The Either/Orchestra will embark on a four date mini-tour from November 17-20.
Dates will be at the Lily Pad in Cambridge MA on November 17; The Fairfield (CT) Theater Company Stage One on November 18; The New School Tishman Auditorium in NYC on November 19; and The Sanctuary for Independent Media in Troy NY on November 20.
The concerts will premiere The Collected Unconscious, a new suite composed by band founder Russ Gershon and based in the pentatonic modes of and triple rhythms of Ethiopian music. The language of the suite goes far beyond those parameters, recalling Ellington, Mingus, Tito Puente, Sun Ra and others in its broad scope. Based on a September sneak preview in Cambridge MA, audiences will find it moving and nostalgic as well as hot, exciting and challenging.
The program will also include musical highlights from the band’s May 2011 tour of Ethiopia. The tour was sponsored by the US, French and Spanish governments and revived music written by Nerses Nalbandian, an Armenian expatriate who shaped modern Ethiopian music from his position as music director of the Haile Selassie National Theater during the 1950s and 60s, PRWeb reported.
The Either/Orchestra (E/O) has a 14-year relationship with the music of Ethiopia, and its members have become the jazz world's leading non-Ethiopian players of this music.
