Description
"All the beauty of Astor Piazolla's music and the spirit of the Kronos Quartet."---CMJ
The Portland-based quintet 3 Leg Torso, coming to The Triple Door for the third time, presents a very real difficulty for inveterate categorizers. The best one-sentence description comes courtesy of the All Music Guide: "Their original tunes incorporate elements of modern chamber music, Middle Eastern and Eastern European folk music and Argentinian tango." This unusual synthesis is delivered with equal parts creativity, intelligence, wit and joie de vivre. In other words, it's great, brainy fun.
From their 1996 start as a trio busking on Portland streets, 3 Leg Torso has advanced their career with a feature on NPR's "All Things Considered", appearances with symphony orchestras, independent film soundtrack work, two commissions for the Portland Institute For Contemporary Art and two CD releases.
Most of the original compositions are generated by charter members Bela Balogh (violin, trumpet) and Courtney Von Drehle (accordian, saxophone, guitar). Their musical comrades are: Gary Irvine (percussion, mallets), Michael Papillo (bass) and Kyle MacLowery (mallets, percussion).
3LT is also going to release a preview single from the upcoming album at *this show only*.
3 Leg Torso performs first, Blind Pilot second.