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Ergo at Cornelia Street Cafe

Courtesy of Brett Sroka | Posted on February 7, 2012

Where

Cornelia Street Cafe
29 Cornelia Street
New York, NY
Map
212-989-9319

When

Tue, February 28, 2012
830

At Door

$10

Musicians

Ergo
composer / conductor
Brett Sroka
trombone

About

Brett Sroka - trombone/computer, Bryan Reeder - piano/prepared piano, hohner pianet Shawn Baltazor - drums


With this performance Ergo celebrates the release of their new CD, "If Not Inertia", on Cuneiform Records. Ergo is a unique electro-acoustic jazz ensemble that has been compared to music as diverse as Sun Ra, Sigur Ros, Ellington and Eno. Lead by Brett Sroka - trombone/computer with Bryan Reeder - piano/prepared piano, hohner pianet and Shawn Baltazor - drums, their music is one of stark melodic beauty, enveloping electro-acoustic texture and empathic imagination. The groups third recording, "If Not Inertia", is a set of laconic motifs, guitar effects and minute prepared-piano cresting and colliding in collective improvisations and live-sampling of the entire ensemble. ...

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