Tuesday, April 16
Vulture Feather, Mission to the Sun, Nagelchrist, DJ Kenjiro
Doors 7:30 pm
Vulture Feather is post/pre/future punk from the mountains of northern California. Detroit-based project Mission to the Sun synthesizes ambient, post-industrial landscapes with expansive arrangements and haunting vocals to create an atmosphere of lamentation for the world left behind.
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Thursday, April 18
Teiku Record Release Show
wsg Zekkereya El-magharbel
Doors 7:30 pm
Josh Harlow (piano), Jonathan Taylor (percussion), Peter Formanek (woodwinds) and Will McEvoy (bass) perform their experimental jazz improvisation on ancestral Jewish melodies.
Harlow and Taylor both grew up singing unique Passover melodies brought to America when their ancestors immigrated from the Jewish-Ukrainian communities in Bershnitz and Monastrishte. Their musical project Teiku interprets these melodies through the lens of creative music and modern jazz, reframing them as launching points for improvisation, and arranging them in a rich song cycle that is deeply personal yet universal in its beauty. The excitement of improvisation lies in its uncertainty and its potential for infinite possibilities. Teiku (a Talmudic acronym which means “unanswered question”) refers to the collective feeling of discovery that improvising musicians know well: creating spontaneous and cohesive sonic environments that are felt viscerally but cannot be expressed with words.
Friday-Saturday, April 19-20
Rod Williams Quartet with Marion Hayden, Tariq Gardner and Marcus Elliot
Doors 7:30 pm both nights
Native Detroiter Rod Williams returns from his home in New York to perform two nights with local great bassist Marion Hayden, her son, the emerging talent Tariq Gardner, and leading local saxophonist Marcus Elliot. Not to be missed!
Williams is a pianist, keyboardist, composer, arranger and sound designer. He has performed and recorded with Cassandra Wilson, David Murray, James Newton, James Carter, Olu Dara, Lester Bowie, Dewey Redman, Greg Osby, Steve Coleman, Geri Allen, Marcus Belgrave, Bob Hurst, Danny Spencer, Sam Rivers, Henry Threadgill, Nasheet Waits, Ed Blackwell, Phil Ranelin, Osamu Koichi, Yasuhiro Yoshigaki, Jean-Paul Bourelly, Eddie Harris, Julius Hemphill, Oliver Lake, Marty Ehrlich, Billy Hart, Billy Higgins,Bob Steward, Lonnie Plaxico, Paul Jackson, Duane Eubanks, Vincent Henry, Mor Thiam, Kazutoki Umezu, Kazuko Shiraishi, Dianne McIntyre's Dance in Motion, Deidre Murray, Opera and Theater Director Diane Paulus, etc.
Sunday, May 12
Jim White and Marisa Anderson
At the Door:
General admission $20
Reserved seating $25
The collaboration between renowned drummer Jim White and acclaimed guitarist Marisa Anderson is a natural union of two of the most intuitive players and listeners working in music. White and Anderson are each very in-demand as collaborators in no small part because of their mastery, versatility and highly expressive playing. The duo have each amassed an impressive body of work, and remain at the vanguard of their practices due to an insatiable curiosity and delight in exploration of new avenues of expression. Their 2020 debut The Quickening exemplified that daring spirit as an exercise in trust: two musicians who had never performed together before committing those first moments in time to record. 2024’s Swallowtail is a deepening of that trust, White and Anderson completely immersed in the moment, each attuned to the other fluidly moving as wind and water.
The duo avoids preconceived movements, instead focusing on their musical conversation. As Anderson puts it, “The ideas aren’t the music, they are the pathway into the musical possibilities.” Their trust in one another and skillful interplay create an effervescence throughout the album. There is an organic ebb and flow to the duo’s motions that brings a sense of serenity and ease to spontaneous transitions, each swell and retraction sounding as free as it does inevitable.
Friday, June 7
Gwenifer Raymond
Gwenifer Raymond began playing guitar at the age of eight shortly after having been first exposed to punk and grunge. After years of playing around the Welsh valleys in various punk outfits she began listening more to pre-war blues musicians as well as Appalachian folk players, eventually leading into the guitar players of the American Primitive genre.
She released her sophomore LP ‘Strange Lights Over Garth Mountain’ at the end of 2020 to a rapturous response. Her debut ‘You Never Were Much Of A Dancer’ emerged on Tompkins Square to the same response in 2018. She has found herself equally embraced by fans of old-west and equally, by left field/experimental audiences.
Appearances throughout the UK and the EU have established her as one of the leading lights of the scene, and not to be missed under any circumstances.
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