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Bobby Previte’s Rhapsody Band

Mar 03, 2018: 10pm - 11:59 pm
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Rebroadcast from a Wave Farm Radio webcast from March 2 live from Roulette in Brooklyn.

This live stream from Roulette in Brooklyn, NY, features Nels Cline – Acoustic Guitars, John Medeski – Piano, Zeena Parkins – Harp, Jen Shyu – Voice and Er Hu Fiddle, Fabian Rucker – Alto Saxophone, and Bobby Previte – Trap Drums. Visit Roulette's website for information about attending the live performance in person at http://roulette.org/event/bobby-prevites-rhapsody-band/

Rhapsody is an acoustic, narrative song cycle which incorporates written music, improvisation, and vocals with lyrics to create an evening length performance. Rhapsody twists and turns, landing on song ‘events’ but never ending there, instead, spinning off in other directions, only to land again on a vocal moment, sung by Jen Shyu. Using acoustic harp (Zeena Parkins), piano (John Medeski), acoustic guitars (Nels Cline), alto saxophone (Fabian Rucker) and drums, autoharp, harmonica and percussion (Bobby Previte) the piece places the listener ‘in transit’ — traveling to an unknown place that subtly changes over the course of time, until in the end, they arrive at a surprise destination. Rhapsody is a 60 minute continuous song cycle commissioned by the 2015 Greenfield Prize in Music at the Hermitage Artist Retreat. The recording will be released in March 2018 on RareNoise records.