Beautiful Pigs is an improvising guitar trio featuring Luke Rovinsky and bassist Caleb Duval, co-creators of prolific Connecticut series/label/collective FIM Improvisation, with Providence-based percussionist, organizer, producer, and visual artist Mackenzie Kourie.
Jess Keyes and Landon Peer open the night. Jess is known for her electroacoustic and ambient music, saxophone playing, compositions, band-leading, sound installations, and so much more. Landon Peer is a violinist with a broad background in many styles of music.
“Beautiful Pigs…dodges expectations many times in its hour-plus duration. Opener “Duroc” launches with guttural rumbles and grinding squeaks that mimic animals, and the following piece “Mangalista” starts with odd static and glitches that feel like a machine breaking down. Along the way, the trio prove quite skilled at familiar sounds too; Rovinsky’s guitar playing in particular is exploratory and responsive, and Duval and Kourie match him well. But my favorite parts of Beautiful Pigs remain the jump cuts and the hard tonal shifts, the spots that only these three at this specific time could’ve come up with.”
Marc Masters, Bandcamp Daily
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