ProgMotion: Art Against Agony & Ckraft feat. Jan Zehrfeld
- Location:
- Club Zentral, Hohe Straße 9, 70174 STUTTGART
ProgMotion: Art Against Agony & Ckraft feat. Jan Zehrfeld
ART AGAINST AGONY
art against agony - art against suffering.
The musicians of the art project 'art against agony' wear masks because they want to make sure that the applause at the end is not for their faces, names or bodies, but solely for the music.
Stylistically, the virtuoso jazz/metal faction has already been classified as 'prog-jazz-experimental-brainfuck-metal' (metal.de), in 2017 the band was even called the 'messiah of prog' (progsphere.com) and has previously performed as support acts for German jazz metal legends Panzerballett and British prog rockers Haken.
Lunatic scales, crude polyrhythms and violent dynamic changes between jazz and metal - none of this is for the faint-hearted. art against agony not only challenge themselves on stage during their show, but also the audience enormously.
CKRAFT
Frenchman Charles Kieny is a metalhead accordionist, who once saw a jazz band perform live. A decade later, after having studied Jazz and medieval music at the National Conservatoire in Paris, he gave birth to CKRAFT. "Uncommon Grounds," the band's second album, solidifies the quintet's distinctive style: intense, crushing and mystic. Blending elements of progressive, death, jazz, medieval melodies, saxophone, and synth-accordion, CKRAFT explores uncommon territories somewhere between Meshuggah and John Coltrane. Skilled musicians, including bassist Marc Karapetian - known for his recent collaboration with Tigran Hamasyan - playfully challenge conformism and push the boundaries of what's headbangable. Tonight, CKRAFT is joined by guitarist Jan Zehrfeld from Panzerballett for an evening of weird riffs and improvisatory madness.