April 28th – NO Fun
8pm set
$10-20
NOTAFLOF

Machado Mijiga and Mike Gamble (2uo)

2uo is Machado Mijiga & Mike Gamble, filling the sonic void with drums & guitar, respectively.

Inspired by ’90s PNW grunge, early ’00s progressive rock, and 20th century classical film scores, 2uo brings a retro-futurist aesthetic that confusingly groovy, yet unabashedly authentic.

This debut album is a collection of curated clips from a 2-hour improvisation at Color Therapy Studios in Portland, OR on February 22nd, 2024 (except for the bonus track, which is a remix of a test recording, waiting for our bassist, for a Color Therapy session in 2021)

There were no improvisation cues, but the excerpts chosen were giving off strong ’60s/’70s Spaghetti Western/Crime/Blaxploitation vibes, so all of the titles are inspired by that overall aesthetic.

There were no overdubs, cuts, or production elements added to any of the tracks, aside from mixing/mastering; everything was completely improvised and performed live, in-studio.

This is 2uo’s debut album, but Mike and Machado have been improvising as a bi-tet for nearly 5 years– this album was long overdue

Neolith

Alim Ringgold is an interdisciplinary artist working primarily with ceramic sculpture and sound. They use these mediums as tools for developing a language of personal symbolism and spirituality informed by a desire to intermingle and dissolve the boundaries between our physical, spiritual, and emotional realities. Most recently performing and showing work under the moniker Neolith, Alim utilizes noise, performance, and sculptural installation to bring forth a disruptive wisdom embedded in the metaphors of stone and the earth’s many magical and transformative geologic processes.

Neolith is sonic material unearthed, extricated, conjured from a vast internal geography. Noise artifacts emerge and give record to a layered and dense ground lithified through the slow pressures of time and witness.