Oxide performs Rage Against The Machine
The Atomic Bomb Audition performs Alice In Chains
Discourage performs a set of classic punk
Record release show for Marrower.
Your 2nd chance to hear us perform Animals in it’s entirety! After that…who knows when or if! Don’t miss it.
Heco’s Palace
7th & Peralta (West Oakland)
Derek Monypeny
Zebra Secrets
Rey Bubby
The Atomic Bomb Audition
In their ongoing collaboration Drawing Sound, Fred Frith generates soundscapes while visual artist Heike Liss draws her images directly on windows. Liss works in a variety of media, including video, photography, drawing, sculpture, site-specific installation, and public intervention. She has collaborated with choreographers, musicians, multi-media artists, painters, and poets, and her award-winning work has been exhibited internationally in museums, galleries, and at film festivals. Frith (electric guitar) and Liss (visuals), along with Jason Hoopes (electric bass), Jordan Glenn (drums), and a special guest trumpeter, confront the difficulties specific to improvising in both visual and audio fields in a world where the visual is generally perceived as primary. How to avoid the music being taken as a soundtrack? Should the listeners/viewers be able to understand it from the same point of view as the creators? What is the equivalent of silence in images? How does a visual “gesture” correspond to a sonic one, or indeed should it? In the end, what kinds of interaction are possible or desirable?
Drawing Sound: Over the last twenty years, improviser and composer Fred Frith and visual artist Heike Liss have collaborated on a number of different projects including video installations, interventions and performances. More recently they have been improvising together in a variety of contexts. Liss has been developing and refining digital tools (using software based on Max MSP/ Jitter) that allow her to digitally paint and draw over projected videos, both pre-recorded and from live feeds. Frith continues to explore the essential parameters and limits of the musical “instrument”. In this work, they are confronting the difficulties specific to improvising in both visual and audio fields in a world where the visual is generally perceived as primary. In 2018 the project was expanded to include Fred’s trio with Jordan Glenn and Jason Hoopes, along with a special guest. In this configuration they have played in Brazil and numerous US cities, most recently at an acclaimed performance at The Victoriaville Festival in Canada in 2023.
Fred Frith (electric guitar)
Jason Hoopes (electric bass)
Jordan Glenn (drums)
Heike Liss (live visuals)
Special Guest
On 2/21, my long time partner in improvised rhythm section crime Jordan Glenn and I, with our long
time guitar-wizard brother Karl Evangelista, will be improvising a trio set at Elbo Room (Jack London).
We’ll be sharing the stage with another brilliant guitar-wizard friend (not to be missed!) on the road from Seattle, Dave Webb (Moon Letters / Cryptic Slaughter) and his band Everything Oscillating, along with Echo Specter.
Come get yer head shredded!
The Atomic Bomb Audition opens a heavy show, our first of 2024, with Sludgebucket and Snakemother at The Elbo Room in Oakland! We have new songs to debut from our soon to be recorded new record! Don’t miss this heavy hit!
The final show of 2023 for The Atomic Bomb Audition, we are joined by Seattle friends Diminished Men and bay area heroes, foreign/domestic.
The Atomic Bomb Audition https://theatomicbombaudition.bandcamp.com/
Diminished Men https://diminishedmen.bandcamp.com
Foreign Domestic https://zacharyjameswatkins.bandcamp.com
FRIDAY, MAY 19
CARRÉ 150 (Salle F. Lemaire)
10 PM - $46
Heike Liss: live visuals
Susana Santos Silva: trumpet
Jason Hoopes: electric bass
Jordan Glenn: drums
Fred Frith: electric guitar
In addition to his undeniable qualities as a guitarist, improviser and composer, FRED FRITH is also a great teacher who likes to continue playing with his most gifted students. The FRED FRITH TRIO was formed in 2013, when he was teaching at Mills College in Oakland. His acolytes, JASON HOOPES and JORDAN GLENN, compose the rhythm section of the unclassifiable group Jack o' the Clock. Together, they developed a rich language, a sense of improvisation with rock roots that recall the indescribable synergy that reigned in Henry Cow.
They published two albums with Intakt, then the double Road album with two guests: Lotte Anker and SUSANA SANTOS SILVA. The latter, a Portuguese trumpeter residing in Sweden, has had a dazzling career lately, whether with her groups Impermanence and Life and Other Transient Storms or in her collaborations with Anthony Braxton and Evan Parker, among other big names.
An internationally renowned visual artist, HEIKE LISS regularly collaborates with the trio. She will put the music in images in an exercise of fusion of the senses.
Golden Bull
412 14th St.
Oakland, CA
94612
The Atomic Bomb Audition plays this show in celebration of the release of our new record on December 9th!!
June 16th w/ Las Sucias - Albany, CA @ The Ivy Room
June 17th w/ Jon Bafus, Jon Raskin, John Shiurba - Sacramento, CA @ Red Museum
June 24th w/ Matthew Edwards and the Futurists - LA, CA @ Zebulon
July 2nd w/ TWANS - Portland, OR @ Kelly’s Olympian
July 3rd w/ Wayne Horvitz, Sheridan Riley, Neil Welch - Seattle, WA @ The Royal Room
Thurs, March 5 - Ferrara, Italy @ Jazz Club Ferrara - Torrione San Giovanni
Sun, March 7 - Tel Aviv, Israel @ Levontin 7
Tues, March 9 - Brussels, Belgium @ Les Ateliers Claus
Wed, March 10 - Zürich, Switzerland @ Moods
Thurs, March 11 - Geneva, Switzerland @ AMR - Sud des Alpes
Fri, March 12 - Hall in Tirol, Austria @ Kulturlabor Stromboli
Sat, March 14 - Paris, France @ La Dynamo de Banlieues Bleues
Sun, March 15 - Wien, Austria @ Porgy & Bess Jazz & Music Club
Mon, March 16 - Prague, Czech Republic @ Punctum
Tues, March 17 - Wels, Austria @ Alter Schlachthof Wels
Wed, March 18 - Barcelona, Spain @ L´Auditori de Barcelona
Thurs, March 19 - Braga, Portugal @ GNRation - Blackbox
Vladimir Tarasov (drums)
Chris Brown (piano, electronics)
Jon Raskin (saxes)
Jason Hoopes (bass)
A free improvising quartet performing in preparation for recording their first record!
More details TBA
Vladimir Tarasov (drums)
Chris Brown (piano, electronics)
Jon Raskin (saxes)
Jason Hoopes (bass)
A free improvising quartet performing in preparation for recording their first record!
More details TBA
Wed, Oct 16 - Warsaw, Poland @ Pardon To Tu
Thurs, Oct 17 - Skopje, Nord Macedonia @ Macedonian Opera and Ballet
Fri, Oct 18 - Köln, Germany @ Stadthalle Köln-Mülheim Jülich GmbH
Sat, Oct 19 - Bari, Italy @ TBA
Sun, Oct 20 - Padova, Italy @ Teatro Torresino
Mon, Oct 21 - Piacenza, Italy @ Conservatorio Giuseppe Nicolini
Wed, Oct 23 - Paris, France w/ Susana Santos Silva @ La Dynamo de Banlieues Bleues
Fri, Oct 25 - Coimbra, Portugal @ Teatro Académico de Gil Vicente
Sat, Oct 26 - Zürich, Switzerland @ Schlosserei Nenninger
Mon, Oct 28 - Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt, Germany @ Stromraum
Tues, Oct 29 - Wels, Austria w/ Lotte Anker @ Alter Schlachthof Wels
Wed, Oct 30 - Hall, Austria w/ Lotte Anker @ Kulturlabor Stromboli
Thurs, Oct 31 - Ebersberg, Germany w/ Lotte Anker @ Altes Kino Ebersberg e.V.
Sun, Nov 3 - Tampere, Finland w/ Susana Santos Silva @ Old Customs House / Tullikamarin pakkahuone
Fred Frith, Jordan Glenn, and myself in residency at The Stone, performing with very special guests. Includes a very special one-night-only trio performance with Frith, percussionist Nava Dunkelman and violinist gabby fluke-mogul.
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9/24 Tuesday - 8:30 pm
Fred Frith (guitar), Nava Dunkelman (percussion), gabby fluke-mogul (violin)
9/25 Wednesday - 8:30 pm
Fred Frith Trio w/ Ikue Mori (electronics)
9/26 Thursday - 8:30 pm
FFT w/ Lotte Anker (sax)
9/27 Friday - 8:30 pm
FFT w/ very special surprise guests!!
9/28 Saturday - 8:30 pm
FFT w/ Evelyn Davis (keyboards)
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FFT w/ Heike Liss (visuals), and special guest!!
10/2 - Philadelphia, PA @ Johnny Brenda’s
10/3 - Baltimore, MD @ 2640 Space
10/4 - Charlottesville, VA @ University of Virginia (Old Cabell Hall)
10/5 - Washington D.C. @ Rhizome DC
The Dirty Snacks Ensemble
Mark Clifford-Pascucci, vibraphone/sampler/vocals/composition
Geneva Harrison, drums
Scott Brown, bass
Steve Blum, keyboard
Robert Woods-Ladue, percussion/guitar
Crystal Clifford-Pascucci, cello
Cory Wright, clarinet
Amendola Trio
Scott Amendola, drums
Karl Evangelista, guitar
Jason Hoopes, bass
The Dirty Snacks Ensemble is an eclectic art song/post jazz ensemble formed by Oakland based vibraphonist and composer, Mark Clifford-Pascucci, in early 2011. In composing for the DSE, Clifford finds the balance between long form compositional structures, free improvisation, and short ditties while still maintaining musical freedom for his immensely talented ensemble. The music reflects a wide range of influences, running the gamut from Kool Keith to Bela Bartok. The Dirty Snacks Ensemble released their first full length record, Tidy Universe (Recollect Records), in June of 2016, and released a follow up album of rarities and basement recordings, Another Man’s Treasure in March 2017. The Dirty Snacks Ensemble is currently recording their second studio record, You Would Do Well, which is set to be released in the spring of 2020.
Amendola Trio is the sound of three as one: Scott Amendola playing drums/percussion/electronics; Karl Evangelista on guitar; and Jason Hoopes, electric bass. Playing music written by all members, they explore the song to the sound. Together they have a unique connection that brings the music to interesting places. Never the same twice.
The Peralta Annex is a standalone warehouse in West Oakland of brick and wood that our neighbors, a photographer and a writer, that on occasion open up to share within the creative community and celebrate their love of music.
Follow The Dirty Snacks Ensemble
Active Music Series presents:
Jordan Glenn/Jason Hoopes/Danishta Rivero/Sandy Buschman quartet
Seiyoung Jang
William Winant/Karl Evangelista/Tom Djll trio
The four members of Endangered Blood are some of the most influential jazz musicians of their generation. Jim Black should need no introduction to listeners of creative music, having established himself as one of the most inventive drummers of his generation, and is currently leading his own trio as well as post-rock/jazz group Alas No Axis. Bassist Trevor Dunn has been touring the world with MR. BUNGLE and FANTOMAS as well as entering the Guinness Book of World Records by playing fifty gigs in fifty states in fifty days as a member of the MELVINS LITE. Oscar Noriega is fast becoming one of the rising stars of creative music as a member of Tim Berne’s acclaimed Snakeoil quartet. Chris Speed continues to be one of the most highly respected jazz saxophonists and clarinetists working today, currently playing with Craig Taborn, Dave King, Uri Caine and John Hollenbeck’s long running Claudia Quintet.
Scott Amendola Trio
Drummer Scott Amendola, guitarist Karl Evangelista, and bassist Jason Hoopes bring their own distinctive compositional and improvisational voices to the table in this newly-formed high energy trio.
Kyle Bruckmann, Jordan Glenn, Danishta Rivero, and myself reconvene as Degradient at Center for New Music, performing some of Bruckmann’s most ambitious compositions yet.
Sharing the bill with us will be Stockholm’s own Receptacles.
I will be performing solo on electric bass, and sharing the bill with guitarist Noah Phillips and saxophonist Phillip Greenlief. More info coming soon…
ROVA saxophonist Jon Raskin joins electroacoustic pianist Chris Brown, bassist Jason Hoopes and drummer Donald Robinson in an evening of free-form improvisations.
JON RASKIN has been a member of Rova Saxophone Quartet for over 40 years exploring the relationship of improvisation and composition, developing and honing the language of ensemble music, and researching linguistic possibilities of the saxophone. He has also performed and/or recorded with Anthony Braxton, Chris Brown, Fred Frith, Sam Rivers, Tim Berne, Phillip Johnston, Leo Smith, Vladimir Tarasov, Phillip Greenlief and Henry Kaiser.
CHRIS BROWN, composer, pianist, and electronic musician, makes music with self- designed sonic systems that include acoustic and electroacoustic instruments, interactive software, computer networks, microtonal tunings, and improvisation. His compositions are designs for performances in which people bring to life the musical structures embedded in scores, instruments, and machines. Recordings of his music are available on New World, Tzadik, Pogus, Intakt, Ecstatic Peace, Red Toucan, Leo, and Artifact Recordings. He is a Professor Emeritus at Mills College in Oakland, California, where he taught electronic music, composition, theory, and ethnomusicology for 30 years.
JASON HOOPES is a musician and educator living in Oakland. He is bassist for Fred Frith Trio, Jack O’ The Clock, Scott Amendola Trio, and has been bassist for many diverse and forward thinking bay area groups including Annie Lewandowski’s powerdove, Eat The Sun (w/ Gretchen Jude and Noah Phillips), Rova Saxophone Quartet, and Kyle Bruckmann’s Degradient, as well as working with modern choreographers such as Peiling Kao and Molissa Fenley. In addition to music, Jason is a painter and poet.
Described as a ‘percussive dervish’ (Coda) DONALD ROBINSON is a technical master of the drums. He is a stalwart of the of San Francisco bay area avant-garde jazz scene, playing and recording with many of the area’s improvisational players, from saxophonists John Tchicai, Marco Eneidi and Larry Ochs to koto player Miya Masaoka and pianist Matthew Goodheart, and with prominent visitors like Cecil Taylor, Wadada Leo Smith, George Lewis, trumpeter Raphe Malik and Canadian pianist Paul Plimley. Much of this work has featured the combination of Robinson and bassist Lisle Ellis as rhythm section: ‘the best bass-drums tag team on the scene’ (Jazz Times). His longest musical association, dating from the 1970’s, was with the late tenor saxophonist Glenn Spearman. During the early 1970’s he served his musical apprenticeship in the jazz world of Paris, studying with Kenny Clarke and playing with Alan Silva, Anthony Braxton, Oliver Lake and Bobby Few among many others.
Active Music Series presents:
Nakatani Gong Orchestra
Kyle Bruckmann’s Degradient
Sharon Tate Fetus Explosion
$5-15 sliding scale
Rova:Arts will produce Fly! Fly! Fly! Fly! Fly!, a special tribute concert in honor of the avant-garde jazz composer, pianist, and poet Cecil Taylor, who died on April 5 of last year. Last year Rova presented their first tribute to Taylor, a concert entitled Air. Next month’s affair will be more extensive and involve many more performers.
Rova’s primary contribution will be a reworking of Taylor’s Dark to Themselves, an album-length composition. For this endeavor they will be joined by four additional players, guitarists Jean-Paul Bourelly and Henry Kaiser, drummer Don Robinson, and Jason Hoopes on bass. Rova has expanded its resources in the past, and these enlarged groups have performed under the name Orkestrova.
In addition, the duo B. combo of Lisa Mezzacappa on bass and Jason Levis on percussion will present excerpts from Mezzacappa’s transcription of Taylor’s album Air Above Mountains. The program will then conclude with a second duo performance, coupling reed player Oluyemi with vocalist Ijeoma Thomas. They will present interpretations of Taylor’s poetry, as well as original works.
This tribute concert will be given only one performance, beginning at 8 p.m. on Saturday, April 20. The venue will be CounterPulse, which is located near Union Square at 80 Turk Street, just West of where Mason Street intersects Market Street.
TICKETS (Box office opens at 7:15pm)
Amendola Trio blends improvisation with music written by all three members. They have a rare and unique connection that brings the music to new interesting places, never the same twice.
Scott Amendola: drums/percussion/electronics
Karl Evangelista: guitar
Jason Hoopes: electric bass
Tickets: https://cjc.edu/concerts/?eid=33237
Event: https://jazzintheneighborhood.org/amendola-trio/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/508637252995327/
