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Theo Bleckmann & The Westerlies - This Land - Bleckmann is always an intriguing singer; here he teams up with a brass quartet

Theo Bleckmann and The Westerlies present This Land, a new collaborative project that merges the candor of the human voice with the limitless expressiveness of brass, highlighting the power of music to invigorate protest movements and provide internal solace amidst external turmoil. This Land features original compositions as well as arrangements and settings of voices of truth from past and present, including Bertolt Brecht, Joni Mitchell, Woody Guthrie, Agha Shahid Ali, and others. Bleckmann delivers the words of these luminaries with the utmost precision and clarity, using his impeccable technique and command of live electronic effects to evoke sounds that range from the brightest clarion to the murkiest dark. The Westerlies exploit all of the expressive capabilities of their instruments, sometimes brazenly heroic, sometimes painfully intimate. Fearless improvisers and generous collaborators, these artists form an ensemble that is lithe, organic, and formidably cohesive. Although stalwart in their resistance to the boundaries of genre, Bleckmann and The Westerlies welcome the listener into their world with open arms. This Land is a universe all its own. There is an inherent sense of power, solace and beauty in these songs; the message is resistance, but the music is irresistible.

Theo Bleckmann - Voice & Live Electronic Processing The Westerlies: Riley Mulherkar - Trumpet Chloe Rowlands - Trumpet Andy Clausen - Trombone Willem de Koch - Trombone

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This Sunday February 2nd 2020 at (le) poisson rouge in NYC, Brian Carpenter's Ghost Train Orchestra will perform a concert of interpretations of the works of Moondog with special guest singers JG Thirlwell, Karen Mantler, Joan Wasser, and Theo Bleckmann. For this concert Ghost Train Orchestra will be a 14 piece comprising of Matt Bauder, Andy Laster, Dennis Lichtman, Ron Caswell, Sara Schoenbeck, Curtis Hasselbring, Sara Caswell, Rob Garcia, Dina Maccabee, Maxim Moston, David Cossin, Chris Lightcap and Alex Waterman. Tix here

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Hear us in person: http://lineup.bigearsfestival.com/events/2017/03/23/ Or blast this playlist through your work computer's tiny tinny squeaker speakers and simmer in frustration over missing all these amazing artists: http://noisetrade.com/bigears/the-sounds-of-big-ears-2017

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Meredith Monk & Bang on a Can All-Stars - Memory Game

Meredith Monk’s MEMORY GAME, as its title implies, is both a look back at a pivotal point in her storied career, and a richly layered portrait of how vocal music, under the guidance of an indefatigable master, can play with our expectations in poignant and compelling ways. Teaming up here with her renowned Vocal Ensemble (featuring Theo Bleckmann, Katie Geissinger and Allison Sniffin) and backed by the Bang on a Can All-Stars, Monk explores all-new arrangements of never-before-recorded selections from her award-winning sci-fi opera The Games, as well as new versions of several pieces originally released on Do You Be (1987) and impermanence (2008). What emerges from MEMORY GAME is a suite of songs that flows with a remarkable narrative cohesion, stemming in large part from the composer’s willingness to revisit the past with an insatiably curious eye. “The first time that I ever worked with Bang on a Can, it was in the late ‘90s,” Monk tells DownBeat magazine in a recent interview. “That was really, in a way, the beginning of this project. It’s exciting to hear these songs again in a new way, with more of an instrumental aspect added onto the vocal.” Meredith Monk & Vocal Ensemble Theo Bleckmann, Katie Geissinger, Meredith Monk, Allison Sniffin: voices Allison Sniffin: bowed psaltery Michael Cerveris: guest artist Bang on a Can All-Stars Ashley Bathgate: cello and voice Robert Black: electric and acoustic bass Vicky Chow: piano, keyboard and melodica David Cossin: percussion Mark Stewart: electric guitar, banjo and voice Ken Thomson: clarinets and saxophones

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02.02.2020 JG Thirlwell performs 'Here's To John Wesley Hardin" with Ghost Train Orchestra at the Moondog tribute concert at Le Poisson Rouge. It was a great night, also featuring vocal performances by Joan Wasser, Theo Bleckmann and Karen Mantler. An album of the project is being recorded, which will also feature Kronos Quartet and additional special guest singers.

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09.08.19 At Roulette, String Orchestra of Brooklyn played a stunning version of Julius Eastman’s Gay Guerrilla along with newly commissioned works by Gregory Spears and a Phil Kline piece with Theo Bleckmann on voice.