(Avant-Garde, Modern Creative, Experimental) Causing A Tiger (Carla Kihlstedt, Matthias Bossi, Shahzad Ismaily) - How We Held Our Post - 2011, MP3, 320 kbps

The process of Causing A Tiger is always unpredictable, especially in dreams. The tiger may have the head of a fish, or the tail of a mouse. It may be green, or it may be covered entirely in buttons. In these inspirations and aberrations, all is revealed, nothing is sacred. This band never rehearses, but plays a rigorous, improvised set that at times sounds like devotional meditation, other times like a travelogue written while dreaming, and still other times like it might have been ripped from the pages of an underground American Songbook. For each live show, we set parameters that allow us to test the boundaries of expression and logic, often evoking a puzzling sense of familiarity. We are, all three, hopelessly dedicated to each other both onstage and off. Regardless of the tenor of the music, be it gross or delicate, subtle or barbaric, we remain accepting and exposed to anything forged in the heat of sonic congress.
"Causing a Tiger... went off the deep end in all the right ways... Textures were intermingled beautifully, and this group truly improvised as a collective... They created their own musical world in which they were all-powerful and which the rest of us could merely observe. It was quite an experience."

Carla Kihlstedt - violin, voice
Matthias Bossi - Keyboards, percussion, drums, voice
Shahzad Ismaily - bass, guitar, percussion, electronics, voice