Improvised Music Company present

Improvised Music Company present
FUZZYLOGICENSEMBLE

In the launch of their new album
MOUTHPIECE
on the Diatribe record label

Wednesday 19 August, 2009, Doors: 7.45pm Starts 8pm
John Field Room, National Concert Hall, Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin 2
Adm: €15 Booking: +353 (0)1 417 0000 or www.nch.ie

With guests
Florian Ross (Germany) Conductor / Musical director/ synthesisers & keyboards | Tom Arthurs (UK) Trumpet

&

Cathal Roche Soprano Saxophone Nick Roth Alto Saxophone Brian Wynne Tenor Saxophone Sue Rynhart Voice Colm O'Hara Trombone Joe O'Callaghan Electric Guitar Derek Whyte Electric Bass Dylan Rynhart Hammond Organ & Fender Rhodes Phil MacMullan Drum Kit

"Rynhart's pieces, crammed with ideas, melodic, contrapuntal and rhythmic, are full of incident".
- The Irish Times

"she described the one painting that Bessie had painted and how this painting was the only piece of art that she had ever created, the only real way we have of remembering her. She had taken one painting class, created one watercolour and so there were no more. When she died, she left the painting to them and it still hangs on their wall; they treasure it."

Dylan Rynhart (on the inspiration for Mouthpiece)

FUZZYLOGICENSEMBLE,Ireland's largest and longest running contemporary improvising ensembles, fashion arrangements with a quirky beauty and rich orchestral palette to create a jazz sound beyond the big-band tradition. With composer Dylan Rynhart at the helm on Hammond organ, the group have been making an impression on the Irish jazz scene for the past six years with their lyrical and innovative signature style.

Ireland's finest young musicians put Rynhart's quirky and evocative compositions through their paces with hallmark skill and tenacity in a line up which includes a large arsenal of instruments and personalities.

This concert, featuring international guest artists Florian Ross (Germany) and Tom Arthurs (UK), will premiere music from FUZZYLOGICENSEMBLE's latest album Mouthpiece, recorded in January of this year. Mouthpiece is an album made, as Rynhart says "to inspire others to make even the simplest sounds, just for the sheer joy it brings"? inspired by a painting his grandmother created, her one and only painting, which lives on in his family home as a testament to the joy that art can bring to the observer and the listener, that creativity opens a door to the memory of moments, and that the creation of one piece of art can become a treasure like no other.

Mouthpiece will launch in the National Concert Hall on Wednesday 19th August at 8pm in the John Field Room.
Further information can be found on www.improvisedmusic.ie
and booking information is on www.nch.ie.

This concert is presented with funding from Music Network's Performance and Touring award.

Born in 1972, Florian studied piano and composition in Cologne, London and New York with John Taylor, Joachim Ullrich, Bill Dobbins, Django Bates, Don Friedman and Jim McNeely.

The first of Ross´s six albums was released in 1998 under his own name. Ross´s recordings look closely at both the multifaceted jazz tradition and his extraordinary handling of contemporary material. In all formations, from trio to quintet, from string orchestra to brass ensemble, Ross succeeds in reconciling two seemingly different musical forms: improvised and composed.

While many of his European colleagues consider it a virtue to distance themselves from the mainstream, another camp makes an effort to continue the American jazz tradition in Europe as authentically as possible. Florian Ross´s music is a refreshing break from this often embarrassing programmatic context. Ross not only ignores the demarcation line but translates traditional aspects into a language of the present. His lack of interest in the idea of “higher, further, faster” corresponds to his fondness for deeper sound regions and warmer timbres, as sounds oscillate between blue, orange and terracotta.

This foundation invites inspiration: the architecture is occasionally daring but never cool. Intellect and feeling do not exclude each other, the head listens to the stomach and vice versa. The music radiates balance, something that is often propagated but seldom achieved. The stark and songful does not trigger disquietude within Ross; on no account edgy actionism. He knows that it’s not what you say but how you say it, and that less is (sometimes) more.

Currently the second ever jazz BBC New Generation Artist, the work of trumpeter, flügelhornist and composer Tom Arthurs (b. 1980) finds itself in increasingly unique territory, drawing influence from music ranging from György Ligeti to the pygmies of Central Africa, the work of film directors Andrei Tarkovsky and Jean-Luc Godard and the philosophies and creations of pioneering chef Ferran Adrià.

Deeply rooted in the European jazz and improvised music tradition, Tom's music is one of assimilation rather than of fusion, and one that sets out to explore the relationships between improvisation and composition, as well as between a family of musicians with whom he has been collaborating for several years.

Winner of the Peter Whittingham Award and thrice-nominated in the BBC Jazz Awards (Best Instrumentalist and Rising Star), Tom has been featured on BBC Radio 3 several times, both with his own trio, arthurs.høiby.ritchie, and in duo with pianists Richard Fairhurst and the legendary John Taylor, with whom he also appeared at the Electric Proms and the 2007 Bath Festival. He has performed at international festivals including Berlin, Cheltenham, Moers, Bath, Jazzd'or, London, Manchester, Belfast and Jerusalem and recently participated in the third edition of the Jerwood/PRS Foundation Take Five Initiative for creative jazz musicians.

As a composer, Tom has recently been awarded commissions from the BBC/RPS for both the City of London Festival (Postcards from Pushkin with Richard Fairhurst), and the BBC Proms (And Distant Shore, with Richard Fairhurst and ace classical trumpeter Giuliano Sommerhalder), as well as the Geneva Downtown Orchestra for a suite of music for a 9-piece enxemble with Arthurs.Høiby.Ritchie at it's centre.

Dylan Rynhart is a composer of many genres. Apart from founding the award winning jazz orchestra Fuzzy Logic Ensemble and recorded the first album of his music with them in 2005, Dylan has scored music for theatre, an award winning short film and became involved in electro acoustic composition and surround sound through his masters in music technology from Trinity College Dublin.

He has also received commissions to write for contemporary classical ensembles, including saxophone and string quartets. Dylan is represented by Improvised Music Company, Contemporary Music Centre and Music Network. He is currently working on his PhD in music composition with composer John Godfrey, in University College Cork.