A Solo Noise Album for the Brave and Adventurous

Holyoke, Ma — Saturday, April 24th, 2021 — Integrating saxophone, flute, feedback and electronics, electro-acoustic pioneer and dedicated improviser, Bonnie Kane’s new solo noise album, “Irritations, Inflammations, and Uprisings” is a call to sonic attention. Culled from several live performances, the music speaks of urgency and the immediate importance of living each moment. The listener is taken on a journey through many worlds with an intensity that, even in the more melodic parts, lets you know that this is foreground music, and requires deep listening.

Fans of improvisation, harsh noise, and avant-garde jazz, will delight in the extended range of tones that are part of Kane’s palette, along with her forthright delivery. Her strength of conviction, combined with her naturally flowing compositional sense, will keep the listener enthralled at every turn. The more that the listener is willing and able to surrender to the sound, the more nuances will be discovered.

“Irritations, Inflammations and Uprisings” can be found at bonniekane.bandcamp.com and is now available for pre-order. It will drop as a CD and Download on May 7.

“I am a conductor of energy”, says Bonnie Kane…”solo performance is, for me, an endless dive into the center of sound. There is immense freedom there: to follow a frequency, hold a harmonic, to channel melody, to flow into discoveries. The challenge is to maintain presence; to get so within the sound, as to be the sound.”

“Her music is the algebra of the heart, brain and soul….” – Musician’s Exchange

“Bonnie plays for the future….” – Eric Plaks, pianist, NYC

Bonnie Kane created the art for “Irritations, Inflammations and Uprisings”. A long time digital artist, Kane designed these stellar pieces to live beyond the CD packaging. They will be offered as a set of 7 postcards and also as 18×24 posters, available individually or as a set. Full of deep colors and details, the images act as digital mandalas to focus the eye and release the senses, so the music can be better absorbed.

Although all are invited, only some will readily and hungrily partake, absorbing the music and art of “Irritations, Inflammations, and Uprisings” as vital nutrients for their free-thinking and well-being. For Kane, and the music that she plays is the result of these hyper hybrid times – with the only pure thing being the need for like minds to connect, for spirits to reach out and share their expanded understanding of living.

Feed your insatiable need for noise right now, and buy “Irritations, Inflammations and Uprisings” at bonniekane.bandcamp.com

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ABOUT

Integrating saxophone, flute, feedback and electronics, electro acoustic pioneer and dedicated improvisor, Bonnie Kane’s, music lives equally in the experimental, ambient, harsh noise, and psychedelic rock arenas. She has toured nationally and worldwide, performing extensively throughout her Eastern USA base from basement clubs to large festivals and concert halls.
A bandleader since the 1990s, with over 40 releases, those she has performed and recorded with include: Godspeed You! Black Emperor, John Spencer Blues Explosion, Tatsuya Nakatani, Chris Forsyth, Kevin Shea, Walter Wright, Andrea Pensado, Chris Strunk, Tracy Lisk, and John Loggia. New collaborations are always evolving.
Her solo work is focused in both the ambient and noise genres, providing a balance between active and relaxed energies. During the pandemic, this has taken the form of 2 online solo shows per week: Afternoon Noise: No Apologies and Transcendent Winds: Hour of Calm, (https://www.facebook.com/bonniekanemusic). Both shows offer respite from the stress of life at this time, albeit from different angles.
In all of her projects, Bonnie’s interest is in what a musician can bring to the moment. Because it is in the moment, that sound can change into magic, souls are nourished, inspiration renewed, and lives changed for the better.

http://bonniekane.bandcamp.com
http://youtube.com/bonniekane