FMRL Quarantunery: Frogbelly and Symphony (NYC/UK)
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:: Frogbelly and Symphony (NYC/UK)
Great progressive folk group with members based in Bristol and Sheffield in the UK and NYC stateside. Their music is theatrical progressive British folk cabaret which seamlessly weaves a masterful narrative from threads common and exotic.
frogbellyandsymphony.bandcamp.com/
www.frogbellyandsymphony.com/
FMRL Quarantunery: GOLD DIME (NYC)
Proper Saké628 Ewing AvenueNashville, TN37203 Map
:: Gold Dime (NYC)
golddime.bandcamp.com/
Musician, sound engineer and audio book narrator Andrya Ambro was one half of the feminist No Wave-influenced punk duo Talk Normal who played years ago at Little Hamilton if I recall correctly. Andrya Ambro realizes her current musical vision Gold Dime with collaborators including former Nashvillian John Bohannon and Ian Douglas-Moore. Ian Douglas-Moore is a great artist/musician and collaborator with Berlin-based saxophonist who played an FMRL show with his superb multimedia group Vermulscht.
We'll attempt to reschedule but please consider buying some merch or digital downloads until then.
FMRL: Holland Hopson/Drunk Doctor/
Proper Saké628 Ewing AvenueNashville, TN37203 Map
:: Holland Hopson (banjo; electronics; computer- Tuscaloosa, AL)
Processed banjo and electronics from a seasoned clawhammer player with a compositional and improvisational background including ensemble work with Anthony Braxton and a keen ear for tunings and electroacoustics which make the processed banjo sing under his fingers.
:: Drunk Doctor
Musical malpractice by triage unit schooled in therapeutic applications of the wolf tone.
&
more
6:30 pm doors; 7 pm start
$10-$15 sliding scale admission
FMRL: DREKKA/Timber Rattle/Belly Full of Stars/Cherry Blossoms
Proper Saké628 Ewing AvenueNashville, TN37203 Map
::DREKKA (Bloomington, IN)
drekka.bandcamp.com/
drekkalivearchive.bandcamp.com/
Working under the name DREKKA since 1996, composer Michael Anderson has toured, traveled, and collaborated extensively, collecting memories and building a personalized archive of sound that dates back to the mid-1980's. He has recorded and toured as a member of Lovesliescrushing, Turn Pale, In Gowan Ring, Stone Breath, Jessica Bailiff and many more artists. Throughout years of performing and recording, Anderson has explored early industrial tape culture, fragile bedroom noise-folk, and expansive cinematic textures, releasing a large body of work on labels such as Auris Apothecary, Dais, and Anderson's own label, Bluesanct. His music and performance touch on themes of silence, dreams and memory; though rather than obscuring his identity, as can often be the effect of experimental music, DREKKA offers a direct insight into Anderson's working mind and his tenuous cache of recollections. The personal and the delicate are not obfuscated by poetic abstractions, but on vivid display. While the notions of the "haunting", "etherial" and "hypnogogic" are easy recourse in describing ambient music and art, DREKKA unequivocally occupies and deals in those dark spaces which comprise the ephemeral province of memory and dreams, the real ghosts of time and sound.
TIMBER RATTLE (California):
timberrattle.bandcamp.com/
burialdance.bandcamp.com/
TIMBER RATTLE is a roving, revolving and ongoing music project that continues to explore the connections between primordial sound, landscape, and the musics that have derived from our relationships to space and place throughout time. This contemplation manifests in a kind of "psyche-pastoral", a music both spatially vast and intimately inward-looking, which seeks to create a celebratory and reflective environment that shares a border with nature and silence. While never straying too far from the mountain-hymns that are at its roots, the songwriting - which simultaneously embodies and considers its own history and geography - is yet suffused with a vocabulary of drone, collected recordings and sound-experimentation. An intuitive exploration of palette, pattern, and scale is the softly shifting foundation for arcane texts and vocals, which inhere as sound and instrument in the sonic celebration of the meeting and interfolding of land and bodies, animals and plants, language, magic, life and death.
::Belly Full of Stars
soundcloud.com/bellyfullofstars
couriersound.bandcamp.com/album/brokendatapool
Kim Rueger's excellent electroacoustic ambience.
::Cherry Blossoms
John Allingham and Peggy Snow's longrunning folk band
6:30 doors; 7 pm start
$10-$15 sliding scale admission
FMRL: Adam Goodwin/Jeff Crompton/Cherry Blossoms/Ziona Riley
Proper Saké628 Ewing AvenueNashville, TN37203 Map
::Adam Goodwin (Berlin, Germany)
adamgoodwin.bandcamp.com/
adamgoodwin.jimdofree.com/
Adam Goodwin is a double bassist, composer, improviser and visual artist from Houston TX currently based in Berlin, Germany. He is a gifted improviser and has great intonation as heard in his performances of spectralist compositions and in his own creative improvisations.
::Jeff Crompton (ATL)
jeffcrompton.bandcamp.com/album/shooter-2
Jeff Crompton is celebrating the release of a solo saxophone 10'' LP called Shooter, which he will play in its entirety. He is a great improvising musician based in Atlanta. He has worked with a great range of groups ranging from the Rev Fred Lane to Godspeed You Black Emperor and Duet for Theremin & Lapsteel to name but a few.
jeffcrompton.bandcamp.com/album/shooter-2
::Ziona Riley
zionariley.bandcamp.com/
Singer and writer of sublime songs and bassist for Heinous Orca. One of my all time favorite songwriters.
::Cherry Blossoms
John Allingham and Peggy Snow's folk band.
7 pm
$10-$15 sliding scale admission
NEfmRL: Lisa Cameron's Berimbauphone/Drunk Doctor
205 Prince Ave, Nashville, TN 37207-4513, United States Map
::Lisa Cameron (Austin, TX)
cameronewen.bandcamp.com/
Rock/psych/experimental percussionist who has performed with legendary psychedelic Texas musicians and baffling outsider groups including Brave Combo, Timbuk 3, Three Day Stubble, Daniel Johnston, Roky Erickson, ST37 and more. Lisa Cameron is a versatile improviser, and plays room acoustics which she fine tunes using drum membranes and her own invention, the berimbauphone.
::Drunk Doctor
Musical Resonance Imaging and sensory degradation chamber group.
8 pm
$10-$15 sliding scale donation
FMRL Gladys the Elf/Pseude Aux No Stress/Trafficker/Cherry Bloss
Proper Saké628 Ewing AvenueNashville, TN37203 Map
::Gladys the Elf
gladysgladys.bandcamp.com/
::Pseude Aux No Stress
Intense electronics/synths/drum collaboration between Scott Martin (Hobbledeions) and pianist Paul Horton, known for his work with Alabama Shakes and as a jazz pianist and beatmaker.
::Trafficker
Solo industrial electronic
::Cherry Blossoms
Peggy Snow and John Allingham's band.
6:30 pm doors; 7 pm start
Free admission.
FMRL: Ralph E. White/Joseph Allred/Cherry Blossoms/Ziona Riley
Proper Saké628 Ewing AvenueNashville, TN37203 Map
:: Ralph E. White (Austin, TX)
ralphwhite.bandcamp.com/
feedingtuberecords.bandcamp.com/album/waltz-dont-run
ralphewhite.com/
Brilliant folk musician who first became known as a member of the Bad Livers, SubPops punk bluegrass band. Ralph was the melodic engine grinding away on a fiddle, accordion, banjo, guitar, mbira/thumb piano or whatever else might be around. His winding tuneful ruminations have and endless and timeless air.
:: Joseph Allred (Boston, MA)
poorfaulkner.bandcamp.com/
www.ravensingstheblues.com/joseph-allred/
Joseph Allred is a brilliant acoustic guitarist with stunning technical abilities and a vocal/instrumental style that builds on Robbie Basho's acoustic vocal and instrumental innovations.
:: The Cherry Blossoms
John Allingham and Peggy Snow's longrunning folk band.
::Ziona Riley
zionariley.bandcamp.com/album/not-too-precious?fbclid=IwAR1BHhtxlLACfFFAAgCRRmPvYbr0fzxDR1YUTadIO...
6:30 pm doors; 7 pm music
$10-$15 sliding scale admission
FMRL: Bill Direen/J. R. Bohannon/Health&Beauty/Luke Schneider
Proper Sake
::Bill Direen (New Zealand)
sophomorelounge.bandcamp.com/album/bill-direen-a-memory-of-others-ost
Bill Direen will read from his fiction and poetry and he will perform songs as well, self-accompanied and with assistance from Matt Swanson and Chris Davis.
"Bill Direen grew up in the sixties surrounded by music and poetry of all sorts, classical, cultural, liturgical, radio pop and rock. He was fortunate to study electronic music under Douglas Lilburn before concentrating on literature (M.A. Hons, Canterbury University) and developing an independent career as writer and musician.
His group The Bilders, also known as Builders, Die Bilder (German, for "The Pictures") or Bilderbergers, is a changeable unit, made up of musicians from different countries. Their LP Beatin Hearts (1983) was the first full-length release to come out on the iconic Flying Nun label. When the album was reissued in 2016 by US label Grapefruit, UK magazine Uncut awarded it nine stars out of ten, calling it “staggeringly articulate, deeply beautiful and brimming with nervous energy”.
Direen's music is composition-based, and while texts and structure are important for him, musicians enjoy the freedom and occasional anarchy of working with The Bilders. Direen finds work in New Zealand and overseas, playing both solo, with his band and also publishing Percutio, the international journal William founded and edits."
::J. R. Bohannon (NYC)
jrbohannon.bandcamp.com/
"Dusk is the result of many years of writing. While Bohannon’s debut EP Recôncavo (released April 2019 on Phantom Limb) introduced a new artist with great ability, Dusk lands exactly on his sound. The years of performing with virtuosic traditional bluegrass and folk musicians, with Merge Records’ Torres and NYC supergroup Gold Dime have refined his skill to incisive perfection, imbibing a luminant lyricism into his instrumental guitar playing. Bohannon was determined not to write “just another acoustic guitar album,” which is starkly evident in Dusk.
Opening track “Reflections of an American Dream” sings with beautiful mysticism, melodies interlacing about the jangling of open strings and the ghosts of great America past, with the open road, the dusty trail, the mountainous expanse. “A Continuous Harmony”, later in the record, sees a guest double bass performance from avant-jazz mainstay Luke Stewart, whose low and languorous lines calm Bohannon’s hummingbird-wing guitar picking. Album closer “The Sorcerer’s Hand” is an improvised piece, featuring NYC master drummer Greg Fox and again Stewart on bass. The combination sounds like a Black Sabbath ballad performed by Appalachian musicians."
Health&Beauty (Chicago, IL)
healthbeautyband.com/index.html
healthandbeauty.bandcamp.com/
Salient, gorgeous music that lives up to its name. Brian Sulpizio's (Ryley Walker Band) solo project. His most recent Health&Beauty record was described by Peter Margasak as “one of the great rock albums to emerge from Chicago this decade”, and it’s surely one for fans of Jim O’Rourke’s song-based output, as well as appealing to anyone who enjoys “Tonight’s The Night”-era Neil Young.
::Luke Schneider
Solo ambient pedal steel guitar from a versatile musician who is at home playing post-rock as he is playing traditional country or krautrock-influenced new directions on pedal steel.
6:30 pm doors; 7 pm music
$10-$15 sliding scale admission
FMRL: The Mute Sphere/Zeek/Robbie Hunsinger + Benjamin Shirley
Proper Saké628 Ewing AvenueNashville, TN37203 Map
:: Mute Sphere (Atlanta, GA)'
themutesphere.bandcamp.com/releases
"Avant-Classical Collaborative Expressionism
(former members of Faun and a Pan Flute)
The Mute Sphere creates a soundscape that is a fever dream of Southern musics, reimagined through shifting industrial, analog, and synthetic contexts. The Atlanta-based quintet explores the themes of horror, anxiety, and hope that underlie contemporary life through its idiosyncratic instrumentation of voice, cello, fiddle, prepared guitar, analog synthesizer, and percussion, in a dynamic musical space where composition and improvisation equally interact. Comprised of longstanding members of Georgia’s progressive music communities—including members of Faun and a Pan Flute, Hello Ocho, the Atlanta Improvisers Orchestra, Moth Sweat, the Past Now Tomorrow record label, and Atlanta's Cleaners arts space—and taking inspiration from the music of Ornette Coleman’s Prime Time, Ennio Morricone, and This Heat, the Mute Sphere is dedicated to practice of group collaboration, creative exploration, and the development of novel conceptions of Southern music traditions.
The band offers an email address in lieu of links to social media:
themutesphere@gmail.com "
Live at WREK:
youtu.be/3Pxu6Y16S0I?t=1510
youtu.be/StK5KEzr52Y?t=4
youtu.be/P9EHhraYzqU
youtu.be/StK5KEzr52Y
::Zeek
thebandzeek.bandcamp.com/
"Zeek is the musical collaboration between Joseph Campbell (guitar/electronics) and Mr. John Westberry (drums/percussion/electronics) riding an axis of improvisation and atmosphere; texture and drone; the superposition of ambience and absence."
::Robbie Hunsinger + Benjamin Shirley Duo
wordpress.robbiehunsinger.com/
Multimedia artist and virtuoso oboist Robbie Lynn Hunsinger improvises in duo with Benjamin Shirley, cellist from The Mute Sphere.
6:30 pm doors; 7 pm music
$10-$15 sliding scale admission
FMRL: Sean Hamilton/Klimchak/JayVe Montgomery
Centennial Black Box Theater211 27th Ave N.Nashville, TN37203 Map
:Sean Hamilton (percussion, electronics)
sean-hamilton.bandcamp.com/
www.seanhamiltonmusic.com/about
Grand Junction, Colorado based experimental percussionist, composer, and improviser driven by sound, noise, and rhythm.
::Klimchak (Atlanta, GA)
klimchakmusic.com/
klimchak.bandcamp.com
Klimchak is a great Atlanta-based drummer/percussionist who cut his teeth playing in among others, a skronky punk funk band in Athens, GA called the Wee Wee Pole Band fronted by the performer who would become Rupaul. Klimchak is a great drummer and peformance artist, combining the two disciplines in a series of cooking performances. He is also an instrument builder. For this show he plans to do a concert of homemade Jal Tarang, an Indian instrument that is a set of porcelain bowls tuned to a scale with water and struck. He will play Jal Tarang while throat singing.
::JayVe Montgomery
abstractblack.bandcamp.com/album/in-circles-with-self-2
JayVe Montgomery is a great local saxophonist who moved here from Chicago where he was active in their vibrant jazz scene. His work mixes beats, electronics, percussion, flutes and a variety of reed and brass instruments.
7 pm doors; 7:30 pm music
$10-$15 sliding scale admission
FMRL: CJ Boyd/Jack Silverman/Ziona Riley
Proper Saké628 Ewing AvenueNashville, TN37203 Map
::CJ Boyd
cjboyd.bandcamp.com/music
"C.J. Boyd is an oceanic bassist and composer without a fixed home, on perpetual tour since March of 2008. Besides swimming solo through waves of bass, his recent projects include Kurva Choir, Desert Center, Rhonya, and Move. In the small handful of hours not devoted to playing, driving, booking, he runs the label Obsolete Media Objects and takes walks every day."
Former Nashvillian and renowned improviser and free-form songwriter on electric and upright bass, C. J. Boyd.
::Jack Silverman
thejacksilvermanordeal.bandcamp.com/
www.thestolenfaces.com/
Improvising guitarist Jack Silverman is know for his improvisations in the context of Meters-influenced jams and Grateful Dead songs as improvisatory launchpads. This will be an exploratory sonic solo guitar experience possibly closer to the seastones tone poems corners of the Dead multiverse.
::Ziona Riley
zionariley.bandcamp.com/
"Ziona's songs are ephemeral yet rooted-- echoing traditional folk and songwriter traditions at the same time as outsider spitfire lyricists like Michael Hurley, Connie Converse, or Dory Previn. Her songs are crafted with great depth and vulnerability, seemingly coming from the deepest corners of her experiences and by doing so, reaching the universal." -Lou Turner
6:30 pm doors; 7 pm music
$10-$15 sliding scale admission
FMRL: Josephine Foster & Cherry Blossoms/Ziona Riley/Crave On
Proper Saké628 Ewing AvenueNashville, TN37203 Map
::Mystery Meet (Josephine Foster & The Cherry Blossoms)
::Ziona Riley
::Crave On
6:30 pm doors; 7 pm music
$10-$15 sliding scale admission
FMRL: Majid Araim-Matt Nelson Duo/Drunk Doctor/Ziona Riley
Proper Saké628 Ewing AvenueNashville, TN37203 Map
::Majid Araim & Matt Nelson
Improviser on stringed things Majid Araim and bassist/mandolinist Matt Melson will be performing works for 2 prepared mandolins as well as a piece for sarangi and sarod.
::Ziona Riley
zionariley.bandcamp.com/
"Ziona's songs are ephemeral yet rooted-- echoing traditional folk and songwriter traditions at the same time as outsider spitfire lyricists like Michael Hurley, Connie Converse, or Dory Previn. Her songs are crafted with great depth and vulnerability, seemingly coming from the deepest corners of her experiences and by doing so, reaching the universal." -Lou Turner
::Drunk Doctor
Musical malpractice based in our belief that solutions can also be cures.
6:30 pm doors, 7 pm music
$10-$15 sliding scale admission
FMRL: Kendra Amalie/Rigby/The Cherry Blossoms
Proper Saké628 Ewing AvenueNashville, TN37203 Map
::Kendra Amalie (Milwaukee, WI)
kendraamaliebbib.bandcamp.com/releases
kendraamalie.bandcamp.com/
"Kendra Amalie is a singer, songwriter, guitarist, producer, and new media artist."
::Rigby
thatrigbyband.bandcamp.com/releases
::The Cherry Blossoms
John Allingham and Peggy Snow's longrunning folk band.
6:30 pm doors; 7 pm music starts
$10-$15 sliding scale admission
FMRL: Ritwik Banerji & Maxine Open Source Jam Session
Proper Saké628 Ewing AvenueNashville, TN37203 Map
::Ritwik Banerji (Cincinnati OH)
ritwikbanerji.bandcamp.com/
Maxine is an improviser made from computing machinery and sound technology designed by interactive media artist and saxophonist Ritwik Banerji. On this occasion, Ritwik and Maxine will host an open improvisation session, with Maxine serving as the "house band" in dialog with attendees inclined to join in the open session.
6:30 pm doors, 7 pm music starts
$10-$15 sliding scale admission
FMRL: Simply Saucer/Supermelt/Safety Net/Keith Hell & the Black Skulls
Little Harpeth Brewing30 Oldham StNashville, TN37213 Map
::Simply Saucer
www.simplysaucer.com/home
“ Simply Saucer are a divine mix of early Pink Floyd (with Syd Barrett still mercifully intact) and The Velvet Underground (when Andy Warhol was at the helm and urging them towards the Exploding Plastic Inevitable). They are all this and more; a Suicide with a lust for life; a Silver Apples that are running with electronic juice! Sheer, ecstatic, underground bliss.”
— Edwin Pouncey, New Musical Express (London)
::Supermelt
supermelt.bandcamp.com/
::Safety Net
Spodee Boy bootlegged lethargy drink stumbles into Neu!/Wire life accelerants.
::Keith Hell & the Black Skulls
7 pm doors; 8 pm music
$12 advance; $15 at door
FMRL: Thollem McDonas-Tracy Silverman Duo/Zizia/Abstract Black
Proper Saké628 Ewing AvenueNashville, TN37203 Map
::Thollem McDonas & Tracy Silverman
thollem.com/index.html
thollem.com/bio.html
tracysilverman.com/
tracysilverman.com/bio/
THOLLEM McDONAS--
"Thollem is a perpetually traveling pianist, keyboardist, composer, improviser, singer-songwriter, activist, author and teacher. He's spent his life skirting and erasing the edges of boundaries musically, culturally and geographically. His work is ever-changing, evolving and responding to the times and his experiences, both as a soloist and in collaboration with hundreds of artists across idioms and disciplines. Thollem's known internationally as an acoustic piano player in the free jazz and post-classical worlds, as the lead vocalist for the Italian agit-punk band Tsigoti and as an electronic keyboardist through a multitude of projects.
Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, Thollem began playing the piano, composing and improvising as a child, absorbing the sounds of his culturally diverse upbringing. As an adult he has continued to incorporate the breadth of musics he has experienced on his extensive travels. Since 2005, he has played over 1,500 concerts throughout N. America and Europe as a soloist and in collaboration with other musicians, dancers and filmmakers. In that time span, as leader or co-leader, Thollem has released over 60 albums on 21 different vanguard labels to international critical acclaim. A brief cross section of his many recent collaborators include William Parker, Pauline Oliveros, Nels Cline, Rob Mazurek and Carmina Escobar. He is the founding director of Estamos Ensemble, a Mexican-American cross border ensemble for musical exchange as well as a published author about art, politics and his travels in The Anthology of Essays On Deep Listening, Full Moon Magazine (Prague) and First American Art Magazine."
TRACY SILVERMAN--
"Redefining the role of the violin in contemporary music, Tracy Silverman has contributed significantly to the repertoire and development of the 6-string electric violin and what he calls “post-classical violin playing.”
Lauded by BBC Radio as “the greatest living exponent of the electric violin”, Silverman’s groundbreaking work defies musical boundaries. Formerly first violinist with the innovative Turtle Island String Quartet, Silverman was named one of 100 distinguished alumni by The Juilliard School. A concert electric violinist, Silverman is the subject of several electric violin concertos composed specifically for him by Pulitzer winner John Adams, “Father of Minimalism” Terry Riley, Nico Muhly and Kenji Bunch, as well as the composer of 3 electric violin concertos of his own.
A true eclectic, Silverman’ compositions and performances have been recorded by Nonesuch Records, Naxos Records, Windham Hill Records; he’s recorded with The Nashville Symphony under Giancarlo Guerrero, The BBC Symphony with John Adams, The Detroit Symphony with Neeme Jarvi, with composer/pianist Terry Riley, the rock band Guster, contemporary music’s Paul Dresher Ensemble, jazz legend Billy Taylor, 5-time Grammy winning percussionist Roy “Futureman” Wooten, and the Calder String Quartet, among many others. Silverman has performed as a soloist with The Los Angeles Philharmonic under conductors Esa-Pekka Salonen and Gustavo Dudamel, the Cabrillo Festival Orchestra with Marin Alsop, Carl St. Clair and The Pacific Symphony, The Montreal Symphony, The Stuttgart Staatsorchester and many others. He has appeared as a soloist at Carnegie Hall, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Royal Albert Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, Adelaide’s Festival Theatre, Sao Paulo’s Auditorio Ibirapuera, The Hollywood Bowl, Linz’s Brucknerhaus and Vienna’s Musikverein, and made his debut with The Chicago Symphony at age 13. Silverman’s original works have been performed by orchestras and chamber music groups internationally and his scoring work has appeared in episodes of PBS’s NOVA among others.
TV/internet and radio includes a solo performance on NPR’s Tiny Desk Concerts, a profile on CBS News Sunday Morning with Charles Osgood, NPR’s Performance Today, St. Paul Sunday, and several appearances on Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion.
In the liner notes to “The Dharma at Big Sur”, John Adams writes, ”Tracy has developed his own unique style of violin playing—a marvel of expressiveness.” Mark Swed of the LA Times enthused, “Inspiring. Silverman is in a class of his own.” The Chicago Tribune’s John von Rhein raved, “Blazing virtuosity. You will be astonished that anybody can play a fiddle like that” and Anthony Tommasini, New York Times, wrote, “Fleet agility and tangy expressivity with wailing hints of Jimi Hendrix.”
A long-standing advocate for music education, Silverman is the author of The Strum Bowing Method, is an in-demand clinician and on the string faculty at Belmont University in Nashville, TN."
::Zizia
zizia.xyz/
Zizia composes and performs with environmental recordings, natural objects, and musical instruments. Zizia is Amber Wolfe and Jarrod Fowler. Wolfe composes scores from celestial maps corresponding to each concert. Fowler samples natural sounds from habitats surrounding each concert. Wolfe and Fowler harmonize cosmic and chthonic music to create site-specific performances.
Genres: Animal Sounds, Drone, Electroacoustic, Field Recordings, Indeterminacy, Insect Music, Lowercase, Musique Concrète, Nature Recordings, Noise, Onkyo, Plant Sounds, Reductionism, Sound Art, Tape Music ...
"Zizia composes from our primary world (terrestrial and super-terrestrial) to create secondary worlds that hover between eco-ambient fog layers and space station music for your AM dials." - Michael Pisaro
"Zizia are, and thus will have been, the only group that explicitly presents a rigorous and sustainable musical system with inferential consequences generalizable across not only the musical and spiritual disciplinary communities to which they contribute, but also, and perhaps more remarkably, for the robustly diverse and transient ecological communities of non-human agents with which they mutually and dynamically collaborate." - Kieran Daly
"Zizia composes from our primary world (terrestrial and super-terrestrial) to create secondary worlds that hover between eco-ambient fog layers and space station music for your AM dials." - Michael Pisaro
"Zizia are, and thus will have been, the only group that explicitly presents a rigorous and sustainable musical system with inferential consequences generalizable across not only the musical and spiritual disciplinary communities to which they contribute, but also, and perhaps more remarkably, for the robustly diverse and transient ecological communities of non-human agents with which they mutually and dynamically collaborate." - Kieran Daly
::Abstract Black
Saxophonist JayVe Montgomery improvising with plants by means of MidiSprout.
doors 6:30 pm; 7 pm music
$10-$15 sliding scale admission
Roselit Bone/Cherry Blossoms/Christopher Scott Thompson
Springwater Supper Club and Lounge115 27th Ave NNashville, TN37203 Map
::Roselit Bone (Portland OR)
roselitbone.bandcamp.com/
Roselit Bone are compared often to bands like the Cramps and Goblin or possibly a gothic Marty Robbins with mariachi accents. They are a great band with a very unique sound.
::Cherry Blossoms
John Allingham and Peggy Snow's longrunning folk band.
::Christopher Scott Thompson
9 pm
$5
FMRL: Equipment Pointed Ankh/ELK/Anne Malin/Drunk Doctor
Proper Saké628 Ewing AvenueNashville, TN37203 Map
::Equipment Pointed Ankh (Louisville KY)
equipmentpointedankh.bandcamp.com/
Sprawling post-Chrome punk-damaged art sound Kentucky blues.
::ELK
elktn.bandcamp.com
Melancholic and introspective sadboy guitar music with chords that will leave your college professors inquisitively adjusting their glasses.
::Anne Malin
Sublime experimental folk duo.
::Drunk Doctor
Questionable medicamusical applications in life-or-death situations by triage editors.
6:30 pm doors; 7 pm music
$10-$15
FMRL: Anteloper/Blacks' Myths/Montgomery Westberry
Sundog Recording Studio917 East Trinity LaneNashville, TN37207 Map
::Anteloper (NYC)
Jaimie Branch: Trumpet, electronics
Jason Nazary: Drums, electronics
intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/kudu
::Blacks' Myths (Washington, DC)
Luke Stewart: Bass, electronics, percussion, etc
Trae Crudup: Drums electronics
atlanticrhythms.bandcamp.com/album/blacks-myths
::Montgomery Westberry
JayVe Montgomery: Sax, electronics
John Westberry: Drums, electronics?
galleryabstractblack.bandcamp.com/
8:30 pm doors; 9 pm
$10-$15 sliding scale admission
FMRL: Sunwatchers/Duet for Theremin & Lap Steel/Josh Halper
Proper Saké628 Ewing AvenueNashville, TN37203 Map
::Sunwatchers (NYC)
sunwatchers.bandcamp.com/
"Sunwatchers drew a line in the sand with their last album “II”, a powerful statement of the band’s unique brand of spiritual, free-rock, gonzo attitude and a progressive socio-political worldview."
::Duet for Theremin & Lap Steel (ATL)
dftals.bandcamp.com/album/limited-edition-vinyl-release-of-10
"Duet for Theremin and Lap Steel is Scott Burland (Theremin) and Frank Schultz (Lap Steel) and are based in Atlanta Georgia. All performances are improvised."
::Josh Halper
6:30 pm doors; 7 pm start
$10-$15 sliding scale admission
FMRL: Simon Joyner/Cassie Berman/Nick Woods/Joost Dijkema (NETH)
Soft Junk919 Gallatin Ave, # 14Nashville, TN37206 Map
::Simon Joyner (Omaha, NE)
simonjoyner.bandcamp.com/
www.badabingrecords.com/simon-joyner
"Simon Joyner is among America’s best songwriters, so says Gillian Welch, Conor Oberst, Kevin Morby, and others. With his new double LP, Step Into The Earthquake, the songwriter strikes for the personal while acknowledging that the times they are a-changin’ around us again. In fact, things are leaning shitty right now, and the characters in Joyner’s songs experience the dissolution of comfort amid anxious concerns regarding our turbulent times. Some of this is addressed directly in his most overtly political songs since his Room Temperature days, but it's primarily the way the characters behave and the near fatalism they confront in their daily lives. We all feel it, and natural disasters aside, avoiding acknowledgement of earthquakes emanating within can cause the most damage.
Joyner traverses the human predicament, in general, and the American psyche specifically, using fiction to tell difficult truths. Characters struggle through personal crises while absorbing America's currently failing experiment. “Galveston” details a couple's doomed trip to visit a loved one dying in a hospital. “Illuminations” and “Annie’s Blues” explore the difficult relationships between parents and their adult children. “I’m Feeling It Today” slowly expands from an individual level in the first verse, through a couple’s relationship problems in the second, to the systems of oppression in the third, ending with the whole country’s state of being as the song concludes, taking place on election night from an Omaha bar. The epic last song on the album, "I Dreamed I Saw Lou Reed Last Night," takes up the whole fourth side and it's part dream, part invocation. Both Lou Reed and Woody Guthrie are channeled so that Joyner may follow their lead, holding a final mirror up to America as the album concludes. At the heart of this song cycle is the desire to connect in a time of upheaval.
To record, Joyner’s band, the Ghosts, holed up with longtime collaborator, Michael Krassner (Boxhead Ensemble), in Omaha's ARC Studio, developing songs from skeletal foundations (captured on the limited edition The Phoenix Demos) to full-on group efforts. Hence, each
compositions’ power comes equally from the lyrics working in tandem with the subtle arrangements.
Joyner’s vision may be dark but it stops short of nihilism. Where do we go from here? The best move towards answering that question is knowing where we stand right now. Joyner's expansive album offers a poet’s truthful view, however disconcerting, that to survive whatever is coming for us, we have to confront and understand it first. So, go ahead and step into the earthquake."
::Cassie Berman
kidderminster.bandcamp.com/track/cassie-berman-dark-as-a-dungeon-merle-travis-cover
Gifted singer-songwriter and guitarist exploring a new role reprising her country songwriting roots after many years as the bassist grounding iconic bands like Papa M and Silver Jews.
::Nick Woods
nick-woods.bandcamp.com/
"singer-songwriter from the commonwealth of Virginia, working in Nashville. cine-songs, breakfast for dinner music, bridge and tunnel tunes, free clinic compositions and grilled cheese balladry; for and by ham & eggers, strap-hangers, professional hobbyists, lobbyists, pipe-dream-fitters, codependents, co-defendants, drama kids, trauma kids, West Texas roughnecks and irritating artsy-types."
::Joost Dijkema (Netherlands)
joostdijkema.bandcamp.com
Dutch fingerpicking guitarist influenced by John Fahey and Robbie Basho as well as songwriters Fred Neil and Michael Chapman.
9 pm
$10-$15 sliding scale admission
FMRL: LEYA/Crave On/H.R. Lexy
Proper Saké628 Ewing AvenueNashville, TN37203 Map
::LEYA (NYC)
nnatapes.bandcamp.com/album/the-fool
"LEYA aims to deconstruct the traditional connotations of the harp and violin by luxuriating in the deviant juxtaposition of ugliness vs. beauty. These two stringed instruments are most commonly associated with classical beauty, but by altering their sound through unorthodox tunings, extended techniques, amplification, and effects, harpist Marilu Donovan and violinist Adam Markiewicz are able to mine the depths of their darker, more unsettling capacities. The tuning system created for Donovan’s harp is specific to the project, and was discovered by chance. Rather than being driven by scientific or conceptual intentions, this tuning is chosen based on it’s sound alone, giving LEYA a defined identity that embraces human instinct and imperfection.
The duo achieves a deeper contrast by seeking to write pop songs with simple, transparent forms. The song structures are left open and sparse in the spirit of creating clear and simple sonic terrain that is meant to grab the listener emotionally, rather than forcing them to analyze the material. The staccato harp pluckings are complemented by long, sustained notes and chords from the violin, creating a dynamic foundation of strings for the vocals to fill in the cracks and crevices. In this sense, the dual vocals are used almost as a textural element or third instrument, where the way the words actually sound takes precedence over the lyrical content. The slow, drawn-out compositional pace of these songs brings them closer to “ambient” territory, enhancing the evocative qualities of the instruments while floating carefully between eerie dissonance and the angelic higher stratospheres of transcendent beauty."
::Crave On
craveon.bandcamp.com/
heady band playing rock n roll music
::H.R. Lexy
hrlexy.bandcamp.com/
www.hrlexymusic.com/
"HR Lexy is an electronic performance group based in Nashville, TN. The group's sound has been described as haunting electronic pop. HR Lexy lyrically explores the pull between dark and light, humanity's relationship with nature, and spiritual awareness with synth soundscapes, crisp drum beats, and ethereal dream-like vocals. HR Lexy incorporates carefully coordinated lights theatrics and performance art into their live set."
6:30 pm doors; 7 pm music
$10-$15 sliding scale admission
FMRL: Isasa (Spain)/Magic Tuber Stringband/The Cherry Blossoms
Proper Saké628 Ewing AvenueNashville, TN37203 Map
:: Isasa (Madrid, Spain)
isasa.bandcamp.com/
"Isasa is a guitarist and composer based in Madrid. He has been an active member of the city’s underground music scene since the early 90’s. He has performed all over Spain as a solo artist as well as a former member of Spanish cult band A Room with a View (1997-2003).
Strongly inspired by the American primitive guitarists, such as John Fahey, Glenn Jones and Jack Rose."
:: Magic Tuber Stringband
isasa.bandcamp.com/
Courtney Werner - fiddle
Evan Morgan - guitar, banjo, lap guitar
:: The Cherry Blossoms
John Allingham and Peggy Snow's longrunning folk band.
6:30 pm doors; 7 pm music
$10-$15 sliding scale admission
Frank Hurricane/Ziona Riley/Whit Hill/Nick Woods
Proper Sake
::Frank Hurricane (Athens, GA)
hurricanesoflove.bandcamp.com/album/life-is-spiritual
frankhurricane.com/
Life is Spiritual is the new full-band record from Frank Hurricane. Here he joins the Hurricanes of Love for an epic spiritual journey into the mountains, rivers, cities, and towns of Appalachia, America, and beyond. The band on this record consists of legendary musicians including Larry Packer from The Band and Sha Na Na, Rene Bailey (one of Louis Armstrong's main female vocalists), and members of the Jackson 5 and Mercury Rev. Get ready to get OFF THA CHAIN!
-Frank Hurricane
It’s fair to say that what the world needs now is love. And not just a drop here or there. Enter the Hurricane. This latest offering is a high point in a career that is all about being high and impossible to put a point on.
Life is Spiritual – it’s an evocation, a flowering of a singular vision. There is nothing static in Hurricane’s world, even if he is drawing on more recognizable forms than in the past. He’s mastered the elusive art of being in the moment. His car is a character, the road is his friend, but what stands out the most is the string of places. The places don’t so much define the people in them as they act on their inhabitants spiritually. Like ghosts.
Out of the gate, yeti powder, pills, and spiritual rivers lead him to the corrupt town of Sneedville, TN. We meet Cricket O.G., who warns of weed laced with PCP, and even though a boy falls into a gasoline fire, the Sneedville blues can’t get our Frank down.
“Susquehanna River Blues” spins a yarn about hitting a Burger King with a group of Juggalos and wrings bright beams of profundity out of the experience with the simplest language imaginable. “Gatlinburg Blues” augments its colorful tale with eerie strings sawing away in the background, summoning ineffable drama and on “Holy Mountaintop Rainstorm,” Frank sings against a phalanx of horns. “Johnson City Blues,” with its fascist bovine building a pipeline, is a tale of a haunted devil town, sinners in the hand of an angry god, and the terror of early America that’s never left us. The only peace is to be found in breezes and natural beauty. Frank wails like a banshee.
The title track finds Frank reflecting, distilling not just the album but his worldview into a head-nodding jaunt. “Life is spiritual” becomes an incantation, which Frank and Rene Bailey belt out like a call to the cosmos. “Beneath tha BP Lights” is an ethereal tale of a game of pool, and “Mooneye Travelin Blues” is a lament of the highest order. “Lonely Love” is just what it sounds like, Hurricane style. The road, for all of its adventure, is also a lonely place. “Chattahoochee Flow” takes us out of this LP, but we know Frank’s still rolling on.
-Matt Krefting
::Ziona Riley
zionariley.bandcamp.com/
"Ziona's songs are ephemeral yet rooted-- echoing traditional folk and songwriter traditions at the same time as outsider spitfire lyricists like Michael Hurley, Connie Converse, or Dory Previn. Her songs are crafted with great depth and vulnerability, seemingly coming from the deepest corners of her experiences and by doing so, reaching the universal." -Lou Turner
::Nick Woods
nick-woods.bandcamp.com/
"Songwriter from the Commonwealth of Virginia, working in Nashville. Cine-songs, breakfast for dinner music."
::Whit Hill
whithill.com/
"Whitley Hill was born and raised in New York City, the child of two actors who met doing summer stock. Her mother was a cotton farmer’s daughter from Mississippi. Her dad was the son of Armenian immigrants who settled in the mountains of West Virginia. It was an interesting mix.
A child actor herself, Whit performed at New York’s famed La Mama Theater, with the New York City Shakespeare Festival and the New York City Opera. She is a graduate in drama from NYC’s High School for the Performing Arts and has a degree in dance from the University of Michigan. A professional choreographer for over 20 years, her dances have been commissioned and performed by companies across the country.
As a singer, Whit was a member of the renowned folk band Dick Siegel and the Na-Nas, with whom she toured the country – from the Bottom Line in Greenwich Village to the Vancouver Music Festival. Herself a prolific songwriter, Whit formed her own band, the Postcards, in 2001. Her two albums, “We Are Here” (2003) and “Farsighted” (2006) have received wide critical acclaim.
Whit plays a Martin guitar and loves it very much. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee with her husband, Al Hill – a keyboardist, guitarist and singer who is music director for soul diva Bettye Lavette. Between them, Whit and Al have three wonderful children.
Random facts about Whit: her Armenian grandfather owned a saloon called the Sanitary Lunch. She once delivered a friend’s baby by herself; this was unplanned. Her dad was on the Sopranos. She collects coincidences, loves her dogs, teaches dance to the sweet children of East Nashville, and is a proud, card-carrying member of the Middle Tennessee Metal Detecting Club."
6:30 pm doors; 7 pm music
$10-$15 sliding scale admission
FMRL: Pas Musique/WET/Belly Full of Stars/Chris Rueger/Id M Theft Able
Proper Saké628 Ewing AvenueNashville, TN37203 Map
:: Pas Musique
pasmusique.bandcamp.com/
Robert Pepper's electroacoustic answer to a declarative query in regards to sound and society.
:: WET
thewet.bandcamp.com/
Operating in the glambient shared space between free improvisation and spaced-out electronic industrial noise music.
::Belly Full of Stars
couriersound.bandcamp.com/
soundcloud.com/bellyfullofstars
Belly Full Of Stars is the electronic sound project of Nashville based musician/recordist/audio editor Kim Rueger. She often blends synths and processed field recordings with mechanical elements and repurposed objects and has a particular interest in location/time related works.
:: Chris Rueger
soundcloud.com/chrisrueger
Chris is currently exploring the vast world of experimental music, focusing on modular synthesis and found sound manipulation. Chris' background includes various (and sundry) alternative rock based projects, including his first solo release No More Lonely Robots under the project Heroic Spear Thrower
::Id M Theft Able
6:30 pm doors; 7 pm music
$10-$15 sliding scale admission
FMRL: Sax Trio HMW/Drew Sevel/Robbie Hunsinger
Proper Saké628 Ewing AvenueNashville, TN37203 Map
:: Sax Trio HMW (Hunt-Montgomery-Westberry)
JayVe Montgomery (saxophones, flutes, reeds, percussion)
Randy Hunt (double bass)
John Westberry (drums, percussion)
::Drew Sevel
(solo saxophone)
::Robbie Hunsinger
(solo saxophone & sampler)
6:30 pm doors; 7 pm music
$10-$15 sliding scale admission
FMRL: Justin Clark/Anne Malin/Ziona Riley
Proper Saké628 Ewing AvenueNashville, TN37203 Map
::Justin Clark
soundcloud.com/justiinclark
::Anne Malin
annemalin.bandcamp.com/
::Ziona Riley
zionariley.bandcamp.com/
6:30 pm doors; 7 pm music
$10-$15 sliding scale admission
FMRL: Crompton-Sloan Duo/Ziona Riley/Hunsinger Enstrom Endahl
Proper Saké628 Ewing AvenueNashville, TN37203 Map
::Jeff Crompton (saxophone, percussion)-Peter Sloan (trombone; percussion) Duo (ATL)
jeffcrompton.bandcamp.com/track/okay-okay-okay
jeffcrompton.bandcamp.com/album/incantations
Saxophonist Jeff Crompton (Atlanta) and trombonist Peter Sloan (San Diego) play duet music that is composed and improvised, challenging and bluesy, off-center yet familiar.
petersloan.wordpress.com/about/
soundcloud.com/petersloan/
::Ziona Riley
zionariley.bandcamp.com/
"Ziona's songs are ephemeral yet rooted-- echoing traditional folk and songwriter traditions at the same time as outsider spitfire lyricists like Michael Hurley, Connie Converse, or Dory Previn. Her songs are crafted with great depth and vulnerability, seemingly coming from the deepest corners of her experiences and by doing so, reaching the universal." -Lou Turner
::Robbie Lynn Hunsinger (oboe, looping pedals)-Alicia Enstrom (violin, looping pedals)-Matt Endahl (keyboards)
robbiehunsinger.com/
"Robbie Lynn Hunsinger had an illustrious career as a classical oboist before becoming a cutting edge interactive artist. She was a featured soloist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and played on their double Grammy Winner "The Wooden Prince" with Pierre Boulez. She toured France as an oboe d'amore soloist with The Robert Shaw Institute and toured Europe with the Chicago and Atlanta Symphony Orchestras. She performed under James Levine with the New York Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and attended Marlboro Music Festival where she recorded Schoenberg's “Chamber Symphony No. 1” with Felix Galimir.
Hunsinger dove into Chicago’s free jazz experience. She began composing and added Chinese and Indian oboes and single reeded horns to her quiver. She was featured in duets with Evan Parker at Chicago's Empty Bottle Festival of Improvised Music and played the Chicago Jazz Festival and World Music Festivals with Tatsu Aoki. Her “Trio” recording with Tatsu and legendary Art Ensemble of Chicago member Joseph Jarman garnered a 4 star review from Downbeat Magazine and was featured on several top 10 playlists.
Her installation and visual art began in collaboration with visionary architect Douglas Garofalo who tapped Hunsinger for sound, music and interactive contributions for several projects including “Western Avenue” (ISEA Chicago), Chicago Contemporary Art Council’s “Digital Geographies” (at Thomas Blackman Gallery), and “inFormant Systems” at Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art. Hunsinger’s immersive audiovisual experience "Blue-Yellow-Red" at Nashville’s Frist Center for Visual Art won a best of 2014 nod from Burnaway Magazine and was written up in Make Magazine. She has been a guest artist at UT Knoxville, UT Martin and at Tennessee Tech where she performed a full recital of trans-media chamber music. Her interactive concerts and installations include robotics, live projections, hacked game controllers and audience participation. Recent works include “Constellation,” commissioned by Nashville's Metro Arts and partially funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, and "Eclipse," a sound-responsive multimedia chamber music work commission by chatterbird."
www.aliciaenstrom.com/about/
Alicia Enstrom is a compelling composer, classical violinist and electro-acoustic performer. She toured internationally for nearly ten years as the solo violinist/electric violinist for Cirque du Soleil. In 2018, her Concerto for Violin won The Ear Classical Composition Competition in New York City. She regularly performs with the Nashville Symphony, and new music ensembles Intersection and Chatterbird. She can be heard with the Chris Walters Jazz Quintet and is one half of the electronic band Are We Sane with Nick Spezia. Alicia served as the Artistic Director of ALIAS Chamber Ensemble from 2018 – 2019 and is privileged to play with the Nashville String Machine, Nashville Music Scoring, and Nashville Recording Orchestra on commercial projects such as Paul McCartney, Alison Krauss, Willie Nelson, Call of Duty, and Spiderman.
mattendahl.com/
Matt Endahl is an accomplished jazz pianist, improvisor, composer and educator living in Nashville. He has become one of Nashville's most in-demand pianists, performing in groups led by Jeff Coffin, Chester Thompson, Imer Santiago, Duffy Jackson, Christina Watson, Marcus Finnie, and many others. He also plays regularly with the Dara Tucker Band, Joshua Carswell, the Tyler Mire Big Band, Rahsaan Barber's Everyday Magic, and the Jason Eskridge Band.
Matt was a Bösendorfer Montreux Jazz Solo Piano Competition semi- finalist, and from 2008-2013, he was on the music faculty at Hillsdale College. He has presented performances, compositions and research at the annual meetings of the International Society for Improvised Music (ISIM). He has also performed at the International Association for Jazz Educators conference (IAJE), Jazzanooga, the International Association for Schools of Jazz meeting (IASJ), the Detroit International Jazz Festival and Ann Arbor's avant-garde music festival Edgefest. He currently teaches at Belmont and MTSU.
$10-$15 sliding scale admission
6:30 pm doors; 7 pm music
FMRL: Sessa (Brasil)/Derek Monypeny/Styrofoam Winos
Little Harpeth Brewing30 Oldham StNashville, TN37213 Map
::Sessa (Brasil)
sessa.bandcamp.com/album/grandeza-2
www.facebook.com/sessamusic/
www.instagram.com/sessa.sessa.sessa/
Sessa's songs are sung in Portuguese, with visceral, sensual lyrics in the vein of Caetano Veloso, and the melodic flourishes of Jobim. However, the music gets a deliberate minimalist treatment rarely found in contemporary Brazilian music, more reminiscent of the bareness of Leonard Cohen, with touches of tropicalia and free jazz.
::Derek Monypeny (Joshua Tree, CA)
derekmonypeny.bandcamp.com/
Derek Monypeny is a guitarist and oud player who has played in the bands Oaxacan, ALTO!, and Sir Richard Bishop's Freak Of Araby Ensemble. He has performed and toured with artists such as Bill Orcutt, Jozef van Wissem, Eva Aguila/Kevin Shields, Arrington de Dionyso, and many others.
::Styrofoam Winos
styrofoamwinos.bandcamp.com/
trevornikrant.bandcamp.com/
louturner.bandcamp.com/
joekenkel.bandcamp.com/
Songwriting Voltron which features nuanced variable backing bands and an astonishing variety of songways.
7 pm doors; 8 pm music
$12 advance; $15 day of show.
FMRL: Old Castle / Mindfold / Culture of Critique / Belly Full Of Stars
Betty's Grill407 49th Ave NNashville, TN37209-3442 Map
::Old Castle (Rapoon/Sandor/Pas Musique)
Experimental/electronic trio of Robin Storey (:zoviet*france:, Rapoon), Robert L. Pepper (Pas Musique, The Jazzfakers), Shaun Sandor (Blondena Music)
www.rapoon.bandcamp.com
www.pasmusique.bandcamp.com
www.blondenamusic.bandcamp.com
Rapoon (Newcastle, England)
rapoon.bandcamp.com/
In 1980 Storey became a founding member of the pioneering industrial group :zoviet*france: Storey is a prolific solo artist as well, creating solo music as Rapoon since 1992 and also a very successful painter, animator and designer.
Pas Musique (NYC)
pasmusique.bandcamp.com/
www.pasmusique.net
Pas Musique emerged from Brooklyn, New York in 1995 as a solo project of founder Robert L. Pepper and has since gone through many variations of experimental, electronic iterations. Pas Musique have collaborated with many great musicians which include Faust, Rapoon, ZEV, Philippe Petit, HATI, Chester Hawkins, Jim Tuite, and many more. Pas Musique have performed in 18 countries and all throughout the United States.
Shaun Sandor (New Mexico, USA)
blondenamusic.bandcamp.com/
Shaun Sandor is an experimental musician who resides in New Mexico. Shaun is a talented maker of musical handmade instruments. Shaun runs the Blondena Music Label.
::Mindfold
harvest.team/mindfold
Nashville sonic therapy for contemporary concerns.
::Culture of Critique
Improvisation on guitar and bass by Andrew Hock (Psalm Zero) and Evan Lipson (Normal Love, Roughhousing, Wrest Trio, Prime Lens, Flying Luttenbachers).
::Belly Full Of Stars
soundcloud.com/bellyfullofstars
9 pm
$10-$15 sliding scale admission
FMRL: Ralph E White/Russian Tsarlag/Dan Talbot/Ziona Riley/Wica Intina/Cherry Blossoms
Betty's Grill407 49th Ave NNashville, TN37209-3442 Map
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FMRL: Gustardo's Prove It All Night Free Music Isn't Free Festival of Musical Freedom featuring:
::Ralph E. White
ralphwhite.bandcamp.com/
"Ralph E White was a member of well-loved punk bluegrass outfit Bad Livers but his solo work is possessed of a much more lonesome spark, exaggerating the implied drone at the heart of the music of Dock Boggs and The Stanley Brothers. "Navasota River Devil Squirrel" was originally released as a CD-R in 2007, but this limited vinyl version comes courtesy of fellow musical loner Joshua Burkett's new imprint. White plays wooden six-string banjo, violin, accordion and kalimba and his voice has a high, eerie quality to it that allows it to blend with the various primitive strategies that the music employs to reanimate traditional and original material alike. The use of kalimba situates aspects of the sound in some avant hillbilly fourth world, while the combination of dense matrices of string and White's transporting vocal is extremely psychedelic."
-David Keenan in THE WIRE
::Russian Tsarlag
russiantsarlag.bandcamp.com/
Non-music for strict traditionalists and anarchists who are comfortable with rules and structures.
::Dan Talbot
haord.bandcamp.com/album/reinventing-the-tire
Incredibly Strange Music for fans of Secret Weave, Blaster Al Ackerman, etc.
::Ziona Riley
zionariley.bandcamp.com/album/not-too-precious
Beautiful, unique songwriting and great self-accompaniment on guitar.
::Wica Intina
meliphonicrecords.bandcamp.com/album/radio-karachi
Dakota Brown psychedelic folk
::Cherry Blossoms
John Allingham and Peggy Snow's longrunning folk band.
9 pm
$10-$15 sliding scale admission
FMRL: Michael Potter/Chris Lott/Phenomena 256/Cherry Blossoms
Betty's Grill407 49th Ave NNashville, TN37209-3442 Map
::Michael Potter (Athens, GA)
michaelpotter.bandcamp.com/
Michael Potter is a guitar player living and working in Athens, GA. He plays infrequently with The Electric Nature and runs the Null Zone and Garden Portal tape labels.
:Chris Lott (Athens, GA)
Ambient modular synthesis from avant garde/free improvising bassist Chris Lott.
::Phenomena 256
phenomena256.bandcamp.com/
Psychedelic Speed Freaks/Kraut Fuzz-Space Rock from Northampton, MA. For Fans of Spacemen 3, Neu!, High Rise, Stereolab, Stooges, etc.
::Cherry Blossoms
9 pm
$10-$15 sliding scale admission
FMRL: Nadah el Shazly/DreamChambers/Mindfold/Belly Full of Stars
Little Harpeth Brewing30 Oldham StNashville, TN37213 Map
::Nadah el Shazly (Cairo, Egypt)
nadahelshazly.bandcamp.com/
soundcloud.com/nadah-el-shazly
Nadah El Shazly is an experimental Egyptian singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer. Her work both radically reinvents the popular music of her homeland from the early 20th century and explores new sonic and harmonic frontiers.
::Dream Chambers
dreamchambers.bandcamp.com/releases
soundcloud.com/dreamchambers/tracks
Dream Chambers is the name of Wellington, NZ native and Nashville songwriter transplant Jess Chambers' ethereal electronic song project. She is also a founding member of Hyasynth House, a Nashville-based organization established to foster a supportive and encouraging electronic music community for women, non-binary, and minorities.
::Mindfold
harvest.team/mindfold?fbclid=IwAR25VmvhVOhImz_V0B2bIjpdtG7P4SLDv9URpFzd-qMghGXiyLuGlPKP59c
Dark sonic mayhem...three man electrical band breakdown of self into sines.
::Belly Full of Stars
soundcloud.com/bellyfullofstars
www.facebook.com/BellyFullOfStars/
twitter.com/BellyFullOfStar
Belly Full Of Stars is the electronic sound project of Nashville-based musician/composer/recordist Kim Rueger. Blending FM & modular synths, processed recordings, and mechanical elements she improvises compositions that veer ambient, with a hint of glitch.
7 pm doors; 8 pm music
$12 advance; $15 at door
YEAH! Benefit: Mary Ocher + Your Gov't w/Poets & Songsters
Little Harpeth Brewing30 Oldham StNashville, TN37213 Map
::Mary Ocher + Your Government (Berlin)
www.maryocher.com/
yourgovernment.bandcamp.com/album/mary-ocher-your-government
New audiovisual peformance group from visual artist/outsider torch singer and Faust collaborator, Mary Ocher.
plus SONGSTERS:
::Ngawang Losel
Tibetan folk musician now living in Nashville. His folk music blends Eastern and Western influences.
::Cassie Berman
Solo songs from former Papa M and Silver Jews bassist, Cassie Berman.
::Candice Forte
Nashville rock icon of the groups Red Lion and Slipshaft unveils her latest music
PLUS
Poetry and prose readings organized by Hilary Bell.
Readings from:
Hilary Bell
Drenusha Kolshi
Carissa Stolting
Lauren Turner
7 pm
$10 minimum proceeds benefit YEAH! Youth Empowerment Through the Arts and Humanities!
FMRL: Little Mazarn/Ziona Riley/Crave On/Cherry Blossoms
Betty's Grill407 49th Ave NNashville, TN37209-3442 Map
::Little Mazarn (Austin, TX)
littlemazarn.net/
::Ziona Riley
zionariley.bandcamp.com/album/not-too-precious?fbclid=IwAR1BHhtxlLACfFFAAgCRRmPvYbr0fzxDR1YUTadIO...
::Crave On
craveon.bandcamp.com/
::The Cherry Blossoms
9 pm
$10-$15 sliding scale admission
FMRL: Simon Joyner/Ned Collette/State Champion/Styrofoam Winos
Betty's Grill407 49th Ave NNashville, TN37209-3442 Map
::Simon Joyner + the Ghosts (Omaha, NE)
"Simon Joyner is a renowned American singer-songwriter who first came to prominence during the Lo-Fi movement of the early 90's alongside contemporaries mining similar territory like Will Oldham, Peter Jefferies, the Mountain Goats, and Bill Callahan. Joyner
was championed early by the late British DJ, John Peel, who famously played Joyner's 1994 LP, "The Cowardly Traveller Pays His Toll", start to finish on one of his BBC programs, initially making Joyner more well known overseas than in his own country.
Following the mercurial path of heroes like Neil Young and Bob Dylan, Joyner has been releasing literate and challenging albums
since the release of his first album, Room Temperature, in 1993. His
discography includes twenty-three full-length recordings, as well as numerous singles and guest appearances. A book of his lyrics was released in 2016 under the title "Only Love Can Bring You Peace: Selected Lyrics (1990-2014)." He tours the United States and Europe semi-regularly and is the co-owner of the Grapefruit Records label."
"Omaha has given us the reigning heir to Henry Miller's dark emotional mirror, Townes Van Zandt's three-chord moan, and Lou Reed's warehouse minimalism: his name is Simon Joyner." — Gillian Welch
"Pound for pound Simon Joyner is my favorite lyricist of all time. He
has shades of all the greats (Van Zandt, Cohen, Dylan) but exists in a space all his own ... He truly is an American songwriting treasure. It is my hope that more people will discover his music and share in the unique joy that it brings." — Conor Oberst
"Simon's always been a secret handshake amongst me and my peers. He's a pioneer. He's helped pave the way for many people, myself included. He's an artist in its purest form--for his only concern is crafting a perfect song--which he's done time and time again." ---Kevin Morby
::Ned Collette
nedcollette.com/
www.facebook.com/nedcollette/
itrecordsmelb.bandcamp.com/album/old-chestnut
"Ned Collette is a Melbourne-born singer, instrumentalist, songwriter, and producer now based in Berlin. He was a member of Melbourne instrumental band City City City and has since then recorded five albums, either as solo productions or with his band, Wirewalker."
::State Champion
sophomoreloungerecords.com/
"Amazing songwriter, visual artist, and writer behind State Champion, the Sophomore Lounge record label and the Cropped Out Festival. A creative fountain of endless invention and writer of some of the best lyrics written in recent years by anyone anywhere."
::Styrofoam Winos
Songwriting Voltron of superior abilities featuring 3 and sometimes 4 of Nashville's best songwriters who back each others songs with near telepathic group soul and the best drummers possessing variable deep pockets!!!
$10-$15 sliding scale admission
FMRL: Lisa Cameron-Chris Davis/Drunk Doctor/Rube
Betty's Grill407 49th Ave NNashville, TN37209-3442 Map
::Lisa Cameron-Chris Davis
Lisa Cameron is an incredible drummer who is at home in a variety of settings including holding down the rhythm sections of some of Texas's most hallowed psych bands including ST-37, Roky Erickson, The Suspirians and improvising with musicians like Sandy Ewen or solo as Venison Whirled. Lisa has invented a berimbau=esque instrument, so expect an oblique homage to Brazilian berimbau master, Nana Vasconcelos.
::Drunk Doctor
::Rube
9 pm
$5-$10 sliding scale admission
FMRL:JamalMooreJayVeMontgomery/Geologist/AdamOstrar/LukePolipnic
Proper Saké628 Ewing AvenueNashville, TN37203 Map
::Jamal Moore & JayVe Montgomery Duo
www.citypaper.com/music/music-features/bcp-092315-music-jamal-r-moore-high-zero-20150922-story.html
downbeat.com/news/detail/jamal-moore-of-organix-trio-surveys
fperecs.bandcamp.com/album/eleven-eleven
galleryabstractblack.bandcamp.com/
"Jamal R. Moore is a multi-instrumentalist, composer/performer and educator, and is a native of Baltimore, Maryland.
His educational background includes California Institute of The Arts (M.F.A. in African American Improvisation, 2012), Berklee College of Music (B.M 2005), Eubie Blake Jazz Orchestra (2000) under the direction of Christopher Calloway Brooks, and historically acclaimed Frederick Douglass Sr. High where he is an alum alongside Thurgood Marshall, Cab Calloway, and Ethel Ennis.
Jamal has worked with notable musicians such as Wadada Leo Smith (2013 Pulitzer finalist), Nicole Mitchell, Sabir Mateen, Roscoe Mitchell, David Ornette Cherry (Organic Roots Nation), Dr. Bill Cole, DJ Lou Gorbea, and the late George Duke and Sheila E.
He is a long-term member of KREation and Conference of The Birds ensembles directed by Kevin Robinson. He was also a member of The Pan African Peoples Arkestra, founded by pianist Horace Tapscott, and the Calvin Gant ensemble directed by Calvin Gant and Nicole Mitchell. Jamal currently leads his own groups, Akebulan Arkestra, Napata Ensemble, and Organix Trio."
::Geologist
www.nyctaper.com/2017/11/geologist-october-23-2017-the-bowery-ballroom/?fbclid=IwAR3AksETjua7gLe1...
Brian Weitz aka Geologist known as the sound manipulator for the Animal Collective performing collage music in the vein of Climax Golden Twins or Crawling With Tarts.
::Adam Ostrar
adamostrar.bandcamp.com/
adambusch.bandcamp.com/
www.menomossorecords.com/adam-ostrar/?fbclid=IwAR0IXiVUIGc63NYhb8VYzXKfTMmTSKHE0UgBQUfhTGyk4lZA8v...
"Adam Ostrar is a parent, maybe just like you, that worries about the world his kid is inheriting. He lives in an over-priced city (Austin, TX), drinks too much coffee (a bottomless cup), and suffers from insomnia (don’t try to tell him this might be related to the former) and etc. He’s anxious about the damaged and ravaged U.S. of A. You know, that country no one ever thought was perfect, but never knew how bad it could get. This Waking Nightmare (Trump thinks this is what “woke” means, I hear...) is what subjects the various narrators in his new album, The Worried Coat (out April 5th 2019 on Super Secret Records).
Before the 2016 election, an album like this might be called a “dystopia”; now we call it “did you see what he tweeted?” On Ostrar’s new album, he weaves together disparate voices, like a non-fiction version of Our Town written by Wyatt (Robert), not Wilder (Thornton). There’s no “good guys” or “bad guys”; there’s no “white hats” and “black hats”; there’s no “red” and “blue”. There’s just a lot of under- medicated neuroses bringing out nastiness and empathy in these sonorous participants. Or, as Ostrar explains when nudged for a TV Guide asterisked pick-of-the-week summation, “It’s twelve narratives on otherness, self-identity, and our personal relationships with anxiety. How we often betray our best intentions through willful ignorance.”
Ostrar creates these characters over the course of 12 songs, each wearing a different hat: In “Alex the Cretin” you hear the evangelical snake-oil salesman high on Wizard A True Star-era Rundgren; “Bloody Waves” is the Bossa Nova buoy of a refugee’s displacement; in “Kansas City,” we hear Kevin Ayers, as Joe the Plumber, looking backwards on his false nostalgia; “Stormed the Beach” is the sound of Cluster employed by Greenpeace; “Walk the Savages Home” is the gurgle of Nativism and Corruption; And in “Morning Said,” Ostrar drops his tuning down to D and fills the page with pre-Page accent riffs while speaking to our forgotten good intentions.
Recorded in part in Mexico City courtesy of Richard Davies (The Moles) hand-me-down studio time and the other half at a ranch in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona, Ostrar wrapped and warped his Gretsch Country Gentleman guitar around these groovy nuggets of capitalistic despair, cretinism, gas lighting, nationalism and nativism, false heroism, and that good-time tug-of-war (psssst, this game is rigged) called Inherited Wealth vs. Inherited Debt. But he wasn’t alone in making this album, so don’t worry too much about him. He brought along Michael Krassner (Boxhead Ensemble, Lofty Pillars), Wil Hendricks (Califone, Simon Joyner), and Stephen Patterson (Hamilton Leithauser, White Rabbits).
This is Ostrar’s second solo album, the follow-up to 2017’s Brawls In the Briar. Before that, he led the early 2000 shag-carpet art-punk of Manishevitz, an early Jagjaguwar band that toured with The Mountain Goats and Edith Frost before the Internet tracked these things. When he isn’t stressing out, you can find him teaching guitar and Ubering to gigs in Austin, Texas. Some days he has a beard, some days he doesn’t. The Worried Coat is Ostrar at his best even though 2018 wasn’t the best year. So take your own Worried Coat out of the closet and bundle up with him. It’s getting colder."
::Luke Polipnick
lukepolipnick.bandcamp.com/
soundcloud.com/luke-polipnick
www.u-ca.org/luke-polipnick
"Luke Polipnick is a creative guitarist, composer, and educator in Omaha, Nebraska.
He is originally from Minneapolis, MN, a city whose influence is noticeable in his unselfconscious genre-blurring and emphasis on the collective “band” ethos. His writing and playing display an emotive intensity and density that is balanced by plainly spoken, angular lyricism. Luke’s music is an interpretation of the jazz diaspora distilled through free improvisational process and Americana, pop, electronica, and global folkloric vernaculars."
6:30 pm doors; 7 pm music
$10-$15 sliding scale admission
FMRL: Larry Ochs-Nels Cline-Gerald Cleaver Trio/Rodger Coleman
Little Harpeth Brewing30 Oldham StNashville, TN37213 Map
:: Larry Ochs-Nels Cline-Gerald Cleaver Trio
cleanfeed-records.com/product/what-is-to-be-done/
www.ochs.cc/groups/cline-cleaver-ochs.html
"Within the greater universe of sound lies the interstellar sound-space called improvised music. And it is from within this specific interstellar sound-space that music lovers discover the interplanetary system wherein Nels Cline, Gerald Cleaver, and Larry Ochs mind-meld their sonic energies for each unique concert. Expect the music to be focused and energized. Know that these sound explorers -- veterans of decades of improvised music -- will be doing their utmost to raise the bandstand, and you with it.
Guitarist Nels Cline, drummer Gerald Cleaver, and saxophonist Larry Ochs are three experimental icons, individually and collectively drawing upon the outer limits of free jazz, structured improvisation and bicoastal noise punk.
The trio’s first CD – What Is To Be Done - released on Clean Feed in February 2019.
The Trio actually began as a duo of Ochs and Cleaver, premiering at Ochs’ week of concerts at The Stone in New York in September 2014. Ochs was so taken by the musical possibilities which this duo first explored at The Stone that he vowed to play at least one concert a year with Mr. Cleaver, whenever Ochs passed through NY. Cline and Ochs, both living in California, had known each other for decades; Cline has been featured since 2003 in Rova”s Electric Ascension bands. In winter 2015, on one of Nels’ visits to Ochs’ home base of Berkeley, the two had had a conversation that ended with a run-down of some upcoming concerts. Ochs mentioned an upcoming duo concert with Cleaver and raved about the first one. Nels took a look at his calendar and asked how Ochs would feel if he joined the duo, as he too had always wanted to play with Cleaver. As a result, the trio was born in Brooklyn in May 2015. The music that night was exciting; it hinted at all kinds of possibilities and was a fun challenge. Ochs determined that night to keep this trio purely for pleasure, to only play concerts that were easy to book, where the promoter was genuinely excited right from the downbeat. The trio has since performed 12 concerts in the northeast and midwest USA, including sets where the trio expanded to a quartet adding Marshall Allen (in Philadelphia), and (in Baltimore) to a sextet with the additions of Michael Formanek, Hank Roberts and Ches Smith. The three look forward to performing annually in the USA when all are available at the same time. Next up, in April 2019, looking forward to seven special shows in the southeast!
“Cleaver — one of the most versatile percussionists alive—is perfect for this configuration. He adroitly shifts gears between everything from feather-stroke delicacy to rocklike tribal thumping to direct flow-and-response to his partners. As heard on a live recording Ochs shared with me, the drummer masterfully feeds the trio’s front line, which enhances its proclivity for stealthily switching functions; Cline might shape a hovering drone only to counter the loosely coiled tenor spell cast by Ochs with a sudden surge of pedal-enhanced mayhem. Elsewhere the guitarist constructs lapidary patterns, injecting his tone with an acidic bite, yet progressing with a calming patience that is caressed and shadowed by terse sax figures. The pair’s steeplechase machinations develop with an organic flow that is exhilarating as it moves from the lyric to the chaotic, the serene to the explosive.”
Peter Margasak, The Chicago Reader (11/30/2017)
GERALD CLEAVER (drums) is a product of Detroit’s rich music tradition. Inspired by his father, drummer John Cleaver, he began playing the drums at an early age and, as a teenager, gained invaluable experience playing with Detroit jazz masters Ali Muhammad Jackson, Lamont Hamilton, Earl Van Riper and Pancho Hagood. While majoring in music education at the University of Michigan, he was awarded a Jazz Study Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to study with drummer Victor Lewis. After graduation, he began teaching in Detroit, where he worked with Rodney Whitaker, Marcus Belgrave, Donald Walden and with visiting musicians Hank Jones, Tommy Flanagan, Barry Harris, Kenny Burrell, Frank Foster, Ray Bryant, Eddie Harris, Diana Krall and Don Byron. In 1995 he accepted an appointment as assistant professor of Jazz Studies at the University of Michigan, and in 1998 also joined the jazz faculty at Michigan State University. He moved to New York in 2002. He has performed or recorded with Roscoe Mitchell, Matt Shipp, William Parker, Craig Taborn, Charles Gayle, Jeremy Pelt, Tomasz Stanko, Charles Lloyd and Miroslav Vitous, among others. Cleaver has released four recordings as a leader and leads the bands Black Host and Uncle June.
Guitar explorer NELS CLINE is best known these days as the lead guitarist in the band Wilco. His recording and performing career – spanning jazz, rock, punk and experimental – is well into its fourth decade, with over 200 recordings, including at least 30 for which he is leader. Cline has received many accolades including Rolling Stone anointing him as both one of 20 “new guitar gods” and one of the top 100 guitarists of all time. Cline’s most recent release, Lovers, out now on Blue Note Records, is a collection of “mood music” over 20 years in the making. Beyond Wilco, Cline performs in a duo project with jazz guitar prodigy Julian Lage in addition to a quartet The Nels Cline Four (that includes Lage plus bassist Scott Colley and drummer Tom Rainey. Cline also performs in CUP, a duo with wife and musical collaborator Yuka Honda (Cibo Matto) and leads The Nels Cline Singers (featuring Scott Amendola, bassist Trevor Dunn and Cyro Baptista). www.nelscline.com
LARRY OCHS (saxophones) is best known as a founder of the Rova Sax Quartet, a San Francisco institution that focused right from the start on the application of improvisational strategies within the context of contemporary compositions, beginning in the late 1970s and continuing right up to the present day; 40 years old in 2018. Equally inspired by modernist 20th century composition and the more worldly, abrasive strands of 60s free jazz as well as by fellow pioneers around the globe, Rova and Ochs became widely celebrated for the lengths they would go to stretch the performance parameters of notated music through early collaborations with Henry Kaiser, Anthony Braxton, and John Zorn. Ochs connection with Cline began in the late 1990’s and culminated with the Celestial Septet, a band comprised of both Rova and the “Nels Cline Singers,” with a fantastic CD release (New World Records) including a long, ecstatic Ochs composition, as well as tours from 2009 – 2011. Ochs and Cleaver have performed off and on as a duo since 2013. A duo CD release – a beautiful , haunting set of music called “Songs of the Wild Cave” (Nov. 2018) – documents their 2016 live-recording experience inside a secret cave in the Dordogne area of France; a cave that contains upwards of 150 Pleistocene-era paintings. It’s a unique recording in which the cave itself seriously influenced the music, becoming essentially the third member of a trio. Ochs’ many other bands and a select discography can be perused and heard at www.ochs.cc
::Rodger Coleman
rodgercoleman.bandcamp.com/
www.nuvoidjazz.com/
"Rodger Coleman began piano lessons at the age of seven, eventually studying for eight years with Dr. Allen Brings, composer and professor of music at Queens College of the City University of New York. In public school, he studied clarinet and other woodwinds under the direction of Gary Sousa, studied music theory, and sang in the choir under William Fletcher. Moving on to the New England Conservatory of Music, Coleman studied “Third Stream” music with Ran Blake, Hankus Netsky, and Bob Moses amongst others. After falling in love with punk rock in the mid-eighties, Coleman picked up the electric guitar, taking lessons with Mick Goodrick and experimenting with fellow NEC students in a punk/jazz hybrid that would eventually become UYA (a/k/a Upstanding Young Americans).
In 1990, UYA recorded their self-titled CD, which was nominated for a Boston Music Award in 1991 and they performed regularly around the Boston area as well as in New York City, including several gigs at the Knitting Factory and a shared bill with the nascent Medeski Martin & Wood at The Cooler (now defunct). While a follow up album failed to materialize, UYA’s punk/jazz rendition of Sun Ra’s “Dancing Shadows” appears on Wavelength Infinity: A Tribute To Sun Ra and is still available on Rastascan Records.
After the band split apart, Coleman and his wife moved to Nashville, Tennessee where he re-discovered the piano and continued to make occasional music with UYA drummer, Sam Byrd, who had relocated to Richmond, Virginia. The duo has since released a limited edition vinyl LP (Cosmologies, 2012) as well as a number of critically acclaimed CD and digital-only releases via Bandcamp. As Coleman’s home studio has gradually been filled with various synthesizers and gadgets, their music moved in a more abstract, electronic direction and prompted a number of solo releases from Coleman over the past few years.
Jazzwise Magazine has described the Coleman/Byrd duo as “a weaponized version of The Necks or The Dead C sieving through the wreckage of Jack Vance’s post-apocalyptic dystopias” while aptly comparing Coleman’s recent solo work to sonic compatriots, Common Objects and Supersilent. Though he rarely gigs these days, Coleman has sporadically performed around Nashville both with Sam Byrd and solo shows on processed electric guitar. On April 17, Coleman will debut his portable, “mini-modular” synthesizer setup in a performance of improvised electronics at Little Harpeth Brewing, opening for the amazing supergroup of The Larry Ochs/Nels Cline/Gerald Cleaver Trio. With these unconventional and unpredictable instruments, Coleman has finally found his voice, outside of the confines of and limitations of the piano and guitar, to create a wholly unique and personal soundworld."
7 pm doors; 8 pm music
$15 advance; $20 at door
FMRL:Polyorchard 1+1/RandyHunt-JayVeMontgomery-JohnWestberryTrio
Sundog Recording Studio917 East Trinity LaneNashville, TN37207 Map
::Polyorchard 1+1 (NC)
aka Jeb Bishop (trombone) & David Menestres (double bass)
soundcloud.com/polyorchard
davidmenestres.com/
polyorchard.bandcamp.com/
www.jebbishop.com/jebbio.html
"Polyorchard is dedicated to exploring the grey area between free jazz and modern classical music, an area rich for exploration, with tunnels leading in virtually any direction one can imagine. Polyorchard fluctuates between very small ensembles, duos like the low end 1+1 iteration that existed deep in the American desert, to large ensembles spilling off stages in the Piedmont of North Carolina.
Since Polyorchard’s inception in late 2012, the ensemble has performed spontaneous compositions, works by members of the group, and works by composers such as Alan Courtis, Terry Riley, Alvin Curran, Eva-Maria Houben, Jacques Demierre, Magnus Granberg, Jackson Mac Low, John Zorn, and many more. Polyorchard has collaborated with a diverse array of artists including Japanese noise legend Merzbow and ensemBle baBel from Switzerland. Polyorchard has also implemented a program to commission new works specifically for improvising ensembles and has so far premiered works by Thomas Dempster, Andrew Weathers, D. Edward Davis, Will Redman, with more new pieces to come in the next few years. Polyorchard has performed on bills alongside Tashi Dorji, Dougie Bowne, Ken Vandermark, Nate Wooley, and many more."
::Randy Hunt-JayVe Montgomery-John Westberry Trio
8:30 pm doors; 9 pm music
$10-$15 sliding scale admission
FMRL: Stephen Rush - Matt Endahl Duo/Dark Tea/Ornament
Proper Saké628 Ewing AvenueNashville, TN37203 Map
Stephen Rush - Matt Endahl Duo
stephenjrushmusic.com/
Keyboard duo featuring two great jazz pianists, Matt Endahl who many will know from his great work in town and his great Jacob's Ladder album in a duo with Stephen Rush, a composer and multi-instrumentalist who composes electronic, chamber, operas and for jazz groups including his own trio Yuganaut who have recorded for the revived ESP-Disk and for Nessa with Roscoe Mitchell of the Art Ensemble of Chicago. Rush conducted the AEC on their most recent 2 CD set for Pi Records.
Rush has collaborated with some incredible musicians over the years including Alvin Lucier, Pauline Oliveros, Blue Gene Tyranny and Art Ensemble of Chicago, to name a few.
::Dark Tea
darktea.bandcamp.com/
New York City based songwriter Gary Canino, submits to you a generous collection of country-inflected music under the Dark Tea moniker that honor the past while looking ahead. There is, as they say, a little something for everyone. With Dark Tea, Gary emerges as a scientist does from her lab, having cracked the formula. The formula? Honor the listeners’ desire for both danger and comfort. And so, when a melody starts to wander from the marked trail, Gary soothes the listener’s ear with a simple one-four (“Variable Reward”). And so, when ambling verse figure disorients the listener, it repeats until she feels at home in it (“The Bird’s Nest”). And so, a long verse finds punctuation in a tasteful punchy chorus (“No Notifications”). The album also contains no fewer than three truly great guitar solos, including one from Meg Duffy’s Hand Habits on “Rollin’ Back The Dial”.
::Ornament
ornamenttn.bandcamp.com/music
"Ornament is a pop troupe from Nashville, TN made up of Will Mann, Ryan Donoho, and Alec O'Connell"
6:30 pm doors; 7 pm music
$10-$15 sliding scale admission
FMRL: Rob Noyes / John Dikeman & Ava Mendoza
Bastion Nashville434 Houston StNashville, TN37203 Map
::Rob Noyes (Mass.)
poonvillage.bandcamp.com/album/the-feudal-spirit
www.facebook.com/robmnoyes/
soundcloud.com/robnoyes
"Rob Noyes has been on the Eastern Massachusetts scene for a while, but what we've heard him play is music from within the context of electric bands, most of whom are loud as hell and exist somewhere along the rim of the post-core continuum. More recently, Rob has taken to displaying his solo acoustic guitar chops and they are massive. The Feudal Spirit is the first vinyl evidence of their 'shoulders.' Like Western Mass's Tony Pasquarosa, who mines the same widely-variant style-pits, Rob's approach to acoustic playing resembles his electric work only through shared-belief-in-a-strong-downstroke. On the way to developing his own compositional/performance approach, Noyes sometimes seems to have absorbed an almost infinite reservoir of influences. Apart from some superb Basho-like 12-string tunneling, most momentary fragments tend to recall legendary Limeys like John Renbourn (and through him, Davey Graham), because Rob's overt melodic structures tend towards the non-bluesoid. But then you'll maybe hear a note-sequence spiced like something dropped from the hot strings of Michael Chapman or even a powerful throng that makes you think of Wizz Jones. When that happens, you realize there's more of a blues base to some of the songs than you'd been able to untangle. Mr. Noyes hits a vast array of sub-genres on this album, and he hits them all pretty damn hard. Rob's playing carries the weight of many possibly-imaginary forebears, but the way he smears them all together shows a holistic mastery of touch and imagination that defies a lot of today's players, who tend to shine in short bursts, then allow their dreams to outrun their technique. Rob Noyes has no such apparent limitations. Like Raymond Pettibon, whose artwork graces The Feudal Spirit's cover, Rob's able to create a true form-gobble, making some real beautiful noise in the process. Around the world, licensed Hodologists whisper, 'Make mine Noyes.' Why don't you join them?" --Byron Coley, October 23rd, 2016, South Deerfield, MA.
::John Dikeman & Ava Mendoza (Amsterdam & NYC)
www.doek.org/project/john-dikeman/
avamendozamusic.com/
John Dikeman and Ava Mendoza in soli and duo.
John Dikeman is an American saxophonist residing in Amsterdam since 2008. He'd spent the previous four years in Cairo, Egypt working as a full-time musician and music instructor. He plays in a flowing Ayleresque vocalizing style that is also equipped with a Trevor Watts sensibility...melodic and flowing even when grating and textural. Like Sharrock on guitar. So the prospect of Dikeman and Ava Mendoza, one of the great new voices in jazz guitar and free improvisation. Some folks may know Ava Mendoza from her group Unnatural Ways. Some may have seen her perform with Violent Femmes as a touring member. She has also collaborated with a wide range of artists including Carla Bozulich, Fred Frith, Mick Barr, Nels Cline, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Mike Watt, Matana Roberts, Ikue Mori, Matt Mitchell, Adele Bertei, William Hooker, Jon Irabagon, members of Caroliner, and Jessica Pavone.
7:30 pm doors; 8 pm music
$10-$15 sliding scale admission
FMRL: Paco Cathcart/Holy People/Cherry Blossoms/Crave On
Betty's Grill407 49th Ave NNashville, TN37209-3442 Map
::Paco Cathcart
thecradle.bandcamp.com/
"I'm paco. the cradle is my music. currently live in brooklyn ny."
::Holy People
holypeople.bandcamp.com/releases
"Holy People is the intuitive musical art project of Leah V. Wishnia-Peña"
::Cherry Blossoms
Peggy Snow and John Allingham's longrunning folk combo Joseph Spence deep listening on a collision course with spontaneous music. Carry yo bin!
::Crave On
craveon.bandcamp.com/music
9 pm
$10-$15 sliding scale admission
FMRL: Jay Bolotin / Ziona Riley / Whit Hill / Styrofoam Winos
Douglas Corner Cafe2106 8th Ave S # ANashville, TN37204 Map
::Ziona Riley
Excellent singer-songwriter guitarist whose dark humor and spritely rhythms recalls Vashti Bunyan and Bridget St. John
::Jay Bolotin
www.delmorerecordings.com/artists/jay-bolotin
landmarks.utexas.edu/video-art/jay-bolotin
A brilliant songwriter who spent productive years in Nashville yielding cuts by David Allan Coe, Porter Wagoner, Dan Fogelberg and more. and his own 1970 self-titled LP for Commonwealth United and reissued by Locust Music in 2009. Mark Linn's Delmore Recording Society has issued an LP of unreleased Jay Bolotin tunes entitled 'No One Seems To Notice That It's Raining.'
"While growing up on a farm in rural Kentucky, Jay Bolotin immersed himself in music and storytelling and made sculptures from fallen trees. Later he studied art at the Rhode Island School of Design and became an apprentice to the late sculptor Robert Lamb. However concentrated his study of fine art, he never abandoned his interest in literature, especially biblical stories and those by the Grimm Brothers and William Blake, all of which have inspired his art. During the 1970s, Bolotin also pursued his love of music while working as a country western songwriter in Nashville. An accomplished musician, he has worked and performed with artists who include Merle Haggard, Dan Fogelberg, Kris Kristofferson, and Porter Wagoner, and continues to perform regularly in the United States and abroad."
::Whit Hill
whithill.com/
Whitley Hill was born and raised in New York City, the child of two actors who met doing summer stock. Her mother was a cotton farmer’s daughter from Mississippi. Her dad was the son of Armenian immigrants who settled in the mountains of West Virginia. It was an interesting mix.
Whit plays a Martin guitar and loves it very much. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee with her husband, Al Hill – a keyboardist, guitarist and singer who is music director for soul diva Bettye Lavette. Between them, Whit and Al have three wonderful children.
Random facts about Whit: her Armenian grandfather owned a saloon called the Sanitary Lunch. She once delivered a friend’s baby by herself; this was unplanned. Her dad was on the Sopranos. She collects coincidences, loves her dogs, teaches dance to the sweet children of East Nashville, and is a proud, card-carrying member of the Middle Tennessee Metal Detecting Club."
::Styrofoam Winos
soundcloud.com/user-717435455
open.spotify.com/artist/6ufMUnTHGpPU9APwkFYYxn
8:30 pm door; 9 pm start
$10-$15 sliding scale admission
FMRL: Tropical Trash/Rural Vets/Trafficker/Styrofoam Winos
Betty's Grill407 49th Ave NNashville, TN37209-3442 Map
::Tropical Trash
tropicaltrash.bandcamp.com/
www.facebook.com/TROPICAL-TRASH-140334799370234/
"Instead of trace papering some shadow punks of previous dictatorships, these patriots pull the curtain back and show the emperor sporting some very exotic under carriage, and spew forth tales with cop stashes, Area 51 belly bloat, and new reconfigured mainframe math – this is the new form."
::Rural Vets
Straightening the curves of country roads once promised mountain mamas, but now subjects bowed Rube to Drunk Doctor time lapse tinctures.
::Trafficker
Solo industrial menace; disquieting soul creeper
::Styrofoam Winos
Drink your pane.
9 pm
$10-$15 sliding scale admission
FMRL: Ross Hammond/The Altered Statesman
Sundog Recording Studio917 East Trinity LaneNashville, TN37207 Map
::Ross Hammond
rosshammond.bandcamp.com/album/riding-dragons-in-winter
www.facebook.com/rosshammondguitarist/
Ross Hammond is a Sacramento, CA-based improvising guitarist who expands on the folk and blues vocabulary creating a microtonal dialect fusing his own Merle Travis/Everlys Kentucky roots guitar with Indian ragas, contemporary concert music and free improvisation. He is a great player who performs regularly with some of the best improvisers in the world.
::The Altered Statesman
Steve Poulton's mercurial avant soul combo is a great band with its members' varied backgrounds connecting worlds as disaparate as Paul K's Weathermen to Jo-El Sonnier with all of the groovey psychedelic implications therein. Don't miss it this time, will never be the same as tonight.
8:30 pm doors; 9 pm start
$10-$15 sliding scale admission
BYOB
FMRL: Susan Alcorn / Belly Full of Stars
Proper Saké628 Ewing AvenueNashville, TN37203 Map
::Susan Alcorn
www.susanalcorn.net/
"One of the world’s premier exponents of her instrument, Susan Alcorn has taken the pedal steel guitar far beyond its traditional role in country music. Having first paid her dues in Texas country & western bands, she began to expand the vocabulary of her instrument through her study of 20th century classical music, visionary jazz, and world musics.
Though known as for her solo work, she has collaborated with numerous artists including Pauline Oliveros, Chris Cutler, Joe McPhee, Ken Vandermark, Nate Wooley, Ingrid Laubrock and Leila Bourdreuil, Evan Parker, Michael Formanek, Zane Campbell, and Mary Halvorson among others.
In 2016, she was voted "Best Other Instrument" by the International Critics Poll. In 2017 she received the Baker Artist Award, and in 2018, along with saxophonist Joe McPhee, she was the recipient of the Instant Award in Improvised Music.
The UK Guardian writes, “As an improvisor and composer, Alcorn has proven to be visionary. Her pieces reveal the complexity of her instrument and her musical experience while never straying from a very direct, intense, and personal musical expression.”
www.deeplistening.org/site/content/susan-alcorn
"Susan Alcorn began playing the pedal steel guitar over 25 years ago, and in that time has evolved into a musician/composer of such rare inspiration that her music has redefined, for many, the very perception of the instrument itself.
As a child in the 1950's and 1960's she was surrounded by the big-band music that her parents listened to as well as the pop music that blared on her radio. She picked up the guitar when she was thirteen, and soon began playing slide guitar (inspired in particular by Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson and Son House) and dobro (her favorites were Mike Auldridge, Josh Graves, and Tut Taylor). A few years later, she began playing the pedal steel guitar and performed regularly with country-western bands in Texas.
Although Alcorn's initial work with pedal steel focused on the styles of the players usually associated with it - namely, country and western swing, she was at the same time profoundly influenced by John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, and 20th Century classical composers such as Messaien, Penderecki, and Piazzolla. By the late 1980s, after performing straight-ahead jazz for ten years, she took the advice of Paul Bley, with whom she had been corresponding; she "threw away the real book" and began to develop a truly distinct approach to the instrument - one that incorporates jazz, minimalism, Gamelan Music, Indian Classical music, the folk music of Latin America, to name but a few of the catalysts.
Although Susan Alcorn typically plays solo, she has collaborated in performance with electronic composer Pauline Oliveros, German bassist Peter Kowald, and multi-instrumentalist Eugene Chadbourne. "Uma", her debut CD, was released on the US label Loveletter Recordings in the summer of 2000, and a CD of recordings with Chadbourne, "Texas Music", was released on Chadbourne's own imprint soon afterward.
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:Belly Full of Stars
soundcloud.com/bellyfullofstars
www.facebook.com/BellyFullOfStars/
versesrecords.bandcamp.com/track/jupiter
Haphazard/precise maker of music/noise, of the electronic variety.
Veers ambient.
6:30 pm doors; 7 pm music
$10-$15 sliding scale admission
FMRL: Bill Mackay/Paloma Dare/Shane Parish
Bastion Nashville434 Houston StNashville, TN37203 Map
::Bill Mackay
billmackay.com/
www.dragcity.com/artists/bill-mackay
billmackay.bandcamp.com/
"Bill MacKay is a Chicago based guitarist-composer-improviser. He has energized experimental folk, rock, and avant-garde scenes with his radiant songs, and creative and unpredictable approach to the guitar."
::Paloma Dare
Idiosyncratic approach to 12-string guitar sounds like piano hammers and almost dulcimer-tone accompanied deep-throated 'mountain' vocals.
::Shane Parish
shaneparish.bandcamp.com/
www.shaneparish.com/
"Shane Parish is the guitarist for the celebrated avant-rock band Ahleuchatistas (Tzadik / International Anthem / Cuneiform). His electric guitar works are intense environments, exposed to the elements, and populated by assorted creatures. As an acoustic soloist, he creatively interprets and deconstructs folk music and jazz tunes, plays original cutting-edge poly-rhythmic and contrapuntal works, and transforms the instrument, via preparations and detuning, into a mini-percussion ensemble, banging out pulsating rhythmic trances reminiscent of John Cage's prepared solo piano works. Parish's 2016 collection of folk interpretations Undertaker Please Drive Slow (Tzadik Records) was described by composer John Zorn as "reminiscent of John Fahey and Robbie Basho, at times of John Cage and Morton Feldman, Shane uses these beautiful songs as launching pads for his creative flights of fancy, at times boiling them down to their very essence. A spiritual project that will keep you riveted from first note to last.” His latest releases are Child Asleep in the Rain (Nullzone Tapes), December (self-released), Autodidact (Humanhood Recordings), and a duo album with guitarist Wendy Eisenberg called Nervous Systems (Verses Records)."
7:30 pm doors; 8 pm start
$10-$15 sliding scale admission
FMRL Sandy Ewen/Irreversible Quartet/NoS t r e s s/Drunk Doctor
Betty's Grill407 49th Ave NNashville, TN37209-3442 Map
::Sandy Ewen (NYC)
sandyewen.bandcamp.com/
www.sandyewen.com/
Visual artist, architect and widely regarded as one of the finest prepared or tabletop guitarists in the world. That is no hyperbole. The sheer timbral variety, compositional sense, playfulness and fast moving ideas...like Luc Ferrrari's musical ideas presented at the pace of Tracy-Hepburn dialog and delivered by means of guitar.
She has performed alongside Roscoe Mitchell, Keith Rowe, Henry Kaiser, Lydia Lunch and many more.
::Irreversible Quartet
IRREVERSIBLE QUARTET is an instrumental formation of Irreversible REDACTED, the liberation jazz + poetry band whose 2017 debut recording rocked the year ends lists of Wire Magazine, NPR, The Quietus, Stereogum and a host of others. Irreversible Quartet, featuring Keir Neuringer on saxophone, Aquiles Navarro on trumpet, Luke Stewart on bass, and Tcheser Holmes on drums, reps scenes in Philadelphia, New York, and DC. Tapping into key legacies in creative Black music in the US, their work has been described as “a kinetic bubbling over of collective political and spiritual energy” (Liz Pelly, Shadowproof). They bring an intensity and determination honed by a string of milestones for their main project, Irreversible REDACTED (featuring poet/musician Camae Ayewa, best known from her solo project Moor Mother) — recent performances at the Pitchfork, Moers, Vision, BRDCST, Rewire, Suoni per il Popolo, and Northside Festivals, as well as at venues diverse as Cafe Oto in London, the Kennedy Center and the Smithsonian Museum of American Art in DC, the AMC Empire movie theater in Times Square, and Baltimore’s Red Room.
::NoS.t.r.e.s.s.
Paul Horton performing improvised solo piano, ambient music, experimental beats, and sampling.
::Drunk Doctor
Musical malpractice.
9 pm
$10-$15 sliding scale admission
FMRL: Home Body/Tatsuya Nakatani&friends/Diatom Deli/Soft Bodies
Proper Saké628 Ewing AvenueNashville, TN37203 Map
::Home Body (Greenfield, MA)
www.hellohomebody.com/
home-body.bandcamp.com/
www.facebook.com/helloHOMEBODY/
feedingtuberecords.com/releases/spiritus/
www.peaceandrhythm.com/pages/home-body
"Fever-pop duo Home Body ignores convention with their vivid blend of electronic, new wave, and experimental pop music, performed from the gut with wild abandon and art-school-cool theatricality. Balancing textured layers of juicy synthesizers, gritty beats, and tectonic bass with spirited, stormy vocals, synthesist Eric Hnatow and vocalist Haley Morgan create a visceral sonic landscape that feels equal parts cosmic, fleshy and electric. Emerging from the vibrant Western Mass music scene, Home Body plays with form and improvisation while retaining a dreamy pop sensibility and demanding presence. Live, the duo punctuates their sound with dance and DIY manual light manipulation, reaching beyond their performance to create a high-vibration spectacle that is buzzing with soul, shadow, and depth."
::Tatsuya Nakatani (Truth Or Consequences, NM)
tatsuyanakatani.com/
"Tatsuya Nakatani is an avant-garde sound artist, composer, and master percussionist originally from Osaka, Japan. Based in the USA since 1994, he lives in Truth or Consequences, NM. Since the late 1990’s, Nakatani has released over 80 recordings in the USA and Europe and has toured extensively; performing solo, in collaboration with other artists, and with his large ensemble project - the Nakatani Gong Orchestra. He presents masterclasses, workshops, and lectures across the USA and around the world.
Nakatani’s approach to music is visceral, non-linear and intuitively primitive, expressing an unusually strong spirit while resisting genre. He creates sound with both traditional and extended percussion techniques. Utilizing his adapted bowed gong, drums, cymbals, singing bowls, metal objects and bells, as well as various sticks, kitchen tools, and his breath he manifests an intense and organic music that represents a very personal sonic world. His approach is steeped in the sensibilities of free improvisation, experimental music, jazz, metal and noise, and yet retains the sense of space and quiet beauty found in traditional Japanese folk music. His percussive instruments can imitate the sound of a trumpet, a stringed instrument, an electronic device…to the extent that it becomes difficult to recognize the source of the sound. He has devoted himself to a musical aesthetic where rhythm gives way to pulse, often in a way that is not always audible or visible, in currents that incorporate silence and texture. Nakatani’s primary music activities include solo percussive performance, his Nakatani Gong Orchestra (NGO), and collaborations with musicians and dancers both in live performance and recordings.
Tatsuya Nakatani has spent the last 20 years traveling and performing extensively throughout the United States and beyond. His constant touring fosters the raw and fresh quality in his music which can only survive through an open willingness to share energy, culture, music and self on a global human scale."
::Diatom Deli
diatomdeli.bandcamp.com/
"Diatom Deli is the work of Delisa Neblett, a multi-instumentalist and vocalist from Nashville, TN. Her live performance utilizes classical guitar, layered harmonies, synths, and samplers to create powerfully moving melodic soundscapes."
::Soft Bodies
softbodiesmusic.bandcamp.com/releases
6:30 pm doors 7 pm music
$15-$20 sliding scale admission
FMRL&MetroParksMusic:JeffCarey/SigtryggurSigmarsson/Mindfold/JAl
Centennial Black Box Theater211 27th Ave N.Nashville, TN37203 Map
::Jeff Carey (MD)
jeffcarey.foundation-one.org/
jeffcarey.bandcamp.com/
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cy5fbfGPNA&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR3dHu145YP5ZaUtoL-OyScPkK43Qf8lARJ...
"Jeff Carey makes hardcore digital music with a joystick, a gamer keypad and an array of strobe lights. Computer based synthesis, noise, and improvisation combined with a no-safety-net aspect of gestural control makes his music totally physical and visceral. No overdubs and no backing vocals."
::Sigtryggur Sigmarsson (ICELAND)
www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2016/11/sigtryggur-berg-sigmarsson.html
soundcloud.com/tom-smith-tlasila-ksv/sigtryggur-sigmarsson-x-tom-smith-bho-05-preview-edit
www.helenscarsdale.com/siggi/
sigtryggurbergsigmarsson.bandcamp.com/
www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_kYFdvEUWk&fbclid=IwAR0NSNeAx86b89J6yOZfZR2Fb2RT0DI0tYXvksggZGonCWXlgZnB...
Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson is an Icelandic musician and sound artist, founding member of Stilluppsteypa. Sigmarrson was born in Akureyri, Iceland and studied sound art at the Fachhochschule in Hannover, Germany from 1998 to 2003.
After a long break in solo career, Sigtryggur started releasing solo records again in 2013, and already published over a dozen of albums on CDr, cassettes and LP, mostly for a reanimated Some label. Among new albums there are also collaborations with BJNilsen, Franz Graf, Tom Smith from USA and Malneirophrenia trio in Iceland.
His vocal experiments rooted in dada and playful sound experimentation and vocal drones in the tradition of artists like Phil Minton and more recently Prick Decay/Dylan Nyoukis.
::Mindfold
Heavy/Power Electronics focusing on American malaise
::John Allingham
Nashville godfather of outsider folk makes Jandek sound like Seals and Crofts. Allingham's 'summer breeze' is less the scent of jasmine lingering in the bay air than the still wind that induces motion in the tumbleweeds ambulating in front of Texas barbecues of unknown origin while an itinerant porchweight/whittler carves to the strains of contact harmonica played in a quaker oats isolation chamber for slight chances of reverb. RFBF. Real Folk Be Folk.
6:30 pm doors, 7-10 pm music
$10-$15 sliding scale admission
FMRL:BassSax Matt Nelson-Ben Cohen / Randy Hunt-JayVe Montgomery
Proper Saké628 Ewing AvenueNashville, TN37203 Map
::Matt Nelson-Ben Cohen (bass-sax duo)
www.bencohenmusic.com/
mattnelsonbass.bandcamp.com/
"Matt Nelson is a bassist, improvisor and composer based in Knoxville, TN. Nelson's music focuses heavily on improvisation and composing music in the moment. Crafting his own personal sound using extended techniques, Nelson aims to bring his listeners to an unexpected place where only his raw musicality exists. His purpose is not to distract listeners from the instrument's conventional function, but to expand the breadth of sounds available to communicate his message. Nelson is a very active part of the Knoxville music scene and has spent a significant amount of the last few years touring with various bands from many different genres of music. He curates a regular series in Knoxville where he has opened for and performed with Peter Brotzmann,Tatsuya Nakatani and Rafael Toral."
"Ben Cohen is a Brooklyn based saxophonist and composer. After growing up in rural Tennessee, Ben went to the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, where he studied with such luminaries as Jerry Coker and Donald Brown. After graduating, he moved to NYC where he continued his education under the tutelage of Ellery Eskelin. Now a regular on the Brooklyn creative music scene, Ben performs with Daniel Carter, Deric Dickens, Danny Fisher-Lochhead, John Merrit, Kenny Warren, Zach Clarke and many others. He leads his saxophone trio Viriditas and his record label Eschatology Records."
::Randy Hunt-JayVe Montgomery (bass-sax duo)
www.huntdoublebass.com/
ugexploderecords.bandcamp.com/album/revolt-music
"During Randy's formative years, growing up in northern California, he began playing bass as well as taking woodshop classes. Pursuit of the two came naturally together years after focusing on playing and teaching bass. Always intrigued with the idea of making a bass, the opportunity arose when Zeta Music Systems in Oakland, CA hired Randy to help in the building of their electric basses, cellos and violins. After moving to Nashville, Williams Fine Violins on Music Row, a popular bass destination, had a bench opening allowing Randy more opportunity to gain experience in upright bass set up, repair and restoration. Continually striving to sharpen his skills by building upon his knowledge of repair, craft and acoustics of the instrument, Randy attends the Violin Society of America's Oberlin Bass making/repair workshops during the summers. Additionally he attends conventions such as the International Society of Bassists (ISB), where makers get the rare chance to be building basses and relationships with some of the best luthiers around the world. Randy also holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Jazz and Contemporary Music Performance from the Mannes/New School Conservatory in New York City."
galleryabstractblack.bandcamp.com/
animalrightsrecords.bandcamp.com/track/dub-echoes-ft-jayve-montgomery
intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/grapes-2
fperecs.bandcamp.com/album/eleven-eleven
abstractblack.bandcamp.com/album/in-circles-with-self-2
JayVe Montgomery is a multidirectional reed player with clarinumpets and flute in the quiver, plausibly beside a bass clarinet, bassoon and other means to breathe in circles with self.
6:30 pm doors, 7 pm music
$10-$15 sliding scale admission
FMRL: Jon Camp Band/Kyle Hamlett Trio/Ziona Riley/Austin Hoke
Betty's Grill407 49th Ave NNashville, TN37209-3442 Map
::Jon Camp Band (Silver Spring, Maryland)
joncamp.bandcamp.com/
soundcloud.com/jon-camp
"Jon Camp is a fingerstyle guitarist and composer out of the Washington, DC region. His music encompasses American Primitive Guitar, psychedelia, country, drone, and more."
::Kyle Hamlett Trio
kylehamlettuno.bandcamp.com/
::Ziona Riley
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfiZJo9TMjE
::Austin Hoke
Great all-around musician on a variety of strings and things.
9 pm
$10-$15 sliding scale admission
JeffersonStParadeBand/StyrofoamWinos/CraveOn/AbsentStenographers
Betty's Grill407 49th Ave NNashville, TN37209-3442 Map
:: Jefferson Street Parade Band
jeffersonstparadeband.bandcamp.com/
:: Crave On
craveon.bandcamp.com/
:: The Absent Stenographers
Jazz improvisation for the record.
:: Styrofoam Winos
soundcloud.com/user-717435455
9 pm
$10-$15 sliding scale admission
FMRL: John & Kiran Fernandes/Old Red/Abstract Black
Bastion Nashville434 Houston StNashville, TN37203 Map
::John & Kiran Fernandes (Athens, GA)
cloudrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/john-kiran-fernandes-live-at-the-morris-museum
"Father & son duo perform on acoustic guitar in the style of John Fahey or Robbie Basho, looped organ in the style of Terry Riley, and ambient looped clarinet inspired by birdsong and Brian Eno's 'Discreet Music'. "
::Old Red (Athens, GA)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1U_lBHqsn5Q
"Ranjan, Sophia, and John perform soft, gentle songs for guitar, harmony vocals, and clarinet."
::Abstract Black
abstractblack.bandcamp.com/
JayVe Montgomery's solo multi-instrumental, multimedia, multidirectional audiovisual music.
7 pm doors; 8 pm music.
$10-$15 sliding scale admission
FMRL: Daniel Bachman/Crazy Doberman/Ziona Riley/Mindfold
Betty's Grill407 49th Ave NNashville, TN37209-3442 Map
::Daniel Bachman
pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/daniel-bachman-the-morning-star/
danielbachman.com/
www.npr.org/artists/162593609/daniel-bachman
threelobed.bandcamp.com/album/the-morning-star
::Crazy Doberman
crazydoberman.bandcamp.com/
Industrial rust belt landlocked cool free jazz
::Ziona Riley
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfiZJo9TMjE
Mysterious and amazing Nashville-based songwriter. Video above.
::Mindfold
Industrial noise juggernaut of Nashville.
9 pm
$10-$15 sliding scale admission
FMRL: Hatcher-Maunu-Kirshner/DrunkDoc/Austin Hoke/Styrofoam Wino
Betty's Grill407 49th Ave NNashville, TN37209-3442 Map
::Gerrit Hatcher-Peter Maunu-Julian Kirshner (Chi, IL)
juliankirshnerjakirecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-raven-and-the-dove
vimeo.com/200828273
www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/two-improvised-saxophone-drum-duos-show-that-age-is-nothing-but-a-n...
Drummer Julian Kirshner and saxophonist Gerrit Hatcher have expanded their ongoing duo project to include guitar/mandolin/violin and sundry string virtuoso Peter Maunu in their group improvisations. Expect Maunu to strum, bow and pluck adding constellations and punctuations to the interstellar space created by the sax and drums.
::Drunk Doctor
Musical malpractices and aleatoric elective procedures.
::Austin Hoke
Cello. It is he you're looking for.
::Styrofoam Wino
Songwriting Voltron...Nikrant-Turner Overdrive. Kenkelback. The Ross Collier True Player Initiative. Combinatory powerforce.
9:30 PM DOORS; 10 PM MUSIC
$10-$15 sliding scale admission
FMRL: Mississippi Records American Tour
Centennial Black Box Theater211 27th Ave N.Nashville, TN37203 Map
::MISSISSIPPI RECORDS AMERICAN TOUR 2019
FEATURING: A COSMIC AND EARTHLY HISTORY OF RECORDED MUSIC ACCORDING TO MISSISSIPPI RECORDS
SHORT FILMS by RAW MUSIC INTERNATIONAL
A mix of film, audio, slides and lecture presented by Mississippi Records founder Eric Isaacson. This presentation attempts to tell the entire history of recorded music in 90 minutes - from the first star being born to the current age of bizarre technology. A psychedelic and entertaining approach is favored over anything academic.
Subjects covered will include the cosmic patterns that resemble music generated by stars being born and dying, the untold early history of recording technology (including tales of Archeoacoustic technology that allows us to hear recordings from 2,000 years or more ago, cat pianos, the phonautogram which reproduces sounds from dust and much more), the rise of blues, rock and roll, and other revolutionary American music forms and their subsequent destruction by the powers that be, and some hopeful messages about the future.
The main history presentation will be preceded by a very short segment about the Mississippi Records label featuring some footage of our favorite artists.
Mississippi Records is a store and label based in Portland, Oregon. They've released over 240 records spanning nearly every genre of music, ran a store for 15 years, and traveled the world with presentations such as this one. All of this has been done with no online presence, no promotion or advertising of any kind anywhere and no general existence in the digital world.
vimeo.com/98225284
Also featured will be a series of short films by Cyrus Moussavi (Raw Music International), including incredible performances from musicians in Mongolia, Burma, Iraq, Ukraine, Trinidad, Turkey, Kenya, Cambodia, Thailand, Zanzibar and Western Sahara.
www.rawmusicinternational.com/films
6:30 pm doors; 7 pm start
$10-$15 sliding scale admission
FMRL: Matt Nelson-Adam Lion Duo/Freedom Coalition/Drunk Doctor
Betty's Grill407 49th Ave NNashville, TN37209-3442 Map
::Matt Nelson-Adam Lion Duo (Knoxville, TN)
Matt Nelson and Adam Lion are a mutli-genre free improvising upright bass and percussion duo from a burgeoning free/experimental music scene in Knoxville that is merging contemporary concert music, noise, jazz and free improvisation--an inevitable civic consequence from hosting Big Ears.
mattnelsonbass.bandcamp.com/
www.adamlionpercussion.com/
www.youtube.com/channel/UCIi_3khCF1C9yU8J1OLAvqg
::Freedom Coalition
Free improvisations created in ad hoc groups revolving around the core duo of guitarist Ben Rice and drummer Anson Hohne.
::Drunk Doctor
Elective sonic surgery at Betty's, a teaching hospital.
9 pm
$10-$15 sliding scale admission
FMRL: Mdou Moctar/Sean Thompson & The Weird Ears Band
Little Harpeth Brewing30 Oldham StNashville, TN37213 Map
::Mdou Moctar (Agadez, Niger)
mdoumoctar.bandcamp.com/
sahelsounds.com/mdou-moctar/
::Sean Thompson and The Weird Ears Band
seanthompsonsweirdears.bandcamp.com/releases
7 pm doors
8 pm music
$12 advance tickets; $15 at door day of show
FMRL: Joseph Allred/Cassie Berman/Ziona Riley/Wica Intina
Proper Saké628 Ewing AvenueNashville, TN37203 Map
::Joseph Allred (Boston MA)
poorfaulkner.bandcamp.com/
www.scissortailrecords.com/2016/11/joseph-allred-fire-and-earth-ltd.html
Brilliant hermetic guitarist and former Middle Tennessean now residing in Boston, Mass. Allred is a unique, engaging and incredible guitarist and falsetto vocalist.
::Cassie Berman
Silver Jews/Papa M bassist returns to her songwriting roots.
::Ziona Riley
zionariley.bandcamp.com/
Ziona Riley writes strange, buoyant songs tightly sprung with spritely rhythms of ragtime and British folk.
::Wica Intina
Psychedelic folk singer-songwriter Dakota Brown.
7 pm
$10-$15 sliding scale admission
FMRL: WUME/Sheep Bella Tine/Mindfold/Ziona Riley
Betty's Grill407 49th Ave NNashville, TN37209-3442 Map
::WUME (Baltimore, MD)
wumemusic.com
Extremely good motorik polyrhythmic duo on synth (Albert Schatz) and drums (April Camlin). Camlin is also an incredible visual and fabric/textile artist.
::Sheep Bella Tine (Cookeville, TN)
sheepbellatine.bandcamp.com/
Dakota Brown from Wica Intina in exploratory mode evoking early Sun City Girls and Pelt comparisons...expansive seeker tones.
“Looking at our solar system in motion, but sped up where an earth year of orbital rotation was only a second. That is Sheep Bella Tine, all parts and pieces moving at varying speeds and all centered around a single core. The sound is raw and connects me with music originating from unspecified times. The music flows like a current, meanders into eddies and moves around a stable mass.”
-lost sea sound reviews
::Mindfold
Extreme noise for exotica lovers of leather cheer. Members of Trafficker and Essential Tremors.
::Ziona Riley
zionariley.bandcamp.com/
Angelic solo 'chamber folk'--that is to say, graceful, contrapuntal vocal and guitar excursions, fretting as knitting, melodic pleasure walks recalling the buoyant songs of Vashti Bunyan.
9 pm
$10-$15 sliding scale admission
FMRL: Dan Melchior/Hamish Kilgour/JayVe Montgomery/Paloma Dare
Betty's Grill407 49th Ave NNashville, TN37209-3442 Map
::Dan Melchior (Durham, NC)
Melchior creates music in the shared space between American blues, noise, art-damaged DIY and garage punk, vocalised in the manner of ecstatic gospel, art brut and The Fall. An incendiary and singular performer.
::Hamish Kilgour (NYC)
Hamish is a gentle warrior wielding sound as a skillful means to induce an awareness-based salvation to the listener. This is not didactic or preachy music, but a hippie vibration that's found sympathies in punk and garage forms, mild kiwi choogle, expansive and floral encouraging one to lean into the nectar.
::JayVe Montgomery
Free jazz sax and reeds blended with electronics in fulfillment of isotopic promise of a nature expanded in scope by manmade derivation and deviation. Like the fine gold nightingale who sings for the emperor, JayVe plays as a conduit for the electric and vibrational impulses, employing the supernatural to invoke the quite natural.
::Paloma Dare
As the dove, for which she's named, delivered hope in an olive's branch, so Paloma offers a palliative music, calming melodies buoyed by adept acoustic guitar picking.
9 pm
$10-$15 sliding scale admission
Jess Sah Bi&Peter One/Teddy&the Rough Riders/Loney John Hutchins
The Basement Nashville1604 8th Ave S, Ste 330Nashville, TN37203 Map
::Jess Sah Bi & Peter One
jesssahbipeterone.bandcamp.com/album/our-garden-needs-its-flowers
'In the 1980s, Abidjan’s Jess Sah Bi & Peter One became one of the most popular musical acts in not just the Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire), but broader West Africa, eventually performing with a full band to stadium-sized audiences at home and throughout Benin, Burkina Faso and Togo. '
::Teddy & the Rough Riders
Nashville's best cosmic cowboy band.
teddyandtheroughriders.bandcamp.com/releases
soundcloud.com/teddyandtheroughriders
::Loney John Hutchins
Gifted songwriter and producer Loney Hutchins
soundcloud.com/cleftmusic/sets/loney-john-hutchins
7:30 pm doors; 8 pm start
$15
FMRL: John Saint Pelvyn/Keenan Lawler/Crave On
Proper Saké628 Ewing AvenueNashville, TN37203 Map
JOHN SAINT PELVYN (St. Paul, MN)
johnsaintpelvyn.bandcamp.com/
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midheaven.com/item/a-clerical-error-in-shasta-county-shouldnt-have-to-ruin-a-saturday-night-by-sa...
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfiNX9hrl1k
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObVuSipOPKk
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R. KEENAN LAWLER (Louisville, KY)
soundcloud.com/r-keenan-lawler
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pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/9590-music-for-the-bluegrass-states/
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1O_kNYRlkw
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CRAVE ON
craveon.bandcamp.com/
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7 pm doors; 7:30 pm music
$10-$15 sliding scale admission
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Trevor Dumpling will make dumplings while supplies last; also I Love Roti food truck will be on site with delicious food!
FMRL: Ron Coulter (experimental perc.)/Drunk Doctor/Trafficker
Betty's Grill407 49th Ave NNashville, TN37209-3442 Map
::Ron Coulter (Casper, WY)
www.roncoulter.org/homepage/index.html
Ron Coulter is as versatile a drummer as he is creative. He has performed all over the world as a solo experimental percussionist and in ensembles and bands ranging from big band and piano jazz like Glenn Miller's Orchestra and Marvin Hamlisch to experimental and improvisational with Joanne Brackeen, Chris Corsano and Tatsuya Nakatani and spoken word improvisation with Duende Entendre.
Ron Coulter is currently Instructor of Percussion, Improvisation, Jazz, American Popular and World Musics at Casper College in Casper, Wyoming.
::Drunk Doctor
Musical malpractice in life or death situations.
::Trafficker
noxious & demented anonymous industrial from TN.
9 pm
$10-$15 sliding scale admission
FMRL: Jeff Crompton/Ziona Riley/Abstract Black JayVe Montgomery
Proper Saké628 Ewing AvenueNashville, TN37203 Map
::Jeff Crompton (ATL)
solo sax/electronics
www.jeffcrompton.com/
::Ziona Riley
zionariley.bandcamp.com/
Amazing otherworldly songs from Heinous Orca member Ziona Riley
::Abstract Black JayVe Montgomery
solo bass clarinet/electronics
jayvejohnmontgomery.com/
Show start 7 pm SHARP!!!!
$10-$15 sliding scale admission
FMRL: One-Eleven Heavy/Lee Clayton/Warren Byrom/Hotel Ten Eyes
Betty's Grill407 49th Ave NNashville, TN37209-3442 Map
::One-Eleven Heavy (UK-USA)
oneelevenheavy.bandcamp.com/releases
"Transatlantic psychedelic rock resurrecting the joyful, altered reminiscence of the first wave of Cosmic American Music."
::Lee Clayton
leeclaytononline.com/
Brilliant songwriter Lee Clayton (Cat Power/The Highwaymen "Silver Stallion"; Waylon Jennings "Ladies Love Outlaws"; Willie Nelson "If You Could Touch Her At All"; "Lone Wolf" Jerry Jeff Walker) will perform a few songs and recite some poetry.
::Warren Byrom (Lexington, KY)
warrenbyrom.bandcamp.com/
::Hotel Ten Eyes
www.facebook.com/hotel10eyes/
FMRL: Frank Hurricaine/Cherry Blossoms/Ziona Riley
Betty's Grill407 49th Ave NNashville, TN37209-3442 Map
::Frank Hurricaine
hurricanesoflove.bandcamp.com/
soundcloud.com/frankhurricane
"When Frank Hurricane comes into a room it’s really something. As his name implies, he is impossible ignore. He has built an alarmingly nuanced lexicon out of an amazingly limited number of phrases. “Psychedelic.” “Spiritual.” “Holy.” “Gangsta.” “Pimp.” “Bro.” “Homie.” In the hands of the culture-at-large, these terms have long lost whatever literal or subcultural meaning they may have once had and are now so incredibly overused as to be stripped of any meaning whatsoever. In Frank’s hands, though, each of these words comes alive and full of varied meaning. On paper here it looks ridiculous, but in the throat of Frank Hurricane they breathe and dance in indescribable ways. There is no way to experience Hurricanes of Love, Frank’s acoustic guitar-based musical project, without surrendering to his singular and indescribable charm. His pleasant picking gives way to manic strumming, stuttering and unpredictable motifs or, hopefully, incredibly meandering verbal introductions. Frank is a wild and singular story-teller, often providing rambling preambles during his live sets that can out-last the songs themselves. Side three of this LP is called “Holy Story,” and ostensibly does nothing more than provide Frank with a platform for introducing his next song, “Moose Lake Blues.” What actually happens, though, is that where most people would simply say “I wrote this next song on tour,” Frank stretches out, providing tributaries of backstory. We meet all kinds of characters, all presented through Frank’s strange lens, and it’s a treat. It’s just as tempting to put Frank in a You Can’t Win-style hobo camp as it is to make sense of him as a post-Tim and Eric product of the psych-folk/noise-tape boom, but these sorts of categories invariably break down when confronted actual life, and Quintorian Blues is nothing else if not a report back from Frank’s actual life. You can’t throw a roach clip out the driver’s side window these days without hitting a finger-picking guitarist, but you can’t throw a star across the galaxy and hit anything like Frank Hurricane, and with those odds, how can you refuse?" -Matt Krefting Easthampton, MA 2014
::Cherry Blossoms
John Allingham and Peggy Snow's longrunning folk band.
::Ziona Riley
A finger-picking guitarist with a brand new roach clip.
youtu.be/CfiZJo9TMjE
10 pm
$10-$15 sliding scale admission
FMRL: Klimchak/embral/Abstract Black JayVe Montgomery/Interzone
Betty's Grill407 49th Ave NNashville, TN37209-3442 Map
::Klimchak (ATL)
www.facebook.com/KlimchakComposer/
soundcloud.com/klimchak
klimchakmusic.com/
Klimchak lives at the intersection of chaos and order. His composer/percussionist side builds elaborate structures of interlocking melody & rhythm. Then his performer side takes over and obliterates those structures with bursts of noise, random drones and slabs of spontaneous improvised sound. Expect to see some combination of home built instruments, computerized sound design and a mess of drums, flutes and maybe a theremin.
::embral
www.embral.org/
embral.bandcamp.com/
"embral is the duo of Adam Holquist (Erie, PA) and Charles Shriner (Indianapolis, IN).
Beginning in 2012, the pair have released three critically acclaimed studio albums, eight live albums and given over 100 live performances, first under their combined solo monikers of onewayness + dRachEmUsiK, and continuing from 2017 as embral. Their music is often improvised and draws influence from a variety of musical and non-musical sources."
::Abstract Black JayVe Montgomery
galleryabstractblack.bandcamp.com/
communicationartsquartet.bandcamp.com/
www.youtube.com/user/JayveMontgomery
::Interzone
Noise cut-ups from interstitial Nashvegans Andrew Pigue and Reid Campbell.
9 pm
$10-$15 sliding scale admission
FMRL: Thalia Zedek/Chris Brokaw/Cassie Berman/Altered Statesman
Betty's Grill407 49th Ave NNashville, TN37209-3442 Map
::Thalia Zedek
::Chris Brokaw
"Former band-mates in 90's indie rock heavy-hitters COME, Chris Brokaw and Thalia Zedek have remained friends and collaborators in the years since. Their mutual admiration and thirst for adventure along with new releases from each (Zedek releases "Fighting Season" on Thrill Jockey, Sept, 21st, Brokaw releases "End Of The Night" sometime this fall on VDSQ) prompted this extensive Fall tour. Spanning 21 shows over 12 states and starting October 12th, the shows will be comprised of individual solo sets as well as collaborations on songs both old and new."
::The Altered Statesman
Steve Poulton's vehicle for his spacious psychedelic soul songs backed by a revolving door of Nashville feel musicians who give his music the appropriate space for the poetics to diffuse in the room.
::Cassie Berman
Solo guitar-based songs from former Papa M and Silver Jews bassist Cassie Berman.
8 pm doors, 9 pm music starts
$10-$15 sliding scale admission
FMRL: JayVe Montgomery+Tyler Damon/Ziona Riley/Freedom Coalition
Betty's Grill407 49th Ave NNashville, TN37209-3442 Map
::JayVe Montgomery+Tyler Damon Duo
::Ziona Riley
::Freedom Coalition
9 pm
$10-$15 sliding scale admission
FMRL:Lavender Fields/Edenspore workshop/AbstractBlack@Marble Tea
714 Cheryl Ave, Madison, TN 37115-4116, United States Map
Doors at 6:30
$5-10 suggested donation
@ Marble Tea - The address will be posted closer to the show date. Or you can dm the host.
Venue is at a house so please be considerate and park on the street and don't block any driveways. UBER/Lyft/Carpooling strongly encouraged.
Workshop with Edenspore - 7-8pm
Edenspore - 8:30-9:15pm
Lavender Fields - 9:30-10:15pm
Abstract Black - 10:15 pm
Workshop with Edenspore
Nourishing Nerves and Combating Stress with Plant and Mushroom Allies - Western society and its intertwined systems have created chronic stresses on our bodies, minds, and spirits. Learn about some medicinal plants and mushrooms that help nourish the central nervous system, balance the immune system, calm anxiety, balance hormones, and help our bodies adapt to social and environmental stresses. Hands-on examples and photos will be available, DIY medicine-making and growing will be discussed, and certain herbs will be available for purchase.
Edenspore is a multifaceted life project bringing together original music, ecological design, herbalism, visual art, eco-social consciousness, and a healthy dose of magic to usher in a healthier world. She's been performing, teaching, designing, and organizing in the Philly region for nearly a decade. Her lyrics carry listeners to other realms, with an incredible voice that’s described as “enchanting”, “haunting”, and “otherworldly.”
edenspore.bandcamp.com/
Lavender Fields is a music producer, singer/songwriter and a multi-instrumentalist. Her music combines elements of dance, electronica, trip-hop, reggae and world music. Bending genres and creating her very own unique style, Lavender Fields is bringing in innovation in sound while maintaining dance esthetics.
“Lavender Fields’ music offers a joyous message of transcendent harmony and global enlightenment that's hard to come by. Enigmatic and thought-provoking, Lavender Fields’ music beckons you to walk with her on this path, while keeping you entranced throughout the ride", Deli Magazine
www.lavenderfieldsmusic.com
FMRL:A Hawk and a Hacksaw & Josephine Foster in the Backyard
October 14th 2018
FMRL presents A Hawk and A Hacksaw In The Backyard!!
w/
Josephine Foster
7pm//ALL AGES//$10-$15 sliding scale at the door, $8 presale//BYOB
A Hawk and A Hacksaw began in 2000 in the small town of Saumur, France. Initially a solo vehicle for Neutral Milk Hotel drummer Jeremy Barnes, the main impetus of the project was to focus on the gray areas in borders of music and geography. The first album was released in 2002 by Cloud Recordings. Barnes met violinist Heather Trost in 2004 and the band became a duo. The pair has since released six albums, and toured extensively around the world. They have learned from and collaborated with some of the great musicians of Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria and Turkey. The duo has been invited to tour with Swans, Calexico, Wilco, Andrew Bird, Portishead, Of Montreal and performed at Roskilde, Pitchfork Music Fest, and All Tomorrow’s Parties. They also collaborated with Iggy Pop on the reworking of a classic sea shanty.
In 2011 the band started their own label, Living Music Duplication, releasing albums by the great Turkish clarinetist Cüneyt Sepetçi, Romanian village band Bahto Delo Delo, and also Mountains of Tongues (a collection of music from the Caucasus), Thor & Friends (Swans drummer Thor Harris’ minimalist project which Barnes produced and heavily features Trost’s violin) among others. You Have Already Gone to the Other World, an album inspired by the film Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors was released in 2013, and the band toured art cinemas and film festivals playing a new score to the film. They were a featured act at the Transylvanian Film Festival in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, and also presented the film at the London’s Barbican and The Lincoln Center in New York. In the past few years, the band has focused on recording, composing the soundtrack to a hit Albanian TV show called Skanderbeg and the video game Forest of Sleep. They also recently completed a score for a new short by critically acclaimed film maker Peter Strickland (Berberian Sound Studio, The Duke of Burgundy). They were also featured, along with Bartók and Ligeti, for an evening of Eastern European art-music at Queen Elizabeth Hall in London. The BBC Concert Orchestra played AHAAH’s original compositions and folk arrangements along with the band.
Forest Bathing the new album, features ten original compositions. The Persian Santur, an ancient type of dulcimer struck by sticks, and played by Barnes, is a feature component along with Trost’s soaring and diving violin. The duo play nearly every instrument, but have some wonderful guest musicians on a few tracks- Turkish clarinetist Cüneyt Sepetçi, Hungarian cimbalom master Unger Balász, Chicago trumpeter Sam Johnson, who often tours with the group, Deerhoof guitarist John Dieterich, and New Mexico bassist Noah Martinez of the band Lone Piñon.
The band will be touring in 2018 in support of Forest Bathing.
FMRL: LindaHeck+JayVeMontgomery/BellyFullofStars/ScottMattingly
Proper Saké628 Ewing AvenueNashville, TN37203 Map
::Linda Heck+JayVe Montgomery
jayvejohnmontgomery.com/
soundcloud.com/linda-heck
::Belly Full of Stars
soundcloud.com/bellyfullofstars
::Scott Mattingly
www.instagram.com/ryanscottmattingly/
7 pm doors; 7:30 pm start
$10
FMRL: Bilders/Brandon Seabrook Trio/Styrofoam Winos
Bastion Nashville434 Houston StNashville, TN37203 Map
::Bilders (Dunedin, NZ)
www.audioculture.co.nz/people/bill-direen-and-the-bilders
william.direen.online.fr/
Writer and musician Bill Direen with American Bilders lineup of Matt Swanson (bs) and Chris Davis (dr). Poet, novelist, songwriter, musician and playwright Bill Direen was one of the forefathers of the Flying Nun scene in New Zealand. He is a consistently great and very prolific songwriter, often as Bilders, and with a diverse roster of accompanists over the years.
::Brandon Seabrook Trio (NY)
brandonseabrook.bandcamp.com/album/brandon-seabrook-trio-convulsionaries
Free jazz string trio of guitarist Brandon Seabrook, cellist Daniel Levin, and upright bassist Henry Fraser
"From the idiosyncratic musical mind of guitarist/composer Brandon Seabrook comes his latest album Convulsionaries (Astral Spirits, September 2018). In his close to two decades in NYC, Seabrook has garnered international acclaim for his sui generis approach to the electric guitar, one which astounds with tremolo pyrotechnics and an entropic sensibility. While those elements are in full effect on Convulsionaries, they’re met with a mature and thorough sense of dynamics, pace, groove, and feeling. Joining Seabrook on this release are the young upright bassist Henry Fraser (Anthony Coleman, The Full Salon) and Daniel Levin(Tony Malaby, Mat Maneri), two revolutionary string players who have been working in various creative ensembles in Brooklyn for years. Together, the string trio tackles Seabrook’s thorny compositions, which perpetually surprise and unseat the listener throughout the album’s trajectory. The trio’s frightening rhythmic precision oscillates between ominous repeating ostinatos; cathartic, angular, and intricate counterpoint; and a massive dynamic range which can change in a nanosecond. Convulsionaries is the sound of three restless virtuosos, making a bold statement, guiding listeners through a gauntlet of emotional spaces with the aid of these structural assemblages, turning impending doom into a deep cathartic release."
::Styrofoam Winos
soundcloud.com/user-717435455
Songwriting Voltron of Nashville
8 pm doors; 8:30 pm start
$10-$15 sliding scale admission
KevinHufnagel/BruceLamont/SupermanJr.HellYeah/HolyMtnTopRemovers
Betty's Grill407 49th Ave NNashville, TN37209-3442 Map
::Bruce Lamont
(Yakuza, Brain Tentacles, Corrections House)
brucelamont.bandcamp.com/
::Kevin Hufnagel
(Dysrhythmia, Gorguts, Sabbath Assembly)
kevinhufnagel.bandcamp.com/
www.kevinhufnagel.com/
::Superman Junior Hell Yeah
Kriss Famous' incredible new funk-punk band. Eddie Hazel meets Rudolph Grey over a floating tremolo system.
::Holy Mountain Top Removers
9 pm
$10-$15 sliding scale admission
FMRL: Charalambides + Cherry Blossoms
Fond ObjectNashville, TN Map
::Charalambides (TX)
charalambides.bandcamp.com/
www.wholly-other.com/
www.kranky.net/artists/charalambides.html
The ultimate spiritual Texas higher-key music consisting of organic psychedelic guitar dialogue and incantatory vocal mantra. Simply put, one of the very greatest psychedelic bands of the last few decades, mostly around the core sound of guitarist Tom Carter and guitarist-vocalist Christina Carter. This is 'seeker' guitar music of the very highest order--slippery, elusive and rewarding to those who'd suspend disbelief and live for a time in the space of their sound.
::Cherry Blossoms
Peggy Snow and John Allingham's longrunning folk band.
7:30 pm
$10-$15 sliding scale admission