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Sean Noonan at Roulette
Courtesy of Sean Noonan | Posted on September 14, 2012
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Mon, September 24, 2012
8:00 am
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WHAT: September 24, 2012 8pm Drummer/composer/storyteller Sean Noonan Songlines CD release of A Gambler's Hand at the Roulette, Brooklyn
WHO: Sean Noonan drum set with The Momenta Quartet and Mat Maneri (viola), Jason Kao Hwang (violin), Tom Swafford (violin)
"A Gambler's Hand signals a bold new front for Sean noonan. What we hadn't really heard is a string quartet led by a drummer, and especially an unconventional drummer as Noonan. It's like nothing else our there." Something Else Reviews
Noonan's work "A Gambler's Hand" combines storytelling with the aesthetics of downtown avant-garde chamber music. Delicate harsh writing for the quartet is woven around eclectic, lyrical and organic drumming in a highly original fusion. The music represents an original story by Noonan, an absurd, dreamlike take of an Irish gambler who one day finds himself trapped inside a wall. ...