April 9th, 7 PM - Jason Kahn & Gust Burns in store performance
We are pleased to be presenting an in store performance by Jason Kahn and Gust Burns. Jason Kahn is originally from Los Angeles where he played with SST associated bands The Leaving Trains, Trotsky Icepick and Universal Congress Of. In 1990, he relocated to Europe where he became a member of Arnold Dreyblatt’s Orchestra of Excited Strings. From here his music started to change, becoming more quiet and restrained exploring minimal sound forms. In 1998, he launched the label Cut in his new home Switzerland. Between that time and the closure of the label at the beginning of this year, Cut published CDs by Repeat (a duo of Kahn and Toshimaru Nakamura), Tu m’, Jason Lescalleet, Tomas Korber, Günter Müller, Steinbrüchel, John Hudak & Bruce Tovsky, Taku Sugimoto, Norbert Möslang, Olivia Block, Gabriel Paiuk, Seth Nehil& JGrzinich, Signal Quartet, Ellen Fullman & Sean Meehan, Joe Gilmore, and Christian Weber as well as several solo discs and collaborations involving Kahn and these artists. However, Kahn has also released a large number of solo and collaborative discs on other labels recently including Creative Sources, SIRR, For 4 Ears, (1.8)sec.records, Leerraum, Formed, Longbox, Xeric, Crouton, and/OAR, and Winds Measure Recordings. From this long list, it should be quickly apparent that Jason Kahn’s music is widely enjoyed and in demand. While in Seattle, he will be performing with Gust Burns. Gust is less known the world of recorded music, but has published several fine releases on his CDR label Tone Action Family. He’s better known locally as a regular on the free improvised circuit, and particularly as one of the organizers of the Seattle Improvised Music Festival and Gallery 1412. In performance he often plays the inside of the piano coaxing delicate sounds one would normally not expect to hear from that instrument. For this night’s performance he will be supplementing the inside piano with electronics. Often performing with both local and visiting international artists, he has time and again proven himself to have an excellent ear and skill for integrating with a wide variety of performance styles. Among his collaborators have been Jeffrey Allport, Wally Shoup, Bob Marsh, and Jack Wright, and he has played music with Keith Rowe, Andrea Neumann, Tetuzi Akiyama, John Edwards and many others.
- Thursday, April 9th starting at 7 PM downstairs in Resolution Audio - FREE