Pardon To Tu
Chicago/London
Underground
23.05.2018 (środa), godz. 20:00
Nowy Teatr
ul. Madalińskiego 10/16
Warszawa - Mokotów
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Daniel Radtke
23 maja w kultowym warszawskim klubie wystąpi Chicago / London Underground.
Od maja do września 2018 r. klub Pardon To Tu po raz kolejny obejmie opiekę nad letnią klubokawiarnią i Świetlica Nowego Teatru, gdzie będę się odbywać koncerty, spotkania literackie i bezpłatne warsztaty plastyczne dla dzieci.
Na pierwszym koncercie, w środę 23 maja, wystąpi Chicago / London Underground, czyli niezastąpiony trębacz i kornecista Rob Mazurek, perkusista Chad Taylor (wystąpił w klubie Pardon To Tu z Marc Ribot Trio), kontrabasista John Edwards (na co dzień związany z londyńskim Cafe Oto) i po raz pierwszy na scenie Pardon To Tu – pianista Alexander Hawkins (współpracujący m.in. z Mulatu Astatke, Evan Parker i Louis Moholo-Moholo).
“Atmospheric, exploratory music that creates worlds as it progresses.” – BBC
“Mazurek is a player of great poise and elegance, while Taylor’s deftness, imagination and formidable technical skill make his playing a joy to listen to...from the densest meshes to the sparsest near silent passage, each sonic cypher, beat and note seem to be leading somewhere, to have been made with a purpose.” – The Wire: Adventures In Modern Music
“Following the work of Mazurek and Taylor remains a near-requirement for those invested in modern creative music.” – Tiny Mix Tapes
Celebrating 20 Years as Sonic and Spiritual Brothers, Chicago Underground Duo-mates Rob Mazurek & Chad Taylor Team with London Improvisers Alexander Hawkins and John Edwards for the Exploratory, Boundlessly Inventive and Genre-Shattering A Night Walking Through Mirrors
At a time when the world is mired in divisiveness,
a time of wall-building and fear-mongering, it takes visionaries to build
bridges rather than tear them down. “This is protest music,” insists Rob
Mazurek. “It always has been. That’s why it’s called ‘Underground’ - it’s not
just called that for fun. We really believe in it. The world has become so
homogenized and leans so far towards the right, and this music expresses
complete freedom and lack of borders. Our music is all about the obliteration
of any kind of oppression, the tearing down of any kind of wall - freedom and
equality, both sonically and spiritually.”
For the last two decades the Chicago Underground
Duo – Rob Mazurek and Chad Taylor – have created music meant to open minds and
explore alien territory.
Now, on A Night Walking Through Mirrors, they’ve
created a new Transatlantic partnership in the form of Chicago / London
Underground, inviting a pair of renowned British improvisers – Alexander
Hawkins and John Edwards – into the creative fold. The result is an expansive
sonic adventure whose every unexpected note and alchemical reaction runs
counter to the limited imaginations ruling social media name-calling and
clannish provincialism.
To celebrate the occasion of the duo's 20th
anniversary, Mazurek and Taylor invited two London-based artists with whom
they’d never collaborated but they deeply admired.
“We love their playing and thought they’d be a nice
complement to what we do,” Mazurek explains. When it comes to the rare
occasions when he and Taylor do bring other musicians into the fold, he
continues, “The only criteria is people who are completely open to anything, no
matter how outlandish or crazy the idea is. They just have to be 100 percent
into the moment and what we’re doing.”
“Alexander Hawkins is a very dynamic player,”
Mazurek says. “His harmonic and melodic sense as well as his phrasing and his
approach to playing, whether songs or free playing, are very interesting and
wide-ranging. John Edwards plays the most amount of bass I’ve ever heard
anybody play. He plays a lot but nothing is wasted; it all means so much. They
could go anywhere, so it was just a matter of being in the moment and letting
the instincts roll. It was powerful, elegant, noisy, melodic, rhythmic, free -
it had all the elements that usually come up when you think about making a
complete and interesting set.”
Hawkins and Edwards are newcomers to one of
Mazurek’s longest-running musical partnerships. “We’re sonic and spiritual
brothers,” Mazurek says of his profound partnership with Taylor. “It’s a
special relationship, one of those cosmic things where it just works. It’s
amazing that we’ve kept it going this long and hopefully we’ll continue for
another 20 years.”
The album’s title, A Night Walking Through Mirrors,
is an evocative fit for this exploratory set, capturing the sense of alluring
disorientation, of sympathetic worlds upon worlds echoing into infinity. “It
really felt like we would be playing and somebody would take a left turn and
we’d be in another dimension,” Mazurek recalls. “Another person would take a
right turn and we’d be in yet another dimension, but everybody was right there.
It really did feel like a night spent walking through mirrors in that respect.”
Organizator: Pardon, To Tu
Współorganizator: Nowy Teatr