(Le) Poisson Rouge (Venue Partner)
158 Bleecker St
212.505.3474
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Barbez
- When
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Thursday Aug 20, 2009 (7pm)
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- Price
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$12
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Barbez
Pamelia Kurstin
18+ or accompanied by legal guardian
This is a First-Come, Fully Seated event.
Barbez takes shape in a sunstruck phantasm; Kurt Weill swims the length of a still pond, underwater The Residents are refurbishing their home, Erik Satie descends from above to lie in the grass and sip seltzer. Shapes emerge from flowering trees and a Dionysian wedding dance ensues. Provoked by such musics as French musette, Argentine tango, post-war classical and pre-MTV punk, Barbez wrings these disparate worlds to form anew in the band's own soundscape.
Pamelia Kurstin is a world-renowned thereminist who has played and recorded with such prestigious artists as David Byrne, Béla Fleck and the Flecktones, and Ulver (on the album Shadows of the Sun) and has performed on the television show Saturday Night Live. Her background as a jazz musician on the upright bass has led to her unique "walking bass" theremin technique. Until recently (late 2005) working out of New York City, she now lives in Vienna, Austria.
