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The Music Gallery presents
Jessika Kenney & Eyvind Kang + Andrew Timar & Bill Parsons + Manticore
Part of the Departures Series
Wednesday July 22
Doors: 8pm | Concert: 9pm
The Jam Factory, 2 Matilda St.
Tickets: $16 Regular | $10 members | $13 Advance at musicgallery.org
We’re taking a road trip to the east side of town for a special intra-season edition of our Departures Series. Curator Tad Michalak has almost single-handedly established several venues east of the Don River, and with this show we visit the home base of his Feast In The East events, the Jam Factory. Joining us for the occasion are Jessika Kenney & Eyvind Kang + Andrew Timar & Bill Parsons + Manticore.
Violist Eyvind Kang & vocalist Jessika Kenney have been producing delicate, slow, hauntingly beautiful music together for over a decade, including collaborations with the likes of John Zorn, Secret Chiefs 3, Bil Frisell, Sunn 0))) and Wolves In The Throne Room. Together their music draws influence from minimalist, traditional Persian music and the darker side of a contemporary avant-garde tradition.At times their voices almost become one as Kenney’s voice does slow motion gymnastics over Kang’s calming mantra of viola notes that join her in a rhythmic dance. An eeriness drifts like a night fog through the otherworldly sonic terrain.
Andrew Timar (Evergreen Gamelan Club) & Bill Parsons aka the Sunda Duo meander into a world of ambient soundscapes through a lens of traditional Sundanese instruments. Using the framework of improvisation over textural landscapes this duo pushes forward ambient fourth world musics. Drawing from decades of compositional background & explorations in diverging forms of traditional music, Timar bends forms & tonal pallets into an ever mutating Rubik’s cube of spacial sonic traversing.
Zoe Alexis-Abrams & David Jones (Bile Sister) touch the outer realms of alien communication with their duo Manticore. Haunting guitar tones shriek & twist as if letting go of some captive spirit. Like an unnatural wind meandering through an abandoned factory. Zoe’s voice hovers above these eerie manifestations, some times joining them in an alien chatter, almost creating a dialogue with the wayward phantoms. As captivating as it is versatile, her vocals occupy an adventurous, almost naive territory, as they stretch out their acrobatic routine in a venomous world.
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