to activate our tsunami sound wave and shake the festival soundbed we needed quite quite of an energy and Chris helped us a lot in that regard! Glad to introduce you the amazing @chriscorsano for Cataclisma Improvisation Festival!! [ we had also a really really nice talk so don't miss the episode! ]
Chris Corsano is a drummer who defies easy categorization, whose music includes elements that are conceptual, improvisational, collaborative, and visual. He plays with musicians from a wide range of stylistic and cultural legacies, always keeping a material sensitivity to his instrumental choices that is highly historically attuned. Corsano is a rim-batterer of choice for some of the greatest contemporary purveyors of “jazz” (Paul Flaherty, Joe McPhee, Evan Parker, Christine Abdelnour, Okkyung Lee) and “rock” (Sir Richard Bishop, Bill Orcutt, Jim O'Rourke), as well as artists beyond categorization (Björk, Ghédalia Tazartès, Jandek). Appearing on over 150 albums and touring the world in a wide array of collaborations, Corsano is also a formidable solo performer in his own right, generating new worlds of sound that can be heard on his albums The Young Cricketer, Another Dull Dawn, and Cut. He's been called a "powerhouse drummer" by Rolling Stone, "a peripatetic ace of the avant-garde" by The New York Times, and "arguably the most riotously energetic and creative drummer in contemporary free jazz" by Wire Magazine. In 2013 Spin Magazine listed him as of the '100 Greatest Drummers of Alternative Music."
More info about Chris at:
cor-sano.com