05/06/2025
TONIGHT @ Arts For Art / Vision Festival
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Ivo Perelman & Matt Shipp String Trio
w/ Mat Maneri & William Parker
[ TIX (in person & live stream: https://www.artsforart.org/vision/ ]
It will be their 2nd communion.
The 1st happened in studio last September, resulting in the epic album, Armageddon Flower >>
"Like the transcendentals in philosophy (truth, beauty, and goodness) Armageddon Flower resonates with a purity that transcends the limits of music itself .. the qualities of AF do not exist in isolation; they intertwine, creating an integrated whole that goes beyond explanation, offering a glimpse into something beyond, as if we were experiencing the cutting edge of today’s music." -Best of Jazz
"Armageddon Flower sounds like a search for truth, a deep quest for Rama or the Holy Ghost, the workings of the intricacies of string theory or any other concept that attempts to explain the existence of the universe. It plays out as a cosmic quest, along the lines of John Coltrane's Ascension. But it is closer to its goal than Coltrane was in 1966.
And if it is a search for the meaning of life, Maneri, with his elastic lines, serves as the master entwiner, tying all the wandering sounds together, providing a sinuous form of gravity, as Parker supplies the heartbeat and the band gels up into a singular organism." -Dan McClenaghan, All About Jazz
"A stunning work from four visionary musicians." -Dave Heaton, The Big Takeover
"The music never panders, never simplifies—but it always communicates. It hums with a kind of shared intuition, as though these players are tapping into something older than genre or training—perhaps even older than music itself." -Mark Corroto, All About Jazz
"A profound offering, created by four master improvisers, that challenges and elevates the very notion of what jazz, and art itself, can be. It is, without a doubt, a masterwork. It is a towering summit of musical dialogue, shaped by four artists whose individual careers already read like seismic events in contemporary music." -Thierry De Clemensat, Paris-Move
The CD (exclusive edition/800) is available at our VF merch table, and from our site (will begin shipping those immediately following VF).
