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07/01 Thursday
8:00 PM Transportive” electro-acoustic percussion duo Loop 2.4.3 returns to the Lily Pad
The performances of Galactic-fusion duo Loop 2.4.3 have been described as “fascinating” (Time Out NY), “transportive” (Boston Phoenix), “hard-driving (the New Yorker), and “stunning” (Time Out Chicago). Fresh off of a US tour that included appearances with Clogs, Shara Worden (My Brightest Diamond), and Sufjan Stevens, Loop 2.4.3 heads up the coast for this special appearance at Lily Pad. They will perform music from their highly acclaimed sophomore album, Zodiac Dust, as well as 3 northeast premieres. Expect walls of drums, psychedelic electro-acoustic riffs, and melodic moments of reflection with intimate vocal harmonies.
Loop 2.4.3 are composers/instrument inventors/improvisers/performers and “virtuosi musicians of the highest calibre” (Gordon Stout). Members Thomas Kozumplik and Lorne Watson paid their dues in the Heartland (growing up and gigging all over Michigan and the mid-west), on the reservation (Watson taught for and learned from the Saginaw Chippewa Tribe), and in the Ivy League (Kozumplik went to music school at Yale).
Known to employ the gamut of percussion instruments, Loop 2.4.3’s new album, Zodiac Dust (Music Starts From Silence), uses an expanded palette including strings and two instruments of their invention, the Rose Echo and eLog. Their music has been described as "taut compositions with a stunning improvisational sense" (Time Out - Chicago), and as consisting of both "action adventures and reveries... all sound[ing] like part of a well-thought-out tradition, only the tradition has never existed until now." (Milo Miles, Fresh Air - NPR).
Loop 2.4.3 has performed with Clogs, Newband (Harry Partch Ensemble), Dafnis Prieto, Belle Orchestre, the Books, Evan Ziporyn, Sufjan Stevens, Shara Worden (My Brightest Diamond, the Decemberists), Joe Morello, their late mentor Robert Hohner, dancer/choreographer Alan Good, director John Jeserun, as soloists with the Brooklyn Philharmonic at the BAM Opera House, and at Times Square in a collaboration with Robert Indiana, Michael McKenzie and Teresa Smith. The duo has toured internationally and performed for radio, theater, and television, including The Learning Channel and MTV. They have appeared at the Sydney Festival, the London Jazz Festival, Merkin Hall, and the Japan Society (NYC) among others.
Please visit: www.loop243.com
Thursday, July 1, 2010, 8 p.m.
Loop 2.4.3