Tour news

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Rhys Chatham with
Valgeir Sigurdsson
@ Donau Festival
Austria
28 April 2012 - 10 pm



Only few know his name – and yet the international indie-pop audience is all too familiar with Valgeir Sigurdsson: The great, mysterious Icelander has provided production support for artists such as Björk, CocoRosie, Bonnie “Prince” Billy or Feist. But the co-founder of the Bedroom Community label has also left traces as a solo artist, with subtly drawn electro-acoustic landscapes of enchanting beauty. A hypnotic quality can also be found in the work of Paris-based US composer, guitarist and trumpeter Rhys Chatham, who already in the 1970s transferred the expanded vocabulary of minimal music into a rock context and created his first legendary pieces for an electric guitar orchestra. The two monoliths of avant-garde and pop music are set to meet for the very first time at this year’s donaufestival.
www.donauferestival.at
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Welcome to www.rhyschatham.net
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News:
Rhys Chatham’s Rêve Parisien launched

on 11 September on Primary Records

September 16th, 2011 Primary Information is pleased to announce a new LP by Rhys Chatham. RÊVE PARISIEN was produced and designed by Chatham in collaboration with the artist Jacob Kassay. The album features four new compositions that were performed live at Kassay's exhibition at Art: Concept in Paris in 2010, and loosely functions as an audio catalogue to the exhibition..

For more information or to order this LP, please visit
www.primaryinformation.org




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Rhys Chatham’s Outdoor Spell
released in April 2011
on Northern Spy Records



More info here: Nothern Spy Records

18 April 2011:

Extended interview on Outdoor Spell with Rhys Chatham by All About Jazz Italia: English version:

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Rhys Chatham's - A Crimson Grail (outdoor version)
Available at the Nonesuch Store

Rhys Chatham's A Crimson Grail, released on Nonesuch September 14, is available at the Nonesuch Store. As with almost all Nonesuch Store orders, these include downloads of the complete album as high-quality, 320-kbps MP3s, starting release day.
Written in 2005 as a commission for the city of Paris, A Crimson Grail premiered at the basilica of Sacré-Coeur. It was created to work with the specific architecture of the basilica, making use of its natural 15-second reverberation time. The musicians surrounded the audience, creating an antiphonal effect with the sound moving around the space from area to area. Scored for as many as 400 guitarists, an orchestra of approximately 125 musicians performed the premiere, to great acclaim. The Dallas Observer said of a recording of that concert, “Beautifully intricate and harmonically dense, A Crimson Grail is nearly ambient in tone while pursuing a beauty that never seems beyond its scope.”
When Lincoln Center Out of Doors and Wordless Music invited Chatham to mount A Crimson Grail in New York at the Lincoln Center Out of Doors Festival, the composition had to be completely reworked for the acoustics of an exterior, non-reverberant setting. The Nonesuch recording captures the subsequent 2009 performance, in Lincoln Center’s Damrosch Park, with 200 electric guitars, 16 electric basses, five conductors, and one percussionist.
For more information and to reserve your copy now, head to the Nonesuch Store

Links to other sections of this site:

G3 Is My Life

G3 in Europe

100 guitars

A Crimson Grail (indoor version from 2005)

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