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High Mayhem Emerging Arts
http://highmayhem.org/
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*Cloacas CD release performance "The Oatmeal Commission"*
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*Saturday, June 4 at 9pm*
*High Mayhem Studio*
2811 Siler Lane, Santa Fe
Come see the wonder that is Cloacas, and pick yourself up the new work of
art that is their new album,”The Oatmeal Commission.” Free “Oatmeal
Commission” mini-comic with each album!
Opening performance by the cello duo Simple Spells (ABQ).
Listening to Cloacas is like travelling sideways in time. This (mostly)
instrumental Santa Fe band invokes elements of classic Americana and
classical, as well as whatever their acoustical instruments inspire. With
song titles like “Venetian Blind Man”, “Hot Hamburger Pizza” and “Knuckle
Butter”, they present a humorous but sincere irony that is at times
bitter-sweet and melancholic, and at others gangly-legged and goofy. They
have been described as a tiny mountain orchestra in a wooden box with rusty
hinges.
Cloacas are:
Johnny “Johnny Bell” Bell: banjo and ukelele
Sabrina Griffith: violin, viola, vocals and kazoo
Damon Griffith: mandolin, fret-less Mandolin, vocals, sit-box and Horn of
Enough
Michael “Smitty” Smith: percussion, vocals, saw and xylophone
Grannia Griffith: vocals and saw
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High Mayhem Emerging Arts
http://highmayhem.org/
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*Rez Abbasi's Invocation Quintet (NYC) ft. Vijay Iyer & Greg Osby with iNK
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*Sunday, May 15 at 7pm*
*O’Shaugnessy Performance Space-Santa Fe University of Art and Design*
1600 Saint Michael's Drive, Santa Fe
Born in Karachi, Pakistan, guitarist/composer Rez Abbasi moved to California
at the age of four. He was educated at the University of Southern California
and the Manhattan School of Music in jazz and classical music, as well as in
India under the guidance of master percussionist, Ustad Alla Rakha. Living
in NYC for the past 18 years, he has performed worldwide with artists as
varied as Ruth Brown, Peter Erskine, Dave Douglas and Pandit Kadri
Gopalnath. He is musical director and producer for Indian/Canadian vocalist,
Kiran Ahluwalia and plays an integral role in Rudresh Mahanthappa’s Indo-Pak
Coalition and Kinsmen groups. The Invocation Quintet will perform The
Motherland Suite which draws upon influences from the Pakistani Qawwali
musical form— a genre popularized by the late Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. The
Quintet features Greg Osby, alto saxophone; Vijay Iyer, piano; Johannes
Weidenmueller, bass; and Dan Weiss, drums.
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iNK oN pAPER
a drum, bass, and electronics duo which Signal to Noise Magazine described
as sounding “… as if drum ‘n’ bass took a detour through an electro-acoustic
free-punk Jucifer and had its downbeats addled or partly removed.”
Comprising Milton Villarrubia III (drums and laptop) and Carlos Santistevan
(bass and electonics) using live samples, midi triggers, live processing and
looping, the two perform as a duo in order to explore the possibilities of
their respective instruments. They perform in numerous groups and are
tireless participants in the High Mayhem Emerging Arts Collective, an
important organizer and producing organization of experimental art and sound
events in Santa Fe.
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*Mark your calendars for the Cloacas CD release on June 4!!!*
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High Mayhem Emerging Arts
http://highmayhem.org/
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*PLEASE NOTE THE LOCATION FOR EACH PERFORMANCE*
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*Nicole Mitchell and Anthony Davis Duo with iNK oN pAPER *
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Thursday, May 12 at 7pm*
*Outpost*
210 Yale SE, Albuquerque
The opening evening of the Creative Soundspace Festival 2011 welcomes
flutist/composer Nicole Mitchell in duet with renowned pianist/composer
Anthony Davis. Nicole Mitchell has been called “the most important jazz
flutist of her generation.” She is the founder of the critically-acclaimed
Black Earth Ensemble, the Black Earth Strings, the Ice Crystal Quartet, and
Sonic Projections, and was awarded 2010 Jazz Flutist of the Year by the Jazz
Journalists Association. She is a former president of the Association for
the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) in Chicago. Anthony Davis has
always been known as both a pianist with profound improvisational
capabilities (he has performed extensively with Wadada Leo Smith, James
Newton, Abdul Wadoud, and Anthony Braxton) as well as a composer of
operatic, symphonic, choral, and chamber works having composed five operas
including X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X (libretto by Thulani Davis) in
1986. A graduate of Yale University, Davis is currently a professor of music
at the University of California, San Diego.
Opening the evening will be Santa Fe’s iNK oN pAPER, a drum, bass, and
electronics duo which Signal to Noise Magazine described as sounding “… as
if drum ‘n’ bass took a detour through an electro-acoustic free-punk Jucifer
and had its downbeats addled or partly removed.” Comprising Milton
Villarrubia III (drums and laptop) and Carlos Santistevan (bass and
electonics) using live samples, midi triggers, live processing and looping,
the two perform as a duo in order to explore the possibilities of their
respective instruments. They perform in numerous groups and are tireless
participants in the High Mayhem Emerging Arts Collective, an important
organizer and producing organization of experimental art and sound events in
Santa Fe.
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*Rez Abbasi's Invocation Quintet (NYC) ft. Vijay Iyer & Greg Osby with iNK
oN pAPER*
*
*
*Sunday, May 15 at 7pm*
*O’Shaugnessy Performance Space-Santa Fe University of Art and Design*
1600 Saint Michael's Drive, Santa Fe
Born in Karachi, Pakistan, guitarist/composer Rez Abbasi moved to California
at the age of four. He was educated at the University of Southern California
and the Manhattan School of Music in jazz and classical music, as well as in
India under the guidance of master percussionist, Ustad Alla Rakha. Living
in NYC for the past 18 years, he has performed worldwide with artists as
varied as Ruth Brown, Peter Erskine, Dave Douglas and Pandit Kadri
Gopalnath. He is musical director and producer for Indian/Canadian vocalist,
Kiran Ahluwalia and plays an integral role in Rudresh Mahanthappa’s Indo-Pak
Coalition and Kinsmen groups. The Invocation Quintet will perform The
Motherland Suite which draws upon influences from the Pakistani Qawwali
musical form— a genre popularized by the late Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. The
Quintet features Greg Osby, alto saxophone; Vijay Iyer, piano; Johannes
Weidenmueller, bass; and Dan Weiss, drums.
*Mark your calendars for the Cloacas CD release on June 4!!!*
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