AMIRTHA KIDAMBI & CHE CHEN 1/26/2017, by AMIRTHA KIDAMBI & CHE CHEN

AMIRTHA KIDAMBI & CHE CHEN 1/26/2017

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Amirtha Kidambi & Che Chen, January 26, 2017 28:58

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For a brief period, Amirtha and I played in several different contexts together, including a pair of duo shows, one of which you hear here, an erratically performing trio with Robbie Lee, and a handful of quartet sessions and gigs with Daniel Carter and Sue Garner. Then we both got busy with other things, as people do, but it’s been fun to watch the evolution of her music through projects like her band Elder Ones, her tape/voice duo with Lea Bertucci, a steadily growing presence in the Arts for Arts/Vision Festival universe, not to mention her increasing involvement in organizing musicians around social justice causes. Listening to this recording with a few years' distance, Amirtha already sounds like Amirtha! But for my part it’s interesting (for me at least) to hear one of my early attempts to put tuning theory to use in an improvised context. The instrument I play here is an old Acetone combo organ that is tuned in just intonation. If I recall correctly, Rick Brown (my partner in 75 Dollar Bill) bought this organ at a yard sale sometime in the 80s, and when I found out that it had a separate tuning pot for each of the 12 notes of the octave, he kindly lent it to me for some of the tuning studies I was doing at the time. The tuning I used for this show is relatively primitive, and a just scale with only 12 steps limits you to at most to two or three closely related keys, but luckily (and not surprisingly) for me, Amirtha knew how to make beautiful use of the harmonic space set up by the organ. She, of course, wasn’t limited to discreet steps on a keyboard, and makes use of all kinds of microtonal nuances as she improvises her way through the set. It’s an old, deep sound, singing against a drone, a sort of “single point perspective”. And there’s something liturgical, devotional, about the set to my ears. It’s of course impossible to know how or when we might be able to pick this thread up again, but I hope the next cycle comes soon. Plus, she plays saxophone now too! - C.C. 12/3/2020

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released December 4, 2020

Amirtha Kidambi: voice
Che Chen: just intonation combo organ

Recorded at Outpost Artists Resources, January 26, 2017
Live sound and recording: Ethan Primason, David Weinstein
Front of house: Mia Wendell-DiLallo, Ruth Kahn
Mix, Design, Series Producer: Che Chen

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Fire Over Heaven is a monthly concert series at Outpost Artists Resources in Ridgewood, NY organized by Che Chen. This Bandcamp page, started during our nearly two year pandemic hiatus, features selections from the 80+ sets in our archives. All funds will be used to expand the archive, commission new recordings and support our live programming. ... more

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