PJ Fossum Residency at Offbeat

Name: PJ Fossum Residency at Offbeat
Start: 2024-10-02T21:00:00+02:00
End: 2024-10-05T00:00:00+02:00
Location: 106 Merchant Street, Valletta, Central Region, Malta

Schedule

Wed Oct 02 2024 at 09:00 pm to Sat Oct 05 2024 at 12:00 am

UTC+02:00

Location

106 Merchant Street, Valletta, Central Region, Malta | Valletta, MA

Canadian pianist Paul Jacob Fossum and Maltese guitarist Warren Galea first began their friendship and collaboration back in 2015 when they were both studying at the New School for Jazz in New York City.
Following last year's successful run of gigs with PJ Fossum, this year, thanks to the generous support of Offbeat Music Bar, we are re-inviting PJ for a three-day residency at Offbeat during the first week of October. More info on each concert below.
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𝘞𝘦𝘥𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘥𝘢𝘺 𝘖𝘤𝘵𝘰𝘣𝘦𝘳 2𝘯𝘥 𝘚𝘖𝘓𝘖
PJ Fossum - Piano+Electronics
PJ will perform a range of his solo piano pieces. From repetitive and meditative to poly-rhythmic and dense he explores all corners of the piano; conventional and experimental. He will also perform with a small array of electronics, blending with, augmenting and morphing the sound of the piano into a world of other textures.
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𝘍𝘳𝘪𝘥𝘢𝘺 𝘖𝘤𝘵𝘰𝘣𝘦𝘳 4𝘵𝘩 𝘘𝘜𝘈𝘙𝘛𝘌𝘛
PJ Fossum - Piano
Warren Galea - Guitar
Dean Montanaro - Bass
Guze' Camilleri - Drums
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𝘚𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘥𝘢𝘺 𝘖𝘤𝘵𝘰𝘣𝘦𝘳 5𝘵𝘩 𝘛𝘙𝘐𝘖
Pj Fossum - Piano
Warren Galea - Guitar
Alan Portelli - Bass
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PJ Fossum is a Copenhagen based pianist, synthesist and composer. Born and raised in Canada, he studied classical music in his childhood, and grew into more rhythmic and improvised musics in adolescence. Having moved to New York and cut his teeth in its jazz and improvised music scenes, he’s been moulded into a versatile artist. Now based in Copenhagen, he focuses on sonic symbolism and spatialization in the context of jazz and electro-acoustic music, pulling from a diverse range of aesthetic influences in an inventive and expressive manner across both acoustic and electronic instruments creating colourful and inventive sound worlds.
He plays regularly in Copenhagen with the PJ Fossum Trio made up of bassist Martin Brunbjerg Rasmusen and drummer Ivar Asheim. This ensemble ranges from jazz standards to more modern and explorative sounds.
Another of his projects is a duo with New York based vocalist/composer Judette Elliston called Estuary. This collaboration envelopes the listener in a tapestry of soaring melodies and lush harmony drawing from the artistry of Joni Mitchell, Paul Simon, and Billy Strayhorn, seamlessly blending sincere melodies with free-flowing improvisation. Their debut EP “Confluences” released in August of 2024.
Additionally he has written a catalog of other performance-specific pieces including; Viscous Matter (2024), Guitar Summit CPH 2024 for 30 guitars and room (2024), Music for 5 Pianos (2022), TEXTING suite for small improvising ensemble, audience, and cell phones (2023); Svømme for 5 spatialized transducer-piano sound-system, and 9 piece ensemble (2022); Polyality for transducer-piano, two voice+electronics, and strings (2021); and ACTIVATION, inspired by notes of Alvin Lucier for piano, electronics, and tape (2019).

Each concert begins at 9pm. Tickets are 10 Euros for each night.
For booking contact Offbeat Music Bar.