eric [at] ericst-laurent [dot] com
Toronto, Canada
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No two concerts are ever the same so drop by often! We'll be in Toronto, workshoping new material at:
8 minute video of "El Cumbanchero" featuring:
Rosando Leon Arocha "Chendy": cajon
Magdelys Savigne: congas
Calvin Beale: bass
...and your ecstatic correspondent
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Claude Debussy and Erik Satie take the Concord to Havana. While on board, a Mexican Djembéfola teaches them some polyrhythms. Everyone laughs and they crank up “A Love Supreme” on the new iPhone.
A one hour live set – with Jordan O’Connor (bass) and Michel DeQuevedo (djembé) with video projection by Sarah Kim Turnbull.
Vangelis and George Benson engage in a beach volleyball game against Jean-Michel Jarre and John Coltrane. Aphex Twin calls his wife from the hotel lobby.
A suite of then instrumental electronic tracks meant to be enjoyed side by side. Each piece is connected to the whole and offers a new variation on the central melodic theme. The segments are compact and contain almost no repetition, averaging two minutes in length. The mood varies throughout the recording, ranging from somber to uplifting and humorous. First drafted on paper, then fleshed out using pawn shop synthesizers, antique drum machines and one very expensive guitar.
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Schoenberg and George Benson walk into a bar where Aphex Twin is DJ’ing. In the back, Herbie Hancock is telling Joe Zawinul a buddhist joke. Pierre Boulez comes out of the kitchen holding a long C++ printout and looking furious and everybody goes quiet.
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A set of pieces loosely based on the writings of Joseph Campbell and recorded in Berlin with very special guest Sebastian Studnitzky on trumpet and piano and long time collaborators Jordan O’Connor on bass and Michel DeQuevedo on percussion. Engineered by the one and only Marco Birkner.
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