Tuesday, 10/15
No Fun
$7, 8:30pm-late
Some of the louder and wilder sounds of the CMG community featuring:
Halfbird, Galaxy Research, Social Stomach, Winnie Black, Starship Infinity
Winnie Black
Winnie Black is a multimedia artist in Portland. Her live music performances are improvised manipulation of radio signals to create pulsing textures and melodies.
website – www.winnie.black
Starship Infinity
Eddie Bond is a multi-instrumentalist composer, performer, and teacher based in Portland, Oregon. Bond graduated from the University of Oregon Jazz Studies in 2013 and was named the Outstanding Undergraduate in Jazz in his class. Since moving to Portland, Bond has maintained a busy performance schedule both regionally and nationally across a wide range of style on guitar, bass, synthesizers, keyboards, vocals, and electronics. He has received commissions from the Portland Jazz Composers Ensemble, Yves St. Laurent, and the Mary Pickford Foundation and he maintains a studio of piano and guitar students through the Eliason School of Music in Portland. He was most recently at the Banff International Workshop for Jazz and Creative Music where he studied and performed with Tyshawn Sorey, Vijay Iyer, and many other amazing musicians.
https://starshipinfinity.org/
The Social Stomach
“Theres no better way to experience the pummeling live show of The Social Stomach then in the flesh. As cyborg-like TJ Thompson splits his body and mind between drums and electronics, vocalist Diana Oropeza conducts an exorcism of language, her torrent of words crashing into and arcing above the legible chaos summoned by her bandmate. It’s not noise. It’s not punk. It’s not poetry. It’s not rock ’n’ roll. It’s not dance music. It’s all of those things. It’s none of those things. It’s something else entirely. It’s the Social Stomach.” – Chris Stamm
https://thesocialstomach.bandcamp.com/
Halfbird
Halfbird is an improvising free-jazz/punk/freakout trio from Portland, OR comprised of Ben Kates (alto and baritone sax), Grant Pierce (drums), and Brandon Conway (guitar). Their music is a mix of maximalist squalls of chromaticism, layered tempos, and walls of noise all shaped together into intuitive forms via active listening and luck. The bandmates met while volunteering for the Creative Music Guild and have been playing together for the last five years. Halfbird has released multiple digital albums and has a tape out on SDM Records.
https://halfbird.bandcamp.com/
https://sdmpdx.bandcamp.com/album/halfbird-loomings-sdm-041
Galaxy Research (Dewey Mahood)
Galaxy Research is an instrumental prog/psych rock band formed 2016 by guitarist Dewey Mahood (Plankton Wat, Thrill Jockey Records) and drummer TJ Thompson (The Social Stomach, Multiverse Ensemble, etc). Bassist James Shaver (Abronia) joined the following year. This trio recorded a 5 song EP Kaldi, and has played many shows around the Pacific Northwest opening for Kinski, Moon Duo, Wooden Shjips, Mdou Moctar, Trad Gras och Stenar, and others. 2019 saw the addition of 2nd guitarist Mike Gamble, and percussionist Jason Morales. This current version of the band plans on recording a full length album in the near future.
https://galaxyresearch.bandcamp.com/releases
$7, 21+
Order of Sets:
Halfbird
Galaxy Research
Social Stomach
Winnie Black
Starship Infinity
