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Thu12Mar2020
Sebastien Ammann / Simon Jermyn
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
Sebastien Ammann’s Color Wheel celebrates the release of “Resilience” (Skirl Records, 2020), their second album on Skirl Records.
The band creates a world of sound in the moment that is continuously in movement, looking simultaneously to the past and to the future. Sebastien Ammann’s compositions are vessels that enable the musicians to embark on a journey that takes the listener to new, yet familiar places. While well rooted in improvised music, jazz and classical music, the music recalls at times, Ornette Coleman with the quartet’s quicksilver unison lines, Cecil Taylor through the group’s sheer energy and sonic density or Anton Webern’s serial or abstract compositions. Sebastien Ammann writes polychromatic compositions that not only blur the lines between composition and improvisation, but leave ample space for the band to create it’s own collective narrative.
Sebastien Ammann is the leader of Sebastien Ammann’s Color Wheel since 2012.
The band features some of New York’s most interesting and fearless improvisers, saxophonist Michaël Attias (Renku, Anthony Braxton, Paul Motian), bassist Noah Garabedian (Ralph Alessi, Ravi Coltrane, Andrew D’Angelo) and drummer Nathan Ellman-Bell (Michael Formanek, Dave Douglas, Brass Against). Since arriving in New York in 2008, Sebastien Ammann has collaborated with such musicians and projects as Kris Davis’ Massive Thread, Tony Malaby, Gene Ess’ Fractal Attraction, Nick Biello Sextet, The Russ Flynn’s Large Ensemble, Le Zhang Quintet, Michael Bates, Jon Irabagon, Mark Ferber, George Schuller, Dana Leong, Billy Drewes, John Hébert, Samuel Blaser, Sean Conly, Michael Sarin and many others, performing in venues and festivals all over the USA and Europe.Simon’s band will be S. Jeremyn (guitar)Chris Lightcap (bass)Satoshi Takeishi (drums)