February 5th 7:00 Open Gate Sunday Evening Concert, GONGFARMER and COREY FOGEL
Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock, 2225 Colorado Blvd., Eagle Rock
Admission is $10, students, seniors, and series performers half price.
GONGFARMER
Jim McAuley - acoustic guitars, Marxophone
Andrew Pask - woowinds
Mary MacQueen - bass, voice, recorders
Alan Cook - drums, percussion
COREY FOGEL - SOLO DRUMSET
Guitarist Jim McAuley, one of the Los Angeles area’s veteran improvisers and composers of creative music, has fronted a number of memorable ensembles over the years, but he’s particularly pleased and excited about this one, Gongfarmer. Known for his outstanding solo work as well as for collaborations with such fellow sonic veterans as John Carter, Wadada Leo Smith, Leroy Jenkins, Nels Cline (he was in the wonderful Acoustic Guitar Trio), Marty Walker, and many others, McAuley is one of the few guitar innovators to concentrate almost exclusively on acoustic instruments. In Gongfarmer he combines his acoustic guitars and Marxophone with the woodwinds of Andrew Pask (a frequent collaborator as of late), the bass, voice, and recorders of Mary MacQueen, and the drums and percussion of Alan Cook. In a universe where folk songs, classical etudes, bottleneck blues, atonal abstractions, and textural conflagrations coexist happily in one seamless, expressive, and poetic musical whole, McAuley is its benign and benevolent ruler.
Drummer and performance artist Corey Fogel, best known to Sunday evening concerts audiences for his subtle and effective contributions to the trio Missincinatti, puts a strong emphasis on texture and invention as he coaxes sounds out of his basic drumset in a myriad of exploratory, intriguing, and sometimes entertaining ways. One’s perceptions, expectations, and evaluations are delightfully and gloriously upended and challenged as an almost childlike magic is discovered and revealed amidst the most ordinary of tools and elements. Opening the concert alone, the audience will now get a chance to hear Fogel present his personal and provocative approach to solo drumset performance. Known to perform solo in a number of unorthodox and surprising venues (such as the coat room at the Hammer Museum or at a craft fair while simultaneously knitting), this is a chance to hear Fogel’s adventures in a fully conventional concert setting, an opportunity which promises to be nothing short of profoundly memorable.
Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock, 2225 Colorado Blvd., Eagle Rock
Admission is $10, students, seniors, and series performers half price.
GONGFARMER
Jim McAuley - acoustic guitars, Marxophone
Andrew Pask - woowinds
Mary MacQueen - bass, voice, recorders
Alan Cook - drums, percussion
COREY FOGEL - SOLO DRUMSET
Guitarist Jim McAuley, one of the Los Angeles area’s veteran improvisers and composers of creative music, has fronted a number of memorable ensembles over the years, but he’s particularly pleased and excited about this one, Gongfarmer. Known for his outstanding solo work as well as for collaborations with such fellow sonic veterans as John Carter, Wadada Leo Smith, Leroy Jenkins, Nels Cline (he was in the wonderful Acoustic Guitar Trio), Marty Walker, and many others, McAuley is one of the few guitar innovators to concentrate almost exclusively on acoustic instruments. In Gongfarmer he combines his acoustic guitars and Marxophone with the woodwinds of Andrew Pask (a frequent collaborator as of late), the bass, voice, and recorders of Mary MacQueen, and the drums and percussion of Alan Cook. In a universe where folk songs, classical etudes, bottleneck blues, atonal abstractions, and textural conflagrations coexist happily in one seamless, expressive, and poetic musical whole, McAuley is its benign and benevolent ruler.
Drummer and performance artist Corey Fogel, best known to Sunday evening concerts audiences for his subtle and effective contributions to the trio Missincinatti, puts a strong emphasis on texture and invention as he coaxes sounds out of his basic drumset in a myriad of exploratory, intriguing, and sometimes entertaining ways. One’s perceptions, expectations, and evaluations are delightfully and gloriously upended and challenged as an almost childlike magic is discovered and revealed amidst the most ordinary of tools and elements. Opening the concert alone, the audience will now get a chance to hear Fogel present his personal and provocative approach to solo drumset performance. Known to perform solo in a number of unorthodox and surprising venues (such as the coat room at the Hammer Museum or at a craft fair while simultaneously knitting), this is a chance to hear Fogel’s adventures in a fully conventional concert setting, an opportunity which promises to be nothing short of profoundly memorable.
