CHRIS HEENAN & JONAS KOCHER (accordian) BHOB RAINEY (solo electronics) ABOUT THE EVENT Bowerbird commences the fall season with a concert featuring first rate music from local and distant sources. This is a rare chance to see the duo of Berlin-based American contrabass clarinetist Chris Heenan and Swiss accordianist Jonas Kocher (who are in…
PHANTOM LIMB + WOOLEY SHARKS WITH WINGS SANGUINE VESSEL Bowerbird presents BROTHERS PEEESEEYE When the three members of Peeesseye get together, they speak a strange vocabulary all their own, something akin to the secret language of twins or a deliberately aggressive Esperanto. So when one member of the trio is missing, the remaining members…
Bowerbird presents METALS AND ELECTRONICS with TATSUYA NAKATANI, MORALLY GRAY, JESSE KUDLER + RICHARD KAMERMAN ABOUT THE ARTISTS One of two exceptional improvisers based in Easton, PA, master percussionist Tatsuya Nakatani (the other is saxophonist Jack Wright), will make his first solo appearance on Bowerbird. Highly physical and inventive in his approach, Nakatani's music twists…
THE PROGRAM Nmperign Dan Cappechi + Tim Albro Dave Smolen Burak ABOUT THE ARTISTS NMPERIGN Bhob Rainey - soprano sax Greg Kelley - trumpet Nmperign has been hailed the world over as the leading purveyors of whatever that strange thing they do is. Their palette of sounds makes laptops seem as flexible as…
CHICAGO LUZERN EXCHANGE Josh Berman cornet Frank Rosaly drums Keefe Jackson saxophone Marc Untern tuba Chicago, IL So this is the beast that ought not to be -- a music that is jazzlike in a number of ways but also is more or less measureless, improvised from scratch and without pre-determined harmonic or structural frameworks.…