Events . Tamarisk (Carter/Menestres/Weathers) & Loud Quitting (quintet) at Bantha Tea Bar

Tamarisk (Carter/Menestres/Weathers) & Loud Quitting (quintet) at Bantha Tea Bar

free-improvising super trio from Texas
Concert
Bantha Tea Bar 5002 Penn Ave Pittsburgh
All Ages $15

Sat Apr 15 7:30 PM all ages welcome $15 at the door
Bantha Tea Bar 5002 Penn Ave Garfield/Friendship

free-improvising super trio from Texas
TAMARISK
https://tamarisksuns.bandcamp.com/
featuring Christina Carter (Charalambides)
https://christinacarter.bandcamp.com/
David Menestres (Polyorchard)
https://davidmenestres.bandcamp.com/
and Andrew Weathers (Tender Crust)
https://andrewweathers.bandcamp.com/

with special local guests
LOUD QUITTING (quintet) featuring:

Liza Barley (violin/viola)
https://www.lizabarley.com/about
Jeff Weston (double bass)
http://www.jeffwestonmusic.com/
Rachel Mangold (double bass)
https://rachelmangold.com/
Josh Tenenbaum (tapes/electronics)
https://howthingsaremade.bandcamp.com/album/s4e10-joshua-tenenbaum-delivers-10000-horses-to-your-front-door
Anthony Levin-Decanini (objects)
https://howthingsaremade.bandcamp.com/album/mixtapes-xiii-anthony-levin-decanini-gives-hot-takes-on-hot-cakes

The Wire, February 2023:
"Christina Carter has always struck me as someone who allows her creative practices to unfold at an unhurried pace, fundamentally and politically disconnected from the false urgencies of a music career or culture. The work she does is simultaneously community focused, in that it is both gift to and request made of its listenership, and intensely personal - both intimate and expanse. This has been the case since she first came to wider attention several decades ago through her music with Tom Carter (and, at various times, Heather Leigh Murray or Jason Bill) in Charalambides.

Several new projects have emerged for Carter...much as been made of Carter's vocalizations as being outside of language. This erases both the purposefulness and the poets of her embrace of words in much of her music. This use is notable in Tamarisk, her trio with improvisors David Menestres and Andrew Weathers. There's clear sympathy in their playing together, with Menestres's double bass particularly seductive on Plays a Word for Sun, oscillating between vibrating string scrapes and fluid stretches of note splay. There are some startling moments where Carter's voice rises out of near silence, sending incantatory vibrations out into shared space. Partway through, she chills the blood as she voices the words "I hear you" with rising intensity...

Carter's art nudges us to consider the complex emotional work music and sound does."

Related Entities: Bantha Tea Bar
Tags: Experimental Improv