A special collaboration between Vocalist/Banjo-player Daniel Higgs and Israeli musicians Maya Dunietz and Assaf Talmudi. This is the second in a series of events - 'HIT & RUN' - curated by Israeli pianist Maya Dunietz for Café Oto throughout April and early May. 'Hit & Run' will feature musicians that she respects and admires covering a range of experimental and underground music.

This is the first in what we hope to be an ongoing series of events curated by international musicians.

Please note: there will now be an additional show from this trio on Sunday the 24th!

DANIEL HIGGS

Daniel A.I.U Higgs was perhaps best known as the singer and lyricist of the now defunct band Lungfish. However, since that time he has carved out his own distinctive place as a solo artist with a number of solo records that take in apocalyptic songcraft, raga banjo and uncategorisable artistry.

"...triangulated somewhere between the Sun City Girls' fractured takes on various forms of world music, John Fahey's idiosyncratic reworking of traditional American folk music, and Jandek's oddly tuned weirdness for its own sake" Stewart Mason, All Music Guide (on Metempsychotic Melodies)

Daniel Higgs website



Daniel Higgs photo above by Sandy Carlson, taken from this excellent clip on vimeo:



MAYA DUNIETZ

Israeli pianist and composer Maya Dunietz was born in Tel Aviv and is the founder of the Givol Choir.

“Maya Dunietz is one of the most gifted and resourceful musicians on the Israeli alternative music scene. She plays with local alternative bands including HaBiluim and Midnight Peacocks, takes part in John Zorn's Cobra musical game, leads the avant Givo'l choir, jams in New York with such forward-thinking musicians as trumpeter Taylor Ho Bynum, harpist Zeena Parkins and guitarist Mary Halverson and, in Europe, with Na Maquina Quartet, featuring drummer Steve Noble and bass player Marcio Mattos.” – All About Jazz

ASSAF TALMUDI

Assaf Talmudi (born 1976) is a composer, record producer, researcher and accordionist.

A PhD student in the department of music at Bar Ilan University, working on artificial neural network models of musical rhythmic entrainment, under the guidance of Professor Jonathan Berger and Professor Eytan Avitzur. He is a member of Oy Division, one of the only bands in israel to play eastern-European Jewish folk music. As a record producer, he has worked with top Israeli recording artists, among others, Shlomi Shaban, Rona Kenan, Assaf Amdursky and Noam Rotem. He is a lecturer at Haifa University's department of music and at Musrara Art College, Jerusalem. He holds a B.A from the Royal Conservatory, The Hague, the Netherlands, where he studied composition, experimental music and computer music with Gillius van Bergjik and Paul Berg.