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9/19, 9/20, 9/23 Shows |STACKED, Wrest, Freeman/Borden/Cain …

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MADISON PUBLIC LIBRARY
8pm  $15 at the door

Thursday, 9/19 | fb.event

“The books are back, but the party’s still on. On September 19, Central Library will be STACKED.We’re filling it with art, music, and local fare. Grab a drink and check out the art displayed around the new library and be prepared to meet your “Makers.” The Bubbler at Madison Public Library is bringing in community partners to set up hands-on activities. Don’t miss the Paka Paka light show dance party on the brand new 3rd floor! We’ll have live music and DJs on every floor.“

Proceeds benefit Central Library
100 Artists/ 1 New Library / 1 Day Only

DJs | Nick Nice, Wangzoom, Doctor Oxygen w/ PAKAPAKA Lightshow

LIVE MUSIC |
MAIN STAGE ———————– FIRST FLOOR ———————- SECOND FLOOR
08:30  Pioneer  ———————  ———————–  —————– ————————–
09:15  The Wets ——————-09:00  Spires… Sunset Rise ——-09:00  Pidge Anther
10:00  Golden Donna ———— 10:00  Samantha Glass ———– 10:00  Dietrich Goesser
11:00  Trin Tran ——————- 11:00  Noxroy ———————— 11:30  DB Pedersen 
12:00   Control  ———————-  ———————–  —————-⇝ w/ BCG ————-

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Wrest

TEA & FREE IMPROV
Friday, 9/20 
Dobrá Tea, Madison
7:00-10:00pm
$5 suggested donation

Wrest  (on tour) ———————————-| Eric Miller + BC Grimm
Jack Wright – sax ——————————–| BC Grimm – cello / 古筝 / 古琴 / 二胡
Evan Lipson – upright bass ——————–| Miller – trumpet/viola da gamba/baroque cello
Benjamin Bennett – percussion —————| “Sounds of today, instruments of antiquity!”

The Brothers Grimm were lucky to share a set with Benjamin Bennett in 2012 at Audio For the Arts (> recent isthmus article) for the Surrounded By Reality series.  Ben, fresh off an intensive meditative retreat, brought the house down with a fantastic sit on the floor set.  Those in the control room claimed there had to have been more than just one percussionist performing in the room!  He’s back in town on tour with a trio called Wrest (sax, bass, & percussion).  These guys listen intently, resulting in delightfully sensitive free-improv – perfect for the Tea Room!

Wrest  “ The kind of music we play is called Free Improvisation, where Wrest cannot be counted on to play the same way each time. There is no typical Wrest “experience.” We are using all our imagination each show to get past what we did the night before. Free Improvisation is not a genre of music with characteristics that separate it from other musics. Rather it’s an approach to playing by musicians who would be bored representing an image of what they are. That’s why we can say, we don’t know what we’re doing until we do it. “

Described twenty years ago as an “undergrounder by design,” Jack Wright is happy to inhabit the vast territory below the radar of the professional music world. Since 1979 he has been traveling through the US and Europe in search of interesting partners and playing situations, and open to whatever might happen. Now living in a small Pennsylvania town, at 70 he is still the “Johnny Appleseed of Free Improvisation,” as Davey Williams called him back in the 80s. And he is still inspiring players outside music-school careerdom. Whenever he plays today, all that he has traversed is present, from fiery, breathless free jazz to quiet, breath-filled, and often animalistic sounds. A reviewer for the Washington Post said, “In the rarefied, underground world of experimental free improvisation, saxophonist Jack Wright is king”. For more info go to springgardenmusic.com, for sounds:soundcloud.com/#jackwright writings: http://jackiswright.wordpress.com/

Evan Lipson (b. 1981), now from Chatanooga, has been active as a musician since adolescence. In an on-going pursuit of all things occult and aberrant, Lipson acquired an early interest in the lateral realms of visionary & experimental music — seeking to transcend the existent paradigms of idiomatic expression. His formative experiences were in underground rock, modernist composition, freak pop, jazz, noise, as well as various modes of improvisation. Lipson cultivates a palpably intense and vehemently iconoclastic body of music. He has performed in numerous groups including Normal Love, Satanized, WREST, Psychotic Quartet, Femme Tops, Legion of Strategic Deception, Dynamite Club, and Ruins. Past tours have taken him throughout North America, as well as Brazil, Taiwan, and Japan. His music has been released on several imprints including SKiN GRAFT, UgEXPLODE, Public Eyesore, High Two, Badmaster, Caminante, New Atlantis, and Damage Rituals..

Ben Bennett, living most of the time in Columbus Ohio, started playing music as a young child, with an interest in jazz that moved steadily towards the more avant-guarde, then to free jazz, and onward into the world of free-improv. Using extended techniques involving breath and friction, as well as the time-honored tradition of hitting things with sticks, he plays an evolving pile of frame drums, pre-tuned drum heads, metal things, tubes, and other objects that can be combined and recombined to get a variety of sounds. This set-up lends itself greatly towards being crammed in a backpack, strapped to a bike, dragged along the ground, or thrown down the stairs, generally without physical or psycological damage. Recent projects besides Wrestinclude: bst.cr – trio with Ryan Jewell and Wilson Shook, Rotty What – trio with Jack Wright and John M Bennett; Central Ohio War Coalition – with Mike Shiflet, Joe Panzner, and others; duos with Ryan Jewell, Jack Callahan, and Ben Hall; and solo performances. Ben will be resident at the Spring Garden Music house during Dec. and Jan. 2012-13. 

 Eric Miller, gambist and cellist, plays viola da gamba and baroque cello with the Wisconsin Baroque Ensemble and Eliza’s Toyes, Ensemble Musical Offering, and has appeared with the Madison Bach Musicians, and many others. As a modern cellist, Eric has performed with American Players Theater. Additionally, as an accomplished trumpeter and able improvisor, Eric can be heard in settings around Southern Wisconsin such as jazz ensembles, singer/songwriters, and experimental ensembles. A passionate educator trained in the Suzuki approach, Eric maintains a large cello and trumpet studio in Madison.

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Monday, 9/23
Dragonfly Lounge
$5 Cover, 21+
Doors at 9:00PM
Music at 9:30PM
Mine All Mine Presents

FREEMAN//BORDEN//CAIN Trio (Buffalo)
Brothers Grimm recently played a Dobra Tea set with TJ Borden, which was one of our finest guest performances to date.  A vast array of Contemporary & avant-garde techniques, improvised with classical precision.  He is also back, on tour with a trio including cello, electronics, & sax.  We can’t wait to hear what this intense, skronky, free-improv noise-trio has to offer!

YID VICIOUS  
Madison’s premiere quirk-fest Klezmer Ensemble, prepare for a face-melt!

JOHN PRAW (Mad)

BRAIN GRIMMER (Mad)

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4/3 ☛ SULT & BrosGrimm + Eric Miller @ Dobra Tea

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⑈| Sult album ᗚ Bark | GrimmusiK | Dobra |⑉

4/3  8-10pm @ Dobra Tea

SULT

BROTHERS GRIMM + ERIC MILLER

Suggested $5 donation

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▓ Free Improv’ers & Tea Drinkers of Madison ⇝ Join us for a special night of improvising trios next Wednesday, April 3rd at the tea room.

8pm  Eric Miller (bass viola da gamba, trumpet) will join the Brothers Grimm ∱ at 9pm  the space-aware, contemplative music of Sult will bloom through the room (see below) ∯ For those who have supported Watercourse Q4 Dobra experiences in the past ≽ you won’t want to miss this show! Sult is most certainly a kindred spirit to the WCQ4 sound.  

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Sult (Oslo/San Francisco)

Jacob Felix Heule  percussion
Guro Skumsnes Moe  contrabass
Håvard Skaset  acoustic guitar

Sult is a Norwegian/American trio playing sound-oriented improvised music: Acoustic noise drawing inspiration from contemporary music, electroacoustic improv, and drone. Their music reflects great patience, deep listening, and complete trust in one another. Their individual sounds alternately cohere into unified group textures, and run precariously aside one another as independent streams.

The group has been working together since January 2008, and has played throughout Europe and America. They are dedicated to developing their band through touring, in order to explore their music as deeply as possible. In the spring of 2012, they toured the US and Scandinavia, and released their first album, Bark, on Bug Incision. A new LP, Harm, is forthcoming this spring on Bocian Records.

Members of the trio have performed extensively with their own projects Ettrick, Basshaters, Bluefaced People, and MOE; and have collaborated with musicians such as Fred Frith, Bill Orcutt, Maja S. K. Ratkje, Okkyung Lee, Ikue Mori, Barn Owl, Michel Doneda, Jack Wright, and Gino Robair.

 ↜Oslo, May 2012

“a precise gravitude whose nodes, voltages, rails and landfills, are the bulk of the speech.” — Guillaume Belhomme, Le son du grisli (via Google Translate)

↜Phoenix, March 2012

“music with a preponderance of fundamentally rich percussive traits and sneering anti-melodies … Sult [has existed] since 2008… and it shows: their interplay – in spite of the timbral jaggedness – is solid, even precise, musical in the right spots and also in the ‘wrong’ ones. The quartet is positively willing to let room for a listener to break through the secret corners of what gets conceived on the spot, which is basically the raison d’être behind the enjoyableness of the whole.” — Massimo Ricci, Touching Extremes

“These compositions sound at once orchestral and also mechanistic – a natural industrial sound. Several compositions on Bark reminded me of listening to a wooden boat hull adjusting at sea or a house’s walls shifting. There is an unpredictable yet organic tendency to the creaks and drones.” — Thomas John Filardo, Suave Citation

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12/8 2pm | Brothers Grimm + DB Pedersen @ HEAT AID

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| KWWF | Heat Aid 2 fb.event | Isthmus | 77 Square | Madison Arts Extract |

| MadCity Music | DB Pedersen | GrimmusiK |

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KEEP WISCONSIN WARM/Cool FUND

HEAT AID #2

12/8  2pm  @ MadCity Music Exchange

Brothers Grimm + DB Pedersen

Spires That in the Sunset Rise

DJ Evan Woodward

suggested $5 (or more) donation

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11/29 | Andy Downing of 77 Square writes |

“Ebenezer Scrooge needed visits from the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future to uncover his charitable side. One imagines it was far easier to convince a gang of local musicians to come together for Heat Aid, a new performance series designed to benefit the Keep Wisconsin Warm/Cool Fund.

The three-week series, which kicks off on Saturday December 1, was put together by Arts Extract, a weekly podcast focused on the Madison-area arts scene, and features performances by a diverse array of local acts, including one-man jug band Boo Bradley and mellow singer-songwriter Dietrich Gosser.

All of the shows are scheduled to take place at MadCity Music Exchange, 600 Williamson St. Admission to each all-ages event is free, though there is a suggested donation of $5 to the Keep Wisconsin Warm/Cool Fund, a non-profit organization that helps local residents maintain heat and power in times of emergency — an absolute necessity as the temperatures continue to plummet into the winter.

Attendees will also be able to purchase raffle tickets for prizes donated by the Fund and MadCity Music Exchange, with all proceeds going to the charity.

Visit madisonartsextract.com for more information about the event and kwwf.org for more information about the Keep Wisconsin Warm/Cool Fund or to make an online donation.”

Here is the full schedule of performers:

Saturday, Dec. 1, 2 p.m.: Boo Bradley

Saturday, Dec. 8, 2 p.m.: DB Pederson, the Brothers Grimm and Spires That in the Sunset Rise

Saturday, Dec. 15, 2 p.m.: Dietrich Gosser and the Tiny Band

11/30 | Austin Duerst of Isthmus writes |

“Sorry, Wisconsin, but your winters are brutal. Beautiful as they might be the day after that first snowfall, the rest of the season is, for most, a struggle to stay warm outside. For an unfortunate few, the fight continues indoors, as heat is a luxury they can’t afford. That’s why, beginning this Saturday, the Madison music community will gather to launch a free concert series called Heat Aid.

Taking place at local record store MadCity Music Exchange three Saturdays in a row — Dec. 1, Dec. 8 and Dec. 15 at 2 p.m. — the performances will feature a variety of Madison musicians, with all proceeds going to the Keep Wisconsin Warm/Cool Fund, a statewide nonprofit that helps low-income residents get the heat and air conditioning they need.

Presented by the hosts of local podcast Arts Extract, the concert series was a straightforward way to bring together various cells of the music community while supporting a worthy cause. Scott Gordon (an Isthmus contributor) recruited the series’ musicians. The mention of helping needy neighbors rallied several local musicians almost immediately.

“The whole [music] slate is just a testament to the generosity that Madison musicians have when it comes to supporting a good cause,” says Arts Extractcontributor Mark Riechers.

Featuring a half-dozen performers and various music styles, the lineup includes Dietrich Gosser, The Tiny Band, DB Pedersen, The Brothers Grimm and Spires in the Sunset Rise. Also featured are blues stompers Boo Bradley, who’ll kick-start the series.

Boo Bradley’s singer, Scott “Boo” Kiker, once received financial support from the Fund himself.

“It made it that much easier for me to help out,” he says, recalling how the Fund helped him fill propane tanks with gas to keep warm during a winter in the country. “Winter is a real issue here. I grew up down south, and there you can live through winter without heat. You wouldn’t be comfortable, but you could do it. Here, you just can’t. It’s a life-and-death matter.”

The Fund forges community partnerships and relies on the support of private donors as well. They work hard to spend every penny effectively.

“We’re very proud of the fact that we keep our administration costs at 5% or less, meaning that every time you donate a dollar, 95 cents of that is going to help somebody literally stay warm,” says the Fund’s events director, Angela Flickinger.

In other words, Heat Aid attendees can step into a cozy shop filled with good music, and they can leave feeling a bit warmer inside.”

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Tonight! Bros Grimm + Ben Bennett 8pm @ AFA! $10

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| FB Event | Isthmus | SBR | AFA | GrimmusiK | Benjamin Bennett |

Poster by John Kruse of Mine All Mine Records
$5 @ show

We are greatly looking forward to hearing Benjamin Bennett explore the space at AFA tonight!  Be sure to get a taste of the aural madness to come, you won’t want to miss this!

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