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Peter Gordon and the Love of Life Orchestra (LOLO) have been longtime shakers in the downtown experimental music scene. With their unique world music and dance-inspired grooves and penchant for sonic adventures, this dynamic ensemble stands apart from its new music ensembles peers for its ecstatic embrace of bon vivant: an intelligent experimental ensemble that can easily moonlight and entertain the dance halls or rock all night in the dim cathedrals of punk rock. With the gang in town, and with video by Kit Fitzgerald, LOLO presents the premiere of Peter Gordon's latest masterpiece, Symphony #5.

Paul Shapiro, saxes
Katie Porter, clarinets
Peter Zummo, trombone
Max Gordon, trumpet
Elio Villafranca, piano
Ned Sublette, guitar
Randy Gun, guitar
Yunior Terry, bass
Robby Ameen, drums
Peter Gordon, sax, organ, synth

Video by Kit Fitzgerald

Peter Gordon is a composer, saxophonist, arranger, and producer whose music has been noted for its original blend of lyricism, wit and drama, with an underlying funky groove. A seminal figure in Downtown music, Gordon gained attention with his Love of Life Orchestra, which synthesized experimental music with dance music and rock.  An early proponent of using the recording studio as a compositional tool, Gordon has released recordings on Lust/Unlust, CBS, Lovely Music, and Newtone Records, most recently the retrospective on DFA Records Love of Life Orchestra,  and the upcoming 12” Beachcombing with the UK electro-industrial group Factory Floor, on Optimo. Gordon composes operas and scores for theater and dance, receiving an Obie Award and a Bessie Award, and he has an ongoing collaboration with video artist Kit Fitzgerald. He is music producer for Robert Ashley’s Vidas Perfectas, and his orchestrations for Michael Tilson Thomas’ The Thomashefskys were recently performed by the New York Philharmonic.

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Born roughly in 1979 as a collaborative project between Gordon and David van Tieghem, the Love of Life Orchestra (better known as LOLO), has been described by guitarist Ned Sublette as "with its soap-opera name suggesting an embrace of the trashy, [LOLO]played lean, rigorous, instrumental miniatures whose timbre dispense with the high seriousness that plague new music of the day. Though experimental in outlook, it evokes the fun of early '60s r&b and rock combos like King Curtis's Kingpins or the Ventures, as well as the thumping timbral palette of popular orchestral disco records."

 Photo by Paula Court

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H*E*R blends minimalism, jazz, and pop influences in delicate, mysterious, and sophisticated tunes about memory and the outer world that blur the line between improv and song; between prismatic recollection and blighted reality. The trio is led by the Carla Bley of avant-pop music vocalist/keyboardist Yvette Perez whose sensuously sparse soundscapes are reminiscent of Annette Peacock and Laurie Anderson. Legendary trombonist/composer Peter Zummo contributes some of his compositions and crafts masterful melodies and improvisations. Vibraphone and percussion player Danny Tunick adds distinctive textures and floating rhythms. The group performs this evening with alto-saxophonist Darius Jones as special guest.

"'songs about the mysteries of housework and nature'... forwards certain ideas about stillness, motion, and beauty" -- time out new york

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Composer/guitarist David First will present Rocking Pipeline Witness Apologies to Dennis - a new drone-field work dedicated to the memory of his teacher Dennis Sandole, featuring Peter Zummo (trombone,) "Blue" Gene Tyranny (harmonically-tuned keyboards,) Christopher McIntyre (trombone) and First (guitar/laptop.) This work will continue First's usual concerns with various species of acoustical and metaphysical phenomena as well as attempt to make amends for his oft-regretted irresponsibilities regarding his relationship with the legendary Sandole. The New York Times calls First "a fascinating artist with a singular technique," and the Village Voice, "a bizarre cross between Hendrix and La Monte Young."

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A sound installation combining multiple speakers, found sounds, original samples, atypical speaker enclosures and felt. This new works was commissioned by Roulette with funds provided by the Jerome Foundation.
Slybersonic Tromosome. Tom Hamilton (electronics) will be joined by Peter Zummo (trombone) when they resume their cross-examination of virtue and reality with plenty of wires, mutes and self-important circuitry.

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"Zummo Labs II. Trio with rhythm reinterprets the trombonist's music of the 70's thru 90's including "Subway Dream Music." "Music Minus One Hundred," and "The Time Land Forgot," with Bill Ruyle marimba and Arthur Russell amplified cello."

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The Ethno-Punk Computer Band, directed by Zummo. A confluence of musical traditions and innovations using melody as the common ground. Performers contribute material from Western, Indonesian, Chinese, African, and computer-generated origins.

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Subway Dream Music