[echo] h7-club am Sa. 1.3. - 21:00 mit Liz Albee | Damon Smith | Raed Yassin | Birgit Ulher | Michael Maierhof | Heiner Metzger

[Heiner Metzger]

Blinzelbar  -  Große Bergstraße 158  -    Hamburg
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Samstag  - 1.3.2008 - 21:00                                  h7- club  
für aktuelle musik

Liz Albee (Oakland, CA)- trumpet, electronic | Michael Maierhof -  
cello | Heiner Metzger - soundtable
Damon Smith(Oakland, CA) - double bass | Birgit Ulher - trompete  |  
Raed Yassin(Beirut) - electronics

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Liz Allbee is a voracious musician whose work spans many genres,  
including new music, improvisation, electronic composition, Asian folk  
and pop, noise, minimalist, free jazz and experimental rock. She has  
played with a wide array of musicians, including Anthony Braxton,  
Wadada Leo Smith, Cecil Taylor, Hans Grusel, Birgit Ulher, Alberto  
Braida, Fabrizio Spera, Gino Robair, Yugen Noh Theater, SFSound, and  
with members of Caroliner, Sun City Girls, and Rova. She lives in  
Oakland, CA. / “Allbee is no slouch, a sharp and gifted musician with  
a highly developed personality and a warped sense of humour”-Sound  
Projector #15, London, UK. Spring 2007 | Raed Yassin was born in  
Beirut 1979, a video, sound and visual artist, also works as a  
musician; (double bass, tapes and electronics). Graduated from the  
theatre department in the Fine Arts Institute in Beirut, where he  
works and lives. A member of MILL association that organizes IRTIJAL  
festival for contemporary and experimental music in Lebanon. His work  
based on themes related to the media, the city, the history of  
contemporary art, Arabic cinema, disasters, and archives. He is a  
member in Mukhtabar ensemble, Almaslakh ensemble, PRAED (with Paed  
Conca), the A trio ( with Sharif Sehnaoui & Mazen Kerbaj). He  
collaborated with artists like : Axel Dorner, Michael Zerang, Jason  
Kahn, Gene Coleman, Paed Conca, Ricardo Arias, Mazen Kerbaj, David  
Stackenas, Martin Kuchen and so much more. | DAMON SMITH:Double bass,  
Improviser. Born Damon Jesse Smith on oct. 17th, 1972 in Spokane, WA.  
Did "freestyle bmx" bicycle riding (a much more dangerous forshadow to  
"freestyle" music! see http://www.theflatlander.com) from age 13 to  
23. Started music in 1991, under the influence of Mike Watt (Firehose  
& The Minutemen) on fender bass. Lead several punk/art rock combos  
until 1994. Upon receiving Peter Kowald's landmark lp "Duos;Europa,"  
Damon sold the fender bass and concentrated solely on double bass and  
free music. Damon's music is rooted in the tradition of "free jazz",  
with most of his professional experience coming from work with the  
orchestras and small ensembles of alto saxophonist marco eneidi,  
however, he is very interested in all the manifestations of free  
improvised music (jazz rooted or not!) around the world. His live and  
recorded efforts focus on continuing and expanding the possibilities  
of the double bass and "instant composition." His instrumental study  
focuses on classical technique and etudes, while using jazz as  
reference for pizzicato tone. Damon performs as a soloist and in every  
imaginable grouping all the way to large orchestra. He also collects  
recordings, specifically creative music, jazz and double bass music,  
and feels this is an important influence on his work ("my roots are in  
my record player"- evan parker).
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