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Enemy:
Kit Downes- Piano, Petter Elhd- Double Bass, James Madren - Drums
Disquietude:
Cormac O'Brien - Double Bass and Chris Engel - Sax
ENEMY
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Kit Downes (piano), Petter Eldh (bass) and James Maddren (drums) are 'ENEMY'. Based in London and Berlin, they play expressive and complex music - light-speed rhythmic patterns and dense harmonic clusters collide in a unique and formidable combination of voices that has been described as both "fiercely intense" and "beautifully intricate". The members of the band have all received their own critical acclaim (including a Mercury Music Award Nomination and BBC Jazz Award) as well as having toured the world with some of the finest musicians (Django Bates, Marc Copeland, Thomas Strønen, Marius Neset), but here they shine collectively, as like-minded experimentalists and improvisers."
"Rip-roaring groove, mind-boggling polyrhythmic drumming, snapping physicality and sweeping piano runs from brittle street grooves" - John Fordham, The Guardian 2015 ****
DISQUIETUDE
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This duo is a project spawned out of the desire, quite simply, to play together more. OBrien & Engel, who have played together in a number of different projects and who happen to be great friends, sought to explore the depth of this musical relationship.
The duo designs skeletal compositional structures from improvisations and then tries to recreate the essence of those compositions using as little composed or predetermined material as possible. The focus is interaction and spontaneous joint composition. The result is exciting, visceral music that will have audience members on the edge of their seat as they accompany this duo on their musical journey.
Location of event
Venue Information - Arthur's
Arthur's is the nearest pub on the route to The Guinness Storehouse, one of the city's foremost tourist attractions. It is popular both with locals and tourists. Naturally it has the freshest pint of Guinness in all of Ireland.