Heaven Gallery

PROTEST HEAVEN jazz and improvised music series

Agathe Max, solo violin (Lyon, France)

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Chris Brokaw (Boston)

About the artists:

After 10 years of conventional classical music, AGATHE MAX started to improvise and develop a large range of different sounds with the accoustic violin. She's played with several bands, from pirate's performances with Arbrupt to gypsy blues folk music with Brown Recluse, with whom she did a US tour during the summer of 2005. At that time, she met the performer Rachel Rosenthal in her Los Angeles studio. She describes this as "the deepest human experience as an artistic point of view."

On her current project: "I've started this solo violin project in 2005 and since then i try to go further and further in this experiment that gives lots of possibilities."

She also does collaborations with Yoko Higashi (voices and effects) and actors, dancers (Juha Marsalo, Carolyn Carlson), videos (facteur prod)...

http://www.agathemax.com

CHRIS BROKAW was born and raised in and around new york city. after attending oberlin college, he moved to boston, massachusetts, where he continues to reside.
in 1990, he began recording and performing internationally with CODEINE, with whom he played drums and guitar on 2 records for SUB-POP. in 1992, he left that band to pursue songwriting, singing and guitar playing with COME, who recorded four albums for MATADOR and toured internationally over the course of 10 years.

since 2002, chris has recorded four solo albums: the instrumental "RED CITIES" (ATAVISTIC/KIMCHEE/12XU, 2002), the solo acoustic "WANDERING AS WATER"(NORMAL, 2004), the film score "I WAS BORN, BUT" (ATAVISTIC/12XU, 2004), and the rock/vocal "INCREDIBLE LOVE" (12XU/ROCK ACTION/ACUARELA, 2005).

http://www.chrisbrokaw.com

Heaven Gallery
1550 N. Milwaukee Ave 2nd Fl.
Chicago
(Blue Line to Damen)
$5 suggested donation