Mon 10.21 Havalina Matt Mayhall & Andy Clausen  $15 6pm

Andy Clausen is a Brooklyn-based trombonist, composer, arranger, and educator. Best known as a founding member of genre-bending brass quartet The Westerlies, Andy is also a frequent collaborator with a wide range of artists including Fleet Foxes, Aoife O’Donovan, Haley Heynderickx, Conrad Tao, Nico Muhly, and Dave Douglas, and a prolific composer for visual media, audio storytelling, and concert music. 2024 marks the debut of Andy’s solo project “Few Ill Words: Solo Trombone at The TANK,” recorded in the profound reverberation of an abandoned railroad water silo in rural Colorado. More info at: andyclausen.com.

“A melody from Andy Clausen is pure moonlight. It’s lovely and magical, full of warmth, and it can brighten up the room. But moonlight also is a source of mystery, with ominous overtones and an electric tension” – Bandcamp Daily

“folk-like and composerly, lovely and intellectually rigorous” – NPR

“Chamber music with bracing melodies and, crucially, an undeniable sense of fun” – L.A. Times

“an alluring, whimsical, and just-plain-cool mix of jazz, classical, and experimental music. Challenging music that doesn’t shy away from also being pretty.” – eMusic

“sleek, dynamic large-group jazz, a whirl of dark-hued harmony and billowing rhythm…The intelligent sheen of Mr. Clausen’s writing was as striking as the composure of his peers…It was impressive, and not just by the yardstick of their age.” – The New York Times

https://www.instagram.com/aclausent/

Matt Mayhall has been characterized by Modern Drummer as an artist “who rolls his diverse skills into one untidy, rumbling package.” Over the past two decades he has worked with an eclectic range of world-renowned performers in jazz, improvised music, singer-songwriter, folk, indie rock, indie pop, American roots music and performance art. He has worked with many internationally-known improvisers including Jeff Parker, Chris Speed, Brad Shepik, David Binney, Todd Sickafoose, Anthony Wilson, and Tim Lefebvre. He has also toured with Aimee Mann, Ted Leo, Liz Phair, Susanna Hoffs, and Dar Williams.
Mayhall has released two critically acclaimed albums as a bandleader, receiving favorable reviews in publications such as Downbeat, Bandcamp Daily, and Stereogum. He currently resides in the Pacific Northwest and co-leads the Sound Creation Trio, a collaborative ensemble with Portland-based guitarist Mike Gamble and bassist Andrew Jones. “Matt Mayhall’s drums burn with a self-contained fury; at other times, he develops a rhythmic chatter that accentuates the poetry of the beats… [His music] shows just how strong subtlety can resonate, and how nuance can be the driving force of creative vision.” – Bandcamp Daily
“Matt Mayhall’s music harbors a softly psychedelic vibe… A dreamy soup stressing group composition over individual exhibition.” – Downbeat
“Mayhall sets up a dancing, strutting beat somewhere between Ed Blackwell and Zigaboo Modeliste.” – Stereogum

www.mattmayhallmusic.com

Sun 10.20  Swan Dive Round Robin hosted by DJ Mint Whisper $15 8pm
DJ Mint whisper- host / sound

Cosmos Dark- voice / sound

R.Ibn Sayed El Khalif- words / beats gtr

Robert rodriguez- bass

Davaste phelps- keys

Chris Clark Johnson- gtr 

Christian San Nicolas – sax

Alex Meltzer- electronics

Dae Bryant- drums

mintwhisper is a Portland, Oregon based dj, multi-disciplinary artist and creator of Novelty Radio. Heavily inspired by the east coast and Bay Area creative scene, Sasha experiments with a wide array of genres such as Soulful House, Jungle, Jersey club, Drum and bass, Hip Hop, and much more. Her sets emphasize on seamless blends evoking a hypnotic and effusive atmosphere.

Cosmos Dark is a performance art exploration of absurdity by musician Vaughn Kimmons (of Brown Calculus and WRK!). Through the use of off-kilter rhythms, haunting vocals and sometimes the recitation of a text message from a former partner, they invite us to befriend the shadow as a path to liberation. 

Instagram: @thebrownalice

Davasaté is a vocalist and pianist born and raised in Portland, OR. He is currently studying jazz performance at Portland State University. Davasaté has been performing since the age of 11 throughout the greater Portland area. He has since performed with the Oregon Symphony, Darrell Grant and George Colligan. His sound is inspired by greats such as: Donny Hathaway, Errol Garner, Nina Simone and many others…

Instagram – @davasate_jr

Chris Clark Johnson

Christian San Nicolas is a saxophonist currently studying jazz performance and social justice in the arts at Portland State University. Being a self-taught jazz musician, Christian brings in a unique sound to Portland’s music scene—Their sound is inspired by Patrick Bartley, Baptiste Herbin, Eddie Barbash, and others.

instagram- @cmlgsn

MLTZR is a beatmaker, producer, and bassist known for his background straddling  jazz and creative electronic music. His transition from jazz to electronic production  began in college after discovering the SP-404 sampler. He takes the  improvisational and collaborative aspects of jazz to his electronic performances,  which range from beat cyphers to movie livescores at Portland’s historical  theaters. As the Creative Coordinator for the Ext.606 recording studio, he leads  programming in-studio and in the field, including a partnership with Multnomah  County Libraries providing classes and production resources for Portland’s youth.  MLTZR has opened or performed with such artists as Knower, Carrtoons, Taylor  McFerrin, Gogo Penguin, Baths, Alan Jones Abacus, and many more.

Sat 10.19 1905 Machado Mijiga Omari Jazz Alex Meltzer & Harlan Silverman $20 10pm

Four adventurous soundsmiths embark on a creative journey together for a wild night at The 1905.

Wielding the tools of sound design, afrofuturism, and abstraction, this sonic unit simultaneously explores the fourth dimension, fifth element, and sixth sense as a collective.

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 20 records, 14 EPs, and 16 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.

Thurs 10.17 Fixin To DaMiNo / Chris Icasiano / Akila Fields & Noah Bernstein $15 8pm

Christopher Icasiano is a Filipinx-American percussionist and composer from Redmond, WA. Based now in Seattle, he has been performing and touring professionally for over 15 years. His specialization in free-improvisation and experimental music combined with his vast experience with pop and rock have made him a highly sought after collaborator in all genres of music. He co-founded the grassroots arts organization Table & Chairs, as well as the Racer Sessions, a weekly performance series and free-improvisation jam session. Christopher currently tours with Fleet Foxes, Pure bathing Culture & his long-standing drum and saxophone duo Bad Luck.

https://www.chrisicasiano.com

Noah Bernstein is a saxophonist/composer active in the boundless expanses of
the Portland, OR music scene. From the years 2011-2015 he toured extensively
with Oakland-based art rockers tUnE-yArDs and the Portland R&B group Shy
Girls. His duo GRAMMIES with drummer Dan Sutherland has been exploring the
intersectionality of improvisation, electronic sample-based instrumental hip hop,
avant-garde sound processing, and discreet minimalism since the two met in 2011.
Soon after moving to Portland in 2007, Bernstein hosted a long-running jazz jam
and brought Akila Fields in to be the house pianist. The two have been
collaborating ever since, from their time together as Shy Girls, to Fields’ own Palm
Dat, to features on GRAMMIES material, to, most recently, the award winning
EGOTs. Bernstein holds degrees from the Oberlin College and Conservatory in
jazz saxophone performance and creative writing. He grew up in rural Vermont
and carries with him its brooding forests and rolling hills wherever he goes.
grammies.bandcamp.com
instagram.com/noerbh

Akila Fields is a musician, photographer, and, more recently, a filmmaker. Out of
necessity, Akila uses whatever tools are available for creative expression. As one
of his first musical collaborators upon moving to Portland, Noah and Akila have
played and toured in various acts including Shy Girls, Grammies, and most
recently, the award winning EGOTS.
instagram.com/palmdat

Formed in Portland OR, DaMiNo embraces the principles and history of the free jazz movement and filters it through a modern perspective. All songs are freely composed on the spot, individually cycling through genres,eras, and keys at the flip of a dime. Watching this vibrant trio is a unique experience within itself, as if a matrix of sonic melding is being unfolded right in front of your eyes. The trio consists of drummer Daniel Rossi ( Illegal Son, Haley Heynderickx) Mike Gamble ( TWANS, The InBetweens and the Artistic Director the Creative Music Guild trumpeter Noah Simpson ( Ron Artis, Amos Lee, Alan Jones Quintet) They have released two EP’s on Mike Gamble’s record label As:Is within the last year, and are releasing their next series of albums this fall.

https://daminomusic.bandcamp.com

Wed 10.16 TurnTurnTurn  KAPALA & Emily Harris/ Mealz $15-30

KAPALA (aka Kiara Piazza) borrows time, utilizing a mixture of body, voice, and synthesizer to reveal many things within which have been stuffed and stored below the surface. With Art as the offering, Kiara named this project in reference to a type of ritualistic vessel, created by and carving and adorning the human skull. Each tune ranges from minimal and pop-centric to heavy
and a-tonal catharsis. In this showcase, KAPALA will be performing original arrangements as well as a rework of a few jazz standards and wispy spanish lullabies with the accompaniment of Ms. Emily Haswell – stunning classical pianist hailing from Hilo, Hawaii.

Tuesday October 15 – Naomi Moon Siegel & Marina Albero  / Illegal Son $15-30 8pm at No Fun

Trombonist and composer, Denzel Mendoza is Illegal Son. A Filipino National born in Singapore, raised in Las Vegas, NV; studied in NYC, NY, and based in Portland, OR; Mendoza has lived in the United States for the majority of his life but yet, he continues to chase the American Dream. 

Since 2004, Mendoza has been an Undocumented Immigrant. Labeled as illegal, criminal, and unwanted, Mendoza unwillingly carried that shame as a child into his years as a young adult to only then embrace those terms as strengths as the years progressed. Ironically, his achievements as a musician have outweighed his path towards citizenship; from performing nationwide with Haley Heynderickx to being awarded at The Grammy Awards for his participation with John Daversa’s American Dreamers: Voices of Hope, Music of Freedom in 2018.

Denzel Mendoza’s Illegal Son is quite simply his interpretation of life as Undocumented Immigrant through sound and music. It is deeply emotional and incredibly vulnerable. Every passing day, there is no promise of a tomorrow; there is only fear and hope. To process life under the umbrella of being Undocumented consists of improvisation, a consistent chaos of what’s to come. Everything within Illegal Son is improvisation. It’s insecure, unstable, but hopeful.

An award-winning trombonist, improviser, composer, and educator, Naomi Moon Siegel uses the trombone as a vehicle for sonic expression colored by breath, spit, and physicality. Moving beyond conventional genre norms, she allows her lyrical sound to unfurl intuitively. Her original musical vocabulary draws on the richness of a variety of global musical traditions and the sonorities of the natural world. 

Siegel is touring in support of the release of her third album Shatter The Glass Sanctuary, a collection of adventurous original works that chronicles her adjustment to small-town living in Missoula, Montana, after residing for many years in Seattle, Washington. The music follows her inward journey of emotional highs and lows, propelled ever forward by a stellar sextet of acclaimed Seattle musicians including pianist Marina Albero, guitarist Andy Coe, percussionist Christopher Icasiano, trumpeter Ray Larsen, and bassist Kelsey Mines. Produced by award-winning drummer and mentor Allison Miller, Shatter The Glass Sanctuary is Siegel’s most ambitious and sweeping statement yet, and a showcase of her prowess as a composer, improviser, bandleader, and trombonist. For this tour, Siegel will be joined by the prolific pianist Marina Albero, for a stripped-down intimate version of this music. 

naomimoonsiegel.com

https://www.youtube.com/@naomimoonsiegel

Marina Albero is decidedly one of the rarest improvisational artists of our time. It’s relevant in the human experience today because what reflects an awakened emotional soundscape as she engages you. It’s movement that is necessary yet strikingly a familiarity we have forgotten. The complexity of the sounds out of every key has not one identity but multiple characteristics in relation to another, it leaves you wondering what is even happening and in what genre you are listening to anymore.

marinaalbero.net

Jenny Scheinman, acclaimed violinist and composer, a stalwart of the New York jazz and creative music scenes, presents music from her newest album All Species Parade, an epic double-album celebrating the Pacific Northwest wilderness, where Scheinman was raised.

Jenny Scheinman is an acclaimed violinist and composer who spent 13 years on the NYC downtown music scene, leading both her own bands, as well as working alongside artists ranging from Jason Moran to Brian Blade, Lucinda Williams to Lou Reed, among numerous others. The New York Times praised her “distinctive vision of American music, suffused with plainspoken beauty and fortified by country, gospel, and melting-pot folk, along with jazz and the blues.” Upon moving back to the Pacific Northwest, Scheinman was reawakened to the extraordinary biodiversity of the region known as “The Lost Coast,” where she was raised, a stretch of mud-slide- and earthquake-prone coastline cut off from the main thoroughfares. This would ultimately inspire Scheinman to write All Species Parade, an epic and sprawling double album with an A-list ensemble, featuring guitarists Bill Frisell, Julian Lage and Nels Cline, pianist Carmen Staaf, bassist Tony Scherr and drummer Kenny Wollesen. Though the album does evoke a sense of pastoral wonder, it also strives to capture in Jenny’s words, “a charged relationship to nature, a feeling of being part of something bigger than ourselves, powerful, and fragile, and constantly changing. Something alive. With All Species Parade, I set out to musically reflect that experience of awe.”

JENNY SCHEINMAN

In addition to her extensive work in jazz and improvised music with Jason Moran, Brian Blade, Ron Miles and Allison Miller and many more, Jenny Scheinman has toured and recorded with songwriting legends such as Lucinda Williams, Bruce Cockburn, Robbie Fulks, Rodney Crowell, Lou Reed, Ani DiFranco and Joni Mitchell. She is featured on the original cast recording of Anais Mitchell’s hit musical Hadestown, and has written several feature length movie scores, including the forthcoming Avenue Of The Giants. In March 2015 she premiered a multimedia performance at Duke University entitled Kannapolis: A Moving Portrait, which she continues to present in theaters around the country. On October 11 she will release her eleventh studio album All Species Parade as an epic double-vinyl celebration of wild biodiversity, featuring lifelong cohorts Carmen Staaf, Tony Scherr, Kenny Wollesen and the extraordinary guitarists Bill Frisell, Julian Lage and Nels Cline. 

PRESS QUOTES

“Scheinman [is] a meticulous interpreter of emotion and a composer of cinematic vision and scope.” – DownBeat

“Jenny Scheinman leads an electrifying group of musicians…there is an emotional element to her playing that makes her music deeply satisfying.” – Wall Street Journal

“…when [Scheinman] cocks her fiddle to her chin, draws back her bow, and starts shredding along with her excellent bandmates the result is beautiful havoc unleashed.” – New York Magazine

“Scheinman [has] a distinctive vision of American music, suffused with plainspoken beauty and fortified … by country, gospel, and melting-pot folk, along with jazz and the blues.” – The New York Times

“Protean musician Jenny Scheinman plays all the positions: She’s a stellar violinist, a keen improviser, a sharp composer, and an appealing singer.” – Time Out NY

“There is a simple, quiet joy to this music. The honesty and passion with which it is played is infectious.” – Huffington Post

Electric Circus remixes classic soul and rock for the 21st century with sampled grooves, improvised sonic exploration, light projections and reinventions of mid 20th century psychedelia. Featuring 14 of Portland’s finest musicians (a veritable who’s who of jazz masters) and led by Seattle’s great Wayne Horvitz (conduction, sampling, keys) this show has special written all over it .