Zula Presents: In the Sea trio and Eschaton duo, Sat Sep 26 at 8:30

Saturday September 26, 2015, at 8:30 pm, $15 reg / $12 students. The Something Else! Creative Music Series is hosted by Zula Presents and Cem Zafir. http://zulapresents.org/

In The Sea, an improvising string trio from Montreal and Amsterdam, includes Tristan Honsinger (cello), Josh Zubot (violin) and Nicolas Caloia (double-bass). “Their rapport is obvious, the results a satisfying mixture of musical empathy and creative conflict.” http://www.nicolascaloia.net/inthesea.html

Opening the evening: Aaron Hutchinson (trumpet, synthesizer, electronics, percussion) and Connor Bennett (saxophone, bass, vocals) are Eschaton, a Hamilton noise duo, whose music is driven by spontaneity and improvisation. https://soundcloud.com/eschaton-havn     

In the Sea cellist Tristan Honsinger started improvising in Montreal more than forty years ago, prior to his decisive move to Europe, where he has been at the centre of improvised music activity ever since.  So this group represents an oblique sort of homecoming, as well as an introduction to some of this city’s finest players today.  Their rapport is obvious, the results a satisfying mixture of musical empathy and creative conflict.  Tristan plays with characteristic daring from his reserves of readymade tune fragments and shards of poetry and into the protean unknown that is the foundation for the best group improvising.  Violinist Josh Zubot and double-bassist Nicolas Caloia don’t merely follow him there, but provoke him, and each other, in ways that are, by turns, subtle, assertive, and irreverent.  A superb encounter.

Eschaton: Aaron Hutchinson (trumpet, synthesizer, electronics, percussion) and Connor Bennett (saxophone, bass, vocals) are Eschaton, a soulful Hamilton noise duo, whose music is driven by spontaneity and improvisation. Eschaton creates thick textural noise with vulnerable horn expressions, narrative soundscapes that breathe, bend and distort. They have released four cassettes,  in 2013 and a 2/2014 tour tape out of the HAVN label and are on the upcoming Perdu Hamilton release.