CRISTIAN AMIGO, GUILLERMO CARDENAS and IZZI RAMKISSOON as:
THE KINGDOM OF JONES
Music for guitars, laptop, percussion, and trance
Saturday, October 13 @ 7pm
The Brick Elephant
12 Emily Street
Valley
Falls, NY 12185
"Cristian
Amigo is an excellent creative artist, guitarist and composer whose works
reflect his concern with tradition and innovation in creative music in
America."- composer and trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith
October
13, 2007, 7pm
Kingdom
of Jones
(Cristian Amigo, Guillermo
Cardenas, and Izzi Ramkissoon)
Music for guitars, laptop, percussion, and trance
A concert
of music by composer/performers
Christian Amigo, Guillermo Cardenas, and Izzi Ramkissoon in their trio,
The Kingdom of Jones, featuring Amigo on acoustic and electric guitar,
in an evening of genre blurring electro-acoustic musical compositions
and improvisations. Drawing upon a wide stylistic and cultural range of
music, Amigo’s music has an identity all its own, and showcases
his very personal musical take on existing in a complicated, global world
of sound. The sound can move between the softest ambient acoustic gestures
and the heaviest kinds of industrial and electric sounds.
Joining Amigo is Dominican percussionist Guillermo Cardenas whose playing
integrates knowledge of Jazz and Afro-Latin toques. He plays in a free,
powerful, and spiritual way, sometimes lapsing into trance during solo
marathon recitals.
Guillermo, Ramkissoon, and Amigo play live together both unaccompanied
and within sonic, ambient environments generated by a laptop.
Amigo’s experience playing Latin American, African, classical, jazz,
reggae, rock, funk, folk, experimental music, and on recording sessions,
is on display on Kingdom of Jones. The result is music accessible to both
fans of new music and to larger audiences that will relate to the different
styles and cultural references.
There will be a reception for the artists after the concert.
Click here to see a pdf of
the complete press release.
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Kingdom
of Jones
CRISTIAN
AMIGO is a New York-based composer, guitarist, and writer who creates
and performs music for concerts, film, dance, theater, and installation.
His work freely combines elements of rock and world music, Latin American
music, new music (classical, experimental, composed,
improvised), electronics, jazz, and interdisciplinary/intercultural artistic
work.
His awards include a 2006-2007 Guggenheim Fellowship in music composition,
and the Van Lier Fellowship from Meet the Composer. In 2007 he will be
performing in support of the CD release of Kingdom of Jones on the INNOVA
label. He recently premiered both an orchestral ( Some Brooklyn Dancing)
and a chamber piece ( ABC identity songs) with the Brooklyn Philharmonic,
is writing a guitar quartet for the Corona Guitar Quartet (Copenhagen),
a concerto for piano and electronics for pianist Kathy Supové,
and developing his cinematic micro-musical Killing Play at the 2007 LAByrinth
Theater Company summer intensive. In Fall 2007, he will be artist-in-residence
at Calliope House (Pittsburgh Folk Music Society), and has also signed
on to compose the music for José, a dance/music/theatre piece based
on the life of choreographer José Limón, that will tour
with the Limón company in 2009. On Nov. 17, 2007 his String Quartet
#1 will be world-premiered by Jack Quartet at the Tank in New York City.
Cristian has a Ph.D. in ethnomusicology from UCLA.
GUILLERMO CARDENAS is a virtuoso performer of Afro-Dominican genres ranging
from merengue to seldom heard forms such as gaga, palos and pri-pri. He
fuses these expertise with an acute sensitivity to jazz aesthestics, thus
representing a unique voice in contemporary improvised music.
IZZI RAMKISSOON is a composer/arranger/producer/engineer/
and musician. Izzi is a graduate of the College of Staten Island majoring
in both Electrical Engineering and Music with a Concentration in Electronics.
Izzi has been a veteran of the NYC scene for over 10 years. Trained in
both classical and jazz. Izzi plays in the many different styles of Hip/Hop,
R&B, Rock, Reggae, Jazz, Latin Fusion, Drum & Bass and more. His
composition Sub-ter-ain Frequencies won the 2007 Look and Listen 1st place
Composition Prize.
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WHERE:
The concerts are held in the Brick Elephant, formerly an old church, in
Valley Falls, New York.
12 Emily Street, Valley Falls, NY 12185.
Admission by donation.
CONTACT INFO:
Mary Jane Leach, director
telephone (518-753-0244)
email
DIRECTIONS:
Valley Falls is in northern Rensselaer County,
20 minutes north of Troy, 25 minutes west of North Bennington, Vermont.
From the west: at the intersection of Routes 40 and 67 in Schaghticoke, drive 1.5 miles east, turn right just as you get over the bridge, then drive on State Street (117) two blocks and turn left. The Brick Elephant is the red brick former church on the left at the next corner - it's the biggest building in the village - you can't miss it.
From the east: when 67 branches off to the west from 22 (Eagle Bridge), continue driving for 11 miles, turn left just before the curving bridge, then drive on State Street (117) two blocks and turn left. The Brick Elephant is the red brick former church on the left at the next corner - it's the biggest building in the village - you can't miss it.
Re:Soundings is a non-profit 501c3 organization dedicated to the arts. Any donations are tax deductible and will be greatly appreciated.