Andrew D'Angelo & The Choir Invisible | 6.19 | 8PM

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DNA Orchestra is indeed an orchestra, Andrew D'Angelo's volcanic energy as a saxophone player is present, but the music of DNA Orchestra is about a lot more than raucousness. The unabashed nature of the music represents D'Angelo's renewed sense of purpose, thanks to his recent brush with death. In 2008, he had a seizure while driving. Doctors found the cause to be a tennis-ball-sized brain tumor. D'Angelo puts it this way, "After having two brain surgeries, I embarked on a new existence: one of healing."

The DNA Orchestra isn't merely a musical outlet for a performer who dealt with severe illness. The ensemble, and the music itself, is integrally linked to the entire medical event. It is a response to D'Angelo's cancer, and it ultimately played a role in cancer's annihilation.

The band is a community that supported D'Angelo while he healed. The weaving, angular lines of the music are as tenacious as the tendrils of the disease itself. The elusion of emotion carries weight and energy as integral as any cure. "After understanding why cancer had come into my life, I learned how to use my art and music as healing."

The Choir Invisible, presents a highly anticipated debut album on Intakt Records. With Charlotte Greve, Vinnie Sperrazza and Chris Tordini, this trio, oscillating between improvisation and composition, brings together three significant voices from Brooklyn's creative music scene. "The Choir Invisible not only does everyone have equal rights, they also have equal responsibilities, as accompanists and soloists. All three are both melody and sound. The trio began playing without discussing anything at first. Over time all three then brought compositions along, which allowed them to strike varying paths and led to some highly distinctive tracks. No endless, boundless improvisations; instead a symbiosis of spontaneous currents and the urge for structure. The Choir Invisible might nicely describe the potential of a band which, with three instruments, manages to envisage enormous diversity, and much that is not spoken or played can be imagined or heard in our inner ear. In the far dimensions of the trio shines the polyphony of a choir. Euphoric yet rooted in daily life," writes Bert Noglik in the liner notes.