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- Artist: Brian Marsella’s IMAGINARIUM
- Date: 03/28/26
- Time: 3:30pm
- Venue: Big Ears Music Festival
- City: Knoxville , TN
- Country: US
- Age restrictions: No Minors
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- Notes: If you don’t already know that Brian Marsella is one of the most versatile and prized keyboardists in New York’s modern “downtown” circuit, simply look at the cast of collaborators on Medietas, the sprawling 2024 album from the collective he calls iMAGiNARiUM. There’s Cyro Baptista on percussion and vocals, Meg Okura on violin, Anwar Marshall on drums, Eyal Maoz on guitar—and that’s just a sample of the dozen-plus people that sometimes form iMAGiNARiUM. The vision is as sprawling as the lineup, as Marsella’s compositions ping-pong between noisy Zappa antics and pointillist jazz as sublime as a sunrise, between nasty funk turbocharged with complicated rhythms and spectral symphonic blues laced with flute and ngoni.