Jolie Holland U.S. Fall Tour

Fall U.S. tour with one of my favorite singers, Jolie Holland. We’ll be playing together as a duo, interpreting selections from her beautifully haunted records as well as performing new material.  Special Guests Will Oldham (Bonnie “Prince” Billy), Michael Hurley, Matt Bauer. 

For Tour Dates, Tickets and other information visit www.jolieholland.com

Chicago Underground Film Festival

Hot off the heals of a west coast experimental film/video tour… Transmissions makes its’ midwest debut at The 16th Annual Chicago Underground Film Festival. For Schedule Information and Tickets please visit www.cuff.org

One of my recent videos TRANSMISSIONS is traveling to a theater near you! It will be featured in Speculative Frontier, a special experimental film and video program curated by Brel Froebe. Also look for TRANSMISSIONS at The Chicago Underground Film Festival this fall (details forthcoming…)

June tour of Spain and England with one of my favorite singers, Jolie Holland. We’ll be playing together as a duo, interpreting selections from her beautifully haunted records as well as performing new material.

For Tour Dates, Tickets and other information visit www.jolieholland.com

Curated Series at The Stone

This spring I will be curating a month long series of experimental music, film, and mayhem at John Zorn’s east village performance space. I am very humbled by this opportunity and excited to present a diverse program featuring many of my favorite artists. For more information visit www.thestonenyc.com

Some of these very special performances will be available for online streaming at free103.9 TRANSMISSION ARTS. For information about these broadcasts visit http://www.free103point9.org/

5/1 Friday 
8 pm
Loren Conners
Loren Conners (guitar)
Connors’ singular adaptation of the blues is a distinct personal vision combining the Delta bottleneck sound and the ancestral blues voice (appearing as distortion, baying hounds or multi-tracked guitar), with hauntingly unexpected sounds.

10 pm
Shahzad Ismaily
Shahzad Ismaily (instruments)
     

5/2 Saturday 
8 pm
Grey Gersten and Shahzad Ismaily
Grey Gersten (guitar, electronics) Shahzad Ismaily (bass, drums, synth)

10 pm
Jolie Holland
Jolie Holland (violin)


5/3 Sunday 

8 pm  Partyface

10 pm  Frederic Jacques

5/5 Tuesday 
8 pm
Marina Rosenfeld and Anthony Coleman
Marina Rosenfeld (electronics) Anthony Coleman (keyboards)

10 pm
Jeremiah Cymerman Solo
Jeremiah Cymerman (clarinet, electronics)


5/6 Wednesday 
8 and 10 pm
JG Thirlwell’s Manorexia
Elena Park, Olivia De Prato (violin) Miranda Sielaff (viola) Isabel Castellvi (cello) Peter Wise (percussion) Dave Broome (piano) JG Thirlwell (laptop, compositions)


5/7 Thursday 
8 pm
Joe McPhee-Jay Rosen Duo
Joe McPhee(tenor sax) Jay Rosen (drums)
Premiere of a new duo. Five dollars.

10 pm
The Demian Richardson Quartet with John Blum and Daniel Carter
Demian Richardson (trumpet) David Schnug (sax) John Blum (piano) David Moss (bass) David Miller (drums) Daniel Carter ( alto and tenor saxophones, flute, trumpet, clarinet)


5/8 Friday 
8 pm
Cooper-Moore’s Second Spring Acoustic-Electric Trio
Willie Applewhite (trombone) Jason Kao Hwang (violin) Cooper-Moore (handcrafted instruments)

10 pm
The Cooper-Moore Trio
Cooper-Moore (piano) Tom Abbs (bass) Michael Wimberly (drums)


5/9 Saturday 
8 pm
Lucky Dragons with special guests Ches Smith and Grey Gersten
Luke Fischbeck, Sarah Rara (instruments) Ches Smith (drums) Grey Gersten (guitar)

10 pm
Pauline Oliveros
Pauline Oliveros (accordion)
Pauline has been playing the accordion since she was nine years old. Her work is legendary. Each performance is unique, drawing on the energies of audience and environment.


5/10 Sunday 
8 pm
Karl Blau
Karl Blau (guitar, vocals)

10 pm
Nels Cline
Nels Cline (guitar)


MARC RIBOT
55th BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION
Part of a week-long celebration taking place in venues around the city, the three days at the Stone presents some of Marc’s most beloved and cutting edge projects.





5/12 Tuesday 
8 pm
Marc Ribot Solo
Marc Ribot (guitar)
Ribot plays new solo works from his recent European tour and selections from his three previously released solo albums.

10 pm
Rootless Cosmopolitans/Shrek
Marc Ribot (guitar) Christine Bard (percussion) Sim Cain (drums) Sebastian Steinberg (bass) Special guests


A TRIBUTE TO RIBOT
Marco Capelli, Anthony Coleman, Grey Gersten, Jon Madof, Eyal Maoz, Roger Kleier
Six colleagues, fans and cohorts of Marc Ribot pay tribute to the master in this special night of musical madness. Three performances per set feature music from several of Ribot’s most beloved projects.





5/13 Wednesday 
8 pm
Marco Capelli/Anthony Coleman/Grey Gersten play MARC RIBOT
Marco Capelli, Grey Gersten (guitar) Anthony Coleman (piano) Billy Martin (drums)
Marco Capelli will play material from Ribot’s eclectic solo repertoire. Anthony Coleman will perform a variety of Ribot originals, and Grey Gersten will present “Dying Cowboy” and “Etude #4 Bombasto” in duo with Billy Martin.

10 pm
John Madof and Rashanim/Eyal Maoz/Roger Kleier’s El Pocho Loco Project play MARC RIBOT
Jon Madof, Eyal Maoz, Roger Kleier (guitar) Shanir Blumenkranz, Trevor Dunn (bass) Mathias Kuntzli, Ches Smith (drums) Annie Gosfield (keyboards) Rich Stein (percussion)
Three exciting young guitarists pay tribute to the master—performing material from Yo I Killed Your God, Cubanos Postizos and more.


5/14 Thursday 
8 pm
Marc Ribot plays the works of Frantz Casseus with guitarist Marco Cappelli
Marc Ribot (guitar) Marco Cappelli (guitar)
The recordings of the works of Haiti’s greatest composer for the classical guitar is Ribot’s tribute to his late friend and guitar teacher, Frantz Casseus. Although the Villa Lobos and Haitian folk influenced style differs from that of his own compositions, Ribot’s rendition remains true to the spirit of these beautiful, rhythmically delicate pieces.

10 pm
Sun Ship
Marc Ribot, Mary Halvorson (guitars) Chad Taylor (drums) Jason Ajemian (bass)
The premiere of Ribot’s newest quartet named after the John Coltrane album.


5/15 Friday 
8 and 10 pm
John Zorn IMPROV NIGHT—a STONE benefit
John Zorn (sax) Grey Gersten (guitar) and many special guests


5/16 Saturday 
8 pm
Metal Mountains
Helen Rush (vocals, guitar) Samara Lubelski (violin, bass) Pat Gublar (guitar)
Metal Mountains—If you collected the 500 calmest, most beautiful, starkest, most minimalist records of the past century, you would have a seed which under the most fortuitous of circumstances might blossom into Metal Mountains. Back before the New Weird America was new, or weird (or even American) Helen Rush, Pat Gubler, Samara Lubelski, were turning on freakniks at Soho lofts and the Cooler (R.I.P.) to the tear-inducing gorgeousness of their haunted stylings in bands like The Tower Recordings and Hall of Fame. Listening to Metal Mountains is like staring at the stars on a cloudless night with Carl Sagan whispering in your ear. If you are not overwhelmed by a sense of the mystery and grandeur of the Universe, have your doctor lower your dosage. Five dollars.

10 pm
Steel City Boogie
Henry Flynt (guitar)
Henry Flynt, who has about twenty albums out of archived performances, returned to live performance in 2008 after a twenty-five year absence. For several performances in 2008, Henry Flynt appeared with his niece Libby Flynt. In the last 2008 performance in London, Henry appeared solo. When Henry and Libby began, the composition was entitled “Rockin’ Midnight”. The set is a long rock instrumental in which Flynt plays lead guitar against a tonic pedal-point rhythm track, mixing and matching styles. It ends with a coda alluding to Henry’s earliest duet work with La Monte Young. Henry has updated his sound, using more effects than in his guitar work of the last century. It’s all “raga rock,” a hard-rock adaptation of the country selection “Lonesome Train Dreams” on his album “Graduation”. At the Stone, Henry will appear solo. As the composition continues to evolve. Flynt is steering in the direction of funky country, and has changed the title accordingly “Steel City Boogie”. Fifteen dollars.


5/17 Sunday 
8 pm
Good for Cows
Devin Hoff (bass) Ches Smith (drums)
Good for Cows continue their exploration of modular forms, aural cues and electronics.

10 pm
Analogos
Michael Schumacher (analog synthesizer) Ed Tomney (analog synthesizer) Kato Hideki (analog synthesizer) James Fei (analog synthesizer) Sergei Tcherepnin (analog synthesizer) David Galbraith (analog synthesizer) Kabir Carter (analog synthesizer) Stefan Tcherepnin (analog synthesizer)
Performances and informal discussions centered on “vintage” and other analog synthesizers. This is their first performance outside of Diapason Gallery


5/19 Tuesday (MB)
8 pm
Abdoulaye Alhassane
Abdoulaye Alhassane (guitar, gurmi, vocals) Moussa Mahaman (guitar, bass) Kali Fastaeu (nai flute, soprano sax) Idrissa Kone (tama, gasu)
Original Music of the Niger River and Sahara from Mali and Niger led by Abdoulaye Alhassane.

10 pm
Neel Murgai Ensemble
Neel Murgai (sitar, daf, vocals) Mat Maneri (viola) Sameer Gupta (tabla) Greg Heffernan (cello)
The NME performs new music that straddles cultures, continents and eras: the ancient future traditional. Neel has assembled this talented ensemble after years of experimentation with different groups and instrumentations. Best described as Indo-chamber jazz, their sound ranges from an overtone singing, droning minimalism to intricate arrangements of raga based melodies and mathematical rhythmic structures, with healthy doses of improvisation throughout.


5/20 Wednesday 
8 pm
LA OTRACINA Presents “Purple Whales Of The Sun, Who Dareth To Swim Shall Drown In Thy Bliss”
Adam Kriney (drums, vocals) Evan Sobel (bass IV) Philippe Ortanez (electric guitar)
They is The Crystal Wizards Of The Cosmic Weird. An swirling epic ocean of progressive psychedelia swarming with pirates of proto-metal glory ravaged by sea-hag tunes of the eternal sludge doom and ascend upon thee, oh, brothers and sisters do not fear, a siren song of acidic jazz-rock will mellow out yer yellow. Five dollars.

10 pm
Matta Llama
Arik (bass) George (guitar) Phil (keys) Spencer (drums, vocals)
New York dwellers Matta Llama have been churning their potion for the past eight (or is it nine?) years, bubbling up sounds of instantaneous psych blurbs, false jazz intrusions and the freeing of forgotten spirits. Consisting of yer basic rock formation, guitar, bass, keys and drums, Matta Llama posit a challenge to modernity without guilt or sympathy toward the common ironics present in the shit-storm known as the aughts. A carrying, rolling sound that resounds in the round, yer mind. Five dollars.


5/21 Thursday 
8 pm
MAP
Tatsuya Nakatani (percussion) Mary Halvorson (guitar) Reuben Radding (bass)



10 pm
Messages
Taketo Shimada (tanpura, voice) Tres Warren (synthesizer, ukelin,
bowed guitar)
Lonesome Noh death, cosmic Hindustani meditation, structured improv heterodyne drone. Five dollars.


5/22 Friday 
8 pm
Grey Gersten, G. Lucas Crane, Ryan Sawyer
Grey Gersten (guitar) G. Lucas Crane (tapes, broken equipment) Ryan Sawyer (drums)

10 pm
Bill Nace
Bill Nace (guitar) Greg Kelley (trumpet) Jake Meginsky (percussion)


5/23 Saturday 
8 pm
Roses and Riots
Martha Colburn (films, light improvisations) Laura Ortman (violin) Ryan Sawyer (drums) Mike Evans (foley effects) Matthew Varvil (flute) Haleh Abghari, Nathan Whipple
This evening of sounds/music, accompanied by the animated films and hand-fashioned colorful multi-projections. A special shadow play and surprise guests. The evening plays with drug enforcement/witch hunts/religion/power.

10 pm
A Cantankerous Agility by The Hat City Intuitive
The Many Spaceships (guitar, saxes) Nix Pickler (drums) Sax Blabbeth (bass, agony pipes) The Heckler (keys) Gene Moore (guitar) Special Guest Kato Hideki (bass, electronics)
Chaotic entropy. Group Therapy. Nineteen years of abusive behaviour. Ten dollars.


5/24 Sunday 
8 pm
The Jungle
Stephanie Barber
Sound, video, words, my body. My mouth. Many soft colorful fabric snakes. An unreliable narrator in a self imposed exile in the jungle—the sheer terror of thousands of square miles of rapid life and death, the superfluousness of this metaphor for existence—a questionable lecture on plant socio-emotionality—a symphony for this flora—a radio show which provides the courage and fortification of a direct god line to the jungle floor.

10 pm
J. Gräf Sheppard
Jenny Graf (voice)
J. Graf Sheppard has been an active participant in the international avante garde music scene since 1996. Building vivid, compelling soundworlds using the Tranoe (a Peter B. instrument in the ambrazier family), guitar and voice, her music as one half of Metalux and Harrius as well as her solo project J.Graf has bent the ears and minds of those who venture into her world.


5/26 Tuesday 
8 pm
Nate Wooley
Nate Wooley (trumpet) Josh Sinton (bass clarinet) Matt Moran (vibraphone)
John Hebert (bass) Harris Eisenstadt (drums)
A new group from Wooley exploring aleatoric counterpoint, jazz tradition and timbral exploration.

10 pm
Dennis D Anderton
Dennis D Anderton (erhu, oscillator)
2008’s Spirit Numbers is stripped down to its essential feeling and practice. Anderton reveals the skeleton of his compositional technique in songs about peace, faith, dance and doubt.


5/27 Wednesday 
8 pm
Lary Seven
Lary Seven (electronics)
The analogue society’s minister of audiology and star of the avant garde showcase.

10 pm
Nonhorse: Non-Amoral Confusion/Drone
G. Lucas Crane (tapes, broken equipment)
Several sound performance pieces utilizing and about degraded samples, analogue tape, handmade broken equipment, source confusion and media fear.


5/28 Thursday 
8 pm


Nowhere You! Everywhere The Electric!

A continuing series curated by Grey Gersten that brings together contemporary experimental film-makers and musicians for unique collaborative performances.


Alan Licht, Kato Hideki, Grey Gersten, Ursula Scherrer
Alan Licht (guitar) Kato Hideki (bass) Grey Gersten (guitar), Ursula Scherrer (projections)

10 pm
Russian Tslarag


Hypnotic death rock music mixed with physical force. Plastic bags, romantic green fingernails and top notch show-menship. Five dollars.


5/29 Friday 
8 pm
Fursaxa and Mary Lattimore


Tara Burke (vocals, keyboards, flutes, bells) Mary Lattimore (harp)
Music inspired by the rhythms of plants and their individual songs, healing sound patterns to listen to in waking/dreaming states when ordinary speech no longer suffices.

10 pm
Paul Metzger


Paul Metzger (banjo)
Improvisations on modified banjo.


5/30 Saturday 
8 pm
Tristan Dahn


Tristan Dahn (guitar, saxophone, clarinet, guzheng, percussion, tapes, electronics)
Combining preconceived forms and improvisational methods, Tristan Dahn seeks to create lush narrative soundscapes, using a variety of instruments played with both traditional and extended techniques. Five dollars.

10 pm
Visitations


Chris (guitars, keys, vocals) Brendan (guitars, keys, vocals) Janane (guitars, keys, vocals)
Visitations is a Portland, Maine-based group of free-form minimal psych-folk purveyors. Five dollars.


5/31 Sunday 
8 pm
Rafi Bookstabber and Paul Grimes

Rafi Bookstabber (analog synth, guitar, sarangi, drums, voice, tape, flute) Paul Grimes (analog synth, guitar, sarangi, drums, voice, tape, flute)

New project from underground tape duo Death Chants is seriously zoned folk drone raga trance bliss-outs that stretch the death chants sound further into the realm of angus maclise damaged ecstasy. Five dollars.

10 pm
Aki Onda

Aki Onda (cassettes, electronics)

Aki Onda plays field-recordings collected by himself by cassette. Walkman over a span of two decades.