Gene Pritsker's Sound Liberation: 'Let's Save The World Suite'
Online: Free | In person: $27
- Adriana Valdés, soprano
- Charles Coleman (AKA Das Krooner), baritone
- David Banks, R&B vocals
- Gene Pritsker, guitar & rap
- Greg Baker, guitar
- Franz Hackl, trumpet
- Paul Carlon, saxophone
- José Moura, bass guitar
- Joe Abba, drum set
- Carla Auld, flute
Gene Pritsker — Outside (world premiere; David Banks, R&B singer)
Gene Pritsker — Better Now (David Banks, R&B singer & Gene Pritsker, rap)
Gene Pritsker — No Illness (Adriana Valdés, soprano)
Gene Pritsker — Trickle Down (jazz version; Charles Coleman, baritone; Robert C. Ford, poetry)
Gene Pritsker — Sorrow Like Pleasure Creates its Own Atmosphere (Carla Auld, flute)
Gene Pritsker — B-boy (David Banks, R&B singer)
Gene Pritsker — Fake Body & Soul (Charles Coleman, baritone; David Banks, R&B singer; Gene Pritsker, rap)
Gene Pritsker — Time Does Not Bring Relief (world premiere; Adriana Valdés, soprano & David Banks, R&B singer)
Gene Pritsker — There I'll Give you My Hand / Brahms Infinity (Adriana Valdés, soprano; Charles Coleman, baritone; Gene Pritsker, rap; Robert C. Ford, poetry)
Composers Concordance presents Sound Liberation on Friday, February 11th, 2022 at Chelsea Table + Stage
Gene Pritsker’s Sound Liberation presents a concert showcasing their new album Lets Save The World Suite. The suite is based on a poem by Erik T. Johnson and scored for Franz Hackl, trumpet; Paul Carlon, sax; Gene Pritsker, guitar; Jose Moura, bass; and Damien Bassman, drums. This was the first in-studio recording Sound Liberation did after the pandemic lockdown. The concert will also include new music, such as the premiere of the songs Outside and Time Does Not Bring Relief featuring opera singer Adriana Valdés and R&B singer David Banks. The event will also include compositions from their past albums with opera singers Adriana Valdés and Charles Coleman, poets Erik T. Johnson and Robert C. Ford, and other surprises.
Attending in person: All guests 12 and up must provide proof of at least 2 doses of vaccination against COVID-19 in order to visit Chelsea Table + Stage, for shows or for dining. Vaccination proof will be required per NYC guidelines. You may present your vaccination record, a photo of the record, the NY State Excelsior Pass, or the NYC Covid Safe app.
All guests 18 and up must provide photo ID with their proof of vaccination. Beginning 12/27/21, all guests 12 and up must provide proof of at least 2 doses of vaccination against COVID-19 in order to enter the venue.
More information on Chelsea Table + Stage's COVID-19 protocols here: https://www.chelseatableandstage.com/faqs
About Sound Liberation
Sound Liberation, an eclectic chamber ensemble/band, was formed in 1996. The band has gained exposure in the New York city area and has generated a loyal core following playing such notable venues as Joe's Pub, Wetlands, Knitting Factory, The Blue Note, Downtime, New Music Cafe, Cutting Room, Le Poisson Rouge, and many other performing spaces.
Sound Liberation's musical philosophy, developed by band founder Gene Pritsker, is based upon "ending the segregation of sound vibration (i.e. musical Genres)". The group incorporates its philosophy by performing compositions that encompass a diverse range of musical genre, heavily influenced by hip-hop and rock rhythms. This enables one to hear elements from classical music to Jazz to music of various cultures at a Sound Liberation show.
The group performed at the Outreach Festival '06 and '07 and '14 in Schwaz, Austria. In '07 Sound Liberation performed at the Estonian House and presented Gene Pritsker's opera Money at the Players Theatre and Flea Theatre in New York. In May of '08, Money was performed at the Etna music Festival in Catania, Sicily and Sound Liberation played in Ragusa, Sicily. In July '08, they performed at the Blaine jazz Festival in Blaine, Wa. In May of '09, Sound Liberation presented 2 nights at the Flea theater, performing Gene Pritsker's one-hour VRE Suite written for the Sound Liberation Quintet and a concert with B3+ of music from their albums on Col-Legno records. In September 2011, they performed at the Bremen Musik Fest in Germany. In past years the group was part of the Peekaboo Festival of New Music, 21st Century Schizoid at Cornelia Street Cafe and Theater, and toured Newfoundland, Canada in April of '99.
In August of '09 the Song No Truth was featured in the Universal Home Videos motion picture The Wedding Bothers. In the fall of 2010, Human Condition was featured on PBS's Road Trip Nation series. The band played a very publicized concert at New York's Le Poisson Rouge in January '10. The New Yorker wrote: "Pritsker, a rule-breaking composer-guitarist (and rapper) who impresses funk and rock beats onto classical structures, fronts this eclectic jazz-type combo of singers and instrumentalists."
https://noizepunk.wixsite.com/soundlibAbout Composers Concordance
Staying in rotation for 40 years in NYC is a rare feat. In the case of a new music presenting organization, it requires not only diligence and cognizance of achievements of the past but also an ethic of keeping one's ear to the ground for emerging stylistic and technological developments, as well as talented new composers on the scene.
Composers Concordance, founded in 1984 by Joseph Pehrson and Patrick Hardish, advised by Otto Luening, strives to present contemporary music in innovative ways, with an emphasis on thematic programming. Directors Gene Pritsker and Dan Cooper co-curate the programs and lead the CompCord Ensemble, Chamber Orchestra, String Orchestra, and Big Band. Associate Directors are Milica Paranosic, Peter Jarvis, Debra Kaye, and Seth Boustead.
Composers Concordance has also created a Naxos-distributed record label: Composers Concordance Records, co-directed by Peter Jarvis. Composers Concordance's overriding vision is to promote contemporary music, composers, and new works as a rightful and respected part of society. Good music performed and recorded well, pushing the boundaries of sound and composition.
http://www.composersconcordance.comAbout Adriana Valdés, soprano
Cuban born Adriana Valdés Santibáñez, studied violin at Manuel Saumell in Cuba, and majored in Voice at the Escuela Superior de Música (Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, INBA) in Mexico City. Adriana has been a Soloist Soprano in Mexico, the United States, Guatemala, Costa Rica, and Honduras.
She is the Winner of four National Competition Prizes in Mexico: First Place and The Roberta Peters Prize by Opera de San Miguel, and Second Prize and First Zarzuela Prize by Contest Carlo Morelli in Mexico.
https://www.adrianavaldessoprano.com/About Charles Coleman (AKA Das Krooner), baritone
https://www.facebook.com/people/Noizepunk-and-Das-Krooner/100080143212768/
About Gene Pritsker, guitar & rap
Composer/musical polymath Gene Pritsker has written over nine hundred compositions, including chamber operas, orchestral and chamber works, electro-acoustic music and songs for hip-hop and rock ensembles. His compositions employ an eclectic spectrum of styles, that are influenced by his studies of various musical cultures.
He is the founder and leader of Sound Liberation, an eclectic hip hop-chamber-jazz-rock-etc. ensemble. He also Co-Directs Composers Concordance. Gene's music is performed all over the world at internationally recognized festivals and by highly respected ensembles and performers.
He co-founded the Grammy-nominated Absolute Ensemble with Kristjan Jarvi and has been a composer in residence and guitarist since its creation in 1993. He worked closely with jazz fusion legend Joe Zawinul and has orchestrated major Hollywood movies, including Cloud Atlas, for which he wrote additional music and composed his Cloud Atlas Symphony. He is also the lead orchestrator for such TV series as Babylon Berlin, Jett, Netflix's Sense8, and Messiah. Gene is the lead orchestrator and has additional music in the 2021 film The Matrix Resurrections.
"My music is extremely eclectic, for me music has no bounds – I view the world of music as one big genre. My motto for my art is ending the segregation of sound vibration."
Gene is also a guitarist/rapper/Di.J./ and producer he incorporates each of these musical attributes to create music that is "not designed for easy listening or to melt into the background. It is insistent. It demands attention and curiosity." (New York Newsday) "Mischief-maker and cultural blender-in-chief, Pritsker is a serious artist, yet much of his work is witty and irreverent. Anyone can draw a mustache on the Mona Lisa, but few musicians draw it as artistically and creatively as Gene Pritsker." (Raymond Tuttle, Fanfare Magazine)
https://www.genepritsker.com/