‘downtown’ Algerian jazz
10 – Midnite
$8 donation

The Infusion are:
Ron Anderson – trumpet, electric guitar, electronic percussion (Algeria) (Jac Berrocal, Marc Ribot, Elliot Sharp, Otomo Yoshihide, Seichi Yamamoto)
Camel Zekri - acoustic guitar and electronics (France)
Olivier Paquotte - Bass (France)

What happens when a musician from North Africa adds electronics to his
acoustic guitar and develops an interest in free improvisation and the
avant-garde of Europe? What would it sound like if he teamed up with two
“Rock” musicains with similar interests, one from Europe and one from North
America? The answer is the Infusion. Camel Zekri on acoustic guitar and
electronics who now lives in Paris, a descendent from generations of
Algerian musicains. He saw a similar link between the free improvisation of
Europe and the traditional music of Africa. Forming Festival de l’Eau (see
The Wire magazine Feb. 2002) he brought Europeans to Africa to make some new
and unrehearsed music. But Camel is just one third of the story of The
Infusion. Olivier Paquotte is a Bassist who lives in Nancy, France who uses
the Bass more for it’s sonic capabilities than it’s rhythmic. Using
feedback, distortion, a slide on the strings, he gives the instrument a wide
range, sometimes like a guitar, sometimes like a drum. Likewise Ron Anderson
gets many unusual sounds from the three instruments he plays on this
recording. Trumpet through echo and other effects, drum machine played in
real time with real fingers, and electric guitar blending and working
together in rhythm with the other two musicians. Improvised live in the
studio in Vandoeuvre, plus excerpts from concerts in Paris and Lille makes
this an all French recording from the label 33revpermi.
www.ronanderson-molecules.com

Production: Ron Anderson – RONCO007@hotmail.com