Swordfishtrombones Revisited

Swordfishtrombones Revisited

Tuesday, 29 October 2019, 8.00pm

Following on from his remarkable interpretation of Rain Dogs in 2011, British multi-instrumentalist David Coulter now turns to another major opus by Tom Waits, with an impressive team of musicians and special guests - LA singer and performance artist Dorian Wood, Austrian musician and producer Soap&Skin (replacing Sarah Blasko), Mercury Prize nominee Nadine Shah and much-acclaimed folk singer Lisa O’Neill. We are also delighted to add American singer and songwriter Matthew E. White to the line-up.

Presented in association with the Barbican, London and Philharmonie de Paris.

Released in 1983, Swordfishtrombones marked a new chapter in Tom Waits’ career as he drifted away from the piano jazz club atmospheres to find darker inspirations in the gutter and back alleys of the human soul. This radical change of direction towards experimental rock was one of the musical shocks of the 1980s.

David Coulter, whom worked with Waits on the staged production of The Black Rider, is known for his adventurous sonic explorations, both as a master of the musical saw (Gorillaz, Kronos Quartet, Marianne Faithfull or The Pogues) and as a curator of landmark musical perfomances such as In Dreams - David Lynch revisited, Jim Jarmusch revisited and Double Fantasy live.

Some of the UK’s finest musicians will be joining David Coulter on stage:
Terry Edwards horns
Dave Okumu guitar
Pete Saunders (replacing Steve Nieve) piano
Tom Herbert bass
Seb Rochford drums
Thomas Bloch Ondes Martenot

Presented by NCH

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Published by The Journal of Music on 25 October 2019

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