Keith F’eM presents: Church in Session #17
Seamus Cater
English-born, Amsterdam-based singer and multi-instrumentalist Seamus Cater makes work that both straddles and transcends genres from early English folk music to contemporary avant-garde and experimental composition. His work is often stark, focusing on the minutiae of these commonalities, rather than their differences. For this performance, he’ll be premiering a set of new works for Fender Rhodes.
Sten Rudstrom & Sabine vd Tann
Uncontrolled Improvisations
They start with the breath, noticing and modulating the variety of feeling states and emotions that arise, and unwind intricate, articulate stories of joy and despair that occasionally burst into song and vocal dynamics. They jump onto the energetic flow and ride the wild beasts deep into the darkest jungles, or slash their way into the open air taking to the clouds as their musical carpet undulates across a color-rich palette of human emotions.
Sten Rudstrom and Sabine von der Tann meet while studying Action Theater™ under the guidance of Ruth Zaporah in Berkeley, California, in 1990. Since that time, they have collaborated on a series of improvisational duets on park benches, city streets, in forests, on rocks high above human dwellings, beaches, on wine bar couches, in churches, under the verandas of museums, as well as in numerous conventional theaters in the USA and Europe. Their extensive history of performing duets together creates a unique and idiosyncratic vocabulary of haunting, harmonic and stunning vocal and linguistic textures.
Gelatines
Comprised of two former members and refugees of the beloved Krautrock band Camera, Steffen Kahles (keys) and Tim Schroeder (keys and vocals), as well as one current member of Camera, Alex Kozmidi (guitar) and another refugee Evgeni Kostyts (drums), drummer for the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest winner representing Ukraine; and Marcus Jaeger, a professional vinyl scratcher and former schoolmate of the aforementioned Kahles, the band Gelatines have a smorgasbord of talent, not to mention years of experience to bring to the table. One could declare this collaboration the cream of the crop, but it would seem overblown and vapid. With Gelatines, what we have are the best of the bones, ready to serve the listener something pliable, vibrant, and a little strange.
