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Wednesday, October 2
Phillip Golub / Lesley Mok Duo with
Zekkereya El-magharbel (solo)

Doors at 7:30 pm, $10-20 donation

Phillip Golub / Lesley Mok Duo
Lesley Mok (b. 1994) is a New York City-based percussionist and interdisciplinary artist who works in sound, installation, film, and theater. Their work is guided by a continual search for the connection between the divine and the mundane through a refined musical approach that includes a distinct rhythmic language inspired by Afro-Cuban folkloric music, subtle textural percussion, Free Jazz, ambient, and electronic music.Mok’s ongoing explorations with composition and improvisation are most notably documented in their debut album The Living Collection (out May 2023 on American Dreams Records) that features a ten-piece improvising chamber ensemble. The album, described as “an exquisite and stimulating work” by All About Jazz and “a singularly personal statement” by Jazz Trail Magazine, was named International Debut Album of the Year at the 2024 Deutscher Jazz Preis.

Phillip Golub (b. 1993), "a musician in fast ascent" (Wall Street Journal) with "seemingly boundless creativity" (Downbeat), is a pianist, improviser, and composer based in Brooklyn, NY. Originally from Los Angeles, he creates highly original and expressive music, grounded in but not constrained by his engaged practice in jazz, creative music, and new music. Technically audacious, Phillip sublates sound worlds as distant as Thelonious Monk and Alexander Scriabin, the ars subtilior and Cecil Taylor, negating conventions, yet building on traditions.

Phillip’s recordings have been praised as “cutting edge” (Sequence 21) and containing “a profound concept […] triumphant […] fascinating” (Pop Matters). As a player, he has been described as bringing “assurance, charisma, and infectious enthusiasm” (Steve Smith) to his performances and manifesting “exhilarating energy, charisma, and a canny ability to transform the complex and even inscrutable into sophisticated yet joyful noise” (Allmusic.com)

Phillip is in demand as a pianist on New York’s jazz, creative music, and world music stages, performing and recording regularly across numerous sub-genres and scenes, such as Layale Chaker, DoYeon Kim, Lesley Mok, Anna Webber, Jacob Shulman, and Seajun Kwon.

Phillip has an unwavering commitment to honoring the genealogy of jazz. He has played numerous times with Cecil McBee and worked extensively with Wayne Shorter and esperanza spalding on their opera … (Iphigenia). He continues to play a crucial role in the Shorter estate, digitizing and preparing manuscripts for publication.

Zekkereya El-magharbel
Zekkereya El-magharbel is an interdisciplinary artist currently living in Detroit. El-magharbel has been a member of the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra in Los Angeles for almost 10 years and has worked/studied with artists such as Angel Bat Dawid, Tyshawn Sorey, Corey Smythe, Jaimie Branch, Steve Lehman, and George Lewis, to name a few, but has also worked professionally as an animator and has screened films internationally.






Friday, October 4 
Alex Harding’s Zulu
Doors 7:30 pm, $10-20 donation 

Baritone sax great Alex Harding (The Sun Ra Arkestra, Ethnic Heritage Ensemble, David Murray Big Band, Agape Trio etc.) leads this new band of avant afro-funk, featuring some true Detroit heavy-hitters:

Djallo Djakate - drums
Tony Suhy - bass
Eli Bucheit - keyboards
Mahindi - percussion
Chris Clermont - guitar
Alex Harding - baritone

This group has only played a few times so far, so you catch them in the early devlopment stage of the group this weekend.




October 13 (early! 6pm)
Universal Light
Nick Schillace

Doors 6pm doors, $15 at entry

Universal Light is Mike Gangloff (Pelt, Black Twig Pickers) on fiddle, Jesse Sheppard (Elkhorn, The Heavy Lidders) on guitar, and Kaily Schenker (Solar Hex) on cello.

Mike is a founder of the long-running improv drone unit Pelt and of quarter-century-and-counting old-time rowdies Black Twig Pickers. His fiddling with those bands and others, as well as recent solo recordings and tours in the USA and overseas, blends improvisation, original melodic composition, and a deep grounding in traditional Appalachian music. His most recent releases are the solo Evening Measures album (on which Kaily contributed cello to several songs) and the collaboration with Philadelphia-NYC guitar duo Elkhorn, Shackamaxon Concert. A collaboration with UK guitarist C Joynes is to be released later this year, as is a new solo album (though again featuring Kaily on cello), April is Passing.

Jesse is half of the band Elkhorn, an improvisational guitar duo with Drew Gardner, that has been playing since 2013. Over a slew of albums and tours, Elkhorn has ventured into countless psychedelic spaces, anchored by the churn of Jesse's acoustic 12-string guitar. Jesse's non-Elkhorn musical output includes a folk duo with his daughter, Eva, and playing electric bass in various rock combos. Besides "Shackamaxon Concert," Elkhorn recently released the albums On the Whole Universe in All Directions, Other Worlds and The Red Valley.  He is also a filmmaker and was one of the organizers of the Thousand Incarnations of the Rose American Primitive guitar festival in Takoma Park, MD in 2018.

As Solar Hex, Kaily mixes solo cello improvisation with keening vocal laments accompanied by harmonium. She and Mike perform frequently as a duo and in larger ensembles around their homes in Virginia, as well as sometimes taking the music farther afield. Kaily's recent releases include the all-cello, all-instrumentalTired Eyes on the Torn Light label and the self-released The Squirrel is a Pretty Thing.

Detroit’s master of American Primitive guitar, Nick Schillace, kicks off the show with a solo set likely to feature work from his new release,
A Rich Boys Measured Blues





October 13 (later, 9pm)
Duo Denum (Al Margolis, Tom Law)
with Sam Hooker
Doors 9pm, $10-20 donation suggested

Al Margolis is a composer/performer, improvisor, and painter. Since
1984 - often under his project name If, Bwana -  he has worked in the field of non-commercial, unconcentional music and sound. If, Bwana music is a fusion of noise, ambient and musique concrète sounds.

Margolis has also been very active as the owner of two prolific labels, the cassette label Sound of Pig and, since the 1990s, Pogus Productions, a CD label with a focus on experimental contemporary classical music. He’s been called the only person to run a steady improvised music series in Brooklyn. 

Tom Law is a composer/improviser from Saugerties NY who performs
laptop-based electroacoustic music with viola da gamba.  In addition to Duo Denum, he also performs with Renaissance Noise Restoration, a Baroque/noise/improv duo.

Experimental musician and Two Rooms label co-owner Sam Hooker has utilized tape machines, pedal steel and other strings, found objects and percussion to create his captivating sonic world. Known formerly as Tarpit but now performing under his own name, his recent appearances have been relatively rare as of late.





October 25
Kranky Records Showcase
Windy and Carl, Clinic Stars, Justin Walter, Jessica Bailiff (accompanied by Mathew Sweet of Boduf Songs)
Doors 8 pm, music at 9 pm




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