Konzert: Sam Shalabi & Nicolas Caloia & Yves Charuest | Udasi
Sam Shalabi is an Egyptian- Canadian composer and improviser, living in Montreal, Quebec. Beginning in punk rock in the late 70s, his work has evolved into a fusion of experimental Arabic Music that incorporates traditional Arabic, shaabi, noise, classical, text, free improvisation, electronics, and jazz. He has released 9 solo albums, 6 albums with Shalabi Effect (a free improvisation quartet that bridges western psychedelic music and Arabic Maqam), and 4 albums with Land Of Kush (an experimental 30 member orchestra, for which he composes). He has appeared on over 60 albums and toured Europe, North America, and North Africa. Recent projects include albums with Dwarfs Of East Agouza, a Cairo based trio with Alan Bishop and Maurice Louca -Albums with Karkhana a group featuring members from all over the Middle East and collaborations with vocalist Nadah El Shazly, Oren Ambarchi Angel Bat Dawid. He has also composed music for over 20 films in North America, Europe, and The Middle East.
https://www.musicworks.ca/sam-shalabi-and-evolution-global-aesthetic
Yves Charuest was a member of the Peter Kowald Trio (1985-1990) with German bassist Peter Kowald and South-African drummer Louis Moholo, with whom he played extensively in Europe and the USA. He also played with several musicians from the US and abroad such as William Parker, Agustí Fernández, Nate Wooley, Georg Graewe, Roscoe Mitchell, Lê Quan Nin, Dominic Lash, Mark Sanders, Steve Noble, Richard Scott and Audrey Chen. Charuest has collaborated with electroacoustic composers Jean-François Denis, jef chippewa and Jean Piché. Charuest’s solo work has recently gained renewed momentum. He has always devoted most of his creative energy to improvisation in varying forms and contexts: free improvisation, encounters between improvisation and notated material (conventional and graphic notation, verbal instructions), ensembles with more apparent stylistic links to free jazz. In collective situations as well as in solo, his approach is characterized by his sense of form and his attention to the sonic properties as well as the formal potentialities of the material he works with.
https://youtu.be/GMTdM8cJIbY?si=uvT9udlt3nrqQ1Fx
Nicolas Caloia is a Montreal based bassist, composer, and bandleader. He works at creating a living music by using rigorously composed material to channel collective improvisation. He can be heard in ongoing collaborations with Tristan Honsinger, Joe McPhee, Matana Roberts, Malcolm Goldstein, Kim Zombik, Lori Freedman, Rainer Wiens, and Yves Charuest or in past projects with Roscoe Mitchell, Marshall Allen, Steve Lacy, Hassan Hakmoun, William Parker, and Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia. Nicolas has composed for and led many ensembles including 20 piece, Juno and GAMIQ nominated Ratchet Orchestra. He has fulfilled composition commissions from the Quatuor Bozzini, Tour de Bras, Productions Super Musique, FIMAV, Radio Canada, and CKUT 90.3 fm. - http://www.nicolascaloia.net
Udasi “My setup consists of: Synthesizers, drum machines, old cassettes and walkmans as well as four trackers and voice, also weird electric instruments. These are my favorite way to convey the feel of my music - sometimes Ambient, often intense and melodic, sometimes dystopian and cinematic.”
Album: Nostalgia-Experiments The feel of the album revolves around feelings of nostalgia, there are no lyrics so its all based on the feel of the sounds and noises. I often try to make sounds that evoke some sort of memories from childhood when everything still felt fresh and very alive. Losing this “aliveness” is accompanied by this feeling of nostalgia, that is something very familiar but still something that is just out of reach.
https://udasi.bandcamp.com/album/nostalgia-experiments https://open.spotify.com/intl-de/album/0iyjAnCw4i8i0FYXrgjC10?si=tbjO8V39QU6r8wsj9QZnUA