Andrew Drury, percussion, Jack Wright, alto sax...............and Sebastian Cirotteau, trumpet
touring Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia, Kosovo, Bulgaria, and Macedonia in November 2008
Jack Wright, Andrew Drury, and Sebastien Cirotteau explore sounds and energies between and beyond genres, sometimes beyond what they have ever done before. Stripping their instruments of conventional timbre and technique, they construct a musical architecture using texture, timing, and attention to the present. Though each musician possesses deep technique and experience, collectively their music is raw and feral. Wright and Drury have been playing together as a duo and with others since 2004, veterans of tours in the U.S. and Europe. In 2007 Wright and Drury were featured at the N.O. Jazz Festival in Zagreb, Metelkova in Ljubljana, Collegium Artisticum in Sarajevo, AKC Abramovic in Mostar, and the Internet Cafe in Travnik. The Metelkova performance generated a full page feature article in Delo (Slovenia's largest daily newspaper) and notice in the New York Times Travel section. For their November 2008 tour in Europe Wright and Drury will be joined by French trumpeter Sebastien Cirotteau. Cirotteau has performed in the U.S. and Canada with Wright. Cirotteau and Drury have performed in France and can be heard on the CD Bszent Hun (Creative Sources 078) with Wade Matthews. |
JACK WRIGHT After teaching at Temple University in the 1960s
and leaving academia in the early 1970s to engage in radical politics and community
organizing, by the late 1970s Wright directed his energies into music. He is
one of a very small group of musicians in North America that has played improvised
music exclusively since the 1970s. Through years of near constant touring, often
performing for audiences in cities and towns where improvised music had never
before been heard, he came to be regarded as something of an underground legend.
He has deliberately eschewed the conventions and socio-aesthetic limitations
of musical careerism to pursue his own vision. Although his de-professionalized
approach sets him apart from most musicians at his level of accomplishment,
his art has always grown, expanded, and synthesized new information. He is unquestionably
an original and virtuosic saxophonist, a master improviser who is deeply lyrical,
with humor never far away.
Today Wright tours frequently in Europe and North America (and in Japan in 2006), making new musical and human connections, bringing European musicians to the U.S. and bringing musicians everywhere together. His inspiration has provided crucial impetus to hundreds of musicians and has even motivated several people to establish music venues in order to present him and other improvisers (e.g. Baltimore’s High Zero festival). His vast list of collaborators includes some “name” luminaries (William Parker, Axel Dorner, Michel Doneda, Andrea Neumann, Denman Maroney, Bhob Rainey to name a few) but more significant are the many obscure greats he has played with. He has made over 40 recordings (many published on his own Spring Garden label), performed in over 20 countries, and written extensively and insightfully about music and society for journals such as Improjazz (France) and Signal to Noise (US), as well as his own website.
ANDREW DRURY is a drummer/composer/improviser active in jazz
and free improvisation, with occasional forays into other genres and media.
He has performed and recorded in Europe, North and Central America with his
own groups as well as with Michel Doneda, Jason Kao Hwang, Mazen Kerbaj, Myra
Melford, Steve Swell, Danijel Zezelj, Jessica Lurie, Kenny Wolleson’s
Himalayas with Butch Morris, and others. A student of Ed Blackwell, 2007 saw
the release of a CD of solo percussion, "Renditions" (Creative Sources).
His most recent projects as a bandleader are “Content Provider (a horns
plus drums quartet featuring Peter Evans, Briggan Krauss, and Chris Speed) and
a new percussion quartet featuring Jim Black, Mike Sarin, and Mike Pride. He
has also led over 800 percussion workshops in homeless shelters, American Indian
reservations, prisons, schools and universities, and in rural villages throughout
the U.S., Nicaragua, Guatemala, Bosnia, and Croatia.
SEBASTIEN CIROTTEAU
was born in 1977
lives in Toulouse France
plays trumpet with and without embouchure
has moved 17 times in 29 years
uses electronics without any respect for polarities
speaks english, argentinian and a little german
of course french
has a lot of fun listening to the world with two microphones
plays in a brass band and numerous projects of improvised music
with several dancers, two or three actors, a sound poet, a cook and often
images, animated or not
when he doesn't have a trumpet at hand, plays church carillons
or dry ice
has put out several records
has been a vegetarian
has created with a friend a radiophonic documentary on
social alternatives in Argentina
has organized solo concerts of improvised music in his apartment
built a cabin in the woods because he is sick of moving
organizes "Oyez le rendez-vous des oreilles curieuses" (get-together
for curious ears)
but not in his apartment, because it is too small...
For more information and sound clips
www.myspace.com/wrightdrurycirotteau
www.springgardenmusic.com
http://s.cirotteau.info/
www.myspace.com/andrewdrury
