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What: LP Release Show for Dorji/Parish + Sarah Louise, with guest Jacob Wick
A night of cutting edge unplugged acoustic phenomena with guitarists Tashi Dorji, Shane Parish, Sarah Louise, and trumpeter Jacob Wick.
Where: Forsythia Hall, 28 Forsythe St., Asheville, NC, 28801
When: Tuesday, September 13 at 7:30 PM – 10 PM
Cost: $10
About:
Guitarists Shane Parish and Tashi Dorji perform a rare live duo together in celebration of the release of their 2016 duo LP on MIE Records.
https://shaneparish.bandcamp.com/
https://tashidorji1.bandcamp.com/
Guitarist Sarah Louise performs a set and releases her new solo album on VDSQ.
https://sarahlouise.bandcamp.com/
Trumpeter Jacob Wick, from Mexico City, performs his solo music.
Much has been made of the nesting compulsion that overtakes expecting parents. It’s fair to suggest that this album owes its name to the fact that Asheville NC residents Tashi Dorji and Shane Parish were both looking forward to parenthood when they made it, and not much of a stretch to say that it expresses something that they both had to say before the babies arrived.
That message is one of two guys bonding over shared understandings. They’ve been known each other for over a decade, during which time they’ve played both as a duo and as parts of larger ensembles. Both play guitar, and while their discographies map quite disparate interests, they share a devotion to the guitar as a vehicle for improvisation. The eight improvisations that make up Expecting grow out of a dynamic of sharing — one fellow shows up with a tuning and maybe a string preparation, the other works out a response, and out of that comes not only a piece of music but a renewal and confirmation of a relationship in which two humans share what they love.
Expecting parents tend to be anxious ones. Titles like “Dust Of Dust,” “Storm Sinks Boat,” and “Break Up” give the impression that Dorji and Parish weren’t free from trepidation when they made Expecting, and the record’s discordant moments back it up. Nowadays writers are quick to lay the term experimental music on anything dissonant. But while one could say that this music actually earns that much-abused term because it comes out of a process of proposal and problem solving, an emotionally truer term would be experiential music. It came out of Parish and Dorji’s real time communion, and it is informed by their shared history. For them, making the music was an experience; playing the record imparts a different experience, one of receiving rather than making, but it still expresses a dynamic of exchange. — Bill Meyer, Berwyn, Illinois, USA, January 31, 2016
Sarah Louise is a 12-string guitarist based in the mountains of North Carolina. The impulse for new compositions comes frequently from observing the sounds and movements of the woods around her home. Lush and ethereal at times, yet embracing dissonance as well as tonal and time-signature shifts, her music encompasses a full spectrum of emotions. All-original tunings, picking patterns and bold transitions mark her as a unique player. Scissor Tail Editions released her first album, “Field Guide,” in early 2015, which quickly became an underground favorite. Her new album, VDSQ Volume 12, is already garnering praise from media outlets like NPR and artists such as Ben Chasny, who calls Volume 12 an album “that makes me love the sound and possibilities of the acoustic guitar.”
https://sarahlouise.bandcamp.com/
Jacob Wick is a trumpet player and improviser. Originally from the suburbs of Chicago, Wick has lived in Brooklyn, Oakland, and Los Angeles, and has performed with a variety of improvisers and composers in a variety of contexts, including at the Whitney Museum of American Art (US), the Moers Jazz Festival (DE), and el Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (MX). He has performed with Toshimaru Nakamura, Bonnie Jones, Katherine Young, Andrew D’Angelo, Josh Roseman, and many others. He has released recordings on Marginal Frequencies, Relay Recordings, Prom Night Records, Peira, Diatribe, and Creative Sources. He holds a BM from Purchase College, SUNY, and an MFA from the California College of the Arts.
In performance, Wick works to privilege the perspective, experience, and expressive capacities of ambient non-human actors—air ducts, airplanes, birds, cement—over his own experience as a white, cis, American male. This approach is indebted to a wild commitment to queer politics and years of cruising contemporary and 20th century art and/or life theories. Current projects include solo trumpet performance, listening and/or visualization exercises, and Dos/Tres Hongos, a duo or trio with Marc Riordan and Frank Rosaly.
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