TD Ottawa Jazz Festival

2018-06-24 20:00 2018-06-24 22:00 60 Canada/Eastern 🎟 NAC: Peter Van Huffel’s GORILLA MASK

https://nac-cna.ca/en/event/19608

Ground-shaking grooves, hammering rhythms and wailing melodies, layered with explosive no-holds-barred improvisations- GORILLA MASK is a type of sonic madness roaring with a restless, implacable energy that totters dangerously on the verge of total chaos. They craft spirals of sound in 4 or 5 dimensions, jabbing you in the ribs as they mess with your brain. The ebb and flow of an acutely aware trio of musicians who know what they want and know how to get it. Canadian ex-pat Peter Van Huffel is a...

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Fourth Stage,1 Elgin Street,Ottawa,Canada
Sun, June 24, 2018
8 PM EDT
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Ground-shaking grooves, hammering rhythms and wailing melodies, layered with explosive no-holds-barred improvisations- GORILLA MASK is a type of sonic madness roaring with a restless, implacable energy that totters dangerously on the verge of total chaos. They craft spirals of sound in 4 or 5 dimensions, jabbing you in the ribs as they mess with your brain. The ebb and flow of an acutely aware trio of musicians who know what they want and know how to get it. Canadian ex-pat Peter Van Huffel is a saxophonist out of Coltrane, Ayler and Zorn. He frames his improvisational forays in the context of a trio with hard rock dynamics, riding the churn of Roland Fidezius' frenetic bass and Rudi Fischerlehner's pulsating drum kit like a surfer riding a gigantic wave.