TAKAHASHI’S SHELLFISH CONCERN
Takahashi's Shellfish Concern combines abstract expressionist visual art with experimental electronic-acoustic music to accentuate the similarities of both during improvised exchanges. Angela Guyton and Rodrigo Constanzo create a new event that requires the audience to consider this merger of music and art as a single expression.
The concept for Takahashi's Shellfish Concern took shape in early 2006 back in their hometown, Miami, Florida. Rodrigo and Angela had both worked along similar lines in Failure, Arc of Beauty, and continued their collaboration after the group's dissolution in 2006.
Now based in Manchester England, Takahashi’s Shellfish Concern is performing with musician Anton Hunter across the UK.
Rodrigo Constanzo was born in Madrid, Spain in 1976. He then spent the next three decades living in Miami, Florida, before moving to Manchester, England where he resides today. He has performed as a solo musician or as part of various groups for the majority of his life, including at the FUTURESONIC Festival in Manchester, the SOUND Festival in Aberdeen, and the GEM DAYS Festival in Huddersfield
“When I sit down to draw, I can no longer ignore sound. Rather, it is too present an element to not be represented at least in part, and however crudely.”
Anton Hunter is a bearded jazz guitarist now living in Manchester, working with a wide range of groups with a strong free-jazz influence, alongside more conventional projects. Co-runs The Noise Upstairs free-improv jam night.
