NMC Presents Tatsuya Nakatani & Eugene Chadbourne

New Music Collective presents

Tatsuya Nakatani & Eugene Chadbourne

Wednesday November 18, 2009

8pm Concert ($10 / $5 Students / under 18 free)

New Music Collective presents Tatsuya Nakatani & Eugene Chadbourne

The NMC is proud to once again have presented a concert featuring Tatsuya Nakatani! He has sold out the Redux Print Studio twice before, and this time he brought a collaborator with whom to perform improvised works: Eugene Chadbourne from Greensboro, NC on guitar and banjo. These two internationally known artists play all over the world, and we were delighted that they were able to make it to Charleston to play on the Redux stage.

Tatsuya Nakatani is originally from Osaka, Japan. In 2006 he performed in 80 cities in 7 countries and collaborated with 163 artists worldwide. In the past 10 years he has released nearly 50 recordings on CD. He has created his own instrumentation, effectively inventing many instruments and extended techniques. He utilizes drumset, bowed gongs, cymbals, singing bowls, metal objects, bells, and various sticks and bows to create an intense, organic music that defies category or genre. His music is based in improvised/ experimental music, jazz, free jazz, rock, and noise, yet retains the sense of space and beauty found in traditional Japanese folk music.

Eugene Chadbourne has been described as one of the underground community’s most well-known and wellregarded eccentrics. He has worked with artists ranging from John Zorn, Henry Kaiser, and Fred Frith to members of Camper van Beethoven and the producer Kramer (in a band he led called Shockabilly). He has been traveling the world over for many years collaborating and playing solo on acoustic guitar, electric guitar, and banjo, and occasionally adding his “absurd, squeaky vocals” (from allmusic.com). He’s obviously quite a character, and it might just be his first time in Charleston, SC since 2006 when he opened up for the Violent Femmes (Center Stage at The Plex!!).

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Percussionist Tatsuya Nakatani and guitarist, banjoist and composer Eugene Chadbourne aka Doc Chad came together first circa 2007 when the former sent the following email message from his home in Pennsylvania to the notorious House of Chadula in Greensboro, North Carolina: “Hello, I want to come South and play Johnny Cash train beat with you.” Of course the Doc’s radar went up, having spent decades in an intense if sometimes inexplicable mangling of American country and western, Appalachian folk, rock and roll and international free improvisation and noise music. Within months Nakatani had entered the geographical region known informally as “Cackalackee” and the two were performing in a series of club dates in Greensboro, Chapel Hill and Winston Salem. Several New York City shows followed including the legendary New Directions in Appalachian Music evening at John Zorn’s club The Stone during the 2008 Chadfest. Scheduling problems prevented the duo from further collaboration, but here they are again in a weeklong swing that will take them not only back to the Carolinas but will include shows in Tennessee, Alabama and Virginia. During the first go-round Doc Chad was delighted to learn that Nakatani had fronted a bossa nova band at various points in his career and could sing in Portugese. Thus, a small set of bossa was also added to the show which of course includes a tribute to Johnny Cash as well as a variety Doc Chad’s original songs from a catalog that has been expanding since since the early ’80s Shockabilly years. In this period Chadbourne mostly focuses on these original songs, including a great deal of political and social satire. In collaborations as well as solo, these songs are launching pads for improvisations that are likely to go anywhere. The duet show also features solo sections by both performers.

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http://www.hhproduction.org/TATSUYA_NAKATANI_WORKS.html

www.EugeneChadbourne.com

www.newmusiccollective.org

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devoted to the composition, production, and promotion of new music.