Elastro welcomes Texas supergroup Tamarisk to town for their debut Chicago performance. The band features Christina Carter (of Charlambides), Andrew Weathers, and David Menestres. They’ll be releasing a brand new recording on Astral Editions titled Plays a Word for Wind in late April. Joining them on the show will be a solo set from Veronica Anne Salinas and trio from Gabbert/Goulet/Sowa. Music at 8pm!
Artist Bios
David Menestres is a double bassist, improvisor, composer, radio host, and writer. For the last ten years he's been the leader of Polyorchard. For the last twenty-three he's been collaborating with Eugene Chadbourne. His bass playing has been described as "seductive" (The Wire) and his music as "something akin to staring an abyss in the face – and taking the plunge – full on, head first into annihilation” (FreeJazzBlog).
https://davidmenestres.com/ https://polyorchard.bandcamp.com/ https://triptickstapes.bandcamp.com/album/scree-n https://davidmenestres.bandcamp.com/ https://davidmenestres.com/information/ >> press quotes/photos etc.
Christina Carter co-founded the group Charalambides in 1991. Ever since then, she has deeply mined her own vein of sound-as-music with voice and lyric. She currently resides in Austin, Texas. Christina's latest releases are the Tamarisk Plays A Word For Sun CD (Waveform Alphabet), the Nighte Pin Down The Dust CS (mappa) and the solo voice album Librarie (Many Breaths).
http://christinacarter.bandcamp.com/
https://charalambides.bandcamp.com/
Andrew Weathers (b.1988) is a composer and improviser originally from Chapel Hill, NC and currently based in Littlefield, TX. His work engages with notions of place, tradition, repetition, and spirit, splitting the difference between folk music and Land Art. Weathers studied composition at UNC-Greensboro and electronic music at Mills College in Oakland, CA. A consistent presence in the underground music scene over the past decade, Weathers’ work covers a wide spectrum from solo acoustic guitar to electronic noise. He also performs and records regularly with Tender Crust, Wind Tide, Satin Spar, Tamarisk, Llano Estacado Monad Band, Tethers and Real Life Rock & Roll Band. Weathers also produces recordings for the Full Spectrum, Other Minds, and Rural Situationism record labels, curates the Longitudes music series at CO-OPt Research + Projects in Lubbock, TX and works as a freelance mixing and mastering engineer
https://andrewweathers.com
https://andrewweathers.bandcamp.com
Veronica Anne Salinas (she/they) is a Chicago-based artist, writer, editor, and Deep Listener. Her work explores artistic research through acoustic ecology, archives, geomancy, improvisation, listening practices, live performance, soundwalks, text scores, and experimental narratives. She holds an MFA in Sound from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is currently studying at the Center for Deep Listening at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She works as a freelance editor and sound designer, a teaching artist with the Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology, and has given lectures on sound at Northwestern University, University of Illinois Chicago, and Columbia College. She has exhibited sound work nationally and internationally with New Music Gathering, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Experimental Sound Studio, ACRE, Wrong Marfa, Omaha Under the Radar Festival, Lincoln Park Conservatory, Chicago Design Museum, MANA Contemporary, Elastic Arts, Nameless Sound, Art League Houston, Sala Diaz, Cities and Memory and elsewhere. She is on the label S/N and you can find more of her work at www.veronicaannesalinas.com.
With a sound that is at once both focused and far reaching, the trio of Erik Sowa, Jeffrey Goulet, and Adam Gabbert straddles the line between form and formlessness. Developed from roots in classical music, free jazz, noise, and bird watching, this group seamlessly borrows from and circumvents musical tradition. Their sound has been compared to "an avalanche of grandma's tableware..." as well as "an early spring morning...". The sounds that this ensemble generates are sure to satisfy everyone from art-music devotees to people that usually hate music.
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