Wilson Shook (reeds),
Aine Nakamura (voice, movement) &
Kevin Corcoran (percussion)
Arrington de Dionyso (bass clarinet) & Sandy Ewen (guitar)
Secret Handshake (feedback, objects)
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An improvising trio since 2023,
Wilson Shook,
Kevin Corcoran, and
Aine Nakamura create a atmosphere of heightened concentration, restraint, and purposeful recontextualization of sounds, affects, and relationships with each other and with a particular moment in the world. There is an oblique lyricism, and a non-programmatic ritual intensity to the work, which evokes Butoh, Deep Listening, Artaud's Theater of Cruelty, and a sort of animist ecomusicology.
otherghosts.bandcamp.com/album/procession
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An uncompromising voice in contemporary music, Arrington de Dionyso integrates ancient soundmaking techniques with trans-modernist inquiries into the nature of consciousness. His propulsive improvisations utilize voice and reeds (primarily bass clarinets and his invention the Bromiophone) as multiphonic tools blazing through the liminal spaces between shamanic seance and rock and roll ecstasy.
While deeply rooted in the punk inclination to tear down musical standards in an effort for liberation, Arrington's music weds no-wave iconoclasm with the spiritual searching of Albert Ayler-era free jazz to unveil primordially potent universalities. He embraces sounds as colors, emphasizing complimentary spectrums- from circular overtones whispered through bamboo flutes to the penetrating and deeply guttural howls of amplified throatsinging- with athletic precision and mythic virtuosity.
Whether as a band leader or a solo performer Arrington's music evokes an "Ancient Future", sometimes shocking and hallucinatory, always aiming to channel Spirit.
arrington.bandcamp.com
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Sandy Ewen performs an idiosyncratic take on guitar, focused on texture, contrast and continuity. For over 20 years, Ewen has been performing and recording both solo and in collaborations. She has worked with many guitar greats and improvisational masters, among them Keith Rowe, Henry Kaiser, Roscoe Mitchell, Damon Smith, Weasel Walter, Lisa Cameron, Ravi Coltrane, Danny Kamins, Marc Edwards and Tom Carter. Ewen performs frequently in her home base of Brooklyn New York, and also tours with some regularity.
sandyewen.com
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Photo by Tom Djll
Cost: $10 (NOTAFLOF)