Got late word about this duo's tour. I'm stealing Michael Parker's description from another list. And at the end are their show still upcoming. I caught them on Saturday in Takoma Park and it was great. Steve ---------- I wish I had sent this note to the list a few days earlier, because there was a show in VA yesterday... But here is a schedule for the duo tour of Raoul Bjorkenheim and Lukas Ligeti. I'm a fan of both of these musicians, so let me say a few words of explanation about why many people here are likely to find their performances *very* enjoyable. I could really go on and on, but I want to be concise (time issues!). Basically, Lukas Ligeti is a great drummer, and that's what he does in this duo. He is highly developed both as a "contemporary classical" composer (he has a new CD coming out on Tzadik in a few weeks with string quartets and such) and as drummer who can deal (uniquely) with free improv and various points along continua from jazz to rock, Morocco to Korea, etc. He typically plays exciting complicated grooves. He does not play typical Euro-improv style drumming or typical free jazz drumming, but he is definitely an experimentalist in his own way, and has innovated a personal vocabulary dealing with polytempo drumming, the sort of challenge very few improvising drummers are willing to accept. Unique stuff. Raoul Bjorkenheim is the guy from Krakatau, Scorch Trio, etc. The Bjorkenheim/Ligeti duo album "Shadowglow" is pretty incredible, with many twists you'd never expect from a guitar/drums duo, especially because these are not the only instruments used! They are both very heavy on various indigeneous musics from all over, especially from various parts of Africa, where Ligeti has done much work. They integrate these studies into their personal vocabularies; it is not superficial mimicry. Anyone who hasn't heard the Scorch Trio must do so immediately! It's about the hottest avant power trio electric guitar "free jazz"/"free fusion" record you'll find. But "Shadowglow" has a wider range of innovative ideas and it's a perfect match of personalities, totally in that indefinable no-mans's land between known genres. I've been playing this disc heavily. As Krakatau fans know, this cat can go pretty far out with outrageous, lethal electric guitar timbres. ------------------------------- Tuesday, June 1: Savannah, GA, Starland Cultural Center Wednesday, June 2: Chapel Hill, NC, Night Light, 102 Taylor St. Thursday., June 3: Atlanta, GA, Eyedrum, Atlanta, GA, 290 MLK Jr.Drive, Suite 8, 9pm. www.eyedrum.org; http://tk-jk.net/euphonic/ Friday, June 4: Athens, GA, Flicker Theater, 263 W. Washington, 8:30pm Saturday, June 5: Cincinnati, OH, The Mockbee, 603 West McMicken. http://www.themockbee.org Sunday, June 6: Bloomington, IN, Cinemat, 410 W 4th Bloomington Monday, June 7: Louisville, KY, Artswatch, 2337 Frankfort Ave. Tuesday, June 8: Lexington, KY, The Icehouse, 185 Richond Ave. Friday, June 11: Philadelphia, PA, Ars Nova Series, http://www.arsnovaworkshop.com Saturday, June 12: Rochester, NY, The Rochester Int'l Jazz Festival, 6pm