Distant Pairs

MUSIC
TUESDAY – THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27 – 29, 2020
8:00 PM

ISSUE Project Room Live Stream

Free
https://issueprojectroom.org/event/distant-pairs-joe-mcphee-taku-unami
https://issueprojectroom.org/event/distant-pairs-ingrid-laubrock-veryan-weston-art-life-self-isolation
https://issueprojectroom.org/event/distant-pairs-dreamcrusher-dis-fig

A series of tech-enabled (very) remote duets, by people on different continents.  The pick of the litter is probably Wednesday's recital by Brooklyn (originally from Germany) saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock and legendary London improvisatory jazz pianist Veryon Weston — accompanied by a visual elements showing disorientingly fractured online virtual social interactions.  Free jazz legend Joe McPhee appears on Tuesday, playing for the first time with the unpredictable Japanese improv/experimental guitarist Taku Umi.  Capping it all off in the most interesting manner possible, on Thursday, Dreamcrusher, who makes noise personal and expressive, works from Brooklyn (albeit originally from Kansas, they emphasize) with Berlin's Dis Fig, whose noise tapestries are epic.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:  Five Point Palm Exploding Heart Technique:  pour 1-1/2 oz. Tequila, 3/4 oz. Punt e Mes, and 1/2 oz. Coffee liqueur (I mean, everybody has a bottle of Kalhúa lurking in the back of their bar, right?), with 1 dash of chocolate bitters, into a rocks glass over ice.  Stir.