JayVe Montgomery
Nick Turner
Cristal Sabbagh - photo by Ricardo Adame
Johanna Brock
Olula Negre
We’re please to welcome JayVe Montgomery from Nashville to collaborate with Chicago artist Nick Turner! They will be preceded by a set from Cristal Sabbagh / Olula Negra / Johanna Brock and solo from Daniel Wyche.
Montgomery/Turner
Montgomery and Turner is a duo featuring Nashville and Chicago based musicians JayVe Montgomery (Abstract Black) and Nick Turner (Tyresta). They began collaborating remotely in 2020, which resulted in their debut album Sounds Passing Through Circumstances released by Astral Editions in 2021. This performance marks the duo's live debut ahead of their sophomore release Sound Is Our Sustenance scheduled to be released on Astral Editions this fall.
https://montgomeryandturner.bandcamp.com/album/sounds-passing-through-circumstances
Sabbagh/Negra/Brock
Cristal Sabbagh’s performance practice, rooted in improvisation and Butoh, walks a line between the everyday, the divine, the personal, and the political. In embodying in her art transformational memories while simultaneously celebrating pop culture and the experimental, she challenges power structures and awakens the viewer's senses. Working both in a solo capacity and with collaborators, Sabbagh is equally attuned to individual perspectives and collective structures. In various configurations, these collaborators have regularly engaged in improvised performances, opening new avenues for Sabbagh’s material and conceptual exploration.
Johanna Brock (née Wiesbrock) is a musician, composer, and teacher based in Chicago. Originally trained as an orchestral musician, Brock takes inspiration from modern and canonical work for violin and viola and creates new compositions for voice, strings, synthesizers, looping pedals, beat machines, and audio samples. They are primarily interested in creating work that gives room for improvisation and that explores the boundary between sound and linguistic meaning.
A descendant of two migrations fleeing US imperialism that converged on Cleveland, OH, experimental sound artist and activist, olula negre, is a cellist, improviser, composer, and visual artist whose work is rooted in their Black American and Latinx heritage, Afrofuturism, and queerness. With a deep commitment to social justice, olula creates and interprets works that embody principles of radical honesty, self-love, and equity. They are enthusiastic about collaborating across genres and mediums and have played alongside dancers, visual artists, actors, and singer-songwriters, including regular collaborations with their brother, writer Bernard E. P. Harris.
Daniel Wyche w/ Brian Sulpizio, Billie Howard, Rob Lundberg, Michael Hilger
“I can feel how fragile our world is, how lonely people are after midnight, how absurd it is to be attached to anything” —Fadi
$15 - Tickets Available at the Door