Charlemagne Palestine
Kulturkirken Jakob
15 September, 9 pm
Tickets: 250/150 NOK
US experimental musician, performance artist and composer Charlemagne Palestine is a living legend. Active since the heyday of the post-war avant garde, he emerged in the artistic milieu of mid-60s New York alongside Tony Conrad, Pandit Pran Nath and film maker Kenneth Anger. He has spent his life pioneering and developing his unique and eccentric long form, mesmerizing minimalist works for piano, organ, carillons and his self-built Spectral Continuum Drone Machine. His appearances can be unpredictable, with piles of cuddly toys stacked on his pianos, unexpected speech outbursts and ritualistic gestures. Having played in the Vigeland Mausoleum a few years ago, he returns to Oslo to fill Kulturkirken Jakob with his shimmering clouds of multi-timbral sound.
