Founded in 2007 by Multiinstrumentalist Nick Dallett and DJ Ed Essey, Cats Cradle Robbers is a collaborative effort by innovative artists who construct musical experiences using sampled instruments and found objects.
Key to their aesthetic is unfettered creativity and a disregard for musical boundaries and standard idiom. The fusty snobbery of "serious music" is exchewed in favor of a playful approach in which detuned instruments and microtonal samples appear cheek by jowl with highly tonal structures.
Nothing is as it seems: wine glasses stand in for violins, a drawer in a hotel bedroom becomes an impromptu frame drum, voices become bestial growls, and an electric piano takes on the character of a sitar.
Guest artists such as improvisational jazz pianist Steven Markowitz and guitarist Joe Breskin add new musical dialects to an already diverse spectrum, and provide fodder for looped, chopped, and remixed constructions.
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