KOPER8

free jazz avant-garde spiritual jazz

Influences: Anthony Braxton, Albert Ayler, Ornette Coleman

Koper8 is a transatlantic improvising quartet built around baritone and tenor saxophones, electric guitar, and drums, with live electronics and hand-built pedals that let the saxophones run hot through distortion and drones. The music is free improvisation that deliberately keeps static, interference and feedback in the mix, moving between dense noise and psychedelic drone passages. Ingrid Laubrock and Tom Rainey are both mainstays of the New York avant-garde scene, having played with Anthony Braxton, Tyshawn Sorey, Nels Cline and David Torn, and the group's debut LP was recorded at Figure 8 studios in Brooklyn.

Personnel:
Tom Rainey (drums)
Giuseppe Doronzo (baritone saxophone, ney anban)
Jannis Anastasakis (electric guitar, live electronics)
Ingrid Laubrock (soprano and tenor saxophone)

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Upcoming gigs

Mon 26 Oct — 19:45 — KOPER8: Tom Rainey, Giuseppe Doronzo, Jannis Anastasakis, Ingrid Laubrock at Vortex Jazz Club