First public performance outside upstate New York of a new collaboration with fellow Poughkeepsie residents Joe McPhee and Graham Lambkin.
Graham Lambkin is a multidisciplinary artist based in Upstate New York who first came to prominence in the early 90′s through the formation of his music group The Shadow Ring. Following the dissolution of The Shadow Ring Lambkin embarked on a series of striking and highly original solo releases, including Salmon Run (2007) and Amateur Doubles (2012), a critically acclaimed trilogy with experimental tape musician Jason Lescalleet: The Breadwinner (2007), Air Supply (2010) and Photographs (2013), and Making A (2013) a collaboration with renowned table-top guitarist and founding member of the AMM group, Keith Rowe.
Lambkin also curates the Kye label, which, since it’s conception in 2001 has published audio work by contemporary artists such as Vanessa Rossetto, Malcolm Goldstein, and Matt Krefting, as well as archival collections from the likes of Henning Christiansen, Moniek Darge and Anton Heyboer.
“... [Joe Mcphee's] magical take on avant-garde sax remains one of the wonders of the scene. He still has one of the most beautiful tones on the planet, even when he’s reaching for jazz’s outer limits.” – Time Out New York
Joe McPhee is a deeply emotional composer, improviser, and multi-instrumentalist, as well as a thoughtful conceptualist and theoretician. McPhee’s first recordings as leader appeared on the CjR label, founded in 1969 by painter Craig Johnson, including the landmark Nation Time in 1970. He also had a long association with the Swiss label Hat Hut — which started in order to release McPhee's music — and his solo playing and various transatlantic collaborations over the last decades has included both wildly joyous experimentation (including early usage of tape and electronics/ duos with synthesizer player Jon Snyder) and deep, re-imaginings of the jazz tradition.
Lee is one of the most dynamic forces in improvised music today, a fearless and compelling musician whose playing incorporates a love of noise, extraordinary technique and elements from the outer fringes of contemporary composition.
Lee has collaborated with many of the leading figures in creative music today, including Christian Marclay, Thurston Moore, Wadada Leo Smith, Ikue Mori, Evan Parker, C. Spencer Yeh, Carlos Giffoni and Maja Rajtke. In 2013 she released 'Ghil' an LP of solo improvisations recorded direct to dictaphone by Lasse Marhaug that was widely hailed as the 'noise record of the year'.
“Okkyung Lee distorts, disturbs and even deconstructs her instrument, to the point of rendering it unrecognisable. And the results are simply amazing.” – Joseph Burnett, The Quietus
Rashad Becker’s Traditional Music of Notional Species, Vol. 1. is one of the most singular recordings of electronic music of the 21st century – combining an intensely personal sound-world together with a highly developed narrative structure. Long sought after as a mastering and cutting engineer at Dubplates & Mastering in Berlin, his own recordings and live performances attest to a personal vision for sound and music that has little parallel.