Roulette: Rubin Kodheli, Trevor Dunn, & Brian Chase—with Mary Halvorson
Free
- Rubin Kodheli, cello
- Trevor Dunn, electric bass
- Brian Chase, drums
- Mary Halvorson, electric guitar
Cellist Rubin Kodheli in a new trio with bassist Trevor Dunn (Mr Bungle, Secret Chiefs 3) and Brian Chase (Yeah Yeah Yeahs), featuring special guest guitarist Mary Halvorson. They will perform improvised music in the spirit of their first EP, Departure.
Jumping into a Rubin Kodheli musical experience is like taking a leap of faith, not only for the rigorous musicians involved – in this case drummer Brian Chase (Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs), bassist Trevor Dunn (Mr. Bungle), and guitarist Mary Halvorson (Anthony Braxton) – but also for an adventurous audience. The four-piece ensemble is the literal opposite of a square quartet, but more like an anti-quadrilateral, a unit perhaps not limited to the dimensions we are firmly aware of. They are rugged yet spiritual, audacious yet meditative, and each musician is certainly unparalleled in what they can accomplish on their individual instruments.
But what makes this ensemble sing is their collective ease in putting aside their own inner creative voices and finding a frequency above and beyond themselves. Their ambition to find this coherent whole is a bit radical — especially considering that their sound dwells in the center of pondering about the differences between improvisation and spontaneous composition. While each musician listens outside themselves – a unique mindset in the realm of jazz – the music is by definition absolutely unpredictable, even for the players, but also has the power to summon a universal energy "we can all enjoy."
A livestream will be available free of charge at 8pm on the day of the performance and archived for future viewing.
About Rubin Kodheli, cello
About Brian Chase, drums
Brooklyn-based musician Brian Chase is the drummer for Grammy-nominated rock band Yeah Yeah Yeahs, NYC's experimental music community, and Drums and Drones, a solo project with a compositional focus on the harmonic resonances derived from drums and percussion. Recorded works include several with Yeah Yeah Yeahs and many with leading improvisors and composers such as Zeena Parkins, Catherine Sikora, and Jeremiah Cymerman. In 2018, the Drums and Drones project released Drums and Drones: Decade, a triple album with 144 page book (Chaikin Records), described in The Wire as "an indispensable statement on how drummers hear sound."
https://chasebrian.com/