Space is the Place: Raphael Vanoli solo + Lean Left (The Ex guitars meet Vandermark & Nilssen-Love)

Wednesday, September 16, 20:30, entrance € 12

RAPHAEL VANOLI solo
In his solo music Raphael Vanoli uses a fender stratocaster and its microscopic sonic possibilities to create multilayered music in real-time. By heavily boosting volume the guitar turns into an extremely sensitive object, therefore the instrument constantly needs to be restrained from bursting into feedback. This allows simultaneous usage of playing techniques like blowing and singing, often involving beard, hands, thighs, breast and all kinds of soft objects like feathers, paper and sponges, combined with more traditional ways of playing. Sometimes he uses custom build electronics to pan-control the sound to multiple amps and speakers in spacialized installations, playing with the frequency range of different speaker sizes.

His compositions are highly emotional and disruptive – much closer to an electronic music universe than the preconceived landing zone of a conventional electric guitar. Although at times loud and extreme – Vanoli’s music is especially meditative and body friendly. It hits the soul with waves of empathy.

Raphael Vanoli: Guitar/electronics

LEAN LEFT
Lean Left throws together two explosive duos – the sax/drums collision course of Ken Vandermark and Paal Nilsson-Love with the piledriving guitarists from The Ex – to make up a positively apocalyptic quartet: an elemental musical force featuring Grade A international players zoning in and scrambling together rock, jazz, noise and blistering free improv into a highly-charged onstage assault, each member taking their sounds and bodies to the edge and often snapping out of the wilds and into glorious passages of regular rhythm. The music of Lean Left is extrovert, energetic, powerful and inclusive but also confrontational and provocative: where rhythm, noise, melody and harmony melt together in perfect union. Pretty much the dream ticket for those who like their live music raw, hard and violently soulful. (unsounds.com)

Terrie Ex: Guitar
Andy Moor: Guitar
Ken Vandermark: Reeds
Paal Nilssen-Love: Drums