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The Shaking Ray Levi Society
Presents:
String
Trek, Shaking Ray Levis, Paul Thomas, Echo Canyon, & Killick
Monday, August 4, 8:00 PM
ciné
• athens, ga • advance tickets • $6
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String
Trek is the touring name of the duo, LaDonna Smith and Misha Feigin. >From Alabama, LaDonna is a "fire bucket"
violist, violinist, and first generation pioneer on the American
avant-garde improvisation front. She has also been the keeper/editor/producer
of The Improvisor, a collective music journal of free improvisation
now on the web at www.the-improvisor.com. Moscow born Misha Feigin brings the
elements of poetry, vocals, the old-world romance and dynamic energy
to the collaboration, improvising on guitar and balalaika.
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The
Shaking Ray Levis is an ongoing collaboration of
musicians with a common interest in improvisation. The project was
conceived and led by the Chattanooga-based team of Dennis J. Palmer
and Bob Stagner. They use storytelling, synthesizers, samplers and
percussion to achieve their distinctive sound. They are the first
American group to have recorded for Incus Records, the record label
of British free improvisational guitarist Derek Bailey. Additionally,
they have performed and recorded with John Zorn, David Greenberger,
Fred Frith, Min Tanaka, Amy Denio, and Derek Bailey, as well as
with many other critically acclaimed artists.
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Paul
Thomas is locally recognized as the former proprietor
of the performance space/gallery/book store/coffee shop The X-Ray Café, and has performed with artists ranging
from Allen Ginsberg to Sweet Teeth to experimental turntablist Maria
Chavez. The duo of Paul Thomas and percussionist/electronic musician
Chris Ray returns to Ciné with perhaps another sneak
peek at Paul's video series Portraits of the New Subconscious.
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Echo
Canyon, rumored to have taken their name from a
particular Simpsons episode, consists of three busy musicians collaborating
in free-range improv style. Guitarist Craig Lieske (of Garbage Island,
Diet Rock Star) is joined by percussionist Jim Wilson (also known
as Diego Catalan, of Mother Jackson) and Chuck Bradburn (of Southern
Bitch) on upright bass.
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Killick,
of Athens, Georgia, is active as a composer, performer, and promoter
of a wide range of music. He plays quartertone electric guitar and
the H'arpeggione, an upright acoustic instrument with 12 sympathetic
strings. Killick focuses on the raw sound of his strings in all
their microtonal glory; his style blends primitive folk, heavy metal,
and sacred musics from around the world into a distinct voice. He
has played with countless improvisers and performs regularly around
the country. Killick runs Solponticello Records and is the fellow who put out a solo
acoustic H'arpeggione version of Slayer's Reign In Blood.
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