Thursday, May 13

10 p.m. (please note revised start time)

JAZZ AND IMPROVISATIONAL MUSIC AT METRO GALLERIES

Tatsuya Nakatani – percussion
Kris Tiner – trumpet
Jeremy Drake – electric guitar

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Tetuzi Akiyama – acoustic guitar
Toshimaru Nakamura – no-input mixing board

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Future Cosmic Collective

Metro Galleries
1604 19th St.
Bakersfield, CA 93301
$5 Admission

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Metro Galleries Presents Improvisational Music from LA and Japan

The Metro Galleries Concert Series continues on Thursday, May 13 with a very special concert featuring several of Japan’s greatest living improvising musicians.

Tatsuya Nakatani is a contemporary percussionist hailing from Osaka, Japan but currently living in Pennsylvania. He has developed a dramatic and intensely moving approach to improvised music that incorporates drumset, bowed gongs, cymbals, singing bowls, metal objects, bells, and various sticks and bows. His incredible solo performance opening for the Industrial Jazz Group at Metro Galleries in 2008 is still being talked about; this time he will be joined by Los Angeles electric guitarist Jeremy Drake (Nels Cline, Eleni Mandell, Vinny Golia) and local trumpeter and Bakersfield College music professor Kris Tiner for a set that will be recorded live.

Sharing the bill will be two figureheads of Japanese underground experimental improvisation: the enigmatic and extraordinarily dynamic acoustic guitarist Tetuzi Akiyama and Toshimaru Nakamura who plays “no-input mixing board” — by connecting the input of a mixing console to the output he is able to manipulate the resultant audio feedback as a live, interactive musical instrument. The music this duo creates has been dubbed “Zen Impressionism” and can range from dreamy, mysterious serenity to fiercely raging sonic supernovas.

In-between sets, dig the analog beats laid down by Bakersfield’s own Future Cosmic Collective.

Metro Galleries is located at 1604 19th St. in downtown Bakersfield. Admission to the show is $5; tickets are available at the door only; all ages are welcome. Doors open at 10 p.m., music begins shortly afterward.

Click here for the event page on Facebook

For more information…

Tatsuya Nakatani: http://www.hhproduction.org/TATSUYA_NAKATANI_WORKS.html

Nakamura & Akiyama: http://www.tokafi.com/news/toshimaru-nakamura-tetuzi-akiyama-searching-zen-and-beer/

Jeremy Drake: http://www.jeremydrake.com

Kris Tiner: http://www.kristiner.com

Metro Galleries: http://themetrogalleries.com