchen. Her band Seaven Teares released their debut album Power Ballads in 2013 on Northern Spy Records. Recent projects include Apollo's Accidental Answer a chamber opera with the Pat Spadine's Ashcan Orchestra, the premiere of AACM founder and legendary composer/pianist Muhal Richard Abrams’ Dialogue Social, and The Oversoul Manual by Darius Jones with an album on Aum Fidelity released in October 2014. Amirtha is fortunate to have had the great honor of working with Robert Ashley since 2011 in That Morning Thing and the premiere of WWW III (Just the Highlights). Amirtha and the Varispeed Collective premiered Robert Ashley’s final opera CRASH shortly after his passing, for the Whitney Biennial in 2014. She is also the recipient of the Jerome Foundation's Emerging Artist Commission for Roulette in the 2014-2015 season.
Amirtha Kidambi Trio
This newly formed trio performing the musical conceptions of Amirtha Kidambi (Seaven Teares/Elizabeth-Caroline Unit), lies nestled in a venn diagram of musical spheres and communities in New York City. Her and her cohorts Brandon Lopez (Vape Drip/Tongues) and Max Jaffe (Killer Bob/Dear Leader/Vape Drip) have crossed paths in the DIY underbelly, in incestuous circles of free improvisers, and uncomfortable chairs in concert halls of angular new music. The trio uses loose song structures as template for improvisation, freely alternating between lyrics and abstract syllables as a vehicle for the voice. Oscillating between worlds of modal Sufi-like circular grooves, to jagged rhythmic precision and punishing brutality, Carnatic music, Coltrane or Varese could be equally suspected as illegitimate fathers of their developing sound.
Amirtha Kidambi - voice, harmonium Brandon Lopez - bass Max Jaffe - drums
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