Monday 17 January 2011, 8pm
After sparring with the best of Britain and raising the roof with his own Full Blast Trio, Peter Brotzmann heads back to OTO for a duo with Chicago-based cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm.
PETER BROTZMANN
Since the sixties Peter Brotzmann has been one of the most important and uncompromising figures in free Jazz working with everyone from Don Cherry to Keiji Haino. Brotzmann first trained as a painter and was associated with Fluxus before teaching himself the saxophone and establishing himself as one of the most powerful and original players around.
FRED LONBERG-HOLM
Chicago based cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm has played and studied music in a variety of situations from the Juilliard School to the gutter.
A former student of Anthony Braxton, Morton Feldman, Bunita Marcus and Pauline Oliveros, his primary projects are his Valentine Trio and The Lightbox Orchestra. He is also a member of a number of ongoing collective projects (The Boxhead Ensemble, The Friction Brothers with Michaels Zerang and Colligan, The Flatlands Collective, Keefe Jackson's Fast Citizens) as well as participating in numerous one off "ad-hoc" or in frequently convening ensembles. He also currently plays in groups led by Joe McPhee (Survival Unit III), Peter Brotzmann (Chicago 10tet), and Ken Vandermark (Vandermark 5, Frame 4tet, Territory Ensemble).
Improvisors he has worked with include Jim Baker, John Butcher, Wilbert DeJoode, Axel Drner, Mats Gustafsson, Charlotte Hug, Glenn Kotche, Peter Kowald, Nicole Mitchell, Torsten Muller, Jim O'Rourke, Jeff Parker, David Stakenas, Ben Vida, and Michael Zerang.
He has contributed cello sounds to numerous recording projects by rock groups including Califone, Freakwater, God-is-my-co-pilot, L'altra, Smog, Super Chunk, US Maple, Wilco and many others.
"The sparks on this set fly fast, but never loose. This is a deeply focused affair that gives listeners the best of both players on display at full-bore." ~ Thom Jurek, Rovi on Brotzmann/Lonberg-Holm's 'The Brain of The Dog in Section'
Photograph of Peter Brotzmann by Peter Gannushkin / Downtownmusic.net
