On this night: a special solo performance by Brian Chase (Yeah Yeah Yeahs / NYC experimental scene) in the very intimate setting of Magick City.
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Following this year’s release of Drums and Drones: Decade - a 144 page artist’s book and triple album - as well as the beautiful Drums and Drones II LP, Brian’s entrancing Drums and Drones project has been establishing new ground for acoustic drum performance and Minimalist inspired electroacoustics.
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This performance will bring a spotlight to the acoustic material and how it emerges into its electroacoustic counterpart. Seating/floorspace is limited.
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For more info visit www.chaikinrecords.com, Chaikin Records and In Context Music
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Drums and Drones is the solo project of Brian Chase, drummer for rock band Yeah Yeah Yeahs, NYC’s experimental music scene, and more. Inspired initially by La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela’s legendary Dream House installation, the Drums and Drones project aims to evoke meditative qualities through the use of resonant tones and sonic subtleties derived from drums and percussion.
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Culminating a ten year period, the 2018 release of Drums and Drones: Decade is a triple album/book that captures the essence of the project in sound/image/text. The three albums, dating from 2013, 2015, and 2017, reflect the project’s development and the evolution of its core themes: attention to sound as a purely physical element (as distinct from metaphor) and its impact on the listening process. The images are culled from collaborations with two leading NYC video artists who have been an integral part of Drums and Drones performance. The text is largely based on extensive liner notes to the three albums which describe the personal, conceptual, and technical story of Drums and Drones; an essay on Just Intonation, the tuning theory which is the basis for all compositions here, is included as well.
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Drums and Drones began in 2007 for a concert at John Zorn’s venue The Stone and had its debut album release in 2013 (which is reissued in this collection). Since then, there have been numerous performances including those at X Avant Festival (Toronto), the 24 Hour Drone Festival at Basilica (Hudson, NY), and the New Ear Festival (Fridman Gallery, NYC). This triple album/book - 3 CDs with download code included within a 5”x7” 144 page book - is the first release on Brian’s label Chaikin Records.
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On Drums and Drones: Decade
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”Drums and Drones: Decade has it all: the meditational qualities of the drones, the textures of the drums, the details of what's behind-the-scenes. . . that this project fluidly morphs into something educational, something inspired, something ever-so-quitely groundbreaking." -Vanessa Phan, mxdwn.com
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On the debut Drums and Drones album included as Drums and Drones I in this collection
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”This stuff will put your brain into another space, and frankly, recordings that can reliably do that don't come down the pike every day." - Bruce Russell, The Wire