PLUS GALLERY TO HOST A NIGHT OF MUSIC MARCH 19th IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE PLAYGROUND ENSEMBLE

Join Plus Gallery next Wednesday, March 19th, when we host three sensational experimental musicians: Tatsuya Nakatani with Janet Feder and Conrad Kehn

Doors 7pm. we'll start 7:30ish $8 suggested donation.

Tatsuya Nakatani is a creative artist originally from Osaka, Japan. Mr. Nakatani has released over sixty recordings in the USA and Europe and has performed countless solo percussion concerts through intensive touring. He has also collaborated with hundreds of other artists internationally and presented masterclasses, workshops and lectures across the USA and around the world.

Nakatani's approach to music is visceral, non-linear and intuitively primitive, expressing an unusually strong spirit while avoiding any categorization. He creates sound via both traditional and extended percussion techniques, utilizing drums, bowed gongs, cymbals, singing bowls, metal objects and bells, as well as various sticks, kitchen tools and homemade bows, all of which manifest in an_intense and organic music that represents a very personal sonic world. His approach is steeped in the sensibilities of free improvisation, experimental music, jazz, rock, and noise, and yet retains the sense of space and quiet beauty found in traditional Japanese folk music. His percussion instruments can imitate the sounds of a trumpet, a stringed instrument_or an electronic device to the extent that it becomes difficult to recognize the source of the sound. He has devoted himself to a musical aesthetic where rhythm gives way to pulse, often in a way that is not always audible or visible, in currents that incorporate silence and texture

Tatsuya Nakatani has spent the past decade traveling and performing extensively throughout the United States and beyond. His constant touring fosters the raw and fresh quality in his music, which can only survive through an open willingness to share energy, culture, music and self on a global human scale. He has toured and performed in Japan, China, Canada, Mexico, France, Germany, England, Scotland, Belgium, Netherlands, Portugal, Poland,_Ukraine, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Argentina, Chile, Israel and across the USA, coast to coast. Tatsuya collaborates and performs with a wide range of artists, from internationally renowned musicians to students of all ages, occupations and musical skill levels.

Tatsuya will be joined on the program by Janet Feder, guitar and Conrad Kehn, voice/ laptop. A staple of the Denver creative music scene, Janet Feder performs intimate landscapes on prepared guitar informed by a sonic universe that is uniquely her own.

Conrad Kehn is a composer, improviser, performer, educator, administrator and writer. He is the founder of The Playground; a chamber ensemble dedicated to modern music. As a vocalist, Conrad specializes in improvisation, contemporary music, and electronics.