9/16 coast-to-coast free jazz madness at FML space with:
Solo percussion from Adam Lion (LA)
Trio with Edan Mor, Isabelle Waldner Kalb, and Kevin Murray (NYC)
Solo percussion from K. Francis Messer
Duo with Mike Meanstreetz (LA) and Christian Molenaar (LA)
$15 NOTAFLOF
Free ear plugs and masks for anyone who wants them
Touring artists:
Offering “a tone so pure it is almost a sine-wave” (The Wire), Adam Lion is a percussionist based in Los Angeles. A prolific collaborator, he works closely with a wide spectrum of artists from the experimental tradition. Notable projects include “Sitting on an Earthquake, Dancing on a Volcano” with Michael Pisaro-Liu and marxist theorist John Holloway, “Live at the Silver Lake Lounge” with Patrick Shiroishi and Mike Meanstreetz, “Can I get a pack of Camel Lights” with Geologist (of Animal Collective), and “The Reinvention of Romance” with Sarah Hennies. He can be heard on the Astral Spirits, Drag City, Innova, Klanggalerie, New Village Tapes, cmntx, and H&S Ranch labels. As a curator and organizer, Lion has presented musicians touring from around the world.
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Christian Molenaar is a multi-disciplinary artist from San Diego, CA. His extensive body of work has incorporated film, painting and music, including appearances on nearly 200 recordings in a wide variety of styles as well as performances in multiple countries. His work often includes hand-built electronics and instruments in a broad array of stylistic influences from free improvisation and harsh noise to American primitivism.
His work has been featured at the Festival de Cannes and covered by NPR, The Wire, The Needle Drop, PopMatters and more.
As a musician, Molenaar has performed with Patrick Shiroishi, Tatsuya Nakatani, Martín Escalante and many more. His recorded output includes collaborations with Xiu Xiu, Kazumoto Endo, Locrian, and members of Ramleh, Deafheaven and Full of Hell.
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Kevin Murray (b. 2000, Mountain View, CA) is an NYC-based drummer, saxophonist, improvisor, and organizer. He co-founded DIY label Subruckus Collective in 2013, and has continued his organizing efforts since moving to NYC in 2018 via the Pool Improvised Music Series and 1039 Records. He has been actively performing since 2012 in projects including Elaine the Singer, Strictly Missionary, the Eddie Gale Inner Peace Arkestra, the Kevin Murray Quartet, Percentage Bridge, Parhelion, and more.
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Mike Meanstreetz is a Los Angeles based improviser and multimedia artist whose non-traditional craft seeds new genres while reaping the fallen fruit of old. Auditory, visual, and word rarely appear in the singular, most often materialising in a tangle of synaesthesia. Sonically his practice explores and expands upon both more metrical genre adjacent sensibilities and more fluid extended techniques via drum kit/percussion/salvage, musique concrete/electronic manipulation, and harmonically loaded acoustic-electric nylon guitar. In these various modes he has performed throughout the US, Mexico, Canada and Europe.
Cost: $15 NOTAFLOF