NO COVER 4:30pm Show
Photo by Ikaika Pidot
For this performance, Robert Lehmann will be improvising across synth, piano, and looper—building ambient textures and exploring Romantic era, jazz, and minimalist influences.
Robert Lehmann is a mixed Filipino musician who specializes in keyboard-based instruments and has significant experience in Arabic drumming. Lehmann’s keyboard work draws on his many years of studying Western classical music on the piano and reexamines those sounds under the new lights of improvised music and electronic synthesis. He gathers disparate influences across minimalist and classical piano, house and electronica, choral, ambient, jazz, and film scores, particularly drawing on Romantic and Impressionist influences, as well as pulling from classical and folk Arabic music and Afrobeats.
Lehmann plays keys and beats with several Twin Cities groups, including Afrobeats/hip-hop artist Fanaka Nation; Asian American pop trio The Umamies; Afrorock artist Obi Original; Arabic drumming group Yalla Drum; Arabic music chamber group The Arab Band; and his own solo and duo improvised music with Toby Ramaswamy on the drums—a project that is not quite jazz, not quite neoclassical, not quite minimalist, not quite drum and bass.
