The Names,
Sara Campos,
Seamus Cater,
et al.Heather Frasch, Marielle Groven, Morten Joh, Carina Khorkhordina, Jeroen Kimman, Koen Nutters, Han-earl Park, Gert-Jan Prins, [4 More...]
Writing About The Names
A statement
The Names is a new Berlin/Amsterdam collective of creative musicians playing open, yet melodic, pieces in a Cage/Oliveros informed spectrum of improvised strategies and open-ended compositions. Giving homage to the Chicago tradition of AACM music as well as praise to progressive thinking in society, highlighting people such as Angela Davis, Michelle Alexander, Audre Lorde and composers such as Anthony Braxton, Eva-Maria Houben, and George Lewis, whose names, along with the names of band members and friends, have been used as the melodic or structural impetus of each composition.
Shaped by the ideas of critical music, listening and ...