Note Productions - Ireland's Leading Jazz Promoters - Catherine Sikora and Brian Chase

Note Productions present

Catherine Sikora and Brian Chase

with Brian Mooney
(Dublin gig only)

Irish Tour

The Fumbally Stables, Dublin 8
Sunday 7th April
8pm
Tickets: 18 a/v from www.tickets.ie

Following on from their superb performance last year as part of the Spectrum festival, Note are very happy to present the powerful duo of Irish saxophonist Catherine Sikora and acclaimed American drummer Brian Chase (best known as a member of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs) with their Irish tour of their new album untitled: after (Chaikin Records).

This is a pairing of two distinguished voices working at the forefront of modern experimental music. Collectively they have performed with luminaries such as John Zorn, Elliott Sharp, Anthony Coleman, and Eric Mingus, among more.

The duo of CATHERINE SIKORA (Eric Mingus, Elliott Sharp) and BRIAN CHASE (Yeah Yeah Yeahs, John Zorn) steps forth with music merging the lyrical and the abstract, the spontaneous and the composed, and the expressive with the restrained. For their debut album, untitled: after, Catherine and Brian turned to the epic poem Beowulf (Seamus Heaney translation) for inspiration. The classic text’s themes of fearlessness, battle, and courage proved to be analogous to current life experience, and were channelled into compositions as a basis for improvisation. Think John Coltrane’s Interstellar Space meets epic poetry as depicted in an adaptation for film.

Saxophonist, improviser and composer Catherine Sikora was born and raised in West Cork, Ireland. Self-taught to begin with, she moved to New York City to study and play with great improvisers. Sikora works in a broad range of settings, from highly complex composed music, to folk songs, to free improvisation. Her regular collaborations include those with Eric Mingus, Enrique Haneine, Brian Chase, Han-earl Park, Stanley Zappa, Christopher Culpo and Ross Hammond, as well as actively pursuing solo performance. In the past few years, she has toured in Canada, the United States, Europe and Australia. As an international artist, Sikora was a featured soloist in Eric Mingus’ radical reimagining of Tommy by the Who presented at Australia's Adelaide Festival in 2015, and was artist-in
residence at the Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris for the fall of 2014 working on a project inspired by stories from her female ancestors. Catherine's first solo album 'Jersey' was released on Relative Pitch Records in July 2016

Brian Chase is a drummer and composer living in Brooklyn, NY. His diverse range of work includes that with Grammy nominated rock band Yeah Yeah Yeahs, the community of the New York experimental music scene, and his solo project Drums & Drones. Performances have taken him across the world to the Sydney Opera House (with Karen O's Stop the Virgens and Nick Zinner's 41 Strings), UK’s Reading and Leeds Festivals (with Yeah Yeah Yeahs), Toronto’s X Avant Festival (with Drums and Drones), and throughout NYC to such notable venues as The Stone, Pioneer Works, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. In June of 2018, Brian launched his own record label, Chaikin Records. The first release was a triple album and 144 page book celebrating the first ten years of Drums and Drones. Artist residencies have been held at John Zorn's venue The Stone in NYC and at the Headlands Center for the Arts in California. For the fall of 2017, Brian was a visiting professor at Bennington University.

" These noble musicians have performed courageous deeds on this fantastic album. To them we should submit and yield tribute." DownBeat Magazine

Brian Mooney played and recorded with bands on the Irish music scene such as The Idiots, David Kitt, Jape, Si Schroeder and Beautiful Unit.He has worked as a theatre Sound Designer for a number of companies, most notably Pan Pan Theatre. His work with Pan Pan has won awards at both the Dublin Fringe Festival and the Adelaide Fringe.

Brian founded the indie record label, Trust Me I'm A Thief, in 2004 which released a number of critically acclaimed albums by the Redneck Manifesto, Somadrone and Jape to name just a few.

The Fumbally Stables, Dublin 8
Sunday 7th April 8pm
Tickets: 18 a/v from www.tickets.ie

Note Productions present

Catherine Sikora and Brian Chase

Irish Tour

The Fumbally Stables, Dublin 8Sunday 7th April8pmTickets: 18 a/v from www.tickets.ie

The Fumbally Stables, Dublin 8
Sunday 7th April
8pm
Tickets: 18 a/v from www.tickets.ie