Northern Spy Presents: Arthur Doyle and his New Quiet Screamers + Loren Connors & Margarida Garcia + En
Saxophonist/flutist/singer Arthur Doyle is hardly alone in his position as a marginal jazz figure. In an art form known for its many trials and tribulations (both artistic and financial), Doyle hasn’t made his situation any easier by attempting to carve a singular path along the music’s outskirts. Performing in a style he calls “free jazz soul,” Doyle combines the liberated freedom flights of the avant-garde with the gritty, gut-wrenching emotion of gospel and R&B.
Arthur Doyle will be joined tonight by a cooperative of his sonic and attitudinal acolytes, including the Louisiana-based curator and sound artist Robert Peterson and members of the Brooklyn-based avant-psych band NYMPH. Peterson began this process in Summer of 2010 when he contacted Doyle to perform at a NYMPH show in Doyle’s hometown of Birmingham; the show climaxed in a joyous collaboration of all three entities, and their personal and performative connection has grown, organically and forward-moving, since. Peterson will be augmenting Doyle’s vocals and saxophone with ambient, mesmeric loops chopped from real-time source-recordings made amid the performance. Edifying Doyle’s inflammatory, improvisational alto sax and trademark “voice-o-phone” with a polyrhythmic and textural support-system, NYMPH will warp its unique cavalcade of exuberant shred-rock into a tonally more subdued and sensitive approach akin to their exploratory, loving performances of pieces by Don Cherry, Sonny Sharrock and Pharoah Sanders. As has become characteristic since the band’s recent expansion to an eight-piece, NYMPH will be enriching it’s guitar-centric attack with baritone sax, clarinet, trumpet, tape-delayed drones and a shuddering jungle of hand percussion sounds. What will transpire is a true genre-bending set of risk-taking improv and ebullient sonic agglomeration. Read more about the project.
Share – free audio & video jam
What is share?
Share is an open jam, not just for digirati, but for all new culture lovers. Participants bring their portable equipment, plug into our system, improvise on each others’ signal and perform live audio and video. We furnish the amplification and projection. Share happens every Sunday.
open jams and walk-in sets — Bring your equipment/instruments/gear etc. to join the jam!
audio jam: Prepared and spontaneous music from eight plus simultaneous performers. This is the time and place to perform a piece of music you’ve written and hear it on a large sound system, improvise spontaneously with other participants, get feedback on your latest project or try out that new max patch/software setup. Bring your noise maker of choice and an XLR, quarter-inch or RCA cable to join.
video jam: multi-user live video synthesis. Generating an immersive visual environment, in the SHARE tradition, in which multiple participants are able to jointly compose the video output. Try out and learn about new VJ wetware. As with the audio, walk-in sets are encouraged. Bring your clips or camera or laptop/amiga and VGA, S-Video, or RCA cables to join
8pm, free —
Share @ Issue Project Room @ The (OA) Can Factory
232 3rd Street, 3rd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11215
direction/map:
http://issueprojectroom.org/contact
http://is.gd/ljow
SHARE is always 100% FREE!! (no admission!)
Show up early!!! and stay late!!
http://share.dj/share
http://facebook.com/sharenyc
http://issueprojectroom.or
Paul Flaherty Quartet + Indignant Senility + Family Underground w/ DJ Sets by Expressway Yo-Yo Dieting
Saxophonist Paul Flaherty is a pure free-improv player, using no written tunes or pre-arranged outlines. He performs here with his quartet, which includes trombonist Steve Swell, violinist/vocalist and noise artist C. Spencer Yeh, and seminal punk-jazz drummer Weasel Walter.
Pat Maherr performs as both Indigent Senility and his DJ moniker Expressway Yo-Yo Dieting, the second being with Danish free-drone duo Family Underground. Maherr, based in Hubbard, Oregon, has previously split his time between a plethora of monikers, from the chopped and screwed hiphop of DJ Yo Yo Dieting to Sisprum Vish’s lo-fi noise, developing the gritty collage sensibility which he’s mastered to a disturbing degree.
Sagittarius A-Star U-Nite featuring Second Family Band + Trulofa Trio + Matt Valentine + The Aquarian Foundation
Sagittarius A-Star is the new incarnation of the legendary Italian label Qbico. Qbico specialized in limited edition, hand-painted vinyls releases, ranging from free jazz to Japanese psychedelia, free-folk, and electronic improvisation. The special aesthetic of the colored vinyls and the limited edition cover art are testaments to the dedication and skill that goes into each of Sagitarraus A Records.
No Mor Musik + The Rat Bastard Experience
The Rat Bastard Experience is led by free jazz drummer Marc Edwards (Cecil Taylor Unit), who appears here with a motley crew of free jazz “anti-fame nihilists.” NO MOR MUSIK’s punk jazz fuses the highest and lowest brows with no intermediary. Weasel Walter’s 6-string bass and Nondor Nevai’s drumming are “energy in the wild.”
First Annual ALBERT AYLER FESTIVAL on Roosevelt Island
ESP Live and ISSUE Project Room Present
The 1st Annual Albert Ayler Festival on Roosevelt Island
Record Fair & Musical Celebration
“Music Is the Healing Force of the Universe”
In celebration of the life and music of legendary free-jazz tenor-saxophonist Albert Ayler, ESP-Disk’ and Issue Project Room, in conjunction with Roosevelt L!ve have curated a day-long free concert on Roosevelt Island, Saturday July 10th from 2-10pm, in honor of the groundbreaking musician’s 74th birthday. With performances by some of the most prolific artists dedicated to pushing the boundaries in the avant-jazz world the same way Ayler did over 40 years ago, this festival will feature sets from The New Atlantis Sextet with Marshall Allen, William Hooker, Charles Gayle, Gunter Hampel, Giuseppi Logan, and more all taking place at RiverWalk Commons on picturesque Roosevelt Island: NYC’s Best Kept Secret.
The outdoor festival will also feature a record fair with a variety of new and used vinyl vendors hosted by ESP-Disk’s own in-house retail operation, ESP Records.
Great live music, a great selection of vinyl & CDs, great food from the local Roosevelt Island restaurants and a view of Manhattan that can’t be beat. What more could a music lover want on a summer day?
Location & Directions:
Riverwalk Commons, Roosevelt Island, New York, F Train to Roosevelt Island Map
Performance Schedule:
2pm
Giuseppi Logan Quartet
Matt Lavelle: trumpet, bass clarinet
Francois Grillot: bass
Dave Miller: drums
Giuseppi Logan: alto sax, bass clarinet (ESP 1007, 1013, 1055)
3pm
Charles Gayle Trio
Michael Wimberly: drums
TBA: bass
Charles Gayle: tenor sax
4pm
Gunter Hampel Trio
Gunter Hampel: vibraphones, bass clarinet (ESP 1042)
5pm
Flow Trio
Louie Belogenis: tenor sax (ESP 4052)
Charles Downs: drums (ESP 4052)
Joe Morris: bass (ESP 4052, 4056)
6pm
William Hooker Trio featuring Sabir Mateen
David Soldier: mandolin, banjo, violin
Sabir Mateen: saxophone, flute, clarinet
William Hooker: drums, spoken word
7pm
New Atlantis Sextet featuring Marshall Allen
Ed Ricart: guitar
Sam Lohman: tba
Andrew Barker: drums
Danny Ray Thompson: flute
Marshall Allen: alto saxophone (ESP 1008, 1014, 1017, 1045, 3033, 4002, 4054, 4060)
8pm
DJ Spun (Rong/DFA)
Saturday July 10, 2010 from 2pm-10pm
$ FREE $
ESP LIVE and Issue Project Room Presents in conjunction with Roosevelt L!ve:
The 1st Annual
Albert Ayler Festival
‘Record Fair & Musical Celebration’
Riverwalk Commons, Roosevelt Island, New York
About Albert Ayler
(July 13, 1936 – November 25, 1970)
“Music is the Healing Force of the Universe,” the title of prolific free-jazz musician Ayler’s fierce work for the Verve label in 1969, sums up his musical vision and prowess behind the tenor-saxophone. Born July 13th, 1936, Ayler didn’t make his mark playing his way up the ranks in be-bop bands, yet he was exposed to the world of Little Walter inspired R&B and the gritty sounds of the New Orleans tradition. Ayler began making sparse, free arrangements of marching band tunes, brass band explorations, and alto-experimentation that led him to be a driving factor in the careers of everyone from John Coltrane to John Zorn.
CSC Funk Band with Artist in Residence: Matt Mottel + Greg Ginn and the Taylor Texas Corrugators
The CSC Funk Band is Minimalist Funk. Repetition experiments. Improvisation exercises. Family fun. All star band killing it featuring Colin L (usaisamonster), Matt Mottel (talibam), Matt Clarke (Ostinato), Jimmy Thomson (Gwar), Jesse Lent (Monte Vista), Jonny Matteo(La Fundacion), Dave Kadden (Invisible Circle), Wes Buckley (Dick Heaven), a horn section. bongos. solos. psychadelic. myspace.com/cscfunkband
–for the first performance of Matthew Mottel’s Artist in Residency he brings to issue the CSC FUNK Band. In existence for over 2 years, they have been a happening vibe at parties/lofts/warehouses and clubs. Already out is a 45 rpm 7″ on Electric Cowbell with a split single to follow. In October they toured 8 men in one van up to Montreal and back on a 9 day sojourn. This gig on the 19th finds them at the home strectch of a 7 day tour where they will share the stage with the founder of BlackFlag ‘the greatest punk band ever’ who now leads an improvisational unit called ‘Greg Ginn and the Texas Corrugators’
Greg Ginn and the Taylor Texas Corrugators are an instumental group that incorporate many styles into their music. Rock/jazz/country/blues/latin/psychedelia all find their way into the mix. On the two studio recordings (Bent Edge released in 2007, and Goof Off Experts released in 2008), Greg plays all of the instruments except drums. We offer these recordings as free downloads. If you like them and feel they are worthwhile to pay for, we suggest making a donation to kittenrescue.org. These people do great work with cats. Live, the Corrugators are quite a different proposition. Playing about 150 shows (most of them opening for JAMBANG) in the last year, the group played 100% improvised sets. On the next tour, look for the Corrugators to introduce some sound loops into a portion of the set at times. For the tours, Greg has enlisted the JAMBANG members for the Corrugators as well, with Ginn playing bass/guitar, Gary Piazza on guitar, and Sean Hutchinson (borrowed from the New Moonson) on drums. http://www.myspace.com/txcorrugators
Søren Kjærgaard, Andrew Cyrille duo & Søren Kjaergaard plus friends including Kato HIdeki, Zach Layton, Bruce Tovsky
There is a somnambulant quality to Optics, a kind of waking-life feeling. Søren Kjærgaard, a 29-year-old Danish pianist, recruited bassist Ben Street and the phenomenal drummer Andrew Cyrille for this trio, and, boy, do they listen to one another.
Cyrille, known for his work with the likes of Cecil Taylor and Oliver Lake, is the senior member, and much of what happens revolves around him. The 14-minute title track that opens the CD demands patience from its musicians. Kjærgaard plots out deep, serious chords, employing dramatic pauses as the rumble of mallets on skins establishes the tone. Street picks deliberately on the upper neck of his bass as Kjærgaard then lays down an ascending series of minor chords. A quiet snare roll, a repeated three-key phrase played lightly—this is minimalist bliss. On “Cyrille Surreal,” icy, detached chords play against a reluctant swing rhythm, but things evolve, as they always do, and rowdiness finally replaces inertia.
Some of the song titles are unfortunate (including the aforementioned one). “Mallets”? No, the tune is cleverer, and more fun, than that. Kjærgaard’s staccato notes and chords conjure a movie scene: How about calling it “Gene Hackman chases Tom Cruise through the streets of Memphis”? This idea, piano as percussion, informs much of the album. “Work of Art” has the pianist playing melody and rhythm, despite the fact that it’s a duet—a percussive duet—with Cyrille. The disc ends with the funereal “Radio House Requiem,” an elegy for Danish Radio, which ceased most of its jazz programming last year because of budget cuts. We hope that doesn’t mean Kjærgaard has lost an outlet in his homeland.
On January 25, ISSUE Project Room will inaugurate its new space at 110 Livingston with Gaudeamus Muziekweek, a four-day festival celebrating groundbreaking and challenging new music by emerging composers from around the world. Working in partnership ...
ISSUE is starting off the New Year with a change of scenery. That's right, Issue Project Room is moving out of our space at the Old American Can Factory and into 110 Livingston in Downtown Brooklyn. We've had a great run at the Can Factory,...