Jan Bang/Sidsel Endresen/Erik Honore' on tour 2013

CONCERT OFFER/ «Uncommon Deities» JAN BANG/SIDSEL ENDRESEN/ERIK HONORÉ

Line up:
Sidsel Endresen, vocal
Jan Bang/Erik Honore, Live Sampling
+ sound engineer

Available dates: 18>>28th February 2013/On Request

Punkt founder and live sampler Jan Bang together with a star team of musicians join forces for an exclusive tour performing material from his new Samadhisound release “Uncommon Deities“. The album evokes a powerful sense of place – but it’s not a place you would recognize, or ever expect to find. As a producer, Bang stitches it together like a patchwork atlas and then makes the seams disappear: live recordings and studio constructions, old samples and new solos come together to form an exquisite whole.

Jan Bang
The musical spheres Jan Bang works in revolve around such luminaries as Jon Hassell, David Sylvian, Brian Eno, Sidsel Endresen, Nils Petter Molvaer and Arve Henriksen. From his work as successful pop producer in the 1990s his creative thrust and pioneering work in developing the concept of live remix- improvising with electronics alongside more conventional instruments and performers - has led today to him being constantly in-demand as producer and performer. In 2005 he launched, together with Erik Honoré the internationally renowned Punkt Festival where Bang’s live sampling, his own musical instrument, works within the framework of overlapping concerts one being the original, the other the remix. The Punkt brand has already travelled abroad to the UK, Germany and has plans to visit the United States. Bang’s recent recorded work includes the acclaimed CDs Cartography by Arve Henriksen and Jon Hassell’s Last Night the Moon Came, both on ECM. Recent live performances and tours have included with Jon Hassell to Sidney Opera House as part of Eno's own festival and last year playing Carnegie Hall in NYC and Royce Hall, LA. In November 2008, as curator of "Scene Norway during the opening of King's Place in London - BBC´s Fiona Talkington invited Punkt for a three day festival as part of the London Jazz Festival. More on Bang: www.samadhisound.com/janbang

In the '70s, two American musicians were able to revolutionize the use and language of their instrument as well as its orchestral context. Two trumpeters: one, Miles Davis, the other, Jon Hassell, who made his first appearance five years after Miles' brilliant "On the Corner" with his "Vernal Equinox" (1977). And at that point, the electro-acoustic revolution became concretized: sound effects galore, vocalization of the sound of the trumpet, sound loops and, especially, development of a new temporality. Jon Hassell continues to expand and challenge this definition - most recently with his 2009 album on ECM, Last Night the Moon Came Dropping Its Clothes in the Street, featuring the "live sampling" virtuosity of the Norwegian musician, Jan Bang. "Live sampling" refers to a process that can be considered a completely new instrument with no "native" sound of its own. The virtuoso player is able to capture the actual sound of any instrument in the middle of a performance via instantaneous sampling and then manipulating that musical "cell" in a nearly limitless spectrum of digital transformation.For instance, a sustained keyboard chord, seamlessly blended into it's digital mirror image, can suddenly "take flight," up and away from the limitations of the physical instrument.

ALBUM REVIEWS:
“…Another very special album from the Samadhi Sound stable” - Boomkat.com

“…One of the more impressive albums I have heard in a long time. 
It proves that there are always new roads to travel, that there is still a lot of new music to explore” - Vancooten.com

“…A refined, close to chill-out sound which has more of an urban feel than fellow Norwegian Jan Garbarek’s more spacey and forlorn landscapes” - Wall Street Journal

“…Jan Bang interweaving live instrumentals, studio processing, field recordings and other effluvia into dreamy, off-kilter soundscapes--dreamscapes might be a better term--that carry the whiff of the exotic” - Blogspot.com

Links:
www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=36892
www.samadhisound.com/janbang

review de volkskrant (Holland): tinyurl.com/33l2sgy

Insound (Italian): tinyurl.com/2a629lo

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