[NewMusicEvents] The Thing at The Compound Gallery Tuesday 4/28/09

[Jim Ryan]

The Thing - Tue 4/28/09 8pm
at The Compound Gallery
6604 San Pablo Ave. Oakland, CA
        Admission by donation
no one refused ($10 suggested)
    2Sets -  Venue may be cleared between sets

mats gustafsson reeds
ingebrigt håker flaten bass
paal nilssen-love drums

The Thing was established in  February 2000 when the three musicians met to 
play several concerts and to record the first CD on Crazy Wisdom, a sub 
label of Swedish Universal.  The trio was a long-awaited constellation 
where several musical styles met in a very high energy outlet. All members 
are influenced by different traditions of free music derived from Germany, 
England and America, and these influences are to be felt, tho not necessary 
heard.  The Thing is now signed on the Norwegian label Smalltown Supersound.
Mats Gustafsson is today one of Sweden's and Europe's biggest names on the 
free music scene and has somewhat reinvented the way the saxophone is 
played.  Ingebrigt Håker Flaten and Paal Nilssen-Love have become known as 
Norway`s heaviest rhythm-section.  Their long time collaboration started in 
1992.

/ The Thing converts nouveau punk and vintage garage-rock into a roaring 
scream-up, but the sheer energy and love of the music keep gimmickery at 
bay . . . Uncut
/ The sheer power they generate from wood, metal, breath and muscle is 
stunning . . . . BBC
/ Absurdly cool . . . DJ Magazine



No virus found in this incoming message.
Checked by AVG.
Version: 7.5.557 / Virus Database: 270.12.3/2076 - Release Date: 4/23/09 
6:30 AM

Jim Ryan
550 24th St.  Ste 1014
Oakland, CA  94612
510-645-1894
www.bayimproviser.com/jimryan
http://www.myspace.com/forwardenergy
http://www.edgetonerecords.com/ryan.html
http://www.myspace.com/thespiritmovesus  
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://music.mills.edu/pipermail/newmusicevents/attachments/20090423/fa31576d/attachment.html