NB: Christoph Heemann will no longer be appearing. Colin Potter will be performing instead.

Israeli pianist/vocalist returns to Cafe OTO following her HIT&RUN series and an improv encounter with Steve Noble and John Edwards. This time she'll be presenting two collaborative sets with German electronic musician Christoph Heemann and Electrelane multi-instrumentalist Verity Susman. The evening will open with a set from Mines : Yael Barolsky, Ilan Volkov - violins and Ram Gabay - drums + special guest: Ivor Kallin

MAYA DUNIETZ

Maya Dunietz is a pianist, composer, improviser and singer, born in Israel in 1981. Her work ranges between solo performances, composing for various ensembles around the world, writing for theater, creating sound installations, building strange electronic instruments and singing in various styles, among them heavy metal, kleizmer and contemporary classical music. In the year 2010 her collaborations included arrangements for the new album of "Cheveu", singing with "Oy Division", performing at the Irwin exhibition – (Israel digital arts center) and playing with Eddie Prevost, John Butcher, Susan Alcorn, Heddy Boubacker, Steve Noble and John Edwards, to name a few.

Maya founded the 'Israeli cult' experimental vocal ensemble "Givol Choir" (2003-ongoing) and is currently working with director Ariel Efraim Ashbel on a new joint project to be performed in Germany, 2011.

“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

Maya Dunietz photo by Caroline Forbes

CHRISTOPH HEEMANN - electronics

A welcome return appearance from German electronic musician Christoph Heemann. Born in 1964 in Aachen, Germany, Heemann began his musical work in 1983 as a founding member of the group HIRSCHE NICHT AUFS SOFA (H.N.A.S.), who released several albums of their surreal collagemusic between 1985 and 1993, drawing inspiration from such diverse elements as musique concrete, avantgarde, krautrock and improvised music. After the group disbanded Heemann continued working solo and with the group MIMIR (with Edward Ka-spel and Jim O'Rourke), the drone projects MIRROR (with Andrew Chalk), and IN CAMERA (with Timo van Luyck).

Heemann's solo compositions have often been described as "ear-movies", in which he fuses field recordings, acoustic instruments, electronics, and electroacoustic sounds into audio narratives. Aside from this Heemann has done a series of musical collaborations (with Jim O'Rourke, Lee Ranaldo, Charlemagne Palestine, William Basinski) and works as a producer (Keiji Haino, Charlemagne Palestine, Limpe Fuchs, Current 93). He has run the Streamline label since 1994.



VERITY SUSMAN

Verity Susman is a founding member member of hypnotic independent rock ensemble Electrelane where she played guitar, keyboards, saxophone and vocals. Verity also performs solo under the monika Vera November.

Vera November on Myspace

MINES

Yael Barolsky, Ilan Volkov - violins and Ram Gabay - drums with guest: Ivor Kallin