Loop 2.4.3

Loop 2.4.3 is a composer-led band ? think Steve Reich, Harry Partch, Moondog, Clogs (with whom they share a founding member), Frank Zappa, or late 60's Miles Davis. They are composers/instrument inventors/improvisers/performers and ?virtuosi musicians of the highest caliber? (Gordon Stout). Known to employ the gamut of percussion instruments, their new album, Zodiac Dust, uses an expanded palette including strings and two instruments of their invention, the Rose Echo and eLog. Their music has been described as "transportive

percussion odysseys" (The Boston Phoenix), "taut compositions with a stunning improvisational sense" (Time Out Chicago), and as both "action adventures and reveries... all sound[ing] like part of a well-thought-out tradition, only the tradition has never existed until now." (Milo Miles, Fresh Air - NPR)

Loop 2.4.3, Thomas Kozumplik and Lorne Watson, paid their dues in the Heartland (growing up and gigging all over Michigan and the mid-west), on the reservation (Watson taught for and learned from the Saginaw Chippewa Tribe), and in the Ivy League (Kozumplik went to music school at Yale). Their CV's are long lists of awards and accolades, but what really counts is that these men followed their love - they chose to be artists, and artists who hit things!

On Zodiac Dust, their recent album, Loop 2.4.3 utilizes a percussion arsenal, including their own eLog and Rose Echo, plus cello, violin, piano and voice to create a "fusing of mainstream perceptiveness and a post-modern philosophy" that "makes Zodiac Dust something that can be listened to over and over."
(Doug Simpson, Audiophile Audition)

Loop 2.4.3 has performed with Clogs, Newband (Harry Partch Ensemble), Dafnis Prieto, Belle Orchestre, the Books, Evan Ziporyn, Sufjan Stevens, Shara Worden (My Brightest Diamond, the Decemberists), Joe Morello, their late mentor Robert Hohner, dancer/choreographer Alan Good, director John Jeserun, as soloists with the Brooklyn Philharmonic at the BAM Opera House, and at Times Square in a collaboration with Robert Indiana, Michael McKenzie and Teresa Smith. The duo has toured internationally and performed for radio, theater, and television, including The Learning Channel and MTV. They have appearanced at the Sydney Festival, the London Jazz Festival, Merkin Hall, and the Japan Society (NYC) among others.

see: www.loop243.com