Loop 2.4.3
- Lorne Watson - Percussion
- Thomas Kozumplik - Percussion
LORNE WATSON / THOMAS KOZUMPLIK
Invocation (American Elder)
for Native American flute
Dark Matter for eLog
Rose Echo for percussion
Underground for marimba and steel drum
The Existentialist for multi-percussion and eLog
Zodiac Dust for marimbaand steel drum
DBC for multi-percussion
INTERMISSION
As A Child for
NBC chimes, marimba, voice, piano, looper, and samples
Clouds for electro-acoustic drums and looper
Alchemy
Rose for echo, drums, bottles, and almglocken
Epilogue for voice, piano, samples, and looper
The Return of Chickchi for multi-percussion
LOOP 2.4.3
Loop 2.4.3 is an exciting new music team with a sensibility somewhere between Anton Webern, Steve Reich, Art Blakey, and The Beatles. Known to employ the
gamut of percussion instruments, their new album, Zodiac Dust, uses an expanded
palette including strings and two instruments of their invention (more below).
Their music has been described as "transportive percussion odysseys," (The Boston
Phoenix) "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."
(Fresh Air - NPR)
Hailing from Michigan and arriving in Brooklyn via New Haven and Seattle, Loop
2.4.3 has spent the last 5 years alternately traveling and working in a Bed-Stuy
loft space, focused on writing, improvising and creating their own style. Finding
themselves outside of the established music cliques, the group rallied some friends
to start their own label (Music Starts From Silence), as well as their own summer
music and arts festival (SFOS) in Bed-Stuy, and they found an audience that was
ready for something different. Their debut record, Batterie, was captured in a onehour
session for Sonarchy Radio (KEXP) in Seattle. They released the CD "as is"
with no edits, and the immediacy and vibrancy of their performances won over many
listeners. Their new album, Zodiac Dust, retains that energy while somehow becoming
both more focused and more experimental. Their innately narrative approach to
instrumental writing is taken across the breadth of the entire album. Loop 2.4.3
introduces two new instruments, the eLog and Rose Echo, and utilizes cello, violin,
piano and voice, along with their standard percussion arsenal to create a "fusing of
mainstream perceptiveness and a post-modern philosophy" that "makes Zodiac Dust
something that can be listened to over and over." (Audiophile Audition)
Loop 2.4.3 has performed with Clogs, Newband
(Harry Partch Ensemble), Daphnis 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 as a collaboration with Robert Indiana,
Michael McKenzie and Teresa Smith. The duo has
toured internationally and performed for radio,
theater, and television, including footage for The Learning Channel and MTV, and appearances at the Sydney Festival, the London Jazz Festival, Merkin Hall, and the Japan Society (NYC) among others.
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