About This Show

Sparked by a viewing of Pablo Picasso’s mysterious absinthe glass sculptures at MoMA, renowned cellist Erik Friedlander and his new band Throw A Glass – Uri Caine on piano, Mark Helias on bass, and Ches Smith on drums – spent the next year and a half writing and recording Artemisia, a concept album about the murky history of absinthe and its use as a brain-bending hallucinogen. Artemisia if full of hypnotic meditations on obsession, and songs that optimistically chase euphoria and the “green fairy.” Artemisia is out April 11th on Skipstone Records. The project, produced as a 3LP  boxset features the playing of Friedlander, Uri Caine, Mark Helias and Ches Smith.