Plus Gallery presents another outstanding night of music as we host Queen's New York-based duo "The Home of Easy Credit" on their current North-American tour along with Denver's "The Playground." We'll have more specifics to follow, but here's a little information to get you revved up about attending this evening, and to share with like-minded friends:
Queens-based The Home of Easy Credit challenges the boundaries
of free-improvised music, jazz, folk, and pop music with an
iconoclastic approach that defies all those who seek to classify music
by genre. Two musicians who met in New York in 2008 and were married
one year later, Danish multi-instrumentalist Louise Dam Eckardt Jensen
and bassist Tom Blancarte have teamed up musically as The Home of Easy
Credit, releasing their self-titled debut album on Northern Spy in
2012. Taking their name from a department store sign in a dilapidated
section of downtown Houston, Texas which they photographed while on
tour there, the duo seeks to hold up a mirror to contemporary musical
tastes to create a dark, beautiful and thrilling sound world that
reflects upon the decline of contemporary civilization.
Recently gaining notoriety for her improvised solo performances, Jensen uses a broad range of colors, drawn from a long lineage of Scandinavian artists including Jan Garbarek, Arve Henriksen and Björk but blended with saxophone sounds as diverse as Lee Konitz or Mats Gustafsson. An experienced veteran of the New York DIY music scene, Blancarte, who plays electronic futuristic jazz with the Peter Evans Quintet, hyperactive prog banjo/guitar shred with Seabrook Power Plant and provides hellish bass insanity to tubist Dan Peck's improvised doom metal outfit The Gate, utilizes every trick in his book to underpin his wife's apocalyptic musical narratives. The year 2012 promises to be an exciting year for the duo, as they plan an epic tour of North America in the fall and two tours of Europe in the spring and summer.
"Incredible blending of female voice, saxophone, and gnarly double
bass; the instruments are used both as solo voices and ensembles in
almost every conceivable way. The duo's work stands strongly apart
from any kind of generic so-called free improvisation- both in the
roles the instruments play as well as the way they are electronically
modified. Dramatic, beautiful but above all very unusual music." -
Peter Evans
"Wife-and-husband team Louise Dam Eckardt Jensen (sax, vocals, flute, electronics) and Tom Blancarte (bass) explore the intersection of free jazz, art pop and ambient psychedelia" - Time Out New York
"Wife-and-husband team Louise Dam Eckardt Jensen (sax, vocals, flute, electronics) and Tom Blancarte (bass) explore the intersection of free jazz, art pop and ambient psychedelia" - Time Out New York
"Though their name sounds like a junk-mail come-on, the din raised by The Home of Easy Credit is far from ingratiating and would be difficult to simply discardŠ The Danish-born Jensen's primal-Björk howls and electronic drones combine with Blancarte's screeching bowed bass to construct desolate aural landscapes as dense and haunting as an urban ghost town; her wraithlike flute or melancholy sax mixed with his scurrying lines suggest the hope of the surviving stragglers." - The Philadelphia City Paper
"Šthe whole bundle is gorgeous, eerie, and unsettlingŠ Pushing away from the crowd, The Home of Easy Credit distinguishes itself with its playful, strange, yet sometimes angelic discordance." - The Chatanooga Pulse
"The duo's dynamic textures might be termed 'maximal minimalism': epic tonepoems beside terse 'Haikus', long-decaying loops, stuttered accents, whispered echoes, screeching overtones, pile-driving pizzicatos, scooping doublestops, 'throat-sung' multiphonics, lumbering steam trains, squeaking bicycle brakes - a jumble of sonic surfaces that suggest a score to a post-apocalyptic horror flick." - The New York City Jazz Record
"Ša wildly unselfconscious approach to free improvisation
(genuflecting ecumenically to both a Stockhausen and an avant-rock
impulse) - elliptically ambient and textural one minute, furiously
hypnotic and shrapnel-like the next." - Oregon Music
News
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Listen to a track from HOEC's latest album '"The Feast of the Meal Replacement Bars"
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Opening the show at Plus Gallery is a set by Conrad Kehn; composer, improviser, performer, educator, writer, artist, and Director of The Playground Ensemble. This solo performance will feature intriguing combinations of 20th century Avant guard composers record loops, spoken word records, programmed drum beats, old American hymn tunes and live (manipulated vocals). Kehn is a Lecturer of Music Technology and Music Theory at the Lamont School of Music, and also the Co-chair, Denver Public Schools Arts Resource Council.
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