Cortex with Hedvig Mollestad (NO)//MagneticWest
Schedule
Thu Nov 21 2024 at 08:00 pm
UTC-05:00Location
2920 Detroit Ave, Cleveland, OH, United States, Ohio 44113 | Cleveland, OH
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Norway's Cortex makes an exciting return to the BOP STOP. This show is presented in partnership with New Ghosts. Tickets for this show are $20 each.8pm show. 7pm doors.
Cortex Features:
Thomas Johansson (trp)
Kristoffer Berre Alberts (sax)
Ola Høyer (bs)
Dag Erik Knedal Andersen (dr)
And special guest:
Hedvig Mollestad, guitar
We are pleased to have MagneticWest opening!
MagneticWest is:
Evan Moran - Electric Guitar, Keyboards, Effects
Joey Sopko - Electric and Acoustic Bass
Mat Weisman - Drums and Percussion
www.magneticwest.bandcamp.com
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Cortex is a spirited combo, active since 2007, that plays energetic jazz of the finest brand. The members of this critically acclaimed quartet are amongst the most sought after young jazz performers on the Norwegian jazz scene today. They all have also marked their position in several other constellations such as: Bushman’s Revenge, Puma, PNL Large Unit, SAKA, All Included, Zanussi 5, Friends & Neighbors, Honest John, and The Heat Death. Peter Margasak of the Chicago Reader has written, “No Scandinavian group since Atomic has so powerfully addressed and remade the free jazz of the 60s like Cortex. In a country whose creative music scene is celebrated for its bold hybrids of disparate sounds, Cortex goes another way.”
For this special tour the quartet will be joined by Norwegian guitar experimentalists and eclecticist Hedvig Mollestad known from Hedvig Mollestad trio and her collaborations with musicians like Nels Cline and Colin Stetson. Downbeat Magazine cited recently Mollestad as one of the artists who could shape jazz for decades.
Cortex has done extensive touring in Norway, Sweden, Germany, Czech Republic, Belgium, France, Italy, Slovenia, Portugal USA and Japan, and their records has been bestowed with praise from international critics:
”No Scandinavian group since Atomic has so powerfully addressed and remade the free jazz of the 60s like Cortex. In a country whose creative music scene is celebrated for its bold hybrids of disparate sounds, Cortex goes another way, embracing tradition in its own unique way, with a personality sketched out by the strength of Johansson’s indelible themes and four distinctive improvisational voices.”
- Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader
“You want genre labels, call it avant garde party music.”
-Daniel Spicer, Jazzwise
https://www.cortexmusic.no/
About MagneticWest:
Cleveland-based MagneticWest is an instrumental trio working near the fringes of improvised avant rock. Their self-titled debut captured an angular edge honed on prog and post rock, psychedelia, noise, and early fusion. The most recent effort “Pass Fire” moved through more varied stylistic terrain - drone, free jazz, and ambient influences widened the field of vision while organ and piano imbued the music with harmonic depth. In the course of those albums - as in their live performances - a core process becomes clear, where spontaneity is tempered by structure and the weight of their sound is propelled forward with constant motion.
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Where is it happening?
2920 Detroit Ave, Cleveland, OH, United States, Ohio 44113Event Location & Nearby Stays:
