Cactus Records & Gifts is excited to host an in-store performance by guitar virtuoso Ian Ethan Case on October 1st.
The performance is free, though a $5 (or more) donation is requested to help him cover the costs of touring.
Boston-based multi-instrumentalist Ian Ethan Case is best known for his innovative approach to the 18-string double-neck acoustic guitar and is increasingly gaining recognition both for his unique instrumental compositions and for the highly original playing methods required to perform them.
Ian fluidly combines a variety of self-invented playing techniques necessitated by his multi-layered compositions, which, taken together, have begun to establish the instrument’s musical validity perhaps more so than the work of any other artist. While audiences consistently remark on the visual aspects of watch Ian play, his unusual methods are simply byproducts of the rich, heartfelt, and powerfully uplifting music that he writes and plays.
“… a style beyond even the great double-neckers like Jimmy Page and Richie Sambora…an inventively new vein of guitar playing. It’s entrancing to watch” – (Bill Mickelson, Port Orchard Independent)
In January 2013 Ian was invited to perform with some of the world’s foremost guitarists and bass players as part of Muriel Anderson’s “All-star Guitar Night” at the annual NAMM (National Association of Music Merchants) convention, where he shared the stage with Robben Ford, Victor Wooten, and Stanley Jordan, amongst others. Since, he has gone on to perform with some of the most respected artists in his genre, including international solo bass icon and innovator Michael Manring and Grammy-winnings reed player Paul McCandless (Bela Fleck & the Flecktones, Paul Winter Consort), as well as top notch classical musicians from the Boston Symphony and Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra.
In addition to performing and collaborating with several of his longtime musical heroes, Ian has performed and/or recorded with some of the best up-and-coming acoustic musicians from around the country and beyond, including Jeremy Kittel (Bela Fleck & Abigail Washburn, My Morning Jacket), Nathaniel Smith (Chris Thile, Sarah Jarosz), Japanese harpist Motoshi Kosako (Paul McCandless, Stockton Symphony) and Austrian hang drum virtuoso Manu Delago (Bjork, Anoushka Shankar).
Most recently, after both were featured nationwide on the same NPR segment (“Here & Now”, Dec. 2013), Ian has begun an ongoing collaboration with 4-Time Grammy Award-winning cellist Eugene Friesen (Trio Globo, Paul Winter Consort). The duo premiered their new collaborative works during two recent shows at the Boston Museum of Science Planetarium, with a planned album and international touring to follow.
Ian’s Bozeman performance, at Cactus Records & Gifts, is part of a coast-to-coast tour in support of his most recent solo album “Run Toward The Mountains”, a double-disc album featuring the two sides of his playing: “straight up solo acoustic” double-neck, and at the other end of the spectrum, his meticulously-crafted live looping compositions which make full use of the best 21st-century digital technologies to enable seemingly infinite layers of sound and sophisticated on-the-spot orchestration that extends well beyond the reach of most solo looping performers.
Cactus Records & Gifts is located at 29 W. Main St. in downtown Bozeman and www.cactusrecords.net.
