Motoko Honda'S SIMPLE EXCESSES QUARTET
THE DECONSTRUCTION OF WHAT YOU KNOW
Featuring the Northern California's most versatile and innovative players [
Motoko Honda (composition/piano),
Cory Wright (woodwinds), MATT SMALL (bass), and JORDAN GLENN (drums)], SIMPLE EXCESSES QUARTET performs an exciting repertoire of compositions which unifies jazz, classical chamber music, improvisation and experimental soundscapes. Intricate, dynamic and often surprising, the quartet's music is a flight in the clouds. "The music of pianist and composer
Motoko Honda is to mainstream jazz what Brahm's music was to the neatly packaged forms of the Classical period….Honda's process has a transformative effect on listeners privy to a complex system of inter-communication and cooperative building strategies.” -- Phillip Greenlief, Art Forum
THE DECONSTRUCTION OF WHAT YOU KNOW [
Josh Allen (tenor sax), TIM DUFF (bass), DAVE CASINI (drums), DANIEL PEARCE (drums)] is a quartet revolving around a double drum lineup. The overtones of the cymbals allow the group to utilize multiple independent pulse propulsion and a dynamic multiphonic thematic expression to organize and arrange frighteningly quick counter point. Sax, drums, and bass. So it's free jazz? It's not jazz. It's not a drum circle model. This is modern composition. It's lower case note to note listening on steroids. Experience the cacophony. It makes sense if you don't fight it.
Cost: $10-$25 sliding scale