Highly rhythmic and grooving jazz with funk and folk sensibilities. One of the Most Manically Obsessive, Spasmodic and Musical Drummers in Jazzâ (JazzTimes) Melds American Folk, Hip Hop, Jazz, Armenian & Moroccan Music for this new album

10 MP3 Songs in this album (62:43) !
Related styles: Jazz: Contemporary Jazz, World: Drumming, Featuring Drums

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âHe swam toward reggae and away from it; he played patterns between snare and high-hat that distantly suggested drum-and-bass rhythm, but didnât stick around long enough to be identified; he sped through disco and parade rhythms in five-second stretches; he used his sticks to add extra hits to the bass drum; with mind over matter, he played a melodic solo on the rims of his drums.â -The New York Times
For his fifth album âLines of Oppressionâ (May 10th), drummer, composer and bandleader Ari Hoenig was sparked by the hip hop and jazz from his hometown of Philly, American folk music performed by his parents, and his recent years studying and performing in Morocco and Haiti. âThis is a dream band of mine,â says Ari, who is joined by Tigran Hamayan (piano, beat box), Gilad Hekselman (guitar) and bassists Orlando Le Fleming and Chris Tordini. âThereâs a profound connection â the interplay is off the hook!â
Hoenig âattacks his kit like a child does pots and pans, with limbs flailing, face contorted in delight. From his physical mayhem comes music of unsurpassed depth and controlâ (Philadelphia Weekly). He also proves to be a very melodic drummer, treating the instrument as a means for melody and harmony. Itâs mesmerizing to hear him organically transform the drums to a chromatic instrument, by manipulating the drumheads. âHoenigâs penchant for melody took center stage when he introduced ââAnthropologyâ on his drum set,â writes Downbeat. ââ¦he closed out the set by leading the crowd in an unaccompanied sing-along of âThis Little Light of Mine.ââ
The title âLines of Oppressionâ came to Ari while on tour in Haiti, in 2007. âDuring the morning hours in Port au Prince there were longs lines of people looking for work. Contractors would hire people on the spot if they needed laborers that day. Within the lines there was always a lot of arguing and fighting. Sometimes people started standing in line right after work, to have a better chance of being chosen the next day.â
âLoves Feathered Nailsâ is a simple, haunting piano response to the theme from Eyes Wide Shut, and âHigher to Hayastan,â is the bandâs break-beat take on Armenian music. âArrows and Loopsâ is in eleven and rooted in Bulgarian dance rhythms, âEphemeral Eyesâ inspired Ariâs time spent with a Playstation game, and âMoaninââ by Art Blakey is one of the first songs Hoenig ever learned to play. âI heard the melody so strongly and wanted to make it sing on the drums,â says Ari. âIf you think it sounds a little weird, trust me itâs better that than me actually singing it.â
A native of the historic jazz city of Philadelphia, Hoenig, in addition to his work a bandleader, is one of the most sought-after sidemen of his generation. He has appeared on nearly one hundred recordings and worked with a diverse spectrum of artists, including guitarists Mike Stern, Pat Martino, Wayne Krantz and Kurt Rosenwinkel, saxophonists Joshua Redman and Chris Potter, harpist Edmar Castaneda, bassist / vocalist Richard Bona and many more. Heâs developed deep musical relationships with pianists representing three generations of boundless jazz creativity: Kenny Werner, Jean-Michel Pilc and recent Monk competition winner, Tigran Hamasyan. With the release of âLines of Oppression,â Hoenig takes another important step in his creative journey and advances the language of jazz in the process.
www.arihoenig.com / Contact: Carla Parisi at Kid Logic, kidlogicmedia@gmail.com or 973-563-8204