Gold Age & Quattuor Elephantis
Gold Age plays avant jazz informed by their collective backgrounds and mutual interest in challenging traditional concepts of jazz through the use of adventurous harmonics and inventive forms. The unique improvisational approaches of the members are grounded in high level instrumental proficiency paired with a playful and open minded sensibility. Gold Age is Aram Shelton, alto saxophone and bass clarinet;
Mark Clifford, vibraphone; Safa Shokrai, bass; Britt Ciampa, drums and percussion.
A project of pianist
Brett Carson, Quattuor Elephantis represents an intelligible entirety, dynamic and volatile, perceived through the kaleidoscopic effluence of the Four Cosmic Pillars. A brew of primeval energy is parsed and made available for consumption. Four musicians navigating constructed worlds. Psychic debris accumulates in corners of sound-space and crystallizes into intricate compositional/improvisational structures. Creation appears to organize itself, only to return once again to the Void.
Brett Carson – keyboard, compositions
Robert Lopez – drums
Scott Siler – vibraphone, percussion
with guest
Alex Cohen – electric guitar