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zondag | 28.09.2025 | 20:00
Salon de IJzerstaven | Bickersgracht 10 | Amsterdam
A RYM review of Alan Licht’s latest album, Havens (2024) reads: “an impressive waste of 2 huge slabs of thick vinyl: nothing happens in an American Primitive mode for over an hour”. We couldn’t disagree more.
To us, Havens is a radiating 70 minute voyage “forged from the myriad possibilities arising when strings collide with electricity & space”. When Alan Licht performed his album Currents live, he was taken by the overtones surging atop his song-like pieces. He was granted a newfound sense of possibility, infused with a rock-born urgency. By way of lightning-fast, urgent strumming gradually unfurling layers of phantom harmonics. “Celestial punk, if you will”.
Alan Licht has worked with Jim O’ Rourke, Fennesz, John Zorn & Loren Connors and has a background in curating (Tonic New York) and journalism (The WIRE, Modern Painters, Blank Forms). His musical work is marked by contrast & contradiction: maximalism versus minimalism; shredding versus abstraction; impro versus calculation. Peer a bit deeper and you’ll find that within that friction lies an incredibly fertile soil. We’d love to experience Alan Licht’s dense swarm of bliss with you, in Salon de IJzerstaven.
Line-up:
Alan Licht - electric guitar