Sebastian Noelle is today's featured co-conspirator. His most recent album as a leader is Across The River on Fresh Sound New Talent). An active member of the NYC's creative music scene, Noelle performs regularly at venues like the 55 Bar, Cornelia Street Café, Louis 649, and others. He has appeared at the North Sea Jazz Festival and the Montreux Jazz Festival, and has led tours in Holland, Japan, Slovakia, and his home country (Germany).
Noelle's compositions are often rhythmically intricate, drawing from the elaborate harmonic language of modern jazz and classical music and enriched by Middle Eastern, Asian, and South American folk music. One of his regular projects is KOAN, featuring Loren Stillman, Thomson Kneeland, and Ted Poor -- here they are live at Cornelia St.:
Seb is in very high demand for projects around town because he is the rare guitarist who can (A) read insanely difficult music and (B) rock hard. (At the same time, even.) I've known him since we were in grad school together at NEC and he's been a vital weapon in the Society's arsenal since the very beginning. Seb's tasty guitar work is all over just about everything -- full-frontal assault tunes like "Ferromagnetic" wouldn't be remotely possible without him -- but we let him off the leash at the end of "Ritual," and he gets to show off his more introspective side (and his loop pedal) on "Redeye."
As part of our fundraising efforts for our upcoming recording, Infernal Machines, we are offering you the opportunity to sponsor a Secret Society musician. Click here to sponsor Seb's appearance on our album.
PREVIOUSLY... Nadje Noordhuis ----- Darcy James Argue's Secret Society is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization. Contributions in behalf of Darcy James Argue's Secret Society may be made payable to Fractured Atlas and are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.
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