Causing A Tiger: Experimental Band with Sleepytime Gorilla Museum Members at the Steve Allen
Trepany House, Steve Allen Theater, at the Center For Inquiry West (4773 Hollywood Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90027)
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- $12.00
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The last date listed for Causing A Tiger was Thursday March 31, 2011 / 8:00pm.
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Description
“As I sleep, some dream beguiles me, and suddenly I know I am dreaming. Then I think: This is a dream, a pure diversion of my will; and now I have unlimited power, I am going to cause a tiger." --Jorge Luis Borges
Causing A Tiger is always unpredictable, especially in dreams. The tiger may have the head of a fish, or the tail of a mouse. It may be green, or it may be covered entirely in buttons. In these inspirations and aberrations, all is revealed, nothing is sacred. This band never rehearses, but plays a rigorous, improvised set that at times sounds like devotional meditation, other times like a travelogue written while dreaming, and still other times like it might have been ripped from the pages of the American Songbook. For each live show, Causing a Tiger sets parameters that allow them to test the boundaries of expression and logic, often evoking a puzzling sense of familiarity. They are, all three, hopelessly dedicated to each other both onstage and off. Regardless of the tenor of the music, be it gross or delicate, subtle or squirmy, they are open and accepting of whatever might be forged in the heat of sonic congress. The band contains two of the former members from Bay Area experimental band Sleepytime Gorilla Museum.
Their new album, Hello Dust, is slated for release in late 2011.
Causing a Tiger is:
Matthias Bossi: keyboards, percussion, drums, voice
Shahzad Ismaily: bass, guitar, percussion, electronics, voice
Carla Kihlstedt: violin, voice