The Whale Watching Tour

Posted On: April 8, 2010
Posted In: Bedroom Community, Ben Frost, Nico Muhly, Sam Amidon, The Barbican Center, The Whale Watching Tour, Valgeir Sigurdsson
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Sam Amidon, Ben Frost, Nico Muhly and Valgeir Sigurdsson all performing live on stage in harmonious fashion was enough to wet my appetite many months ago when I grabbed early tickets thinking they would have sold out in a flash, but somehow there are still a few available for the upcoming Barbican gig…

The Whale Watching Tour

Sam Amidon, Ben Frost, Nico Muhly and Valgeir Sigurdsson
20 April 2010 / 19:30
Barbican Hall

Tickets: £12.50-15
Subject to availability
Purchase here

More than just a series of concerts, this tour is an extension of the ongoing musical exchange between these diverse artists. Disparate musical backgrounds will coexist and collide as Valgeir, Nico, Ben and Sam perform music from their catalogues, as well as introducing new and previously unreleased material (and a surprise or two along the way).

The program will be constructed in true Bedroom Community fashion, where all the artists will contribute to each other’s music on stage, akin to their many studio collaborations. The set will flow undivided between Nico’s restless modern compositions, Valgeir’s surgical electro-acoustic pieces, Ben’s haunting noise-scapes and Sam’s apocalyptic folk songs (mixed perhaps with liturgical dancing, projections and stories that you never know whether are true or not…)

To aid the creation of this remarkable amalgam of genres on The Whale Watching Tour will be a quartet of extraordinary musicians; Nadia Sirota (viola), Una Sveinbjarnardóttir (violin), Borgar Magnason (double-bass), Helgi Hrafn Jónsson (trombone and vocals), all of whom have all recorded and toured with the four headliners. – Bedroom Community

www.barbican.org.uk
www.bedroomcommunity.net
www.myspace.com/samamidon
www.myspace.com/theghostofbenfrost
www.myspace.com/muhly
www.myspace.com/valgeirs

Hess says:

April 8, 2010 at 2:09 am

Can’t wait.
Also got my tickets early to be sure
smlpptt says:

April 8, 2010 at 9:36 pm

i’m really look forward to the concert!
Ben Eshmade says:

April 10, 2010 at 9:12 pm

you can hear Nico Muhly talking about the tour in an interview I did with him a month or so ago. It’s about 30 minutes in to this week Resonance FM show. http://www.jointhecircle.net/radio/?p=1042

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