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Meilana Gillard: RBG Trio
Meilana Gillard saxophones / Dave Redmond double bass / Kevin Brady drums
Meilana Gillard – “a gutsy, inventive player” (The Irish Times) – presents Chasing Comets: a 4-movement suite of new music themed around the cosmos and outer space, commissioned by the BAN BAM artist development programme in Dublin.
The four movements are I. Solar Flare, II. Supernova’, III. Dark Matter and IV. Moontide and the music is also a nod to Gillard’s love of video game music of the 1980’s. Using different effects such as a harmoniser, space echo and loop station, RBG Trio improvises within these movements, sometimes through-composed, other times free, presenting a variety of grooves from triumphant to mysterious and with textures flowing from the very open to thick and dense. Audiences can look forward to a feeling of fun, play and possibility throughout the set.
BAN BAM is a biennial commission and development opportunity for female and gender-minority artists from across Ireland from Improvised Music Company (IMC) Dublin and Moving On Music (MoM) Belfast.
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RBG Trio Biography
RBG Trio is a collective of 3 of Ireland’s top improvising musicians, Meilana Gillard - Tenor Saxophone, Dave Redmond - Double Bass, and Kevin Brady - Drums. Together they have been lauded for their exciting live performances and recordings, which feature deep ensemble interplay as well as lyrical and expansive compositions. They continue to express themselves over various styles of improvisation, groove and textures ranging from swing through free jazz and grunge - more recently adopting an electric treatment featuring effects and electric bass creating their own brand of experimental space funk.
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