Thursday 21 May 2015, 8pm
Virginia Genta (saxophones) and David Vanzan (drums) have been bringing their intense and mesmerizing music all over the world since 2003 (about five-hundred concerts in Europe, USA and Russia) and captivating any kind of audience. The duo's work is a totally personal research that has been described as the most powerful expression in “free music” nowadays, transcending every kind of definition and going straight to the source of energy.
Support comes from improvised free jazz group, West Hill Blast Quartet, influenced by the spirits of masters such as Art Ensemble of Chicago, Ornette Coleman and Albert Ayler.
Jooklo Duo have been moving consciously and organically from their “classic” duo roots, to more psychedelic, ethnic, and droney atmospheres (like in their expanded groups Neokarma Jooklo Trio, Golden Jooklo Age, etc.) and to totally wild and abstract free music (such as their recent trio work with guitarist Bill Nace).
The duo has mixed its sound with that of artists as Hartmut Geerken, Famodou Don Moye (Art Ensemble of Chicago), Makoto Kawabata, Sabu Toyozumi, Takehisa Kosugi (Taj Mahal Travellers), John Paul Jones (Led Zeppelin), Chris Corsano, Paul Flaherty, C. Spencer Yeh, John Blum (...and many others!). The pair has also been working with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, performing for “Nearly Ninety” in Madrid (April 2009, Teatro del Canal), and in London (October 2010 at the Barbican Centre).
“It is like the roaring energy of punk meeting the possibilities of improve or like watching someone microwave jazz until it explodes all over the window in a yellow paste.” - Was Ist Das
