Karl Evangelista +
Lewis Jordan ALEX HEIGL
Karl Evangelista and
Lewis Jordan perform improvisations for saxophone and guitar.
Newly relocated to Berkeley, ALEX HEIGL performs works for guitar & electronics influenced by La Monte Young and Pauline Oliveros.
Filipino-American guitarist/composer KARL ALFONSO DEFENSOR EVANGELISTA ranks among a new wave of musicians pushing the traditions of jazz, experimentalism, and political music into the 21st century, performing with the likes of Andrew Cyrille, Fred Frith, Oliver Lake, Louis Moholo-Moholo, Bobby Bradford, Ben Goldberg, and Francis Wong. Signal to Noise magazine hails Evangelista as "one of the most original instrumentalists and composers of his generation," and as the creative force behind boundary-breaking group Grex, Evangelista's music has been called an "otherworldly experience" (Eugene Weekly)
Lewis Jordan is an international touring and recording musician and poet. He focuses on creative structures for improvisation, which has led to his work with artists from a range of practice: dance, poetry, theater and visual arts. He continues to produce interdisciplinary and multicultural productions and to seek out performers who strive for modes of expression that honor their traditions while speaking to the urgency of the present.
ALEX HEIGL'S guitar work focuses on the intersection of American Primitive-style fingerpicking and long-form drones and soundscapes, augmented with tape loops and other electronics. He relocated from Brooklyn to Berkeley in 2021 after a decade-plus of playing in bands there, and his first solo album under his own name was released in August.
Cost: $10-$25 sliding scale