Erik Friedlander's The Throw Live

Erik Friedlander’s great band The Throw is coming to Boston for one day only, Sunday, May 7 at 1p. The band – featuring Uri Cain on piano; Mark Helias on bass; and Ches Smith on drums – is an explosive group that you don’t wanna miss! The Throw’s latest album A QUEENS’ FIREFLY (Skipstone Records, April 29, 2022) finds the miraculous within the routine, taking inspiration from the small moments of life to create an overflow of joy and optimism.  While writing the tracks that would come to make up A Queens’ Firefly, Friedlander was struck by a Virginia Woolf quote from To The Lighthouse: “What is the meaning of life? That was all – a simple question… The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead, there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark.” Woolf’s quotation can apply to music as well – music is given meaning by musicians arranging and performing it. But outside the frame of any particular piece is the magic of the chemistry between musicians, which percolates and creates those ‘daily miracles.’ Friedlander composed a collection of songs that gives the musicians a structure for improvisation and sets the stage for fireworks. The band plays with a loose fearlessness that encourages spontaneous eccentricities and moments of synchronicity that were unforeseen, even by its players.