Supporting and promoting Vancouver’s vibrant and emerging jazz scene
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Tatsuya Nakatani with special guests Kenton Loewen & JP Carter
October 16, 2023 @ 8:00 PM - 11:00 PM
$15
Tatsuya Nakatani is an avant-garde percussionist, composer, and artist of sound. Active internationally since the 1990s, Nakatani has released over 80 recordings and tours extensively, performing over 150 concerts a year. His primary focus is his solo work and his large ensemble project, the Nakatani Gong Orchestra. He teaches master classes and lectures at universities and music conservatories around the world. Originally from Japan, he makes his home in the desert town of Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. With his activity in new music, improvisation, and experimental music, Nakatani has a long history of collaboration.
Nakatani’s distinctive music centered around his adapted bowed gong, supported by an array of drums, cymbals, and singing bowls. In consort with his personally hand-carved Kobo Bows, he has spent decades refining and developing his sound as an arrangement of formations of vibrations, incorporated in shimmering layers of silence and texture. Within this contemporary work, one can still recognize the dramatic pacing, formal elegance and space (ma) felt in traditional Japanese music.
Kenton Loewen (Dan Mangan, Peregrine Falls, the Crackling) & JP Carter (Haram, Destroyer, Inhabitants) are cornerstones of the Vancouver, B.C. free jazz and improv scenes and are both founding members of the 8East Collective. Their first album, It Becomes Us, was released in 2021 on The Infidels Jazz label. For this opening performance they will be playing Free Jazz Classics, as well as original improvisations.
This event will be on October 16th at the Lido at 518 E. Broadway.
Tickets are $15 at the door.