Solo music for a live setting in which the player is the muse, creator, director and listener.
An experimental spatial sound ensemble exploring alternative conducting techniques, aleatory music operations and improvisation. 12 players lead by Blake DeGraw.
An archive broadcast recorded in May 1995 reveals this seminal band, featuring 14 Seattle players on twice as many instruments, in full flight.
Nine players perform the Graffica score. Great example of Seattle's large group improv history. Sonarchy Archive Series show from 2000.
Stegner (keyboards) and Sells (drums) are two players with the chops to improvise an hour of music that takes you from the dance club to out wandering the streets.
New jazz music from a unique combination of players, featuring Ryan Burns (Fender Rhodes and bass), Jason Goessel (guitar), Mark Taylor (saxophone) and Tom Zgonc (drums).
An archive broadcast recorded in May 1995: presented in association with the 25th Seattle Improvised Music Festival, revealing this seminal band of 14 players in full flight.
Yellow Hat Band plays loud, fun brass music from Indonesia to Yugoslavia, Klezmer to Bollywood and beyond. The 13 players of brass and percussion will spank the plank for your entertainment.
Martin Bland takes edited and processed versions of original recordings and plays them on six CD players on shuffle mode in this highly unique performance.
New jazz music with Jason on trumpet, Josh Rawlings on piano, Evan Flory-Barnes on bass, D'Vonne Lewis on drums and guest tenor sax player Cynthia Mullis.
Original recordings edited, processed and put onto CDRs then performed by 6 CD players in shuffle mode. The results are highly entertaining and unique to each performance.
This is a music event, featuring 15 excellent players floating between compositions and improvisation. Paul Kemmish plays the bass and maintains the vibe while Jessica Lurie conducts and plays the sax.
From the Sonarchy Archives comes this unique 13 player show recorded in July 1999: Following the visual system developed by John Zorn, this big group makes instant music and has fun doing it.
Produced by drummer Don Berman, this session features 10 players performing "Ascension NW", based on John Coltrane's "Ascension."
Jazz with a Pacific Northwest feel. Featuring Jason (trumpet), Josh Rawlings (piano), Evan Flory-Barnes (bass), D'Vonne Lewis (drums) and guest player Cynthia Mullis (tenor sax).
A key behind-the-scenes player in Chicago's contemporary hip-hop scene, producer Smoko Ono shares a fun 'n' funky soundtrack to our weekend.
With their debut collaborative album as Big Red Machine, two of indie music’s most consistent players look outside themselves and create some of their most flourishing work yet.
“It’s like watching a movie,” DJ Cheryl Waters exclaimed during the elaborate in-studio performance by Shugo Tokumaru. The Japanese musician, famous for using more than 100 different instruments in his album recordings, incorporates so many instruments in his music, from the more traditional guitar…
The Revolution's legendary bassist BrownMark talks to KEXP about Prince's legacy as an artist, an entertainer and, of course, as a basketball player.
