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NONCLASSICAL in July is heading over to the USA for a short tour to showcase two of NONCLASSICAL’s newest releases from Powerplant (Joby Burgess) and GeNIA.

IMPORT/EXPORT from Powerplant (Joby Burgess) is inspired by the pioneering composers and musicians whose use of unconventional objects has created a groundbreaking repertoire for percussion over the last century. These range from institutional greats such as Schaeffer, Stockhausen, Cage and Varese, to the Babaton bendi in Tanzania and the Zawose family in Africa whose use of these instruments derives from a necessity to make music based on the recovery of the materials around them.

Piano Book No. 1 from GeNIA connects more to the classical tradition than previous Nonclassical releases, showing that though they may present classical music in a non-classical way, Nonclassical are still interested in continuing the legacy of classical music and moving it forward. One of the aims of GéNIA and Gabriel’s collaboration was to create an intimate sounding piano album that connected to the classic recordings of the past. This led to 88.2k digital recording of a hand-picked Steinway D-Series piano which was then mastered through analogue tape and vintage valve equipment, without compression.

These two new exciting releases will be showcased amongst other material across three dates.

The shows are as follows;

July 21st – Le Poisson Rouge – New York (early show – 6.30pm doors)

July 23rd – The Windup Space – Baltimore (part of the Contemporary Museum’s Mobtown Modern Music Series)

July 24th – Crane Arts Centre – Philidelphia

These are performances not to be missed from some of NONCLASSICAL’s most exciting performers!

Ticket info etc will follow shortly.