Dave Rempis // Mark Feldman // Tim Daisy @ The Hungry Brain

Dave Rempis - saxophones
Mark Feldman - violin
Tim Daisy - drums

This improvising trio returns to the Hungry Brain for the first time in over two years! In this band, virtuoso violinist Mark Feldman serves as a foil to break up and reframe the dynamic between longtime collaborators Tim Daisy and Dave Rempis. On their 2023 release Sirocco (Aerophonic Records), you hear him teasing slow-wavering long tones against the horn, throwing sharp jabs of articulation back at Daisy’s kit, and bouncing impossibly quick counterpoint back at both of them across five octaves. With those maneuvers, Feldman capitalizes on his boulevard-wide technique to bust up any of the time-tested tropes that Rempis and Daisy might try to roll out, forcing them to reconstruct their decades of interaction into a new immediate sound. But it’s never a struggle or conflict, simply an ongoing set of questions and proposals, posed by a master of the form. If you’re looking for a primer on artistic reinvention, here you go.