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
Wed 3rd April: The Spirit Store, Dundalk. 8pm €12 spiritstore.ie/bios/catherine_sikora_brian_chase_biog.html
Thurs 4th April: Sonic Lab, Queens Uni, Belfast. 1.00pm free qub.ac.uk/sarc/events/4AprilCatherineSikoraBrianChase.html
Thurs 4th April: The Sofa Sessions at The Hole in the Wall, Kilkenny. 8:30pm free https://www.facebook.com/sofasessionskilkenny/
Fri 5th April: Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh. 8pm. €12
siriusartscentre.ie/music/catherine-sikora-brian-chase
Sat 6th April: Visual Carlow. 8pm €12/ €10 visualcarlow.ie/events/info/catherine-sikora-and-brian-chase-untitled-after
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.
Visit www.chaikinrecords.com for more info.
Praise for Catherine Sikora and Brian Chase's untitled: after-
"
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.
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This tour is supported by the Arts Council of Ireland.
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The Fumbally Stables, Dublin 8
Sunday 7th April 8pm Tickets: 18 a/v from www.tickets.ie
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