LITTLE WOMEN

Travis Laplante - Tenor Saxophone / Darius Jones - Alto Saxophone / Andrew Smiley - Electric guitar / Jason Nazary - Drums

Brooklyn quartet Little Women formed two years ago to create music that blurs the line between structure and spontaneity. The group's sound distilled from a broad range of influences that stretch from classic Chicago free jazz thru pop music, punk rock, math metal, and harsh noise. Little Women never stop pushing into new sonic territory: splitting overtones to create ghost notes, violently disassembling their instruments onstage, and attacking written and improvised material with equal ferocity. During performances band members often experience side-effects more commonly associated with prescription drugs such as nausea, dizziness, and internal bleeding. Little Women stomp all over genres, creating some of the most adventurous, in-the-moment, wrenchingly honest music of their generation.

Members of Little Women have recorded and/or performed with some of the top names in jazz/improvised music such as: Anthony Braxton, Steve Lacy, Mark Dresser, Jim Black, Trevor Dunn, Dave Liebman, Joe Lovano, George Garzone, Chad Hugo (The Neptunes), Gerry Hemingway, Joe Morris, Matt Wilson, Michael Formanek, Mat Maneri, and Dave Koz. Members of Little Women also play in bands such as Zs, Extra Life, Cutter, Period, Archaeopteryx.

CODARTS SHOWCASE

Inma Galliot, Maja Mirocha, Katarzyna Szwed, Bas Duister, Leonard Evers & Paolo Santiago.

An international group of composers have been working in the yellow building of Codarts (University for the Arts, in this particular case the Rotterdam conservatoire) for years while they study composition. Many of this youngest generation of composers experiment in the messy modern-retro studio for electronic music to create new, intriguing music. From this community of players and composers Codarts gathered those who are willing to get connected to laptops or who like to play while their sound is drowned by studio sounds that circle around them and the audience.

Listen tonight to Inma Galliot performing her latest piece for double-bass and electronics. Then there is Maja Mirocha, she plays the ancient traverso while we hear the haunting 'On the Lyrical' of Katarzyna Szwed. Bas Duister plays an amazing flexible trumpet part and Leonard Evers squeezes all kind of echo-patterns from the laptop. Paulo Santiago shows how lively and moving fixed media can sound in his 'Corais' and then we will hear some more...