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Mojo Magazine | July 2026

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CAN - Future Days

Alb. "Future Days" (1973)

Personnel:

Irmin Schmidt, Jaki Liebezeit, Michael Karoli, Holger Czukay, Malcolm Mooney

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AMAZING..... Ava Mendoza

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March 12, 2023 Ava Mendoza

Ava Mendoza is an American guitarist, vocalist, and composer.

An avant-garde artist whose work is described as traversing a number of genres, Mendoza has performed with a wide range of musicians, including Nels Cline, Matana Roberts, Nick Zinner,Jon Irabagon, William Hooker,William Parker,Fred Frith,The Violent Femmes,Weasel Walter,tUnE-yArDs, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Rova Saxophone Quartet,Moppa Elliott, Negativland, and Malcolm Mooney.

Mendoza also leads the avant-rock band Unnatural Ways, a trio with Tim Dahl and Sam Ospovat

Ava Mendoza: electric guitar, compositions

Devin Hoff: electric bass, compositions

James Brandon Lewis: tenor saxophone

Ches Smith: drums

'Echolocation' is the astonishing debut album from Mendoza Hoff Revels, a formidable new unit led by Ava Mendoza & Devin Hoff and featuring James Brandon Lewis & Ches Smith.

While Mendoza and Hoff have floated around each other's musical orbits for decades, and have been friends for some time, this is their first work together on record. It is an electric & holy harmonic fusion of highly estimable musical forces; wholly rendered. The original impetus of this group was Mendoza’s, based on the love she and Hoff shared for aggressive and polyglot electric avant-garde ensembles – artists like mid-80's Black Flag (w/ Roessler & Stevenson) and Ornette Coleman's Prime Time bands revolutionized the way they heard music. As stated in their liner notes, "we shared the writing of these pieces, though without the sizable stamps of both James and Ches, they would sound nothing like they do here.”

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Waiting For The Streetcar by CAN from the collection album Lost Tapes

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Malcolm Mooney & The Eleventh Planet - Union Pool, Brooklyn, New York, November 2, 2021

A few weeks back, I hopped on Zoom with the mighty Steve Shelley of Sonic Youth to talk about some of the drummer's favorites from the band's ever-expanding archives. An extremely good time — I probably could have bugged Steve for at least another three hours about this stuff. If you haven't been exploring SY's Bandcamp page, you should! It is a dream come true for fans — and there's plenty more to come. Check out the feature over on Aquarium Drunkard.

In the past decade, Shelley has kept busy beyond curating the Sonic Youth archives, including work with his former bandmates Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo, as well as a new band, Tape Hiss, with OG Modern Lover Ernie Brooks, that is digging into the Arthur Russell catalog. Another project Steve hipped me to is this wild supergroup centered on Can vocalist Malcolm Mooney. The Eleventh Planet's lineup is stacked to say the least — adventurous guitarist Ava Mendoza, Prime Time bassist Jamaaladeen Tacuma, and many more, all backing Mooney on some very tasty jams ... you can check out a nice video of their most recent Brooklyn performance above.

Oh and hey — one more Sonic Youth thing. I wrote up the little essay accompanying the band's forthcoming Three Lobed LP, which is comprised of various super-cool excursions from the archives. If you had told 15-year-old me that this would eventually happen ... well, 15-year-old me would have been very impressed. The album has been delayed due to those ol' supply chain / vinyl shortage blues, but I believe it'll be out in early 2022. Worth the wait!