A night of improvised music with a very special guest Tatsuya Nakatani on drums!

With:
Andria Nicodemou – vibraphone
Damon Smith – double bass
Jeb Bishop – trombone
Forbes Graham – trumbet

Tatsuya Nakatani is a Japanese avant-garde sound artist and master percussionist. He has released over 80 recordings and tours internationally. Performing solo, in collaboration, and with his Nakatani Gong Orchestra (NGO) project he plays over 100 concerts a year.

With his adapted Gong and handcrafted Kobo bow, Nakatani has developed his own unique instrumentation. A master of new sounds and extended technique; he sculpts a transformative, intense, expressive sound that engages improvised and experimental music while resisting genre. Central to his philosophy of sound is the concept of MA 間, which can be understood as the space or interval between perceptual events.

http://www.tatsuyanakatani.com/

Andria Nicodemou is a multifaceted musician, improviser, composer and teaching artist from Cyprus, specializing in vibraphone. Her music is characterized as an ‘open-ended’ play where movement, theatricality and sound are equally important. She goes beyond conventional music boundaries, extending the vibraphone sound with new techniques.
She has worked in diverse interdisciplinary art projects, with dancers and visual artists in Europe, USA and Canada. She has collaborated with musicians such as Joe Morris, Anthony Coleman, Marty Ehrlich, Ikue Morri, Gerald Cleaver, Tayler Ho Bynum, Ab Baars, Anne La Berge, Gianni Lenoci, Guilermo Gregorio, Marc Sanders, Ingrid Laubrock, Joe McPhee among others.
In 2014 and 2017 she received the honorary visa for prominent artistic personalities from the USA.

http://www.relativepitchrecords.com/releases/rpr1063.html

Damon’s explorations into the sonic palette of the double bass have resulted in a personal, flexible improvisational language based in the American jazz avant-garde movement and European non-idiomatic free improvisation. Visual art, film and dance heavily influence his music, as evidenced by his CAMH performance of Ben Patterson’s Variations for Double Bass, collaborations with director Werner Herzog on soundtracks for Grizzly Man and Encounters at the End of the World, and an early performance with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company.
Damon has collaborated with a wide range of musicians, including: Cecil Taylor, Marshall Allen (of Sun Ra’s Arkestra), Henry Kaiser, Roscoe Mitchell, Michael Pisaro, Wadada Leo Smith, Marco Eneidi, Wolfgang Fuchs, Peter Brötzmann and Peter Kowald. After many years in the San Francisco Bay Area, and six great years in Houston, Texas working regularly with Alvin Fielder, Sandy Ewen, David Dove & Chris Cogburn. Damon moved to the Boston area in the fall of 2016 and began working with Jeb Bishop, Joe McPhee and Ra-Kalam Bob Moses and many others. Damon has run Balance Point Acoustics record label since 2001, releasing music focusing on transatlantic collaborations between US and European musicians.
https://www.balancepointacoustics.com/

Trombonist/improviser/composer Jeb Bishop has been involved with new jazz and improvised music since the mid-1990s. Until 2012 he was based in Chicago; during this time he worked with the Vandermark Five, The Engines, Lucky 7s, Jeb Bishop Trio, School Days, Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet, Globe Unity Orchestra, and many other groups, and took part in countless free improvised encounters as performer and organizer. In 2012 he relocated to North Carolina, where he worked with Eugene Chadbourne and with the improvising collective Polyorchard. In 2016 he relocated again to Boston, where he continues to perform and record regularly, including with the cooperative quintet Cutout, the Eric Hofbauer Quintet, and many more freely improvised situations. A nearly complete discography can be seen at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeb_Bishop_discography.

Forbes Graham is a trumpet player, electronic musician, and composer living and working in Boston, Massachusetts. He has worked with a diverse array of musicians and currently is a member of Para Quintet, Rock Flint Contemporary Ensemble, Wild May, Jazz Composers Alliance Orchestra, Grizzler, Construction Party, Equal Time and Citizens Orchestra. He is the founder of the Rock Flint Artists Retreat, and has appeared at numerous festivals including High Zero, Full Force, and Vision.