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Happy Place is a NYC-based avant-rock band of two singers, two guitarists, and two drummers, performing music composed by bandleader and drummer Will Mason. They craft a tense and disquieting sound world marked by microtonally retuned guitars; skittering, irregular meters; and crystalline vocal lines.
"Experimental yet still catchy...Mason’s latest opus builds on his band’s 2016 debut. This time around, in addition to the two-drummer, two-guitar attack — with select strings tuned to microtonal intervals — the bandleader has added a pair of vocalists. That expanded ensemble sound has only deepened the range of Mason’s writing." -- New York Times
"Jittery, manic, and restless." --Bandcamp Daily
"Album of the year." -- Avant Music News
"A bottomless pit of serrated riffs and dueling beat salvos” — New York Observer
Featuring:
Charlotte Mundy and Gelsey Bell - Voice
Andrew Smiley and Dan Lippel - Guitar
Kate Gentile and Will Mason - Drums
More info: happyplace.bandcamp.com ; willmasonmusic.com
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Composer/Performer Ned Rothenberg has been internationally acclaimed for both his solo and ensemble music, presented for the past 40 years on 5 continents. He performs primarily on alto saxophone, clarinet, bass clarinet, and the shakuhachi - an endblown Japanese bamboo flute. His solo work utilizes an expanded palette of sonic language, creating a kind of personal idiom all its own. In an ensemble setting, he leads the trio Sync, with Jerome Harris, guitars and Samir Chatterjee, tabla, works with the Mivos string quartet playing his Quintet for Clarinet and Strings and collaborates around the world with fellow improvisors. Recent recordings include this Quintet, The World of Odd Harmonics, Ryu Nashi (new music for shakuhachi), and Inner Diaspora, all on John Zorn's Tzadik label, as well as Live at Roulette with Evan Parker, and The Fell Clutch, on Rothenberg’s Animul label