From Thursday, September 10 to Saturday, September 12, Sonic Transmissions, directed and curated by the international renowned bassist Ingebrigt Håker Flaten and his six piece genre-melting orchestra The Young Mothers, takes over The North Door in Austin. The festival will also feature an a-list cast of the legends of free jazz, one of Texas’ best post-punk engineers of the current no-wave aesthetic, and a night that showcases the contemporary direction of Texas experimental hip-hop.
Headlining the three-day festival are multi-instrumentalist Joe McPhee, a free jazz elder statesman who has collaborated and recorded with Jimmy Garrison, Clifford Thornton, Peter Brötzmann, and Evan Parker; the international touring machine of Spray Paint, an Austin-based post-punk band featuring guitarist/vocalist Cory Plump, guitarist/vocalist George Dishner, and drummer Chris Stephenson; and a hip-hop bill that includes Houston-based Jawwaad Taylor, Guilla, and female rap frontrunner PersephOne, who are the pilots of the new guard of invulnerable hip-hop....
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From Thursday, September 10 to Saturday, September 12, Sonic Transmissions, directed and curated by the international renowned bassist Ingebrigt Håker Flaten and his six piece genre-melting orchestra The Young Mothers, takes over The North Door in Austin. The festival will also feature an a-list cast of the legends of free jazz, one of Texas’ best post-punk engineers of the current no-wave aesthetic, and a night that showcases the contemporary direction of Texas experimental hip-hop.
Headlining the three-day festival are multi-instrumentalist Joe McPhee, a free jazz elder statesman who has collaborated and recorded with Jimmy Garrison, Clifford Thornton, Peter Brötzmann, and Evan Parker; the international touring machine of Spray Paint, an Austin-based post-punk band featuring guitarist/vocalist Cory Plump, guitarist/vocalist George Dishner, and drummer Chris Stephenson; and a hip-hop bill that includes Houston-based Jawwaad Taylor, Guilla, and female rap frontrunner PersephOne, who are the pilots of the new guard of invulnerable hip-hop.
The debut music festival at The North Door (502 Brushy Street in Austin) is built around the Texas-centric powerhouse The Young Mothers, which will perform nightly as a group. Each member of the six-piece ensemble will also present his respective solo project as well as collaborate with the nation’s top-flight improv musicians, such as Alvin Fielder, a founding member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM); Avreeayl Ra, a longstanding member of the AACM; Nick Mazzarella, a saxophonist who’s in the Chicago Reed Quartet with Ken Vandermark, Mars Williams, and Dave Rempis; Damon Smith, a Houston-based double bassist who has played with Cecil Taylor, Marshall Allen, and John Tchicai; and David Dove, a highly-regarded trombonist and founder of Nameless Sound in Houston.
The Young Mothers is the brain child of Austin-based Ingebrigt Håker Flaten, a Norwegian-born double bassist who constantly burns down stages in the States and around the globe with celebrated jazz outfits like The Thing and Atomic. The six-piece juggernaut presents jack-out-of-the-box surprises ranging from spirited and moody takes on modern jazz and improv to grindcore and hip-hop side trips.
The band has gained solid recognition in the U.S. and Europe through several tours and festival appearances as well as via its critically acclaimed debut album A Mothers Work is Never Done, which came out on Håker Flaten’s own imprint Tektite Records in March 2014. One onlooker, via a blog post during their album release at South by Southwest, wrote, “These cats from Austin sound like a Saharan metal band with jazz instruments.”
Along with Sonic Transmissions artistic director Ingebrigt Håker Flaten, The Young Mothers features:
- Austin-based guitarist Jonathan Horne, a member of the Steve Albini-engineered Plutonium Farmers, and Bop English, the side project of White Denim frontman James Petralli.
- Saxophonist Jason Jackson, a centerpiece of Houston’s productive improvised music community who has played with Leroy Jenkins, Pauline Oliveros, and William Parker.
- Trumpeter and rapper Jawwaad Taylor, a member of the bow-down-worthy Shape of Broad Minds, and a Houston native who recently relocated from New York City to his hometown, but not before performing and collaborating with Jay-Z and MF DOOM.
- Dallas-based drummer/vibe man Stefan Gonzalez, son of jazz heavyweight Dennis Gonzales, whose powerful chops can be heard in countless jazz, noise, mariachi and grind projects.
- Frank Rosaly, a Chicago-stationed percussionist who has played nationally and internationally with the integrals, such as Peter Brötzmann, Jeff Parker, Roscoe Mitchell and Thurston Moore.
The festival is supported by Epistrophy Arts, Astral Spirits, and the City of Austin through the Economic Development Department/Cultural Arts Division believing an investment in the Arts is an investment in Austin’s future. Visit Austin at NowPlayingAustin.com
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