Sat-Jun-07: Chris Lesso's MODUS FACTOR @ My, 9pm, $15 door, $10
MODUS FACTOR is a Toronto based trio that emphasizes real-time creation & in the moment improvisation while colliding world music traditions and modern electronic music. Each performance is always unique and etched in real-time, bringing together band and audience into a singular shared intense musical experience.
Sat-Jun-07, 9pm @ May Cafe, 876 Dundas St. West
www.MayToronto.com $15 door, $10 adv list
email andrew@brownman.com for advance list
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:: Brownman Ali electric trumpet / effects
:: Ian de Souza electric bass / kao pads
:: Chris Lesso drums / wave drum
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Three of Toronto's busiest studio musicians step back into the club circuit with MODUS FACTOR, all bringing their own considerable experience from from 3 different musical circles to the table to form a truly unique new electric jazz/groove/world music outfit. Influenced heavily by Frank Zappa drummers, Chris Lesso spent years touring the world with Tony "Wild T" Springer & The Spirit and is now a highly acclaimed figure in the country's rock and drumset community endorsed by both Sonar Drums & Sabian cymbals he has toured the country as a drumset clincian; the Trinidadian born Brownman Ali is known as Canada's multi-award winning jazz trumpet icon heralded as "Canada's pre-eminent jazz trumpet player" by New York's Village Voice magazine; and Ian De Souza is an extremely sought after bassist in Toronto's busy electronic & World music scenes and a founding member & bassist for Kevin Breit's Sisters Euclid. All 3 of these artists are heavy users of modern electronics to colour their sounds. Modus Factor, Lesso's brainchild, brings all 3 of these musicians and their one-of-a-kind sounds on stage together performing uniquely exploratory improvisations, setting the table for an engaging expedition into modern music that will resonate with sounds ranging from Miles Davis to Frank Zappa to Antonio Carlos Jobim.
www.ChrisLesso.com/modus-factor
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