Where: Ange Noir Café, 247 Varet St (between White St & Bogart St), Williamsburg, Train L to Morgan St

 

Tickets: Free. For more info, call 347.294.4759.

 

6/29: 7:00pm: Jeffrey Shurdut. 8:00pm: Lukas Ligeti Quintet: Thomas Bergeron (trumpet), Travis Sullivan (sax), Shoko Nagai (piano), Evan Lipson (bass), Lukas Ligeti (drums). 9:00pm: Kenny Jaworski.

 

7/13: 7:00pm: SoSaLa featuring Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi. 8:00pm: Louie Belogenis + Lukas Ligeti.

 

7/20: 7:15pm: Hypercolor - Eyal Maoz (guitar), James Ilgenfritz (bass), Lukas Ligeti (drums).

Just off a 3-month long tour in Europe and India, composer/percussionist Lukas Ligeti returns to his hometown of New York City with live performances ranging from avant-jazz collaborations to a curatorial concert series in Brooklyn.  One of the most innovative composers and improvisers on the new music scene, Lukas neatly bridges the classical-modernist-world-music divide.  He combines his post-minimalism compositional style with other facets of
contemporary expressions such as noise and electronics as well as indigenous non-Western musical and cultural influences.

 

Described by John Zorn as “one of the most interesting compositional voices working today,”

composer-percussionist Lukas Ligeti has developed a musical style of his own that draws upon downtown NY experimentalism, contemporary classical music, jazz, electronica, and world music, particularly from Africa. Lukas creates music ranging from the through-composed to the free-improvised, often exploring non-Western elements, and is a pioneer in the field of experimental intercultural collaboration. He is the recipient of the Alpert Award in the Arts in Music (2010).

 

Lukas studied composition and jazz drums at the University for Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, Austria, and spent two years working at CCRMA, the computer music research center at Stanford University, before settling in New York City in 1998. Lukas has been commissioned by Bang on a Can, Kronos Quartet, Ensemble Modern, the American Composers Orchestra, the Vienna Festwochen, Austrian Radio, and Radio France, to name a few; his music has also been
performed by the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre National de Lyon, the London Sinfonietta, San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, and the Amadinda, Third Coast, and So Percussion Groups. He frequently performs solo on the marimba lumina, a rare electronic percussion instrument.

 

As a drummer, he co-leads several bands including Burkina Electric, the first electronica band from West Africa’s Burkina Faso. He performs at jazz and world music festivals internationally and has worked with John Zorn, Henry Kaiser, Raoul Björkenheim, Elliott Sharp, Gary Lucas, Marilyn Crispell, John Tchicai, Jim O’Rourke, Eugene Chadbourne, members of Sonic Youth
and the Grateful Dead, and many others, most recently Roland Dahinden, Hildegard Kleeb, Paul Dutton, Steuart Liebig, and Wu Fei. He has led or co-led experimental intercultural projects in
Florida, Côte d’Ivoire, Egypt, Uganda, Zimbabwe, and Lesotho, among other places, has taught at the University of Ghana, and was composer-in-residence at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa.

 

Lukas’ music is has been released to high acclaim on two CDs on the Tzadik label as well several more on the Cantaloupe, Intuition, TUM, Wallace, and Innova labels, among others. Recently, Lukas toured India, giving solo concerts and workshops in the major cities but also as far afield as Nagaland. He also participated in the project “Visiting Tarab” curated by Tarek Atoui, performing in Lebanon and Sharjah, and contributed a piece to a CD of remixes of Meredith Monk where other contributors included DJ Spooky, Björk, and Ryuichi Sakamoto.  For more information, please see www.lukasligeti.com.