A Hot Potato Against a Dark Background

On the 25th of March 2010, musi­cians in asso­ci­a­tion with squib-box pro­vided the live sound­track to a new per­for­mance piece by Bruce McLean (musi­cal direc­tor Sam Belin­fante) at a new non-commercial venue — Testbed1.

A HOT POTATO AGAINST A DARK BACKGROUND — A NEW WORK BY BRUCE MCLEAN, FEATURING A POTATO A BALLGOWN A HOLE A MOVING GOAL MOUTH AND A LARGE COLLAPSING FIREPLACE .

The musi­cians were:

Sam Belin­fante — MD and Cello
Lore Lix­en­berg — Soprano Solo
Fed­erico Reuben — live elec­tron­ics
Adam de la Cour — Gui­tar
Neil Luck — Gui­tar
Javier Car­mona — Per­cus­sion
Lawrence Tat­nall — Trom­bone
Paul Carr — Tape loops

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