8:00 – 11:30
$12 or b/o
rob chalfen & subconsciouscafe new chamber music presents
AARON ALI AHAIKH / LELAND SCOTT DAVIS + BERT-BRZYTWA DUO
AARON ALI AHAIKH / LELAND SCOTT DAVIS
Aaron Ali Shaikh - saxophones
Leland Scott Davis - drums
This duo utilizes the Jazz tradition and improvisation traditions from South Asian, Africa and South America. They are primarily concerned with improvisational composition and using care to place the right notes in the right spots, getting a universal music that everyone can feel and understand on some level.
BERT-BRZYTWA DUO
Maryclare Brzytwa – flute & electronics
Antone Berthiaume - flute & electronics
The Bert-Brzytwa duo was formed in the fall of 2004 where guitarist Tony Bert and flutist MaryClare Brzytwa first played together in an improvisation class of Joelle Leandre and have been partners in crime ever since. Brzytwa's exploration of the microtonal sound structure of the flute, while combined with vocalization and electronics lends itself stunningly to the refined sonorities of Bert's guitar. The two have performed together in San Francisco, Oakland, New York City, and Tokyo. Separately, they have played with the likes of Joelle Leandre, William Winant, Vinnie Golia, Fred Frith, Derek Bailey and many others.
www.myspace.com/maryclarebrzytwa
www.antoineberthiaume.com
AARON ALI SHAIKH (03.31.1982) is moving towards the realization of the saxophone as a true microtonal instrument. This style deepens the tradition of early American saxophone players of the 1900s. Microtonalilty itself is
among the most ancient perceptions of sound organization and is found in most traditional music as well as being in line with the ancient voice (Qawaali singers). The move towards a saxophone -derived compositional process has been developing.
In the past decade he has moved on to solo and ensemble music that realize his autobiographical continuum through sound (Improvisational Form, C.M.E. compositional system, Fifth Dimensional Music , Hope Arch Unitary Meditational Reality Poetry ). And more recently he has moved into the direction of a personality-based improvisational music style to get closer to what Jazz music really was and is: an interpretation of a tradition or traditions and "swing" via the point of view an individual's emotional memory and life inside and outside of an ensemble and then transmitting that to some sort of audience; a performance music.
The son of a Pakistani (Sindhi) immigrant Shaikh was born and raised in Cleveland, OH where he began studying music by way of the piano at the age of three. After a decade he began the saxophone studies that have carried
out until the present day. In 2000, Shaikh moved to New York City to study Jazz and Psychology at the New School University. Since then he has had the opportunity to perform and record with many including: Cecil Taylor, Jackson
Moore, Brandon Evans, Jackson Krall, Mat Maneri, Randy Peterson, Matt Moran, Nasheet Waits, Nate Wooley, Anthony Braxton, Carlos Icaza, Daniel Carter, Mike Pride, Dynamite Club, Chris Jonas and Leland Scott Davis. He has also had the opportunity to tour outside of the U.S. presenting music to audiences in Japan, Australia and Canada.
Shaikh currently resides in Brooklyn and acts as co-curator of the New Languages Festival. www.newlanguages.org
Discography
Aaron Ali Shaikh/Dan Dechellis- Under Careful Watch the Spoken Words Fly Sachimay Records, 2003
www.sachimayrecords.com
Shaikh/Icaza Quartet- June 2004 NYC
Two releases with the Japanese Punk Band Dynamite Club and one forthcoming release with Anthony Braxton and another with guitarist Bruce Eisenbeil and drummer Nasheet Waits ( http://eisenbeil.com/disc.html ).
Aaron Ali Shaikh Quartet - Brooklyn, August 2005 psychDOC 002 (forthcoming upon completion).
Two more releases coming in July, one with the Dealbreaker Trio on Utech records and one with Mike Pride’s Scene Fucker.