[NewMusic] Lehn/Robair tour vids online

[Kristian Aspelin]

In case others are interested, here is the Wire review to which Damon refers:
   
   
  Jacob Lindsay/Scott R Looney/Gino Robair
  Yellowcake
  Rastascan CD
   
  The title alludes to uranium concentrates and their political ramifications, such as the waging of disastrous war.  The music is tense with texturally alert improvising.  Lindsay uses a range of clarinets and Looney plays mainly electronically processed percussion, while Robair is once again credited with "energised surfaces" and "voltage made audible."  In practice Robair deploys bows, rubbers balls, motors and rosined sticks to sound metal and drums, and assigns a hi-hat function to a modular analogue synth, "a playground for electrons", as he describes it.  30 years ago percussionists Paul Lovens and Paul Lytton made a record entitled Was It Me?.  It's a question that might frequently arise here, as the distinct members of the trio meet and merge.  The timbre of the reeds blends with electronics, while electronics and percussion also find common ground.  The outcome is far from homogenous:  there's plenty of excitement in the interaction of the voices, the cut and
 thrust of their separateness as well as their convergence.  Keith Rowe is credited as main influence - not least, perhaps, for the cover design.  However, the lineage this music suggests to me is Lytton with Lovens or with Evan Parker, and that's a strong recommendation in itself.  
  

Damon Smith <damon at balancepointacoustics.com> wrote:
  Great trio. I wouldn't mind hearing a little more of this kind of thing
out of you on the home front. Congratulations on the Yellowcake Wire
review too.

Damon


On Apr 10, 2007, at 12:46 PM, Robair, Gino wrote:

> Hey gang,
> For those of you who might be interested, I just posted a couple of
> short
> video gig excerpts on YouTube from a pair of the concerts I did with
> Thomas
> Lehn (two of which are with the amazing Carl-Ludwig Hübsch on tuba)
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v¬IzI0aqQWs
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrJjCM2NdDY
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoR97YV1rU0
>
> Also, if you have the time, a portion of this TV clip about a hip
> Parisian
> bookstore, En Marge, includes part of my duo concert with guitarist
> David
> Fenech (you may remember him from his performances here last year):
> http://www.tribeca75.com/Une-librairie-En-marge-_a280.html
>
> Enjoy!
> Cheers,
> ginorobair
>
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