(Le) Poisson Rouge
158 Bleecker St
212.505.3474
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Hauschka
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Friday Nov 14, 2008 (7:30pm)
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- Price
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$15
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If Dusseldorf-based pianist Volker Bertelmann (aka Hauschka) were a little girl, the piano would be his Barbie doll. And man does he know how to dress it up: the rule-breaking minimalist clamps wedges of leather, felt, and rubber between the strings. He prepares the hammers with aluminum paper, places crown corks on the strings, weaves guitar strings around the piano's guts, and holds everything down with gaffer tape. His arrangements sound orchestral, with singing strings and delicate layering, but he takes as much from electronica as from the classical canon.
