Concert: Tatvamasi & Ladies Quartet
A double bill that fuses two radically different sounds and musical angles. Two quartets that are only seemingly poles apart: chamber music-oriented string ensemble Ladies Quartet and revolutionary iconoclastic impro-electro-psychedelic Tatvamasi do not, however, automatically merge their music but rather creatively experiment live, making brand new music and travelling across uncharted territories.
Tatvamasi
On 8 October 2013, the legendary American label Cuneiform, which has worked with among others Robert Wyatt, Soft Machine, Wadada Leo Smith, Fred Frith and Rob Mazurek, released “Parts of The Entirety” – a debut album by Lublin-based Tatvamasi. The following month saw the next premiere, during which the quartet performed the compositions from their recent debut album for the first time in front of a live audience. As a band, Tatvamasi traverses vast musical territories, bringing back the acid-en- crusted taste of psychedelia and a non-linear jazz-inspired narrative that is grounded in the piercing tone of the tenor saxophone, the shrill sounds of the electric guitar that operates with the precision of a surgeon’s scalpel, and the interplay of the free-flowing, pulsating and precisely anchored rhythm section.
Complemented by a trumpeter, Tatvamasi has just recorded a brand new album, which will be released by Requiem Records in the autumn of 2015.
Musicians: Grzegorz Lesiak – guitar; Tomasz Piątek – tenor saxophone; Łukasz Downar – bass guitar; Krzysztof Redas – percussion; Maria Porzyc – multimedia.
www.tatvamasi.pl
Ladies Quartet
Founded in 2011, the Quartet is comprised of active and vibrant women who are professionally associated with theatre and philharmonic orchestras as well as partaking in TV productions and chamber, symphonic and more commercially-minded projects.