JADD & CONTROL pres. MADE TO BREAK

MADE TO BREAK:

Ken Vandermark / reeds
Tim Daisy / drums
Christof Kurzmann / electronics
Jasper Stadhouders / bass

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MADE TO BREAK is improviser/composer Ken Vandermark’s newest ensemble and his most radical. Combining elements of his interest and experience with the music of Ethiopia and the Ex, alongside the New Music ideas of John Cage and Morton Feldman, and mixing these with his perspective toward jazz and improvised music history, he has devised a compositional framework for the band that can be restructured for every performance and which deals with melody, sound, and rhythm in a completely unique way. This creative system gives the music of MADE TO BREAK an almost unprecedented flexibility and immediacy. The instrumentation of the quartet (drums, electric bass, electronics, and reeds) has given Vandermark an amazing palette of sounds to explore with each composition, but it is the individuals involved (with Tim Daisy, Christof Kurzmann, Jasper Stadhouders), and their diverse approaches to improvisation, that give the ensemble such a dynamic and spontaneous energy.
MADE TO BREAK developed its preliminary work with Devin Hoff playing electric bass in June of 2011 for the 3rd Okka Festival, and the group toured Europe in November of that year, to prepare to record their first albums in Lisbon. The band returned to Europe from February 28th until March 10th, 2013, to play a series of concerts featuring music from their first recordings (the LP, Lacerba, and CD, Provoke), which were issued by Clean Feed. The ensemble also worked on new compositions during these performances, and recorded in Vienna at the conclusion that tour. This material was released by Trost in early 2014, on the album called Cherchez La Femme. Jasper Stadhouders replaced Hoff on MADE TO BREAK’s U.S. tour in April of that year, and this solidified the creative energy and dynamics of the band. The group then returned to Europe in November to record their next album for Trost, which will be released in October of 2015.
This radical and groove-based ensemble has repeatedly amazed audiences wherever and whenever they perform- whether on festivals, in jazz venues, or rock clubs- and will tour Europe in the autumn of 2015 and in the United States in the spring of 2016, again working on new material and then recording the next exciting developments in MADE TO BREAKS’s aesthetics.