Eric Dahlman
DATE & TIME:
Saturday, March 29 , 9:00 pm
Come earlier and check out Chaotic Forms.
LOCATION:
Nave Gallery, 155 Powder House Blvd, Somerville, MA
ADMISSION FEE:
$10-$15 suggested donation
WHAT’S HAPPENING:
An evening of new movement and sound works in a series of interdisciplinary performance events at the Nave Gallery. Featuring:
Sara Banleigh, piano & voice (Brooklyn, NY)
Daniel Wick, piano
Erich Dahlman, trumpet
David Pate, sax (Tampa, FL)
ABOUT THE PERFORMERS:
Sara Banleigh is a singer of spooky 500-year-old folk songs from the British Isles. Finding material in old folk books, scratchy records, early broadsides, and even contemporary folk albums, she lets songs creep into her subconscious where they brew and bubble and start to form roots in her soul. She sings them softly to herself for years before deciding to arrange them for piano and play them for interested listeners. She hopes you are one of them.
Trumpeter multi-instrumentalist Eric Dahlman has worked with a diverse array of musicians and composers. Dahlman is still influenced by his experience performing with the late, great Chicago free jazz icon Hal Russell and his NRG Ensemble and has played with NRG alumni plus Jim Baker in Extraordinary Popular Delusions. Eric also currently performs with Woodstock NY area drum builder and percussionist Ken Lovelett in his Sonic Liberation Orchestra. Auddity, a Boston area trio that includes instrument builder Erik Nugent (slide bagpipes, chromatic didjerido etc) and percussionist Michael Knoblach and Dahlman explore drones, whirled folk, free improv and ambient soundscapes. Eric also performs with free jazz ensemblen Litttle Mystery which has a fluid lineup including drummer Rakalam Bob
Moses, trumpeter multi-instrumentalist Keiichi Hashimoto, reedist Jim Warshauer, Knoblach and others.
Eric is on the Aardvark Jazz Orchestra’s 2012 release ‘Evocations’ and their untitled upcoming new album and has performed with the Travis Chandler Philharmonic and San Fransisco electric drum pioneer E Doctor Smith. Dahlman is finishing his latest album of ambient jazz soundscapes which will feature Moses, bassists John Funkhouser and Micro Vard, violinist Shaw Pong Liu and others. For this show Eric will be featuring his Trident horn (built by Erik Nugent) which features up to 4 bells and his new/old Marxophone (azither like hybrid once sold by door to door salesmen).
David Pate was born in 1954 and grew up in Clearwater Florida during the sixties. As a result of the many musical influences of that era, including Hendrix, Coltrane Zappa, Sam Rivers, Ian Anderson and Terry Riley, Pate’s solo performances are a strange eclectic mix. His improvised performances utilize extended saxophone techniques, such as multiphonics controlled overtones, circular breathing, some ostinatos and maybe a blues lick or two…..After receiving an undergraduate degree in Tampa he moved to NYC in 1979 and did graduate work at The Manhattan School of Music, studying with Joe Allard. A participant in the “loft” scene in the 80’s, he performed with Ned Rothenberg, Larry Polansky, and Eugene Chadbourne, as well as in many avante-garde jazz festivals. Moving back to Florida in the late 80’s, he performed with Nat Adderly and Sam Rivers. Pate tours the US with the Temptations and has toured Europe with Sam Rivers, and Bogus Pomp, a Zappa Tribute band. He is very involved in music education, having taught saxophone and jazz studies at the Pinellas County Center for the Arts for the past 30 years. In his spare time, he plays old man basketball and rides great distances on a bicycle.
