Catherine Sikora and Brian Chase CD

The duo of Catherine Sikora (Eric Mingus, Elliott Sharp) and Brian Chase (Yeah Yeah Yeahs, John Zorn) pairs two distinguished artists of the avant-jazz community. Tearing at the line of innovation and tradition, this duo steps forth with music merging the lyrical and the abstract, the spontaneous and the composed, and the expressive with the restrained. For the duo’s debut album, untitled: after, Catherine and Brian turned to the epic poem Beowulf for inspiration. The classic text’s themes of fearlessness, battle, and courage proved to be analogous to current life experience, and were channeled into compositions as a basis for improvisation. Think John Coltrane’s Interstellar Space meets epic poetry as depicted in an adaptation for film.   Catherine Sikora - tenor and soprano saxophones Brian Chase - drumset   "These noble musicians have performed courageous deeds on this fantastic album. To them, we should submit and yield tribute." 4/5 Stars - Robert Ham, DownBeat Magazine   Sikora’s