Rumor Festival News

Utrecht      9 oktober 2010      Start: 20u30     EKKO

Admission: 15,- / 12,50 Euro (U-pas, student, CJP)

Carla Bozulich from New York City has been active in the American underground scene ever since the eighties. Best known as a singer for the band The Geraldine Fibbers – that would later produce Wilco and A Silver Mt. Zion – but also before and after a much sought-after vocalist. The Los Angeles Times about Bozulich: “[…] the deep-voiced street diva captures the confusion and desperation of people trapped, dreamlike, in situations they don’t understand and can’t escape.”

These past few years she has released work of her own under the name of Evangelista, each time with a different line-up. Her latest album, Prince of Truth, was released from the Constellation label last year. For the tour to promote that album she has selected Massimo Pupillo, the bass player of the Italian hardcore jazz band Zu. Pupillo’s trademark is a full, growling bass sound, but with his mastery in the use of effects and electronics  he can make his bass sound like a subtle synthesizer or a laptop full of samples. An exciting collaboration.

Massimo Pupillo: bass and effects – Carla Bozulich: vocals

The Thing with Otomo Yoshihide – SJU Jazzpodium

The Thing ranks among the main exponents of the Scandinavian free jazz scene. The sound of saxophonist Mats Gustafsson clearly betrays the legacy of Peter Brötzmann. The Thing plays jazz as if it were garage rock. In the SJU the trio will be supported by the Japanese guitar player Otomo Yoshihide. He required a reputation through Ground Zero and the New Jazz Ensemble. His collaboration with the Swedish trio can be heard on the album Shinjuku Craw released last year. With his creed “I Love fee-de-bak very much” Yoshihide restores the music of The Thing to a more abstract level. Fans of more traditional jazz, who still managed to discern the occasional melodious links in the music of The Thing, will undoubtedly see Yoshihide first and foremost as the friend with the bad influence.

Mats Gustafsson: saxophone – Paal Nilssen-Love: drums – Ingebrigt Håker Flaten: double bass – Otomo Yoshihide: guitar

Flower – Corsano Duo – Theater Kikker

Butter knives, rolls of sellotape and pot lids. To drummer Chris Corsano percussion is a broad notion. The American, one of the most all-round musicians in recent years, has come to Utrecht once more for the third time this year. In March he performed as a guest player together with saxophonist Joe McPhee at the Utrecht Jazz Fest, while in June performing in EKKO with Ben Chasny (Six Organs of Admittance), among others, as part of the folk-noise trio Rangda. At the Rumor festival he will play together with Mick Flower. Flower, member of the British avant-garde group Vibracathedral Orchestra, plays the shahi baaja, an electric string instrument that steers somewhere in between a sitar and a lap steel-guitar. The albums of the duo are characterized by endless mesmerizing bourdon-like noise drones. Like an LSD trip during a train ride through the jungle of India; one gust of energy with now and then a contemplative moment to catch one’s breath.

Mick Flower: shahi baaja – Chris Corsano: drums