$10 at the door or in advance through Alcorn Music Studios
All Ages
PETER EVANS/CHARITY CHAN/TOM BLANCARTE/WEASEL WALTER : The final show of a short Canadian tour celebrating the release of their first album on ugEXPLODE records, "Cryptocrystalline", this explosive quartet of musicians hailing from New York and Montreal take the stage at Ottawa's UMI Cafe. Yes, you've heard it before...this band teeters on the edges of free jazz to punk/no wave only to verge slightly on the frontiers of punctuated serialist/contemporary classical stylings. The trick here though, is that rather than being multi-genre, this group just decides to ignore rather than abolish the bindings of being genre or multi-genre. They play like they want. Collectively, these musicians have performed and worked recently with The Thing, Han Bennink, Fred Frith, The Ex and Lydia Lunch....
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$10 at the door or in advance through Alcorn Music Studios
All Ages
PETER EVANS/CHARITY CHAN/TOM BLANCARTE/WEASEL WALTER : The final show of a short Canadian tour celebrating the release of their first album on ugEXPLODE records, "Cryptocrystalline", this explosive quartet of musicians hailing from New York and Montreal take the stage at Ottawa's UMI Cafe. Yes, you've heard it before...this band teeters on the edges of free jazz to punk/no wave only to verge slightly on the frontiers of punctuated serialist/contemporary classical stylings. The trick here though, is that rather than being multi-genre, this group just decides to ignore rather than abolish the bindings of being genre or multi-genre. They play like they want. Collectively, these musicians have performed and worked recently with The Thing, Han Bennink, Fred Frith, The Ex and Lydia Lunch.
Kickng off the evening will be ADAM SAIKALEY on electronics and LINSEY WELLMAN on saxophone. Two different sets from two of Ottawa's finest sound experimentalists.
Adam Saikaley is a musician, composer, broadcaster and DJ. He writes music for solo piano and music for no input mixers, speaker cones. He's a member of Silkken Laumann, The Acorn, and one half of a live analog techno duo with Gary Franks. He studied piano performance, classical music and sound design at carleton university. He's worked as a music producer for CBC Radio 2 since 2008, and is currently the producer of Tempo.
An active member of the Ottawa music scene, Linsey Wellman is known as a creative and spontaneous improvisor on the alto and soprano saxophones, the alto and standard flutes, and the bass clarinet. Ever adaptable, he has plied his trade with Sun Ra tribute Rakestar Arkestra, marching band Mike Essoudry’s Mash Potato Mashers, the Craig Pedersen Quartet, Gamelan Semara Winangun, calypso outfit Kobo Town, and Punjabi folk/fusion project Galitcha, all while taking part in countless improvised music and jazz ensembles. In 2007, he released an eponymous collaborative album with drummer Mike Essoudry, exploring a convergence of improvised and world musics, and in 2010 he released Ephemera: for solo saxophone, a suite of guided improvisations for which he received grants from the City of Ottawa and from the Canada Council for the Arts. Along the way, he has worked with such as Rob Frayne, Jesse Stewart, Pierre-Yves Martel, Petr Cancura, Yves Lambert and Ellen McIlwaine.
Some concert highlights include the Ottawa, Guelph and Vancouver Jazz Festivals, the Vancouver, Calgary and Winnipeg Folk Festivals, Festival au Désert (Mali), the Théatre Mohammed V (Morocco), the House of World Cultures (Haus der Kulturen der Welt – Berlin), the Lincoln Center Out of Doors Festival, and WOMEX 2010 in Copenhagen.
He is co-founder and co-curator of the Improvising Musicians of Ottawa/Outaouais (IMOO) concert series.
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