Elliott Sharp’s Carbon
Friday March 26, 22h30 Balzaal, Vooruit

Elliott Sharp (guitar), Zeena Parkins (harp), David Weinstein (electronics), Marc Sloan (bass) & Joseph Trump (drums)

We had to wait more than 15 years, but in 2009 guitarist Elliot Sharp and his experimental rock band Carbon finally released their new album. Sharp has been one of the most important figures of the downtown New York experimental music scene, which constantly seeks to renew itself. Sharp calls himself a music and science nerd because he tries to apply geometrical concepts, genetic metaphors and even chaos theory to his music. He also likes to broadenhis horizons regularly by working with African musicians, such as Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and pop stars like Debbie Harry. For Carbon, he uses his guitar as a percussion instrument and creates a raw and dark sound. Zeena Parkins is another important figure in Carbon, not only as a harpist in a rock band, but also because of her past work with Björk, Jim O’ Rourke, Lee Ranaldo, Nels Cline and Courtney Love’s Hole.