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." 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. Taking their name from a department store sign in a dilapidated section of downtown Houston, Texas, 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.
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"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
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.
http://northern-spy.com/
"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
"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
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.
Please join us this Saturday for another terrific evening in our experimental series, one that has provided some of the most memorable moments in the gallery history.
Doors open at 7pm
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