Frakture & The Bluecoat present, an international concert
The Queen Mab Trio (Canada/Holland)
Christine Christine Sehnaoui (France/Lebanese )

Date: Wednesday 26 th November 2008. 8.00pm
Venue; The Sandon Room, The Bluecoat, School Lane,
Liverpool, L1 3BX
Time 8.00 pm
Tickets £7.50 / £5.00 conc.
Box office number: 0151 702 5324

Listening Post Session: Women In Free Improvisation.
Time 6.30 - 7.25 pm : Free Admission.
Venue: The Bluecoat
Room : To be confirmed
presented by Roger H Parry: [ more info here]

A concert of new music featuring four women from Canada /Holland /France.

Queen Mab Trio: (Canada/Holland)
Lori Freedman - bcl/clarinet
Ig  Henneman   - viola
Marilyn Lerner- pno   

A stellar trio featuring three of the most engaging, maverick improvisers working today, Queen Mab Trio bristles with electrifying, revolutionary delight. Lerner is a virtuosic performer who straddles the poles that bookend jazz-folk tradition and outright, defiant freedom. Henneman, like the best of the Dutch improvisers, has a jousting, fearless instinct and a refined sense of play that is aggressive as well as it is inviting. Freedman is simply one of music’s more rivetting, incendiary forces – alternately muscular and seductive, conversational and bellowing. The trio’s mind-expanding interplay and vivid mood-trafficking sound is utterly compelling. Chamber jazz for the fourth dimension.
-TD Willamette Week Portland

Christine Sehnaoui: (France/Lebanese) Solo Saxophone.

“A totally new concept of making electronic music on acoustic instrument”

" Christine Sehnaoui solo offers an extraordinary musical experience with a very distinguished and prolific language : waves of polytonal freedom and poetic beauty, lines of noise clusters and complex patterns...She is sculpting her sounds around a microtonal hub, transforming slow melodies into free improvised structures and drama
Her solo is a new language - with a totally new concept on how to produce sounds and noises from an acoustic instrument : the capability of binding together the micro details in such a convincing beauty. " Mats Gustafsson on the liner notes of the solo released on Olof Bright.

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