MANAS / Cutting Ceremony
Mon, Dec 7 · 7:00 PM Rhizome DC · Takoma
Monday December 7 * 7pm * $15-25 * TICKETS MANAS is guitarist Tashi Dorji, drummer Thom Nguyen and Che Chen (of 75 Dollar Bill) on guitar, percussion and homemade instruments. Steeped in years of friendship and a cooperative, mutual-aid ethos, the group has gained a reputation for intense, cathartic live shows characterized by Dorji and Chen’s guitars, hypnotic one moment and ecstatically abrasive the next, and Nguyen’s multi-limbed maelstroms exploding outwards in parallel. Chen’s battery of auxiliary percussion and homemade instruments can refract Nguyen's multi-directional rhythms or create ritualistic settings for the trio’s synchronistic interplay. Their post-hardcore take on free improvisation draws on their collective loves of punk, grindcore, black metal, free jazz, noise and other extreme sonics, as well as Buddhist and Taoist temple traditions of Asia and the Himalayas. Cutting Ceremony is an intra-coastal improvised music trio. Members are Pete Dennis and Abe Mamet , who are currently touring with special guests. Pete Dennis (they/he), is a musician, improviser, composer, visual artist, and teacher living in West Philadelphia specializing in bass and flute. Abe Mamet (he/him), is a French horn player living in Mt. Rainier, Md., who focuses on music oriented toward community building. Pete and Abe are currently touring with guest musicians as their original drummer now lives abroad.
