SUSIE IBARRA & ROBERTO RODRIGUEZ
Susie Ibarra-kulintangi, drums, percussion, keyboard, vocal, Roberto Rodriguez-cajon, drums, percussion, electronica
The Filipino composer/percussionist Susie Ibarra is one of the fastest rising stars on the New York avant-garde scene. She has worked with John Zorn, Dave Douglas, William Parker and Thurston Moore and been acclaimed by leading American music periodicals for her nuanced and multi-coloured playing. In Electric Kulintang Ibarra, with the Cuban master percussionist Roberto Rodriguez (sideman for Rufus Wainwright, Joe Jackson, John Zorn, Marc Ribot),goes in search of her Filipino roots and the essence of trance music. The basis is formed by kulintang, a percussion instrument highly reminiscent of the Indonesian gamelan, and consists of eight bronze gongs in a wooden frame.