Marc Ducret – Gitarre
Jeremy Viner – Saxophon / Klarinette
Kate Gentile – Schlagzeug
Sifters is an international powerhouse trio consisting of guitar legend Marc Ducret (France), rising star drummer/composer Kate Gentile (NYC), and tenor saxophone/clarinet virtuoso Jeremy Viner (Berlin). In their high-energy music, these forward-thinking musicians explore multi-faceted terrain, with free-wheeling improvisation stemming from compact compositional gems.
Gentile and Viner have been developing their playing together for over a decade in Gentile’s bands Find Letter X and Mannequins as well as being sidemen together with Matt Mitchell and Anna Webber. Ducret brings a vast harmonic and textural palette that contextualizes Viner’s abstract melodicism. Ducret’s groove sensibility pairs uniquely with Gentile’s sense of polyrhythmic time streams making for propulsive underpinnings that ground the music within a sui generis rhythmic universe.
This formidable ensemble delivers a sound that is as intricate as it is intense, infusing the avant-garde with both raw, explosive energy and uncanny, quizzical passages. Each member brings a distinctive approach to their instrument, integrating rich sonics with their collective ability to spontaneously navigate complex musical ideas. Intellectually stimulating and viscerally captivating, Sifters revels in charting previously uncharted realms of sound.
“Ducret’s guitar work is highly original and very expressive…marvelous performances….a fully living, breathing vibrancy.” -Grego Edwards, All About Jazz
“Viner’s [playing] is filled with ecstatic, free jazz inflected angularities and the occasional stratospheric wail.” -Christian Carey, Sequenza 21
„A leading figure in the Brooklyn avant garde since the early 2010’s, Gentile’s curiosity, rigor and imagination have resulted in an impressive body of work informed by jazz, new music, death metal, brutal prog and electronica.” -Stewart Smith, The Wire
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Jeremy Viner is a multi-instrumentalist, improviser, composer, and educator involved in a wide range of musical idioms, maintaining an active role in the New York and Berlin experimental music scenes. As a saxophonist and clarinetist, Viner has performed internationally with ensembles led by John Hollenbeck, Steve Lehman, Tyshawn Sorey, Anna Webber, Kate Gentile, Rafiq Bhatia, and many others. Viner is a member of the genre-bending tenor saxophone quartet Battle Trance and the chamber minimalist ensemble Bing & Ruth, two of his longest-running musical collaborations.
Guitarist Marc Ducret, born in Paris in 1957, is known for his dynamic and highly original approach. Attracted by very diverse modes of expression, both in his guitar playing—which integrates a wide variety of sound production techniques—and in his work as a composer, Ducret plays 6 and 12-string electric and acoustic guitars, fretless, baritone, soprano.
As a self-taught musician, he began working in various groups (dance and folk included), and in the studio, before reaching the age of 20. In 1986, he became a member of the first French National Jazz Orchestra. Also in the late ’80s, Ducret led his own trio and toured Europe, Africa, and Asia. In 1991, he began working with Tim Berne and went on to play with Berne in Caos Totale, Bloodcount, and Big Satan. Ducret has several solo recordings to his credit, released on Berne’s Screwgun label and the Winter & Winter label. In the late ’90s, Ducret formed a tentet, Seven Songs, to explore music of the ’60s.
Kate Gentile is a Brooklyn-based drummer and composer who has been active in the NYC jazz and creative music scenes since 2011. Her recent work as a leader includes biome i.i (Obliquity 2023), an album-length piece commissioned by and performed with International Contemporary Ensemble, and the triple album Find Letter X (Pi Recordings 2023) with her band of the same name, featuring Jeremy Viner, Kim Cass, and Matt Mitchell. Kate also co-leads Snark Horse with pianist Matt Mitchell, releasing a 6-CD box set on Pi Recordings in July 2021 featuring Kim Cass, Ben Gerstein, Jon Irabagon, Davy Lazar, Mat Maneri, Ava Mendoza, Matt Nelson, and Brandon Seabrook. Kate has also worked with Michaël Attias, Tim Berne, Anthony Braxton, Cloud Becomes Your Hand, Steve Coleman, Dave Douglas, God Is My Co-Pilot, Miles Okazaki, Chris Speed, Chris Tordini, Anna Webber, and John Zorn. She is a 2024 Guggenheim Fellow for music composition.
marcducret.bandcamp.com
jeremyviner.com
kategentile.bandcamp.com