[image: High Mayhem] High Mayhem Emerging Arts http://highmayhem.org/ * * *PLEASE NOTE THE LOCATION * * * *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. * 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. * *Mark your calendars for the Cloacas CD release on June 4!!!* * *