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Live @ the Hideout, Chicago March
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Breakway Hot Choice
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Breakway Get Down
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recorded
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from Chicago Reader
"...in the trio Breakway, Giallorenzo focuses on purely improvised abstraction, processing his piano with contact mikes and electronics or abandoning it entirely in favor of an analog synth. The music on Get Down (Friends and Relatives) is sometimes hectic, sometimes slow and considered, but even the most spacious passages consist largely of tense, frenetic gestures. Drummer Marc Riordan scrabbles and scrapes at his kit, creating a blur of cymbal patter, stuttering beats, and texture-based racket. Giallorenzo and electronicist Brian Labycz create swells and bursts of processed tones—snaking, skittering lines, supernovas of white noise, bulbous bloops and high-frequency bleeps—that not only blend and contrast thoughtfully with each other but also dance atop Riordan's playing with clear logic and easy grace..." --Peter Margasak FULL ARTICLE
from Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
"Breakway
is [Giallorenzo's] electroacoustic free-improv trio, presented in a
refined, European avant style (think Keith Rowe or Thomas Lehn). The
closest this gets to jazz is the clattery percussion of Marc Riordan -- otherwise,
the resulting scrapings, tumblings and clankings are much closer to the
sound-art tradition going back to the '60s when David Tudor and Gordon Mumma first seized
upon filters and ring modulators .... whether it's Labycz spinning out waves of gentle static and Subotnick-esque electronic tones, Riordan making his cymbals creak and whine, or Giallorenzo
playing simple octaves on the piano, there's a determination to this
work that's compelling, and by the conclusion of the almost Zen-like "Outtheotherside," you'd
be hard-pressed to demean any of it as mere debris.
--Manny Theiner...... FULL ARTICLE
from Vital Weekly:
"...This is by far the most interesting release of this lot. These guys know how to play an improvisation that has intensity as well as being able to listen to what the others are doing and how interact on what the other players are doing. Its a most odd combination, so much electronics playing abstract sounds while the drummer uses his kit in a rather traditional manner. It makes some intense playing with some beautiful pieces going on here. I gather these are matured improvisers, who are not out there producing a random set of sounds on some instruments. Great."
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Breakway on MYSPACE
Spring Tour 2010
Tuesday June 29th 9PM
Empty Bottle 1035 N Western Ave Chicago, IL
w/ Huntsville (Norway) and Apiary (Mills, Hess, Daniell, Stein)
Thursday June 24th 10PM
Elastic 2830 N Milwaukee Ave Chicago, IL
Sunday May 16th 10PM
Hungry Brain 2319 W Belmont St Chicago, IL
Saturday May 15th 9PM
Pageant Gallery 607 Bainbridge Street, Philadelphia, PA
Friday May 14th 9PM - $6
The Freezer 633 E Street SE, rear alley
Washington DC
Thursday May 13th 8PM - $10
Douglass Street Music Collective 295 Douglass St Brooklyn, NY
Wednesday May 12th 8PM - $10
Issue Project Room 232 3rd Street, Brooklyn, NY
Spring
Tour 2009
Saturday 4/11 Chicago, IL; Heaven Gallery 1550 N. Milwaukee 2nd Floor ** Monday 4/13 ** CD RELEASE CONCERT Big Car Gallery 1043 Virginia Ave., Suite 215 Indianapolis, IN 46203 bigcar.org Tuesday 4/14 Nickelodeon Theatre 937 Main Street Columbia, SC 29201 803.254.8234 nickelodeon.org Wednesday 4/15 BoBo gallery 22 Lexington Avenue Asheville, NC 28801 bobogallery.com |
Thursday 4/16 Monk's Place 3634 Penn Avenue Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15224 Friday 4/17 Big Rock Candy Mountain 1822 N Hancock, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122 Sunday 4/19 CoCo 66 66 Greenpoint Ave Brooklyn, NY myspace.com/coco66 Monday 4/20 Art Damage Lodge 4120 Hamilton Ave Cincinnati, OH myspace.com/artdamagelodge ** Tuesday 4/21** CD RELEASE CONCERT Chicago, IL; Empty Bottle 1035 N. Western Ave performing with Fred Lonberg Holm's Overova and Michael Zerang's Stumble |
Paul Giallorenzo is an improviser, composer, and sound designer using piano, synthesizer, and electronics in a variety of groups and contexts, ranging from jazz and improvised music to electro-acoustic / noise. Recent projects include GitGO (free jazz quintet featuring Mars Williams, Jeb Bishop, Anton Hatwich, Marc Riordan, 482 music); Masul (electroacoustic duo with Swiss composer/bass saxophonist Thomas Mejer, Creative Sources); and a piano trio w/ Norwegian bassist Ingebrigt Håker Flaten and Tim Daisy. Producer, organizer, co-founder, director of the art gallery/music venue Elastic, producing hundreds of experimental music concerts in Chicago since 2001. elasticarts.org paulgiallorenzo.com myspace.com/paulgiallorenzo
ELECTRONICS
Brian Labycz is an improviser hailing from chicago. primarily performing with electronics, he draws from a range of sources utilizing field recordings, acoustic instruments, digital manipulations, analog processing, and self-made devices to produce and explore various expressive forms and structures. with a primary focus on improvisation his aim is to produce dynamic gestures with electronics in a live setting. the goal is to transcend gadgetry to arrive at a fully realized performance instrument. working as a soloist and in various group settings he has performed and released work in the us and japan. he has also organized events in chicago and abroad and is actively hosting the myopic improvised music series and the triage sound series. he has been fortunate enough to have performed/collaborated with many great individuals including : vadim sprikut, jason roebke, ayako kato, aram shelton, dale lloyd, fred lonberg-holm, blake edwards, kazuya ishigami, kevin davis, adam sonderberg, steve hess, kiukuchi yukinori, koutaro fukui, tv pow, paul giallorenzo, asmina chremos, aaron zarzutski, daniel fandi_o, jason stein, jake elliot, paul hartsaw, boris hauf, guillermo gregorio, keefe jackson, katherine young, gonzo murakami, yannick dauby, bernhard gal, ernst karel, christophe charles, carl stone, rob drinkwater, hiroyuki ura, jason soliday, john mueller, gene coleman, sarah thompson, jeff kimmel, marc riordan
brianlabycz.com
PERCUSSION
Marc Riordan grew up in Boston, where he attended the New England Conservatory of Music and studied with Steve Lacy, Joe Morris and Rakalam Bob Moses among others. Since moving to Chicago in 2006 he has kept a regular performance schedule, working with improvisers such as Keefe Jackson, Nate McBride, Jaimie Branch, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Toby Summerfield and dancer Julia Mayer. He currently performs both as a leader and collaborator in many Chicago-based improvising ensembles, including Never Enough Hope, Keefe Jackson Quartet, Breakway, Rupert, and rock outfits Frigates and Medium Sized Rabbit. Additionally, he works as a music instructor and concert organizer.
myspace.com/branchriordansexton