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New York’s Grammy nominated Max ZT (House of Waters), and Tokyo/Black Country’s lauded Dan Whitehouse combine their inventive energy to create stunning live performances. ZT, the hammered dulcimer player compared to Hendrix, and the ever-regenerating Whitehouse weave spoken word, song and virtuoso playing to create impactful (often improvised) pieces with a belief in the healing power of music at its core.
Tackling subjects as wide-ranging as fatherhood, practicing golf swings as a metaphor for life, the way the Japanese sunlight bounces off buildings “like God’s graffiti”, and the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, the duo will perform music from their acclaimed album 'Ten Steps’ (recorded between New York City and Tokyo) as well as solo pieces and music created in the moment.
“Gorgeous… and intriguing” The Guardian
“…both extraordinary and beautiful” KLOF MAG
“Sublime…” At The Barrier
Lauded innovator Max ZT takes his roots from Irish folk music and has created complex and beautiful compositions expanding that influence through studying in Senegal with the Cissoko Griot family and in India where he studied under the santoor master Pandit Shivkumar Sharma. Dan Whitehouse has, across nine albums, gained a golden reputation as “a fine songwriter, a unique vocal talent and a talented multi-instrumentalist/performer” - Maverick, and “wonderful” – BBC 6 Music.
Dan Whitehouse
Over the past two years, acclaimed singer-songwriter Dan Whitehouse has been in a transparently reflective mood with three albums all themed around the physical and metaphorical nature of glass. Influenced by keeping in contact with his young son living in Japan, 'The Glass Age' explores our screen-fixated society's communication challenges. 'Voices From The Cones' commemorates glassmaking history in Stourbridge and 'Reflections On The Glass Age' offers mirror images of the first album, the same songs refracted through acoustic reinterpretations, intimately sung and played to distill the sweet melancholia of the material. Songs and stories from these projects have now been gathered together for 'A Night Of Glass', a simple but hypnotic live experience in which, variously behind a piano or on guitar, Dan takes audiences deep into the heart of glass in its myriad manifestations, his expressively nuanced crystalline vocals, a hint of Bowie here, a touch of Cohen there, effortlessly mining a wealth of emotions and ideas. This is where the light gets in. George Bernard Shaw said "You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul" a testament to Dan's intoxicating songwriting, consummate musicianship and quiet, unassuming charisma with songs like 'Rainbows Never End', 'Thin Blue Line', the anthemic 'New Love' and the infectious, crowd-friendly 'Work', 'A Night Of Glass' is the melting point where art transforms. "Gorgeous" The Guardian
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Max ZT
Brooklyn's Max ZT is known as an innovator, although he can trace his roots back to Irish folk music. He creates complex and beautiful compositions from a much-expanded set of influences. Studying in Senegal with the Cissokho griot family and in India, where he received a grant to study under the santoor master Pandit Shivkumar Sharma. Part of the celebrated trio House Of Waters, ZT is signed solo to Six Degrees Records.…
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