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to concert schedule Monday, May 3, 2010 @ Pageant:Soloveev Gallery Pageant:Soloveev Gallery, 607 Bainbridge St., Philadelphia, PA, $5-10, 8:00pm. (map) Nate Wooley (New York) trumpet Color is Luxury (Philadelphia) Charles Cohen + hair_loss - electronics and synths Andy Giles (Philadelphia) guitar Trumpeter Nate Wooley performs in a dizzying variety of projects, with noisers, jazz musicians both famous and not, and free improvisers both famous and not (recent collaborators range from Anthony Braxton to Chris Corsano and Spencer Yeh to Paul Lytton to Mary Halvorson to David Grubbs to our own Chris Forsyth to Graveyards). But his solo forays remain something apart, encompassing the extended techniques of folks like Greg Kelley or Axel Dorner; the jazz chops he uses elsewhere; and a unique approach to amplification, using feedback, vocalizations, and heavily-amplified sounds to create an alien landscape of voice, tone, and breath (check the video below for evidence). Come watch Nate transform a room into his own personal, pulsating head space. Also appearing are Philadelphia faves Color is Luxury and Andy Giles. Color is Luxury pairs veteran synthesizer genius Charles Cohen with young electronics buck hair_loss, creating gently pulsing landscapes. Andy Giles turns a guitar into a dark and droning sound generator, evoking Nurse With Wound or Hafler Trio as much as Keith Rowe. Nate Wooley (jump to bio) http://www.myspace.com/woundedstoryteller Color is Luxury (jump to bio)  http://www.colorisluxury.org Andy Giles (jump to bio)  http://www.myspace.com/herdeadtwin Biographies: Nate Wooley was born in 1974 in Clatskanie, Oregon, a small timber and fishing community near the mouth of the Columbia River. He began playing trumpet professionally with his father at the age of 13. After schooling at the University of Oregon and University of Denver and informal studies with Ron Miles, Art Lande and Jack Wright, he moved to Jersey City, New Jersey in the spring of 2001. Since his arrival in New York, Nate has become a much sought after sideman in jazz, experimental music, new music, dance and rock circles, working regularly with artists as diverse as Anthony Braxton, John Zorn, Paul Lytton, Evan Parker, Akron Family, David Grubbs, C. Spencer Yeh, Chris Corsano, Mary Halvorson, and Taylor Ho Bynum. He has also become one of the small handful of American trumpet players, along with Greg Kelley and Peter Evans, present on the international music scene pushing beyond the physical boundaries of the instrument through deconstruction of the instrument itself and its historical context. His solo work stands side by side with both Evans and Kelley (as well as European’s Axel Dorner and Franz Hautzinger among others) in a growing canon of early 21st century experimental trumpet music. Color is Luxury - Charles plays a blue box and the other dude plays some stuff. It looks like they enjoy doing what they're doing, and they don't seem to know what they're doing until it happens. hair_loss has been making his own music for over a decade, but only recently started doing anything about it. It sometimes lies somewhere between his three loves: hip hop, techno and noisy thrash. His super-limited debut LP, "The Initial Everything's Wonderful," drops in May and will feature material he doesn't listen to anymore. It's always that way though, right? Based in the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania area, Charles Cohen has been creating music since 1971. Taking inspiration from free jazz pianist Cecil Taylor, his music is entirely improvisational and produced solely on a vintage Buchla Music Easel synthesizer, an extremely rare integrated analog performance instrument made by synthesizer pioneer Don Buchla. An avid collaborator, Cohen is most well known to most listeners from his work with Jeff Cain in their group The Ghostwriters. From Baltimore to Philadelphia and New York City, he collaborates with many media artists in improvisational settings as varied as the Red Room, Knitting Factory and Tonic. With few recorded or commercially available works to his credit, Cohen prefers to concentrate on creating electronic music in the setting of the live performance space. His music ranges from completely abstract and challenging to pleasantly rhythmic and infectious. Each performance is original and new, to the audience and to Cohen as well. Andy Giles - What once was defiance has since developed into a unique methodology of extended techniques. The electroacoustic compositions of reverb and guitar seek to envelop listeners in unexplained mysteries and the emotional lacerations earned along the way. For various reasons the presence outside of a live setting has been avoided... although an album is now on the horizon. |