Daniel Carter/will Arvo Duo at House Gallery 1816

Fire Museum Presents:

Daniel Carter/Will Arvo Duo

Hrw Sbkra/Mike Watson/Julius Masri Trio


Saturday, December 13th 8:00 PM
House Gallery 1816
1816 Frankford Ave
Philadelphia, PA
FREE (Donations accepted)


THIS PROJECT WAS SUPPORTED BY A GRANT FROM PENN TREATY SPECIAL SERVICES DISTRICT



Daniel Carter/Will Arvo Duo (New York City):

Daniel Carter is not an enigma, no more than a teeming forest is. Give some sincerely up for true and you've made a commitment which will last a lifetime, if you've got the mettle for searching unfettered. I first became aware of Daniel Carter's immense talents through the collective Other Dimensions In Music. Every time, and I mean every time, I've heard the man bring an instrument to his lips - be it reeds, brass or flute - beautiful sounds emanate. His is a rare natural gift, though he is learned a-plenty, never you mind about the anarchy speak ~ in the sense that it is so commonly misconstrued. If the world ever does truly silence for a moment please, the first sounds I would want to hear are the ones that Daniel Carter chooses, because I know that true democracy is deep in his essence. Over the past three decades-plus, Daniel Carter has performed with: Sun Ra, Billy Bang, Roger Baird, William Parker, Roy Campbell, Sabir Mateen, Simone Forti, Joan Miller, Thurston Moore, Nayo Takasaki, Earl Freeman, Dewey Johnson, Nami Yamamoto, Matthew Shipp, Wilber Morris, Denis Charles, MMW (Medeski, Martin, & Wood), Vernon Reid, Raphé Malik, Sam Rivers, Sunny Murray, Hamiet Bluiett, Cecil Taylor, David S. Ware, Karl Berger, Don Pate, Gunter Hampel, Alan Silva, Susie Ibarra, D.J. Logic, Margaret Beals, Douglas Elliot, Butch Morris, TEST, OTHER DIMENSIONS IN MUSIC, ONE WORLD ENSEMBLE, SATURNALIA STRING TRIO, LEVITATION UNIT, WET PAINT, THE TRANSCENDENTALISTS, and many many many many others (meaning more every week or day practically). - Aum Fidelity...

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Fire Museum Presents:

Daniel Carter/Will Arvo Duo

Hrw Sbkra/Mike Watson/Julius Masri Trio


Saturday, December 13th 8:00 PM
House Gallery 1816
1816 Frankford Ave
Philadelphia, PA
FREE (Donations accepted)


THIS PROJECT WAS SUPPORTED BY A GRANT FROM PENN TREATY SPECIAL SERVICES DISTRICT



Daniel Carter/Will Arvo Duo (New York City):

Daniel Carter is not an enigma, no more than a teeming forest is. Give some sincerely up for true and you've made a commitment which will last a lifetime, if you've got the mettle for searching unfettered. I first became aware of Daniel Carter's immense talents through the collective Other Dimensions In Music. Every time, and I mean every time, I've heard the man bring an instrument to his lips - be it reeds, brass or flute - beautiful sounds emanate. His is a rare natural gift, though he is learned a-plenty, never you mind about the anarchy speak ~ in the sense that it is so commonly misconstrued. If the world ever does truly silence for a moment please, the first sounds I would want to hear are the ones that Daniel Carter chooses, because I know that true democracy is deep in his essence. Over the past three decades-plus, Daniel Carter has performed with: Sun Ra, Billy Bang, Roger Baird, William Parker, Roy Campbell, Sabir Mateen, Simone Forti, Joan Miller, Thurston Moore, Nayo Takasaki, Earl Freeman, Dewey Johnson, Nami Yamamoto, Matthew Shipp, Wilber Morris, Denis Charles, MMW (Medeski, Martin, & Wood), Vernon Reid, Raphé Malik, Sam Rivers, Sunny Murray, Hamiet Bluiett, Cecil Taylor, David S. Ware, Karl Berger, Don Pate, Gunter Hampel, Alan Silva, Susie Ibarra, D.J. Logic, Margaret Beals, Douglas Elliot, Butch Morris, TEST, OTHER DIMENSIONS IN MUSIC, ONE WORLD ENSEMBLE, SATURNALIA STRING TRIO, LEVITATION UNIT, WET PAINT, THE TRANSCENDENTALISTS, and many many many many others (meaning more every week or day practically). - Aum Fidelity

Will Arvo: “I am a musician and visual artist. Each of these disciplines for me helps articulate and inform the other. I am not particularly interested in creating some conceptual ideal, but rather a music/art that reflects and captures a truthful human experience and life. I try to create a balance between form and the awareness of the sensual, spiritual, and the ordinary.” -bio “Will Arvo can aptly be described as one of the most original pianists and composers to emerge in recent memory. The distinctiveness of his approach becomes immediately apparent.” Jazz Este (WB)

Hrw Sbkra/Watson/Julius Masri Trio(Philadelphia):

Hrw Sbkra (Ryan T. Frazier) - trumpet, Mike Watson - bass clarinet and Julius Masri - percussion

"Sun Ra once said that he drove a spaceship powered by music. …people laughed. …but what is energy, except for music? …all light, sound, even taste, touch and smell, are nothing but vibrations of “force” within the infinite, liquid blackness…everything that is anything is composed of harmonies of vibrations resonating at varying frequencies, all within the infinite body of Nu. Sun Ra laughed back.

The trio is a guerilla unit of sages, gifted with the power to wield the very essence of the Cosmos—sound. Some of the last real soundbenders, they bend the limits of time and space to the eternal and infinite, wherein the reality of IS can be felt through the pulse of our collective, polyrhythmic Being. From bebop to hiphop to jupiter folk funk, it’s all about the bodyrock, the flow, the perpetual becoming of IS, the way of the Cosmos."

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