727 SE Grand Ave, Portland, OR 97214
||Christian San Nicolas||
Locally acclaimed saxophonist Christian San Nicolas aims to push boundaries with every performance. Christian pulls from the complex experience of being from the Chamorro diaspora.
Being more than just a musician, Christian is a storyteller, an activist, an advocate for change in a world that stays too stagnant. Their unapologetic narrative redefines what it means to be boldly authentic in a world that often demands conformity.
Isabella Febbroriello is a Boston-based multidisciplinary artist focused in sound, time, and sculptural technology. Their main themes of artistic intention provoke audiences to ground themselves or wallow in awareness of their bodies, minds, and spaces.
https://www.instagram.com/theresnothingbetterorgooder?igsh=MWR6MDJmOWowbWpkMA%3D%3D&utm_source=qr
https://youtube.com/@theresnothingbetterorgooder?si=QEoYzuiu0GzBp23q
KLYPH
KL¥PH is the electronic alter-ego of New Orleans freak guitarist Cliff Hines. He uses electronics to transform and layer his guitar into unrecognizable soundscapes, accompanied by gritty analog synths, glitch dance drums, and ominous robotic vocoder vocals. He has self-released several records on his own previously, most recently a self-titled album from his prog pop outfit Hildegard (a band that has toured nationally, performing with such acts as BATTLES, Brazilian Girls, Tank and the Bangas, Knower, Becca Stevens and Anna Wise). He was also the guitarist / sound designer for Christian Scott’s critically acclaimed Centennial Trilogy (including the Grammy nominated album The Emancipation Procrastination), as well as the preceding album: Stretch Music. In 2016, Hines was even nominated for both Best Male Performer (Big Easy Awards / Gambit Weekly) and Best Guitarist (Best of the Beat / Offbeat Magazine). Currently he tours with Grammy Award winning artist Rickie Lee Jones in addition to touring with The Mike Dillon Band while also teaching Electronic Music Production at the University of New Orleans. Recommended if you like: Nine Inch Nails, Radiohead, Coil, Kraftwerk, My Bloody Valentine, Squarepusher.
Videos
Links
klyph.bandcamp.com
youtube.com/kkllyypphh
instagram.com/kkllyypphh
2uo
Creative minds collide in 2uo, an experimental ambient project featuring collective improvisations between guitar loopist extraordinaire Mike Gamble and multi-instrumentalist Machado Mijiga— A veritable sonic buffet of colors, textures, and moods; 2uo is a must-see spectacular sonic experience for open ears.
https://machadomijiga.bandcamp.com/album/2uo
https://mikegamble.bandcamp.com/album/2uo
Mike Gamble
BIO
Mike Gamble is an adventurous guitarist and multi-instrumentalist whose work with electronic modes of composition are integrated endlessly into his setup. Gamble has spent the last 20 years immersed in the creative jazz, experimental rock and improvised music scene primarily in NYC, with close ties to New Orleans, Burlington, Boston, San Francisco and now the Pacific Northwest. He has had the pleasure of recording over 50 albums and has been touring the states, Canada, and Europe with his critically-acclaimed guitar trio The Inbetweens, Mike Gamble Solo,, and alongside doom-metal originators Earth. His more recent collaborators include Bobby Previte, Todd Sickafoose, Nels Cline, Wayne Horvitz, Esperanza Spalding, Matt Chamberlain and Lori Goldston.
Since relocating to Portland, Mike Gamble has dived into the jazz and experimental, Pop, Indie Rock, and electronic/modular scene and gigs several times a week. He currently holds a position as an Audio Production instructor at Oregon State University, and a guitar teacher at both Willamette University and Reed College and is the Artistic Director of Portland’s long standing experimental music organization, The Creative Music Guild.
Quotes
“He has a brain that seems to work faster than other human brains – maybe more like a hummingbird or a spider. Music comes flying out. You just sit and listen to what he thinks of next” Todd Sickafoose
“Mike Gamble is dangerous in the best way” Nels Cline
“Mr. Gamble knows his way around a drone, but he also puts a lot of shifting harmony and texture in his one-man sketches, some of which — like “I’m on Your Side,” with its abstracted trip-hop beat — come across as thoughtfully developed compositions” Nate Chinen NY TIMES
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Machado Mijiga
Classically-trained, jazz-weathered, and eclectically inclined, multi-instrumentalist Mijiga left the proverbial creative “box” at a very early age, with access to many instruments and a diverse musical background brought about by an intercultural heritage.
A Portland native, Mijiga is a musical polymath; composer, producer, bandleader, educator, gear fanatic, and audio engineer, to name a few.
Mijiga studied classical and jazz saxophones at University of Puget Sound from 2012-13 and Washington State University from 2013-2017, with elective studies in Percussion at UPS in 2012 and, ensemble experience at Whitman College from 2008-2012.
Mijiga has shared the stage and/or collaborated with the likes of Benny Golson, Terence Blanchard, Brian McKnight, Charlie Hunter, Mark Giuliana, Bill Watrous, Tamir Hendelman, John Clayton, Eddie Palmieri, Fareed Haque, Darrell Grant, George Colligan, Damian Erskine, Thomas Marriott, Joe Kye
Ora Cogan, PDX All Stars, and many more.
Festival highlights include (but not limited to): Pickathon, PDX Jazz Festival, Vanport Jazz Festival, Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival, San Jose Jazz Festival, PaseoFest, Montavilla Jazz Festival, Taco Tapes Festival, Ghost Carrot Festival
Mijiga has toured with GRAMMY winning band Portugal.The Man playing saxophone, drums, keyboards, and electronics, and has played world-famous festivals and venues, such as Red Rocks, Radio City Music Hall, Hollywood Bowl, Lollapalooza, Bonnaroo, Wonderbus, Edgefield, Triple Door, Metro, The Atlantis, Whalebone, Sherblues, and Racket NYC, as well as done virtual performances for KEXP and Taco Bell.
Mijiga serves as Artist-in-Residence at (Portland’s) Roosevelt High School, along with being a guest lecturer and workshop collaborator for Portland State University.
As a composer, Mijiga recently won the Portland Jazz “Composers Cook-Off” in 2020 and became one of Third Coast Percussion’s “Creative Currents” Partners in 2021.
As a producer and audio engineer, Mijiga currently has 16 records, 14 EPs, and 18 singles released under his name, with all but two of these releases self-produced.
Mijiga has also served as a freelance producer and engineer for artists such as Rob Araujo, Darrell Grant, and more.
Authenticity and uniquity assume the locus of Mijiga’s artistic identity — self-expression is the prime directive, and the medium of choice changes like the weather.
