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We are selling passes to our 2024 fall series featuring concerts by William Parker's Mayan Space Station at the Rosette on September 22 and Tarbaby on September 25 at the Draylen Mason Studio at KMFA. 1 pass for 2 amazing concerts. Buy now, tell a friend!
This project has been financed in part by the City of Austin's Elevate Grant Program
A pass that will entitle buyer to 1 ticket to 2 Epistrophy Arts fall season events. William Parker's Mayan Space Station at the Rosette on
Celebrated modern jazz masters and innovators David Murray and Kahil El'Zabar return for an evening of spirited and deep musical interplay.
Epistrophy Arts presents
Meridian Brothers (Bogotá, Col)
With Superfónicos (ATX)
Tuesday August 16. 8pm
Antone's Nightclub (305 E 5th St., Austin, TX 78701)
Tickets $25 advance, $35 door
“Genius prophets of colombian weirdness" - MTV Iggy
“For those who haven’t heard previously heard them, Colombia’s Meridian Brothers are easily among the most interesting groups in South America” - AFROPOP
“Tuneful, clever and enormous fun” - THE GUARDIAN
“The Meridian brothers push all boundaries of what you think you know about music. Promise, you'll love it” - NPR
“So why listen? Because it takes a strong will and clear musical vision for a band to cut through all the music for which Colombia is known” - NPR
“A dream world between electronic experimentation and regional folk” - LE MONDE
“Tropical madness from the most consistent of all the “world for club culture” labels. Twisted cumbia at around 150BPM... terrorises the dancefloor!”- GILLES PETERSON
Colombian guitarist and composer Eblis Alvarez started Meridian Brothers back in 1998 as a vehicle for his own experimental music. Over the years, the group has evolved into a five-piece band focused on re-interpreting all manners of Latin Tropical styles with a strong psychedelic and experimental sensibility. The Meridian Brothers’ music uses popular Latin American rhythms, augmented by sampling techniques, elaborate effect processing, and Eblis’ quirky and theatrical vocals, which channel imaginary characters with both pathos and humor.
The group has released records on Soundway records, Names You can Trust and Bongo Joe and have proved very popular in South America and Europe where the band has toured extensively and has started to reach out to an audience more familiar with indie rock and experimental than Latin music.
Meridian's new album is a tribute to New York's 70's era Salsa Dura. For the project, they have created an avatar, a fictitious group named El Grupo Renacimiento, and written a new repertoire trying to emulate the writing style of those late 60's and early 70's groups while retaining the Meridian Brothers idiosyncratic style of arranging and recording. The sound of instruments has been modified to fit the Meridian electronic templates, and the result is a fantastic album true to the spirit of Salsa Dura and in line with Eblis Alvarez two decade-long experiment with Latin tropical sounds.
The album will be released on the Ansonia label - a historical Latin label that was specialized in Puerto Rican, Dominican and Cuban music from the 1960's and has only recently been revived and has made its catalog finally available on digital platforms.
Meridian Brothers new album will be their first release in over 30 years - a nod from Ansonia Records to the legacy of Latin music history as it steps into the modern era.
Eblis Alvarez has been an intricate part of the new generation of Colombian musicians for the past ten years. He is also a former member of Frente Cumbiero and a current member of trio Los Pirañas.
Meridian Brothers include Maria Valencia (saxophone, clarinet, percussion and synthesizers), , Cesar Quevedo (bass) and Alejandro Forero (electronics and synthesizers) Mauricio Ramirez (drums)
Superfónicos is Colombian Funk. Better yet, it is Caríbe Soul…fed by the Indigenous and African roots of the band’s Colombian heritage, telegraphing a politics of peace and unity from the stage to your ears. They only ask that you dance toward a place in your mind beyond struggle and strife.
Superfónicos was formed when bassist Nico Sanchez and guitarist Erick Bohorquez began discussions about creating a group with a foundation in Afro-Colombian rhythms. They soon teamed up with guitarist Andres Villegas and percussionist Daniel Sanchez, and started rehearsing together during time away from their other bands. That core group developed the band’s unique sound, laying the foundation of what was to come. In 2016, gaitero and vocalist Jaime Ospina—who has recorded with the likes of Pacha Massive—relocated from Colombia to Austin, where he met and instantly connected with the group. It was also during this time that the band met with famed local producer and Grammy winner Adrian Quesada at Level One Sound. Their recording session resulted in a sound that not only encapsulates a moment in time but helped to define Superfónicos as a collective. It is a musical mestizo that is ever-changing but deeply rooted in Caribbean flavors.
Epistrophy Arts is a grass-roots cultural organization dedicated to presenting the finest adventurous and improvised music in Austin Texas. Since January of 1998 we have presented over 50 concerts with some of the major figures in international contemporary adventurous music
This project is supported in part by the Cultural Arts Division of the City of Austin Economic Development Department.
jazz masters and living legends in a rare Austin performance
The real deal in ATX! May 7, 8pm Austin Scottish Rite Theater ( 207 W.18th Street)
jazz masters and living legends in a rare Austin performance
The real deal in ATX, April 19!!
A piano trio unlike any you've ever heard
The Necks return to Austin, Texas on April 9!!!!
Broken Shadows (Berne,King,Speed,Anderson) return to Austin on September 19 at the North Door
In a set of spare duets with pedal-steel radical Heather Leigh, the multi-reedist presents one of the moving statements of his 50-plus-year career
Don’t miss the duo’s Austin premiere performance on May 23 @ the North Door courtesy of Epistrophy Arts
All Ages admission Doors 8, Music 9pm Texas debut performance! "A white-knuckle ride from start to finish." -BBC Music “…makes Earth sound like Return to Forever.” - Jazzwise Fire! is the core trio of Mats Gustafsson (sax), Johan Berthling (bass) and Andreas Werlin (drums). Fire! formed in 2009 to develop a fresh approach to improvised music drawing on influences from free jazz, psychedelic rock and noise. MATS GUSTAFSSON Hailing from Umeå in Northern Sweden, Gustafsson is a saxophonist/composer/improviser working across noise, electronics, contemporary rock and free jazz as well as contemporary dance, theater and art projects. He has performed both as a solo artist and toured internationally with Peter Brötzmann, Sonic Youth, Merzbow, Jim O´Rourke, Barry Guy, Otomo Yoshihide, Yoshimi, Ken Vandermark and in working groups The Thing, Sonore, FIRE!, Gush, Boots Brown, Swedish Azz and Nash Kontroll. He also participates in the large ensembles Barry Guy New Orchestra, Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet and the NU – ensemble. ANDREAS WERLIIN Born in 1982 in the vast snow of northern Sweden and raised in the small west coast village Strömstad. With improvised music at heart and drums as main instrument he is currently part of some well acclaimed and award-winning bands like Wildbirds & Peacedrums, Dan Berglund's Tonbruket and Loney Dear. He has also written music for theater and film. JOHAN BERTHLING Plays bass (double and electric) as main instrument but also uses guitar and other instruments. Active on the Swedish improvised scene since the late 90’s but doesn’t stay true to any genre: he works in all kinds music. Has worked as producer and arranger for many Swedish and some international artists. Works with his own group Tape, new group Ohayo, the Sten Sandell Trio, Fire! and Boots Brown, amongst others. This project is supported in part by the Cultural Arts Division of the City of Austin Economic Development Department.
Released on Runegrammofon januari 2018 http://www.runegrammofon.com Music by Fire! http://earthwindand.com/wp/ Directed by Martin Malm
hold the date March 30 at North Door, Austin Texas “…makes Earth sound like Return to Forever.”— Jazzwise Fire! is a the Nordic experimental supergroup formed in 2009 by the core trio of Mats Gustafsson (sax), Johan Berthling (bass guitar) and Andreas Werlin (drums) who joined together to develop a fresh approach to improvised music drawing on influences from free jazz, psychedelic rock, and noise.
Epistrophy Arts presents Atomic
Ches Smith / Craig Taborn / Mat Maneri
Wednesday, October 3 8PM The North Door ( 502 Brushy St., Austin, Texas 78702)
$20 general admission
ALL Ages
This exciting trio plays in Austin for the first time with three of the most notable musicians in New York’s vibrant creative music scene—drummer Ches Smith (John Zorn, Tim Berne, Marc Ribot, Terry Riley), pianist Craig Taborn (Chris Potter, Dave Douglas, Wadada Leo Smith, Dave Holland), and violist Mat Maneri (Marilyn Crispell, Paul Motian). As Ches describes it himself: “An improvising trio that plays compositions as well; THE BELL is just that, Craig, Mat and I playing my pieces I wrote for the group.” The best thing I caught all weekend,” said critic Peter Margasak of the 2014 New York Winter Jazzfest, “was a superb trio led by drummer Ches Smith with pianist Craig Taborn and violist Mat Maneri, which expertly infused seductively narcotic writing with a mixture of brooding melody and rich texture.” Since that NY debut, the trio has become a priority project for all participants, and in June 2015 Smith, Taborn, and Maneri recorded The Bell at Avatar Studios with Manfred Eicher as producer. Ches Smith’s first album as a leader for ECM follows appearances for the label with Tim Berne’s Snakeoil and with Robin Williamson. Smith has worked with a very wide range of music in his career, playing with musicians from Marc Ribot to Terry Riley to Wadada Leo Smith, and his own groups have been informed by his far-reaching experience. “His first album as a composer and bandleader on the iconic ECM label burns with a subtle heat.” (Pitchfork) “For Smith, THE BELL was not meant to be the stepping off point for a new group but rather a one-time impromptu session. However, after he, Maneri and Taborn played live in New York, Smith realized he an opportunity to create something more lasting with this exceptional group. His written compositions are intentionally kept minimal so as to let the improvisations take center stage. The trio responds to this approach with an appealingly patient mix of empty spaces, complex phrasing and textures that play in the moment and with an organic feeling.” (Karl Ackermann, allaboutjazz) FACEBOOK EVENT PAGE GUARDIAN,COM review Epistrophy Arts is supported by individual contributions and by the City of Austin Cultural Arts Division of the Economic Development Department.
Epistrophy Arts presents
Broken Shadows(Tim Berne, Chris Speed, Dave King, Reid Anderson)
NYC avant-jazz stalwarts join forces with The Bad Plus rhythm section in tribute to legendary Texas composers Ornette, Dewey Redman, Julius Hemphill and more.
Tim Berne - alto saxophone
Chris Speed - tenor saxophone, clarinet
Dave King - drums
Reid Anderson - bass
Broken Shadows is a quartet of kindred spirits communing over shared loves and common inspirations, radiating not only homage but aspiration – to make music with deep roots reach out into the present moment, alive and attuned and moving through our air now. These four musicians hailing from the urban northern half of America – Tim Berne, Chris Speed, Reid Anderson and Dave King – have banded together to reinterpret the timeless sounds conjured by great men from the rural South and heartland of the country: Ornette Coleman, Julius Hemphill, Dewey Redman, Charlie Haden. These iconic figures created an ever-resonant avant-garde out of the folk-art influences of their early surroundings, a canon that comprises the hard blues and deep lament, keening celebration and hollering protest. Wound through the DNA of such avant-jazz classics as “Dogon A.D.,” “Lonely Woman,” “Civilization Day,” “Walls- Bridges” and “Song for Ché” are the age-old sounds of back-alley bars and carnival midways, funeral processions and holiday parades, the rave-ups of Saturday night shading into the hymns of Sunday morning. The way saxophonists Berne and Speed perform this music with the bass-and-drum team of Anderson and King has a rocking, roughhewn harmonic convergence wholly in keeping with the source materials, even as their improvisations have a searching, burning modernism of their own. To channel the cultural history of this music, the players of Broken Shadows can rely on their personal history as friends and collaborators; among various associations, Speed played in Berne’s Bloodcount band in the 1990s, while Anderson and King are two-thirds of the genre defying band The Bad Plus. This foursome is onto something special here – the emotive breath and beat of this music being undeniable, infectious; these are players known for their ability to take it out, but Broken Shadows gives them a vehicle to get down. — Bradley Bambarger
Epistrophy Arts is supported by individual contributions and by the City of Austin Cultural Arts Division of the Economic Development Department
Wed. June 20, 2018 8PM The North Door (502 Brushy St., Austin, Texas 78702) $20 advance tickets
photo credit: Wes Orshoski
Wadada Leo Smith’s Ten Freedom Summers
The first full production in the American South of Wadada Leo Smith’s major work on the American Civil Rights Movement
tickets for Austin Performance
https://www.artful.ly/store/events/13541 performed by Wadada Leo Smith’s Golden Quartet and RedKoral String Quartet with video images by Jesse Gilbert presented in 3 parts in 3 cities Audience is invited to travel to experience the full production Thursday, October 12, 2017 "Defining Moments in America" in Austin, Texas at Boyd Vance Theater at George Washington Carver Museum Presented by Epistrophy Arts Friday, October 13, 2017 "What is Democracy?" in Houston, Texas at MATCH Presented by Nameless Sound Saturday, October 14, 2017 "Ten Freedom Summers" in New Orleans, Louisiana at Loyola University Presented by New Quorum "I was born in 1941 and grew up in segregated Mississippi and experienced the conditions which made it imperative for an activist movement for equality. I saw that stuff happening. Those are the moments that triggered this. It was in that same environment that I had my first dreams of becoming a composer and performer.” – Wadada Leo Smith “A staggering achievement, with the dramatic sweep of the trumpeter’s writing (for both a chamber orchestra and his own small group)… It merits comparison to Coltrane’s A Love Supreme in sobriety and reach.” — Francis Davis, Rhapsody Jazz Critics Poll “Ten Freedom Summers is his magnum opus; it belongs in jazz’s canonical lexicon with Duke Ellington’s Black Brown & Beige and Max Roach’s Freedom Now Suite.” — Thom Jurek, All Music Guide "Five stars. Although there are many outstanding recordings in Smith's canon, it's hard to avoid calling this his masterpiece." — Barry Witherden, BBC Music Magazine “A master at uttering profound truths with bracing dissonance, stripped-down musical gestures and striking contrasts of instrumental color, Smith presided over music of searing expressive power. Even if you didn't know that "Ten Freedom Summers" grapples with our nation's struggles over civil rights, this music conveyed tremendous visceral and intellectual impact." - Howard Reich, Chicago Tribune “There are ambitious works, and then there is trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith’s Ten Freedom Summers… The sound is never less than widescreen. You won’t find any vamp sessions or alternating solos in Smith’s interpretation of jazz – like the history he’s reprising, it only moves forward.” — Otis Hart, NPR "Ten Freedom Summers is one of my life's defining works." – Wadada Leo Smith This performance, presented in collaboration with The New Quorum and Nameless Sound, is supported by Presenter Consortium for Jazz, a program of Chamber Music America funded through the generosity of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.
Henry Threadgill’s Zooid has been rescheduled!!!
Presented by Epistrophy Arts and Liminal Sound series FACEBOOK RSVP
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Henry Threadgill’s Zooid August 12 2017 8:00 pm Scottish Rite Theater Austin, Tx Master Class with Henry Threadgill August 11 8:00 pm UT campus: MRH (Music Recital Hall) The Henry Threadgill Master Class will be a Q&A session. It is an open form session that can go where ever the questions lead. -------------------- For over forty years, Henry Threadgill has been celebrated as one of the most forward-thinking composers and multi-instrumentalists in American music. The New York Times has called him “perhaps the most important jazz composer of his generation.” Born in 1944 in Chicago, Threadgill was an early member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM). The jazz avant-garde has produced dozens of notable improvisers (not surprisingly, since improvisation is arguably the music’s defining element) but relatively few great composers. Henry Threadgill is a member of that exclusive club. With his fellow Chicagoans Anthony Braxton and Muhal Richard Abrams, he’s one of the most original jazz composers of his generation. Threadgill’s art transcends stylistic boundaries. He embraces the world of music in its entirety, from ragtime to circus marches to classical to bop, free jazz, and beyond. Such might sound merely eclectic in the telling, but in truth, Threadgil always sounds like Threadgill. In for a Penny, In for a Pound by Henry Threadgill was named the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for “distinguished musical composition by an American.” In awarding the prize, the Pulitzer committee call the release “a highly original work in which notated music and improvisation mesh in a sonic tapestry that seems the very expression of modern American life.” We could not be more ecstatic for Henry and are honored to have been able to help document his work these last 15 years. This project is supported by individual contributions, and the City of Austin Cultural Arts program
Nohband (Torn,Berne,King) October 26 @ North Door!
Epistrophy Arts presents Nohband David Torn - electric guitar Tim Berne - alto saxophone David King - drums
Wednesday, October 26 8PM
The North Door (502 Brushy)
Austin,Texas
https://www.artful.ly/epistrophy-arts David Torn's Nohband is a sonic voyage that defies categories and blurs boundaries, featuring three of the most recognizable names in experimental jazz with Tim Berne, and Dave King. The music has all of the David Torn trademarks: multi-layered textures, thick chords, disruptions, distortions and hypnotic loops. Torn wraps his sounds around those of his band mates, often taking apart their improvisations and reassembling them. www.screwgunrecords.com daveking.net www.davidtorn.net http://www.thebadplus.com/ “Torn, with his loops and sheer psychedelic abandon, is able to create dense textures, screaming intervallic leaps and dark-hued washes of sound that are as ingenious as they are impossible to imitate.” Downbeat “His (Torn's) work is very spiritual, and has an ephemeral quality that I adore.” David Bowie “Few musicians working in or around jazz over the past 30 years have developed an idiomatic signature more distinctive than Tim Berne.” New York Times
Peter Brötzmann Quartet 5/15 North Door
The North Door 502 Brushy St, Austin, Texas 78702
advance tickets
From Germany, UK and Chicago
Peter Brötzmann - winds / Jason Adasiewicz - vibraphone John Edwards - bass / Steve Noble - drums
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This project is supported in part by individual contributors, Ruby's BBQ and the Cultural Arts Division of the City of Austin Economic Development Department