Thurman Barker with Sonic 8 + Julius Masri at The Rotunda

Interaxx - Music for Metals, Membranes and Circuits
Thurman Barker with The Sonic 8 & Julius Masri

A rare Philly performance!!!
Thurman Barker, founding AACM Member, a multi faceted drummer, composer & mallet percussionist joins the Sonic 8 (Sonic Liberation Front's new octet) along with Philly’s Julius Masri.

Emerging from the Chicago free scene, a founder member of the AACM, percussionist Barker first played and recorded with fellow Chicagoans Kalaparush Maurice McIntyre, Joseph Jarman, Muhal Richard Abrams and Anthony Braxton, in whose quartet he played in the late 70s. Economic survival meant periods of working in musical pit bands, but joining Cecil Taylor’s Unit in 1986 brought further exposure. Taylor’s dense, polyrhythmic style required the services of someone with an acute sense of structure and an incisive attack; these Barker has in abundance. At the suggestion of Billy Bang, Barker has added the marimba to his armory, playing with exquisite grace and fire on Bang’s exotic The Fire From Within. Assoc Professor, Bard College - Taught at Creative Music School, Cornish Institute, and American Conservatory of Music. Profiled in Modern Drummer and Down Beat. Recordings with, among others, Anthony Braxton, Cecil Taylor, and Sam Rivers. At Bard since 1993....

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Interaxx - Music for Metals, Membranes and Circuits
Thurman Barker with The Sonic 8 & Julius Masri

A rare Philly performance!!!
Thurman Barker, founding AACM Member, a multi faceted drummer, composer & mallet percussionist joins the Sonic 8 (Sonic Liberation Front's new octet) along with Philly’s Julius Masri.

Emerging from the Chicago free scene, a founder member of the AACM, percussionist Barker first played and recorded with fellow Chicagoans Kalaparush Maurice McIntyre, Joseph Jarman, Muhal Richard Abrams and Anthony Braxton, in whose quartet he played in the late 70s. Economic survival meant periods of working in musical pit bands, but joining Cecil Taylor’s Unit in 1986 brought further exposure. Taylor’s dense, polyrhythmic style required the services of someone with an acute sense of structure and an incisive attack; these Barker has in abundance. At the suggestion of Billy Bang, Barker has added the marimba to his armory, playing with exquisite grace and fire on Bang’s exotic The Fire From Within. Assoc Professor, Bard College - Taught at Creative Music School, Cornish Institute, and American Conservatory of Music. Profiled in Modern Drummer and Down Beat. Recordings with, among others, Anthony Braxton, Cecil Taylor, and Sam Rivers. At Bard since 1993.
Thurman with Cecil Taylor http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2j36msUFdo

Julius Masri is a percussionist and circuit bender. He has played in: The Electric Simcha, Tin Mouth, Q-1, Circles, Chakra Khan/Air Pirates, Wolf Vs., KuruKuruPa, LionsHead, GoldenBall, Ex Reverie, Br'er, The Burrs, Unidos Da Filadelfia Samba.

The Sonic 8 are the new octet subset of Sonic Liberation Front. They mash up traditional Lukumi and post-garde music. The new octet brings an open chamber jazz and Afro Cuban Lukumi mix with influences as far afield as Ornette Colemen, Eric Satie, Prince Lasha & Sonny Simmons, and Charles Mingus… All under the watchful eyes of the Orishas.

This event is FREE, but with a $10 suggested donation.

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