mage by Nina Westervelt for the New York Times

8:00pm, doors 7:30.
$15 all ages

Musicians:
Wendy Eisenberg, guitar,
Donny Shaw, saxophone and bass,
Neil (Cloaca) Young, drums & trumpet

Unforeseen circumstances meant Andy Allen, saxophones & bassoon, and vocalist Ruth Garbus couldn’t make it after all.

A Gloyd Trio Debut !!

The Creative Music Series proudly welcomes
Wendy Eisenberg’s Gloyd, from Western Mass.
Premiering its Trio format for the first time

Wendy Eisenberg, improvising guitarist, banjo-player, vocalist and poet.
Neil Young (not THAT one, THIS one), Neil Cloaca Young, drums, trumpet
Donald Warner Shaw, multi-saxophone, bass

Wendy Eisenberg is uses the languages of free jazz, new music, metal and art song; her music challenging the representational and technical demands placed on a guitar and a banjo in contemporary music.

“I can’t perform free jazz if I’m not also in a rock band, and I can’t perform songs if I’m not also playing free jazz … it all has to be there because if it’s not all there, I feel unbalanced and can’t do anything,” she said.

Gloyd is the epic New England Boston underground twist people have been raving about, featuring tonight the premier of just the trio of Wendy Eisenberg—downsized from a 5tet due to unforeseen circumstances—were and are in some great young underground bands including Birthing Hips, Creative Healing, Guerilla Toss, Fat Worm Of Error and Happy Birthday to name a few.

Wendy Eisenberg: Based in Western Massachusetts, Eisenberg has played with an array of adventurous musicians and was part of the “brainy noisy punk” (NPR) band Birthing Hips. As a poet, her writing has been turned into large scale works and she has also written extensively about music and theory. Two recent albums present different sides of her guitar playing: Its Shape is In Your Touch is a series of solo acoustic improvisations; The Machinic Unconscious presents her in an electric (NY) trio with bassist Trevor Dunn and drummer Ches Smith.

Wendy Eisenberg might be the most liberating guitarist since Derek Bailey. Few players coax such a vast array of sounds from those six strings, all of it coming in a torrent that has no regard for whether the lines connect easily or not. They come rapidly, leaving the listener to wonder what the hell just happened and to find out more by exploring it further. Which leads to more details coming to light.

“Circles, angles, arcs, lines, intersections, Wendy Eisenberg is an explorer, inventor, author, observer, reporter, and much more. On the vanguard of the new new school, where teacher and student are irrelevant distinctions, Wendy has smelted these fine alloys for you; to build a skyscraper with a new type of scaffold.” – Matt Pike, Founder of HEC Tapes
“She seems to balance on a polarity between the abstract and the pragmatic, referencing geometric lines, the neat collision of mathematics, and coyly teasing out an equation that we’ve yet to see (or understand) in full. And with that air of mystery, there’s intrigue.” – Kelly Kirwan, ThrdCoast
Organic matter into future nourishment: Wendy Eisenberg is a Mass-based guitarist who is known outside of the jazz world for the band Birthing Hips. That pop-punk band’s moniker should be an indication that Eisenberg is operating towards a particular sphere of modern guitar playing inhabited quite refreshingly by women (Mary Halvorson, Ava Mendoza, Sandy Ewen, though none of these names are offered as reference points).

Her work as an improviser has led her to collaborate with Matt Mitchell, Trevor Dunn, Ches Smith, Ted Reichman, Joe Morris, Damon Smith, Shane Parrish and Zach Rowden, among many others. She has premiered work by John Zorn, Matt Mitchell, Ted Reichman, Maria Schneider, and Marta Tiesenga, as well as works by her many peers, and has premiered her own work at The Stone, The New School, the Hartt School of Music, New England Conservatory, Yale, and Hampshire Colle

Neil Young Cloaca is an artist based in Western Massachusetts who makes sounds, images, and events. Cloaca’s work celebrates intentionally-unstable systems, broken associations, misinterpretations, and irregular interstices as charged zones of possibility that can oscillate between humor and menace. Cloaca’s audio recordings and video works are often refined assemblages of practiced mishaps and collected incidental moments. As Bromp Treb, Cloaca mixes eager ineptitude with confident uncertainty to make busted sounds and performance. Additionally, remains a proud member of the absurdist baroque noise quintet Fat Worm of Error, currently enjoying a hibernation after over a decade of activity.

Young also makes films and co-produced Milford Graves’ Full Mantis into the world

Since the late 90’s, Cloaca has been programming experimental art events and building enthusiastic audiences. Projects have included performance and screening series such as the Bright Rectangle, the Montague Phantom Brain Exchange, Phantom Erratic, and The Peskeomskut Noisecapades, an outdoor winter landscape sound/performance festival held on the ice of a frozen river.
Solo and in collaborations, Cloaca has screened in and performed at countless basements, bars, lofts, living rooms, closets and art spaces all around North America and Europe including: High Zero, ICA Boston, EMPAC, Block Museum of Art, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Kunstencentrum Belgie, Center For New Music, Instants Chavirés, Nightingale Cinema, and Vox Populi.

Donald Warner Shaw:
DONALD WARNER SHAW III (bass and saxophone) (along with NEIL Cloaca YOUNG) are best known for their membership in Fat Worm of Error, but also have solo electronic and electroacoustic recording and performing projects on their own and in collaboration.

The Creative Music Series (CMS) was established in January, 2015, to showcase the work of adventurous jazz musicians from out-of-state, presenting them in intimate venues in the Cambridge/Somerville area. My endeavor was a reaction to the apparent lack of invitations being extended to accomplished, new talent and even unknown musicians to the Boston area. CMS has now begun to zero in on Boston based musicians who are creating their own projects with these out-of-town guests, and taking these musical risks to find an expression and gain a wider appreciation. https://www.facebook.com/CMS.in.Cambridge.MA/.