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Friday
and Saturday, June 9 and 10
Admission: $10
Showtimes: 7:30pm & 10pm
reservations
are recommended
The
Children is the new music project from actor/performing
artist Michael Wiener, downtown theater veteran and recently,
festival film circuit regular, and composer/producer Jim
Coleman, former Cop Shoot Cop mainstay, most recently
scoring music for cable television and film, and collaborating
with J.G. "Foetus" Thirwell and others.
The duo will be joined by a rotating cast of musicians, notable
current contributors include percussive-multi-instrumental specialist
Phil Puleo, also of Cop, as well as Swans, trumpeter/brassman
Jim "Jimi" Colarusso, of Cop and other
outfits, as well as a veteran session player who has played with
everyone from Elvis Presley to the Jimmy Dorsey Band, and an emergent
cast of others.
The working process begins deep within the recesses of the studio,
where sound wizard Coleman and singer Wiener instigate an intricate
dialogue between Coleman's keyboards and found sounds and Wiener’s
spontaneous lyrical melodicism. Fragments from these improvisational
sessions are formed into rough drafts of songs, which are then
painstakingly refined. At some point during this evolution, the
duo is joined in the studio by Puleo, Colarusso and the rest,
and the pieces become more organic, more live, more rock and roll.
"Gothic Blues Ambient" might be an appropriate tag.
Hovering over his keyboard and computer, Coleman will anchor the
upstage realm, providing both skeletal structure and spontaneity.
Puleo will drive the songs with textured polyrhythmics. Colarusso
will provide bombastic, soulful groove. The effect will be darkly,
majestically orchestral, carried by Coleman’s wand.
Coleman and his dirge-estra, and darkly anthropological video
projections from Beth B (a progenitor of the
Cinema of Transgression, B is perhaps best known for her feature
Two Small Bodies, and has recently been
directing documentaries for Court TV and other cable channels),
will provide a stark, shadowy, somehow transcendental backdrop
to singer Wiener, the project’s vessel, its channeler, disillusioned
minstrel, wandering balladeer, heir to the mythological legacy
of the Silver Surfer and the Man
Who Fell to Earth, stricken by the plight of the
world, determined to declaim, to soothe, the inhumane, the wrongful,
the callous, the miserly. Kinetic, theatrical, he will bring these
haunted songs to ghostly life.
Filmmaker Joel Fendelman, will
accompany the prelude to this evening. Other players include Paul
Daly and John Andersen.
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