Jim Pugliese's BIG EASY [usa]
Die Village Voice nannte den Komponisten, Schlagzeuger und Percussionisten Jim Pugliese "Downtowns allgegenwärtigsten Schlagzeuger", das Time Out Magazine bezeichnete ihn als den "meistgesuchten Schlagzeuger weit und breit".
BIG EASY ist Puglieses neue Band, eine ‚erweiterte Neuauflage‘ von Soultronix, mit denen er erstmals Ende der neunziger Jahre für Furore sorgte. Schon damals scharte er die für ihn besten und erfahrensten Noisefunk-Groove-Impro-Musiker um sich: Christine Bard, Chris Cochrane, Kato Hideki und Michael Evans.
Für BIG EASY wurde die Besetzung nun um Roy Campbell erweitert, und Pugliese und Co. legen nochmals ordentlich zu: "new york city dance music, deep, funky, slamming, noise, polyrhythmic, atonal."
Jim Pugliese – drums, synth / Christine Bard – drums, electronics / Michael Evans – theremin, percussion / Chris Cochrane – guitar / Kato Hideki – bass / Roy Campbell – trumpet / Audrey Chen - cello, voice
Album: Phase III (Improvvisatore Invololontario, 2008)
Tour: festivals on request
Jim Pugliese is a drummer, percussionist, composer and international recording artist on over sixty CD's of experimental, Classical, Jazz and Rock music. Jim's performing experience is diverse. As a freelance percussionist he is in much demand and has performed with The New York Philharmonic Horizon Series (guest artist), New York City Ballet and soloist or performer on numerous new music and jazz festivals in Europe, Japan and the USA, including Warsaw Autumn, Huddersfield and The Nickelsdorf, Saalfelden, and Tampere Jazz Festivals. He has toured and recorded with John Zorn, Marc Ribot, Bobby Previte, Anthony Coleman, David Shea, Elliott Sharp and The Philip Glass Ensemble.
His newest project BIG EASY is a continuation of his ongoing quest to combine his diverse performing experiences into a single new sound with its base in rhythm. The music skirts and shifts along the edges of free improvisation, deep groove and New Music. The music reflects Jim's ongoing quest to explore the powerful, enlightening and spiritual secrets of drumming and is inspired by his recent association and work with Nii Tettey Tetteh, master musician from Ghana, with Milford Graves, learning drumming and healing through the heartbeat and his study of the spiritual songs of the Mbira Dzavadzimu from Zimbabwe.
His newest project BIG EASY is a continuation of his ongoing quest to combine his diverse performing experiences into a single new sound with its base in rhythm. The music skirts and shifts along the edges of free improvisation, deep groove and New Music. The music reflects Jim's ongoing quest to explore the powerful, enlightening and spiritual secrets of drumming and is inspired by his recent association and work with Nii Tettey Tetteh, master musician from Ghana, with Milford Graves, learning drumming and healing through the heartbeat and his study of the spiritual songs of the Mbira Dzavadzimu from Zimbabwe.