Deerhoof & Dal Niente with Marcos Balter: Ecstatic Music Festival

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Deerhoof — labeled 'the best band in the world” by Pitchfork and called “one of the most original rock bands to have come along in the last decade” by The New York Times — and the contemporary ensemble Dal Niente will collaborate on a new work for the first time after sharing a bill in Chicago's Millennium Park last summer as part of the Wordless Music Series. The program includes a new work by Brazilian‐born composer Marcos Balter for Deerhoof and Dal Niente, arrangements by Greg Saunier of Deerhoof songs for Dal Niente and a performance of works by Balter for Dal Niente.

Balter's music has been called “minutely crafted” and “utterly lovely” (Chicago Tribune) and “whimsical” and “surreal” (New York Times). The Chicago Tribune praises Balter's “wickedly original sense of humor and a fiercely imaginative palette of instrumental and vocal sounds” and calls Dal Niente “a model of what contemporary music needs,' praising the group’s “frisky eclecticism.”

The Ecstatic Music Festival® returns this winter with more than 120 composers and performers from diverse musical backgrounds coming together for 11 utterly unique and highly original collaborative performances. The festival's musicians – soloists, bands, chamber ensembles, orchestras and everything in between – hail from diverse musical backgrounds, representing a contemporary culture in which the incorporation of many different influences is the norm, not the exception. The festival offers the opportunity for some of today's most compelling musicians to work together in exciting new combinations, allowing them to branch out in fresh, unexpected directions and explore the fertile terrain between classical and popular music. Experience an engaging concert at a festival that is both of and about the present musical moment, at Merkin Concert Hall in the heart of New York City.