Rhys Chatham "Guitar Army"

Genre: Avant/Experimental Hometown: Paris FRANCE
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Thursday, March 16   1:00 a.m.
Central Presbyterian Church   (200 E 8th St)

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In the 1970s, New York composer RHYS CHATHAM altered the DNA of rock,
marshaling massed-guitar "armies" and fusing overtone-drenched
minimalism with the fury of punk rock. His work prefigured No Wave and
cast a huge influence over the work of his proteges, including Glenn
Branca and Sonic Youth. Performing this material for the first time in
two decades, this Downtown NYC icon revisits those glorious years in
the life of a city and a milieu in which the raw, the sophisticated and
the danceable merged.