Arnold Dreyblatt & Megafaun: Ecstatic Music Festival

About the Event

Often characterized as one of the more rock‐oriented of American minimalists, the Berlin‐based composer and media artist Arnold Dreyblatt has cultivated a strong underground base of fans for his transcendental and euphoric music. The psych‐folk band Megafaun will join Dreyblatt for a rare performance of works created as part of an ongoing, years‐in‐the‐making collaboration, here taking its fullest incarnation yet. Enjoy this performance at Merkin Concert Hall.

Megafaun, who will also perform a solo set, “has consistently pushed the boundaries of folk music by incorporating jazz, psychedelia and both experimental and acoustic rock” says NPR. “They tease out old ideas and combine them with new ones,” says Pitchfork, “affixing Appalachian folk to classic rock, ambient, avant garde, and a kind of musical entropy that pushes many of their songs into sputtering, oddly compelling noise.” Dreyblatt first worked with Megafaun in 2007, which resulted in an American tour performing new works that he composed expressly for the group. Recently reunited for the Hopscotch Festival in North Carolina, they recorded an album together in 2012 that will be released in the near future.

The Ecstatic Music Festival® returns this winter with more than 120 composers and performers from diverse musical backgrounds coming together for 11 utterly unique and highly original collaborative performances. The festival's musicians – soloists, bands, chamber ensembles, orchestras and everything in between – hail from diverse musical backgrounds, representing a contemporary culture in which the incorporation of many different influences is the norm, not the exception. The festival offers the opportunity for some of today's most compelling musicians to work together in exciting new combinations, allowing them to branch out in fresh, unexpected directions and explore the fertile terrain between classical and popular music. Experience an engaging concert at a festival that is both of and about the present musical moment, at Merkin Concert Hall in the heart of New York City.