July 19, 2015 by PGrant - 0 comments

TILTED AXES @ CONCERT OF COLORS IN THE PRESS

Here’s a collection of some of the press and photo coverage that came out of it (videos & recordings asap):

FLICKR Photos – TILTED AXES @ Concert of Colors – photos are all downloadable – credit: Jocelyn Gonzales
Dress Rehearsal in the Funk Lab at United Sound: https://www.flickr.com/photos/kimba2/sets/72157653692200003
CofC – Tilt 1 – July 11: https://www.flickr.com/photos/kimba2/sets/72157653722014784
CofC – Tilt 2 – July 12: https://www.flickr.com/photos/kimba2/sets/72157656035775272

IXITI – The Experience Engine – Interview with PG of Tilted Axes
http://www.ixiti.com/20150707447/stories/detroit-music-takes-the-stage-at-the-concert-of-colors/

DETROIT FREE PRESS – Coverage of the Concert of Colors w/ Tilted photos:
http://www.freep.com/picture-gallery/entertainment/2015/07/13/concert-of-colors-series-finale-featuring-don-was/30101333/

OAKLAND PRESS – Revue of Don Was’ All-Star Revue w/ Walk Thru Walls (members of Tilted Axes)
http://www.theoaklandpress.com/arts-and-entertainment/20150713/review-don-was-revue-electrifies-mojos-legacy-at-concert-of-colors

The adventure continues. With the completion of our this project, we are already planning the next events for the 2015-2016 in the USA and abroad.
Thanks again to everyone who made this recent work possible and a reality. Count on us moving forward and hoping to see you at our next Tilt.
We can be anywhere!

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June 28, 2015 by PGrant - 0 comments

Tilted Axes @ CofC2015

Two weekends away…
http://www.tiltedaxes.net/tiltedaxes.html

“We’ve all encountered the strolling band in a café or even a marching brass band on the streets, but Tilted Axes is something else. For one thing, encountering a phalanx of electric guitarists with small amplifiers strapped to their waists is most unusual. Creating electric guitar music that physically moves is the brainchild of Detroit native Patrick Grant. He moved on to New York in 1985 after four years rocking with Walk Thru Walls and built a bigger music career that includes avant garde theater. But he wasn’t done with us yet. Detroit, along with New York and Düsseldorf, Germany, is one of the locales where an incarnation of his Tilted Axes musical theater has manifested itself. Tilted Axes cuts musical pathways through the urban landscape, turning neighborhoods into sonic narratives and gets musicians off the stage and into the crowd.” – 2015 Concert of Colors web site

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May 8, 2015 by PGrant - 0 comments

TILTED AXES to Perform at Detroit’s CONCERT OF COLORS July 11 & 12

Various locations in Midtown, Detroit
Saturday & Sunday Afternoon

The Concert of Colors is metro Detroit’s free annual diversity music festival. It is produced by the Arab American National Museum with partners Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Detroit Institute of Arts, Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, ACCESS, Midtown Detroit Inc. and University of Michigan – Detroit Center. The goal of this five-day festival is uniting metro Detroit’s diverse communities and ethnic groups by presenting musical acts from around the world. Over its 23-year history, the festival has become a artistic highlight of metro Detroit’s summer festival season, and one of the few free-admission music festivals remaining locally.

World music, including the indigenous music of the Motor City, is the major focus of the Concert of Colors, but not the only focus. The festival also offers ethnic food and merchandise vendors and an annual Forum on Community, Culture and Race, which examines the role of arts and culture in overcoming racial and ethnic barriers.

The Concert of Colors was established by Ismael Ahmed – then head of the Dearborn, Michigan-based human services organization ACCESS – and New Detroit in 1993 as a one-day event at Chene Park on Detroit’s riverfront. The inaugural event drew a modest crowd to Chene Park, but by 1999, some 10,000 music lovers were coming out each year. The festival expanded to three days in 2001, when it was part of the official festivities for Detroit’s 300th birthday, drawing an audience of 100,000. In recent years, annual attendance at the Concert of Colors has been about 80,000.

More iNFO at: http://www.tiltedaxes.com/tiltedaxes.html

May 8, 2015 by PGrant - 0 comments

WALK THRU WALLS Reforms to Perform at Detroit All-Star Review Concert 2015

TILTED AXES DETROIT members Eric Iverson, Patrick Grant, Jude Closson, & Dean Western reform the original WALK THRU WALLS new wave band as part of the DON WAS DETROIT ALL-STAR REVUE 2015 CONCERT on July 12th.

This year’s revue honors 80s Detroit radio personality THE ELECTRIFYING MOJO whose on-air journey of musical and social development shaped a generation of music-lovers in Detroit and throughout southeastern Michigan and Canada and was of importance to the development of Detroit techno.

Presented by
The Concert of Colors

Max M. Fisher Music Center
3711 Woodward Ave.
Detroit, MI
8 PM

WALK THRU WALLS was a new wave band on the Detroit scene from 1981-1984. The nucleus of the group was songwriters Patrick Grant (synthesizers & vocals) and Eric Iverson (guitar & vocals). Grant is a composer and performer living in NYC since 1985 and is the creator of Tilted Axes: Music for Mobile Electric Guitars. His work history includes John Cage, the Philip Glass studio, Billy Joel & Quincy Jones, avant-garde theatre visionaries Robert Wilson, The Living Theatre, and he is currently an active member in The Orchestra of Crafty Guitarists lead by Robert Fripp. Iverson is an artist, musician, and programmer from Detroit. His other musical collaborations over the years include creating techno music with Ex Machina, making effects pedals with Red Panda, and he is also a founding member and regular performer with the Detroit branch of Tilted Axes. Dean Western (electric bass) has been playing in Detroit bands for over thirty years. He has had the pleasure of working with many creative and dedicated people during this time and is pleased to be a part of this event. Jude Closson (percussion) has played drums and guitar with rock/alternative bands in the Detroit area since the 80s. He started out on drums with new wave group Walk Thru Walls and moved on to many other punk/rock groups and into the present day with Celtic Rock group Bill Grogan’s Goat. WTW thanks everybody involved.