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Lisa Mezzacappa's avant-NOIR project at Which Way West? Sunday Concert Series at Bird & Beckett Books and Records
Courtesy of Eric Whittington | Posted on October 31, 2015
Where
Bird & Beckett Books and Records
Which Way West? Sunday Concert Series
653 Chenery Street
San Francisco, CA
Map
(415) 586-3733
When
Sun, November 22, 2015
4:30 pm
Save the date
Musicians
Lisa Mezzacappa
bass, acousticAaron Bennett
saxophoneJohn Finkbeiner
guitarVijay Anderson
drumsTim Perkis
electronicsAbout
A sextet with Aaron Bennett, sax; John Finkbeiner, guitar; Vijay Anderson, drums; Lisa Mezzacappa, bass (Bait & Switch) plus William Wynant, percussion and Tim Perkis, electronics. music inspired by noir genre fiction set in New York City (LM's hometown) and the San Francisco Bay Area (her adopted home for the past 13 years). avant-NOIR is a musical companion to Paul Auster’s abstract soft-boiled crime stories from his New York Trilogy of the 1980s, set in conversation with the West Coast classic hard-boiled 1920s-era detective fiction of Dashiell Hammett. The music progresses like a detective’s case, using clues and imagery from the crime novels such as maps, letters, messages and relationships between characters, numbers and places, to create compositions with acoustic and electric sounds, field recordings and composed and improvised material...