Bill Nace, Ed Yazijian, Jake Meginsky and Oggetto at Downtown Books and News, Jan. 13

Downtown Books and News hosts an evening of experimental music on Wednesday, Jan. 13, at 7:30 p.m. The lineup includes Oggetto (Frank Meadows, Michael Flannery and Carmelo), Jake Meginsky (electronic musician and installation artist) and Bill Nace and Ed Yazijian playing as a duo

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FROM A PRESS RELEASE:

BILL NACE

Bill Nace is an artist and musician based in Western Massachusetts. He has collaborated with an extraordinary range of musicians, including Michael Morley, Mats Gustafsson, Joe McPhee, Chris Corsano, Jooklo Duo, Chris Cooper, John Truscinski, Thurston Moore, Jake Meginsky, Jessica Rylan, Paul Flaherty, Wally Shoup, and Kim Gordon, with whom he regularly plays as one half of the duo Body/Head. Their critically acclaimed LP “Coming Apart” was released on Matador Records. He has been a featured musician in festivals such as ATP (curated by Jim Jarmusch and held in Monticello, NY), Colour Out of Space (Brighton, UK), Supersonic Festival (Birmingham, UK), International Festival Musique Actuelle (Victoriaville, QC), and Homegrown (Boston, MA). He has performed in a wide variety of venues, running the gamut from the Musee d’Art Contemporain (Strasbourg, France) to The Stone (NYC) to Bennington College (Vermont). Nace’s range has been described as “veering from sculptural, almost Remko-Scha-esque chime to Loren Connors-style elegance in only a few short moves.” (Mimaroglu Music, 2010). Recordings can be found on Ecstatic Peace (Northampton, MA), Ultra Eczema (Belgium), Holidays (Italy), 8mm (Italy), Throne Heap (VA), HP Cycle (Toronto, ON), as well as on Nace’s own label Open Mouth.

JAKE MEGINSKY

Electronic musician and installation artist Jake Meginsky has collaborated and performed with such artists as Milford Graves, Alvin Lucier, Thurston Moore, Joan Labarbara, Greg Kelley, Bhob Rainey, Vic Rawlings, Joe McPhee, William Parker, Daniel Carter, Paul Flaherty, Arthur Brooks, Bill Nace, and John Truscinski.

HUCK magazine describes his work as “constantly transgressing the boundaries between acoustic and electronic, analog and digital” and continues, “….invention is at the heart of Jake’s work even before he strikes a note.” Volcanic Tongue recently called Meginsky’s 2014 solo record, L’appel Du Vide,“a hallucinatory electro percussion masterpiece” and in the WIRE Magazine review of the album, Nick Cain writes, “the album uses little more than a couple of sounds, extracting often head spinning complexity from a minimum of means.”

Meginsky’s recordings can be found on Feeding Tube Records (Northampton, MA), Rel Records (Providence, RI), NNA (Burlington, VT), Open Mouth Records (Northampton, MA), Hells Half Halo (Seattle, WA), Wooden Finger Records (Belgium), Ultra Eczema Records (Belgium), and Ecstatic Peace Records (Northampton, MA). He recently remixed Body/Head’s (Kim Gordon & Bill Nace) “Last Mistress” for Matador Records (NYC).

His sound installations have been shown internationally including CONTEXT Art Miami, the Duolun Museum of Modern Art in Shanghai, Usdan Gallery in Bennington, VT, APE Gallery in Northampton, MA, the Beijing Today Museum, and the Jinse Gallery in Chongqing. He recently premiered a new work, “What a Horse” at Movement Research in New York City with choreographer Gwen Welliver.

Jake’s newest solo LP ,“Vandals” is out now on Open Mouth Records.

OGGETTO

Oggetto is a trio consisting of Michael Flanagan (guitar), Frank Meadows (bass) and Carmelo Pampillonio (drums). The group was formed late in 2015 as an attempt to catch a collaborative lightning in a bottle in advance of the indefinite departure of Michael and Frank from Asheville. The music is largely improvised and fluctuates between tense extended polyrhythms, aggressive bursts and finely crafted texture. A debut album is currently in preparations for release in 2016.