Chris Corsano

Group Inerane / Flower-Corsano Duo - Kinning Park Complex, Glasgow, Fri 2 Dec

Two transcendent groups in a Victorian school turned artists’ studio

9 Dec 2011

This was always going to be special: two of the most transcendent groups on earth in the bohemian environs of a Victorian school building turned artists’ studio. The diverse crowd is not left disappointed. Mick Flower and Chris Corsano mesmerise with a…

Sonic Youth founder Thurston Moore brings his fourth solo album to Glasgow

We look back on the career of the legendary DIY music icon

15 Nov 2011

Once upon a time in Stirling, a counter-cultural icon walked among the people and played his guitar and snapped up their Scottish country dance records. The year was 2005, when Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore came to the central belt to perform at…

Rangda brings together Sir Richard Bishop, Ben Chasny and Chris Corsano

20 May 2010

Put together three instrumental virtuosos: Sir Richard Bishop of the Sun City Girls on guitar; Ben Chasny of Comets on Fire and Six Organs of Admittance also on guitar; and free-improv drummer Chris Corsano, who has played in the past with Thurston…

Sir Richard Bishop

17 Feb 2010

For the past three decades, avant-garde guitar wizard, Sir Richard Bishop has dazzled, confounded and disturbed, both as a member of Arizona freaks Sun City Girls, and as a wildly inventive solo artist. While less deranged than Sun City Girls’ sprawling…

Chris Corsano and Heather Leigh Murray

19 Mar 2009

IMPROVISATION Something remarkable happens mid-way through this duo between drummer Chris Corsano and pedal steel guitarist/vocal siren Heather Leigh Murray. For the first half of the set the pair pound at their instruments with a driving ferocity…

Various - Rough Trade Shop: Counter Culture 08

22 Jan 2009

MOST THINGS In today’s, blog-a-minute, ‘download my free songs!’, digital overload age, there is such a thing as too much information. Therefore, it takes people like those at Rough Trade Shop (and of course the discerning critic types at The List…

Chris Corsano and Massimo Pupillo

27 Mar 2008

EXPERIMENTAL The Ark, Edinburgh, Fri 14 Mar With scheduled headliners Italian skronk power trio Zu depleted in ranks by a broken-limbed drummer, last-minute reinforcements come in the shape of ubiquitous sticks-man Chris Corsano, briefly home from his…

Exposure - Chris Corsano

5 Jun 2007

Chris Corsano is a drummer from New England, now resident in Edinburgh. He’s played extensively with sax player Paul Flaherty, Thurston Moore’s Dream/Aktion Unit and Evan Parker. He’s also played solo with Edinburgh noise doyens, Giant Tank, and on last…