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SOLOS with CJ Boyd, Andrew Weathers, Ermine, The Uninvited Guest at Zephyr! Sunday, March 4th
by High Mayhem Newsletter 03 Mar '18

03 Mar '18

Join us at Zephyr for a night of sonic bliss. Longtime High Mayhem favs CJ Boyd and Andrew Weathers return and are joined by Ermine and HM's own Carlos Santistevan. [1] CJ BOYD B assist turned vagabond C.J. Boyd uses bass loops and voices in order to try and stop time. On perpetual tour since March 2008, movement and stasis are both at the center of his music. Weaving together improvisation with a sparse, minimalist aesthetic, Boyd creates waves of sound, worlds of provocative unlived memories through a singular approach to the upright bass and electric bass guitar that makes everything near and far. T hough solo performance takes up the bulk of his time and effort, he occasionally tours with the improvised chamber orchestra Kurva Choir [2] and has also released music with Chris Schlarb, Eliot Lipp, Move [3], and his electronic alias DJ Too Slow. Past projects include Desert Center, Rhonya [4], Like No Tomorrow, and he's been known to join a band for a one-off or the length of a tour, such as with Paleo (AZ), Shy Hunters (NY) [5], Real Live Tigers (TX), and Harm (AK). All the while, he also runs a small label called Obsolete Media Objects [6], which has released such lovely folks as Balmorhea, Aisha Burns, Dilute, and Nelly Kate. His non-stop musical travels have been propelled primarily by a van that runs on vegetable oil while in North America, whereas frequent European tours will find him catching trains, buses, planes, boats, and cars. But regardless of how he arrives to the gig, the music is driven by a commitment to ceaseless discovery and re-invention. His oceanic sounds provide a home for the homeless and journeys to the homebound. http://www.cjboyd.com https://cjboyd.bandcamp.com/ [7] Andrew Weathers http://andrewweathers.com/ [8] My name is Andrew Weathers, I’m a composer and improviser from Chapel Hill, North Carolina. I was born in 1988 to parents from North Carolina and Texas. For a while I lived in Greensboro, NC, where I received a BM in Music Composition from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Now I live in Oakland, CA, where I studied Electronic Music at Mills College. I play guitar and banjo with occasional electronic augmentation. My music blurs composition, improvisation, and appropriation, taking key elements from folk, experimental, and punk traditions. I’m interested in using a minimal amount of source material and I’m interested in repeating myself. Art is a vehicle for social change, a means to create the world we want from what we have. I think the world at large could learn a lot from the DIY music community. I’m interested in the internet connecting us, but using it to make real world connections. I perform solo and head up a group called Andrew Weathers Ensemble. I also regularly perform and record as a part of Parties, Kirtan Choir, and Tethers. I’ve collaborated with Christopher Willits, Bicameral Mind, Andrew Marino, Squadda B, Tatsuya Nakatani, Lukas Ligeti, Laurent Estoppey, Tanner Menard, Brian John Mitchell, and Hal McGee, live and on record. I’ve studied with Fred Frith, Roscoe Mitchell, Eugene Chadbourne, Mark Engebretson, and Alejandro Rutty. My good friend Andrew Marino and I also operate a record label called Full Spectrum Records because it’s important to me to have an outlet to promote musicians that I admire and love. We release work from young composers in unique forms and limited editions. I also regularly work with Overlap, Other Minds, & Dronebar. ERMINE from Burque! https://www.facebook.com/erminemusic/ THE UNINVITED GUEST(S) is the project of musician, sounds engineer and bass player Carlos Santistevan. The improvisational ensemble is anchored by Carlos on upright bass and electronics. At times inviting Guests to perform with, the group has ranged in size from solos to septets over the course of 15 years. Carlos Santistevan is a founding member and director of High Mayhem Emerging Arts. Since 2001 he has helped drive numerous genre bending and creative music ensembles including: The Late Severa Wires, iNK oN pAPER, A. Barnhouse, Taiji Pole, Out of Context, and more. His solo work incorporates acoustic and electric bass along with live looping and electronics to create a unique bass driven music. https://highmayhem.org/artists/music/the-uninvited-guests/ Links: ------ [1] https://highmayhem.org/home/cj-boyd-2/ [2] http://kirtan.bandcamp.com [3] http://obsoletemediaobjects.bandcamp.com/album/simple-machines [4] http://obsoletemediaobjects.bandcamp.com/album/motylanoga [5] http://shyhunters.bandcamp.com/ [6] http://obsoletemediaobjects.bandcamp.com/album/simple-machines [7] https://cjboyd.bandcamp.com/ [8] http://andrewweathers.com/

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