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JOE LENTINI
laptop
Philadelphia, USA
Current projects include Clown Food, a duo with Dave Smolen, and Satan Eyes, a group with Pete Avengine, Alex Nagle, Andrew Gaspar.
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TOSHI MAKIHARA
percussion
Japan/Philadelphia, USA
"Toshi Makihara studied drums, percussion and improvisation with Sabu
Toyozumi, a prominent percussionist in Tokyo. Since arriving in the
United States in the late 1970's he has worked with various new music
ensembles as well as with numerous dance and theater companies
internationally. Makihara has provided original music to Arden Theater
Company, Diversions Dance Company (Wales), Pennsylvania Ballet,
ZeroMoving Dance Company and Leah Stein Dance Company among others, and
has worked with musicians including Steve Beresford, Peter Brotzmann, John Butcher, Nels Cline, Eugene Chadbourne, Tom Cora, Amy Denio, Thurston Moore, William Parker and John Zorn. He has also collaborated with poets, visual artists,
filmmakers and performance artists widely." www.toshimakihara.com
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NATE WOOLEY
trumpet
Jersey City, USA
Nate Wooley (b. 1974) grew up in a Finnish-American fishing village in Oregon. He has spent the rest of his life trying musically to find a way back to the peace and quiet of that time by whole-heartedly embracing the space between complete absorption in sound and relative absence of the same. He began playing trumpet professionally at age 13 with his father, and after studying he moved to Colorado where he studied more with Ron Miles, Art Lande, Fred Hess, and improvisation master Jack Wright. His tenure with Jack began to break Nate out of self-imposed molds and into the sound world that he has embraced as his own. www.natewooley.com
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AARON SIEGEL
percussion
New York City, USA
Aaron Siegel collaborates with, and is inspired by, a number of challenging thinkers and artists. His work ranges from solo piano compositions and electronic music to improvised ensembles and multi-channel sound installations. Trained as a percussionist in the Washington, DC area, Aaron lived in Ann Arbor, MI for six years while he pursued Bachelor’s degrees in music and English literature at the University of Michigan. In the fall of 2000, Aaron relocated to Brooklyn, New York where, for two years, he curated over 75 concerts for the Eggwolf Series of New and Improvised music in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
Aaron has shared the stage as a percussionist with several well-known improvisers, in addition to his many peers, including: Fred Lonberg-Holm, Scott Rosenberg, Guillermo Gregorio, Stephen Rush, Boris Hauf, Jason Roebke, Nate Wooley and Sean Meehan. He is a member of Memorize the Sky, The Anthony Braxton Sextet, Chorus of Seeds. Rainer and Low and Away, all of which represent long-standing improvisational relationships. As part of these and other ensembles, Aaron has toured extensively in the United States and Europe. www.aaronsiegel.net
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Jon Barrios
double bass
Philadelphia, USA
"Jon Barrios was born in New York and at the age of six months moved to
Japan for 6 years. Later he moved to Venezuela, South Korea and settled
in Miami, Fl where he began to study the guitar with cuban guitarist
George Aguirre. After 12 years in Miami and having found a musical
plateu, Jon decided to move to his mother's home town of Fayetteville,
AR to develop his music in the quiet of the Ozarks. During his stay in
Fayetteville, Jon switched to the double bass and met saxophonists
Keefe Jackson (Chicago Luzern Exchange) and John Dikeman. At this time
he became deeply involved with free improvisation much to the dismay of
the locals. Currently Jon lives in Jack Wright's house in Philadelphia
and collaborates with house mates Alban Bailly, Evan Lipson and Dave
Smollen." www.jonbarrios.com
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