Performance: Cryptonight @ MONA Presents: Daren Burns' Onibaba

Daren Burns' ONIBABA performs post Jazz/Rock explorations featuring:

Ulrich Krieger (Lou Reed, Lee Ranaldo, Andrew W.K., Merzbow) - Woodwinds
Daren Burns (Vinny Golia, John Drumbo French, Wadada Leo Smith)- Fretless Bass
George McMullen (Tom Waits, Vinny Golia, Stevie Wonder)- Trombone
Eric Klerks (The Magic Band, John Drumbo French)- Guitar
Craig Bunch (John Drumbo French, Vinny Golia, The Magic Band)- Drumset
Kio Griffith - Live Video

INFO:

Daren Burns, fretted and fretless electric bass player, composer, and improviser has been playing and composing music for over twenty years. Much of his musical interest lies in the area of improvisation and how to make new systems for developing improvisation in new ways. In the last few years he has also become interested in Indian rhythmic and melodic systems.

His ensemble, Onibaba exists between composition and improvisation and is described as being somewhere between the light and the dark, the ethereal and the earthly - Creative Music. Created by Daren Burns in 2006, the band synthesizes its sound by using elements of the Chicago avant-garde, jazz, rock, world, techno, noise, and classical, to create a new type of fusion that is definitely not the smooth, funky jazz of the 80's and 90's, but a new living music.

In live performance, the band is also committed to the use of live video images to expand the ensemble from sound to sight. The video doesn't act as a narrative or as a background, but as a sixth element and contributor to the performance.

Museum of Neon Art
136 4th Street
Los Angeles CA 90013
Tel: (213) 626-0775
Web: www.neonmona.org
Cover: $10 at the door

Onibaba website

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