Outpost 186

OUTPOST186 Concert & Event Schedule, December 2009

2009-12-02T11:53:00.008-05:00

Matt Lavelle - bass clarinet - Saturday 12 December

OUTPOST: 186 ½ Hampshire St., Inman Sq. Cambridge - All Ages

(CONCERT & EVENT CALENDER FOLLOWS BOILERPLATE, BELOW)

BULLETIN: SUNDAY 29 NOV Herb Robertson / Ana Isabel Ordonez SHOW IS CANCELED AS THE FILMMAKER WAS INJURED IN A CAR ACCIDENT

OUTPOST NEWS:

OUTPOST is available for meetings, rehearsals & (non-musical) daytime events!

OUTPOST wins Editor's Pick for BEST EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC VENUE in the Phoenix Best 2009!

OUTPOST featured in a short film, THE VENUE (april 2009)

19 August 2008 - Outpost has acquired a fabulous Yamaha U3 full-size upright piano - come check it out!

OUTPOST DIRECTIONS: Near cr. Prospect, opposite Hess gas, behind 7-11. Big ‘186’ on R side. Follow walk at Left to gallery, REAR.

OUTPOST CONCERT INFO:
All shows 8pm door unless otherwise noted.
General admission, suggested donation at door.
No reservations, come early!
All shows all ages.
No smoking, alcohol, ether or laudenum please!

ART
Outpost regularly exhibits visual art! If you are an artist and would like to exhibit @ Outpost, please send your website url to robchalfen@hotmail.com, or arrange to show your portfolio. Outpost does not charge for exhibits.

CURRENT EXHIBIT
Outpost is now showing paintings by Scott Cahaly
On exhibit: "Geisha Girls", oils, 2000

GALLERY HOURS:
Gallery exhibits may be viewed during scheduled shows or by appointment.
CONTACT: robchalfen@hotmail.com

EMAIL LIST SIGN-UP: http://Outpost186.FanBridge.com

BOOKING: OUTPOST is currently available as a rental @ $50 per concert event.

CONTACT: Rob Chalfen, director: robchalfen@hotmail.com
DETAILS:OUTPOST PRODUCER'S HANDBOOK - You must read this before you produce a show @ Outpost!
NOTE: You must be 21 to produce events at Outpost.

WE GET PRESS!!

Darius Jones Trio Oct 19 2009 reviewed by Jon Garelick, Boston Phoenix

Blog review of 27 Aug. 2009 Dave Bryant show

Hhere’s a nice review of the 24 Nov. 08 Scarecrow Mobius gig at the Outpost by Jon Garelick of the Boston Phoenix: http://thephoenix.com/Boston/Music/72937-Mixed-grill//

Outpost featured in Cambridge Chronicle, 19 June 2008:
An-Outpost-on-the-edge-of-music

John Voigt featured in Cambridge Chronicle, 14 July 2008

Nice write up on Outpost in the Glob, Sunday 27 Jan. 2008 Outpost is the 2nd item:
http://www.boston.com/ae/music/articles/2008/01/26/six_nights_out____what_youre_hear_who_youll_meet/

on Richard Sandler's Films:
http://www.bloggernews.net/113600
On our "Small Arts Group Die Off", 13 January:
Globe: http://www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/articles/2008/01/12/small_arts_groups_are_dying_to_be_heard/
Big Red & Shiny:
http://www.bigredandshiny.com/cgi-bin/retrieve.pl?issue=issue75&section=article&article=DONT_DRINK_THE_1485440
BILL MARX/The Arts Fuse: Boston Foundation to Small Theatres - Drop Dead Please!
http://www.theartsfuse.com/2008/01/20/boston-foundation-to-small-theaters-drop-dead-please/#more-401

nonprofit jobs

DECEMBER

Tuesday 1 December @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Downtowwn Diaspora Trio
Set 1: Downtown Diaspora Trio : Blaise Siwuala - reeds / Ken Silverman - guitar, charango / John McLellen - drums

Set 2: Diaspora Trio w/Eric Zinman - piano

Wednesday 2 December @ Outpost, 8pm $3
back alley cinema presents
AN ALL ASIAN LETHAL LADIES THREE-WAY
FUNERAL PROCESSION OF ROSES - psycho Japanese surrealism from 1969 with a gruesome horror movie subplot and climax,insane fuzzed-out garage rock,and the most beautiful she-male protagonist ever-and more!
SCHOOL OF THE HOLY BEAST - classic Japanese entry into the traditionally European "naughty nun"/"nunsploitation" genre!
REVENGE OF THE SHOGUN WOMEN - these lethal ladies aren't Japanese Shogun women but Chinese Shoalin women! We're talking
BALD AND BEAUTIFUL KUNG FU NUNS! Come early for this one!

Friday 4 December @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
VORTEX presents
TRIO RAIZ(Brazil)

guest - Esther Viola, oboe

With Nelson Latif and Bosco Oliveira on guitar and Rafael dos Santos on percussion, the group unites three Brazilian musicians with diverse musical backgrounds. Latif is an ambassador of choro, an instrumental genre originating in Rio de Janeiro, and a master of cavaquinho, the small 4-string Brazilian guitar. He also spent formative years playing on the São Paolo jazz scene. Oliveira, with a classical foundation, has delved into Spanish flamenco. Santos infuses Afro-Brazilian rhythms with modern jazz. The three join forces in expanding and celebrating their native Brazilian music.

Their current program, “Violão Brasileiro” (Brazilian Guitar), includes original compositions as well as their own arrangements of great Brazilian masters, such as Villa-Lobos, Jacob do Bandolim, Egberto Gismonti, and Baden Powell. On December 4th the Trio may be joined by several local choro-musicians for an informal jam in the final set.

Saturday 5 December @ Outpost 3pm $donation
The unaffiliated poetry series presents

Carol Weston
+Douglas Rothschild

Carol Weston's history as a poet is linked to such figures as Jack Powers, John Wieners, Robert Lowell, Allen Ginsburg, and Carl Solomon (to whom Allen Ginsburg's "Howl" was dedicated). Her credentials include being poetry editor of the Impressions Workshop. She is also the author of "What the Poet Expects of Himself," an essay published in the Tufts Review. Married to John Galloway, science teacher at Endicott College , she taught for ten years at the Chesnut Hill School . Her poetry credits include The Farleigh Literary Review, Bomb, Stone Soup Anthology 2003, and the anthology dedicated to John Wieners, The Blind See Only This World. Her chapbook, Spirals, Whorls Sutures, Septa, was published by Stone Soup.

Douglas Rothschild
Having once been considered, by some, the complete man (though often considered by others to be an incomplete platypus), Douglas Rothschild now finds himself more likely to be compared with the complete gimp. & though his stock has plummeted drasticaly over the past few years of his self imposed exile to Zipcode{tm} 12208, he reputation as a poet has experienced a rather bullish rally since the spring publication of his new volume THEOGONY. "Most certainly something not to be missed." --P.T. Barnum

"Douglas Rothschild is our Charles Olson and Theogony is all about the polis and the friendships that it holds. In one part he takes us on one of his walks through the neighborhood where he lovingly tells us the history of what we walk by everyday and never notice. And in another part he calls us up on the phone and laments what it means to be hyperaware in this contemporary moment."
--Juliana Spahr

"It's heartening--a complete relief, in fact--to finally have a lengthy tome from Douglas Rothschild, a poet whose independence and observational precision are, for me, unparalleled within the art. Rothschild is a poet of emphasis, analysis, opinion, argument, outrage, anguish, personality, friendship and deep feeling. His walking, talking line, freer within its various formal constraints (Dug is a master of the long poem made of short poems) than any surface-of-the-moment, sounds like no one else. This is a book of tremendous clarity, and I'm grateful for its existence."
--Anselm Berrigan

Reviews of which can be found at:
my performance last week in Orono)

theogony (short but sweet & very thoughtful)

pierre jorris is very kind here--this is nice.

(a very good review by susan schultz out in hawai'i)

Saturday 5 December @ Outpost 8pm $10 or b/o
Garrison Fewell’s Variable Density Sound Orchestra

BERN NIX
Sunday 6 December @ Outpost 8pm $10 or b/o
Bern Nix/Dave Bryant Quartet

Featuring former members of Ornette Coleman’s Prime Time!

Dave Bryant - piano / Bern Nix - guitar / John Turner - bass / Eric Rosenthal - drums

“For years, keyboardist Bryant and guitarist Nix were cornerstones of Ornette Coleman’s Prime Time band. Check them out if you want to hear why the best of the jazz avant-garde is as focused as it is ferocious.”
Jon Garelick, Boston Phoenix, 24 April 2009

Thursday 10 December @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
New Language Collaborative
Eric Zinman - piano / Glynis Lomon - cello / Syd Smart - Drums

Friday 11 December @ Outpost 8pm $10 or b/o
Jacob William Quintet
Laurence Cook - Drums / Steve Lantner - Piano / Jim Hobbs - Alto Sax / Forbes Graham - Trumpet / Jacob William - Bass

Matt Lavelle - trumpet

Matt Lavelle - bass clarinet

Saturday 12 December @ Outpost, 8pm $10
subconsciouscafe presents
Matt Lavelle / Sid Smart / John Voigt
Matt Lavelle - bass clarinet, trumpet / Sid Smart - drums / John Voight - bass
Matt Lavelle is a trumpet/flugelhorn,..and bass clarinet player,composer,and writer,. living and playing in New York city since 1993. Lavelle (1970)came up through the ranks by learning swing from the source,.in the band of swing veteran sir hildred humphries,..who played with billie holiday, roy eldridge, and basie.

discovering the downtown scene led by william parker in the late 90's,..Lavelle has found a community of like minded musicians that he has worked with ever since.the culmination of all of this was studying with grand master Ornette coleman,.who has taken Lavelle through the process of harmelodics,..and truly aligned Lavelle with his own music.

to date,.he is the only jazz musician to have his own voice on trumpet and bass-clarinet,.and more instruments may be on the way. Lavelle’s album on silkheart records (distributed internationally)..received wide critical acclaim worldwide,.and was in the village voice top 10 for albums of the year in 2006. Lavelle recently was instrumental in helping avant sax legend Giuseppi Logan return to both playing and recording.
www.myspace.com/mattLavelle
www.myspace.com/trumpetrising

Sunday 13 December @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Tom Hall & Session V

Tom Hall - saxes
Sonny Barbato - accordion, piano
Jerry Leake - percussion

The Sessions, a series of performances hosted by saxophonist Tom Hall, brings creative musicians from any and all musical styles and genres together and turns them loose in a free improvisatory setting. On Session V, Tom Hall is joined by accordion wizard Sonny Barbato and muti-percussionist Jerry Leake.

Tom Hall (tenor and baritone sax) has spent his life improvising all kinds of music, in groups such as Your Neighborhood Sax Quartet, Bob Nieske's Wolf Soup, Bruce Katz Band, Club d’Elf, and with people such as John Medeski, D.J. Logic, Jon Damian, Matt Maneri, Tim Ray, Duke Levine, Curt Newton, Dave Bryant, and Dave Tronzo.

Joe “Sonny” Barbato, a freelance musician in the Boston area, plays accordian and piano. He has performed at festivals and concerts with Ravi Coltrane, Eddie Harris, Stanley Turrentine, Donald Harrison, Joe Locke, Jerry Bergonzi, Jeff "Tain" Watts, David Sanchez, and Larry Coryell. He has played accordion on over 30 recordings that range in style from country to jazz, and is a pioneering voice in jazz accordion, as evidenced by his 2006 release Crackerjack, featuring Jimmy Ponder on guitar and David Budway on piano.

Jerry Leake is co-founder of the acclaimed world-music ensemble Natraj. He also performs with Club d'Elf, R.A.R.E, Moksha, and the Agbekor Drum and Dance Society. On tabla, he has accompanied Ali Akbar Khan, Steve Gorn, Sharafat Ali Khan, Kumkum Sanyal, and Chitravena Ravikiran. He is featured on many CDs and has just released a new recording Cubist , a brillliant co-mingling of ancient African and Indian percussion traditions with modern influences of groove, ambient, rock, jazz and more.

www.freeimprovisation.com

Monday 14 December @ Outpost, 8 pm
Small Animal Project Reading Series presents
Jack Christian, Cheryl Clark Vermeulen, Zach Savich

Jack Christian is the author of the chapbook Let’s Collaborate from Magic Helicopter Press. His poems are upcoming in Drunken Boat, Sixth Finch, and Thermos, and his work has appeared recently in Cimarron Review, notnostrums, Phoebe, and Diagram. He is from Richmond, Virginia, and lives now in Northampton, Massachusetts.

Cheryl Clark Vermuelen’s poems and translations can be found in the journals DIAGRAM, Third Coast, admit2, Can we have our ball back?, Carve [poems], Dispatx, and eXchanges, as well as the anthology Connecting Lines: New Poetry from Mexico. Her chapbook Dead-Eye Spring is published by Cy Gist Press. Hailing from Illinois, she now lives in Boston and teaches writing at the New England Conservatory and the Cambridge Center for Adult Education.

Zach Savich’s first book, Full Catastrophe Living, won the Iowa Poetry Prize. He has had recent poems in Boston Review, Denver Quarterly,Kenyon Review, and the anthology Best New Poets 2008.

Friday 18 December @ Outpost - 8pm, $5/10
Chagall Performance Art Collaborative
presents
Inter-Holiday Party Collaborative Concert !
Featuring twisted holiday-style live film scoring of short films by David Lynch (backed up by our Collaborators), and the poetry of special guest Raffael de Gruttola and Diana Norma in silent film-interludes by the Lumiere Brothers. Raffael will read his renku poetry and we will finish with a Haiku jam featuring his jazz haiku!

Bring your friends and come have your holiday party here! All religious/non-religious followings welcome! Followed by an open mic and cocktail so bring your own favorite original words and music to jam with us!

Collaborating Artists

Raffael de Gruttola - poet
Diana Norma - poet
Dennis Shafer - saxophone
Jonathan Hurley - guitar
Jason Felitto - bass
Christopher Montecalvo - percussion and wind up toys

Saturday 19 December @ Outpost 8pm $10 or b/o
green umbrellas presents
John Voigt - bass / Junko Simons - cello

Saturday 19 December @ Outpost 8pm $10 or b/o
green umbrellas presents
John Voigt / Junko Simons - cello

Sunday 20 December @ Outpost, 8pm
The Fire of Prometheus presents
Brother Blue Memorial Hoedown
Fire of Prometheus
+Underground Surrealists
et alia

Wednesday 23 December @ Outpost, 8pm $5/10
search music sessions with Nat Mugavero
Nat Mugavero - percussion, zen lunacy + weekly guests tba

JANUARY 2010

Sunday 10 January @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Tom Hall & Session 3

Tuesday 12 January @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Rare Degree : Michael Strauss / Dana Jessen
Michael Strauss - soprano, alto and tenor saxophones /
Dana Jessen (Amsterdam) - bassoon, squeaky toys, wii remotes and bamboo

Michael Straus (saxophones, recyclable objects and electronics) & Dana Jessen (bassoon, squeaky toys, tibetan bowls and bamboo)

presenting works by G. Douglas Barrett, Cory Kasprzyk, Matthew Burtner, Ivo Bol, Anne La Berge and Dana Jessen

rare degree is an Amsterdam-based duo focused on the performance of new and experimental electroacoustic music. Founded in 2007 and always on the move, the duo has presented concerts at venues throughout the U.S. and Europe, with recent appearances at Chicago's Heaven Gallery of Art, Portugal's Musicbox Club, Amsterdam's De Kazerne, U.K.'s Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival and Washington D.C.'s Artomatic Festival. They have performed with wide variety of experimental artists including turntablist DJ Dubble8, visual artist Sarah Buckius, guitarist Vitor Rua, Quatuor Bozzini and self-proclaimed knife virtuoso Hyaena Reich. Formally educated, they hold graduate degrees from the New England Conservatory of Music, Peabody Conservatory of Music and are both recent recipients of Fulbright Fellowships. Please visit www.mstraus.net and www.danajessen.com for further exploration.

The program is a Dutch meets American experimental music of sorts. Our duo has presented concerts throughout the US and Europe with recent appearances at the Heaven Gallery of Art (Chicago), Musicbox Club (Lisbon, Portugal), Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (U.K.), De Kazerne (Amsterdam), Artomatic Festival (Wasington, D.C.) and Franklin Pierce College (New Hampshire) and Lilypad (Cambridge). We hold graduate degrees from the New England Conservatory of Music (Boston), Peabody Conservatory of Music (Baltimore) and are both recent recipients of a Fulbright Fellowship for performance and research in Amsterdam.

Saturday 16 January @ Outpost 8pm $10 or b/o
green umbrellas presents
Vincent Monaco - trumpet / Junko Simons - cello
featuring a duo composed by Robert Levy and other compositions

Friday 22 January @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
subconsciouscafe presents
RAS MOSHE TRIO (nyc)
+NEW LANGUAGE COLLABORATIVE
Glynis Lomon - cello / Syd Smart - drums / Eric Zinman - piano

Friday 29 January @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Jeff Platz Quartet
Jeff Platz - Guitar / James Rohr - piano / John Mclellan - drums / Kit Demos - bass

February

Saturday 20 February @ Outpost 8pm $10 or b/o
green umbrellas presents
Members of the Metal and Glass Ensemble
Matt Samolis - flute / Heather Townsend & Thadd Comstock - glass organ /Junko Simons - cello

MARCH

Wednesday 17 March @ Outpost 8pm

Seijiro Murayama - percussion (Nagasaki, Japan)
(member of Absolut Null Punkt w/ KK Null, ex- Fushitsusha)
with
James Coleman - theremin
Greg Kelley - trumpet

+

Keith Fullerton Whitman - modular synthesizer

Seijiro Murayama formed A.N.P. with KK Null in 1984, creating an in-the-red mixture of free jazz, heavy rock, & industrial noise. He was also a member of Keiji Haino's Fushitsusha, appearing on that group's (first) self-titled double album on P.S.F. in 1989. Recent years have seen him deeply involved in experimental improvised music including recordings with Lionel Marchetti, Michael Northam, Jean-Luc Guionnet and Eric La Casa, and performances with Axel Doerner, Toshiya Tsunoda and Mattin among others. Tonight he will be performing with James Coleman and Greg Kelley of the BSC and the undr quartet.

http://seijiro.murayama.name
http://www.opensound.org/opensoundbios/jamescoleman.html
http://ordinaryfanfares.blogspot.com

April 2010

Tuesday, 20 April @ Outpost 8pm $10 or b/o
subconsciouscafe presents
Jack Wright & Pascal Battus (Fr.)
Jack Wright - sax
Pascal Battus - guitar pickup & objects
http://www.springgardenmusic.com/jack&pascal_duo.htm

(some) CONCERT SERIES AT OUTPOST:

VORTEX - 1st Fridays, 8pm $5/10
Microtonal soundscapes painted over a radiant sea of anarchy. New and improvisational music, featuring various guest artists in different incarnations, seeking truth and the voice that brought them to this point. Hosted by Todd Brunel - http://www.clarinetconspiracy.com

INTERDISCIPLINARY ARTS CABARET with SOUNDS IN BLOOM3rd Fridays, 8pm
http://www.myspace.com/dnorma
Sounds in Bloom is an internationally performing poetry-music-movement-art collaborative that performs in theaters, bookstores, concert halls, art galleries, educational settings. and forests. Sounds in Bloom recently started the Chagall Performance Art Collaborative Series, which is currently in residence at Outpost 186 in Cambridge every third Friday of the month.

Together with saxophonist/composer Dennis Shafer (co-founder), they collaborate with a variety of international artists, and give workshops to children and adults.
subconsciouscafe new chamber music : - occasional Saturdays, 8pm $10 or b/o
Rob Chalfen's long-running improvised music series continues at OUTPOST and elsewhere. Innovative chamber music at play on the spectra of jazz, electronic, classical and world. Also may be dug by the non-subconscious mind.
robchalfen@hotmail.com

THE WHIMSY! - 1 Sunday/mo, 8PM $5 or b/o
Song & poesy, bohemian vaudeville, open mic
Hosted by Markus Nechay - markusnechay@yahoo.com

Steve Lantner presents : 4th Saturdays
slantner@comcast.net

Dave Pryant presents : monthly, by announcement
DaveBryant1@comcast.net

SERIES PRODUCERS:
subconsciouscafe : Rob Chalfen : robchalfen@hotmail.com
VORTEX : Todd Brunel : thbrunel@earthlink.net
The Whimsy! : Markus Nechay - markusnechay@yahoo.com
Steve Lantner presents : slantner@comcast.net http://stevelantner.com/
Courtney Brown
Dave Bryant presents : DaveBryant1@comcast.net
Josh Jefferson : jefferson.joshua@gmail.com
Joseph Moffett : moffjazz@comcast.net
John Mulrooney : poetics - jmulrron2002@yahoo.com

DISCLAIMER:
This disclaimer is for reflexive and tautological purposes only, and may not be construed as eluding responsibility for any errors, typos, or logical absurdities, real or imagined, that may be contained in this notice, without further notice.

Thank you,
Harlan T. Flash
Corresponding Secretary,
Outpost World Enterprises

OUTPOST186 Concert & Event Schedule, November 2009

2009-11-02T11:20:00.033-05:00

Bern Nix - Sunday 6 December

OUTPOST: 186 ½ Hampshire St., Inman Sq. Cambridge - All Ages

(CONCERT & EVENT CALENDER FOLLOWS BOILERPLATE, BELOW)

BULLETIN: SUNDAY 29 NOV Herb Robertson / Ana Isabel Ordonez SHOW IS CANCELED AS THE FILMMAKER WAS INJURED IN A CAR ACCIDENT

OUTPOST NEWS:

OUTPOST is available for meetings, rehearsals & (non-musical) daytime events!

OUTPOST wins Editor's Pick for BEST EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC VENUE in the Phoenix Best 2009!

OUTPOST featured in a short film, THE VENUE (april 2009)

19 August 2008 - Outpost has acquired a fabulous Yamaha U3 full-size upright piano - come check it out!

OUTPOST DIRECTIONS: Near cr. Prospect, opposite Hess gas, behind 7-11. Big ‘186’ on R side. Follow walk at Left to gallery, REAR.

OUTPOST CONCERT INFO:
All shows 8pm door unless otherwise noted.
General admission, suggested donation at door.
No reservations, come early!
All shows all ages.
No smoking, alcohol, ether or laudenum please!

ART
Outpost regularly exhibits visual art! If you are an artist and would like to exhibit @ Outpost, please send your website url to robchalfen@hotmail.com, or arrange to show your portfolio. Outpost does not charge for exhibits.

CURRENT EXHIBIT
Outpost is now showing paintings by Scott Cahaly
On exhibit: "Geisha Girls", oils, 2000

GALLERY HOURS:
Gallery exhibits may be viewed during scheduled shows or by appointment.
CONTACT: robchalfen@hotmail.com

EMAIL LIST SIGN-UP: http://Outpost186.FanBridge.com

BOOKING: OUTPOST is currently available as a rental @ $50 per concert event.

CONTACT: Rob Chalfen, director: robchalfen@hotmail.com
DETAILS:OUTPOST PRODUCER'S HANDBOOK - You must read this before you produce a show @ Outpost!
NOTE: You must be 21 to produce events at Outpost.

WE GET PRESS!!

Darius Jones Trio Oct 19 2009 reviewed by Jon Garelick, Boston Phoenix

Blog review of 27 Aug. 2009 Dave Bryant show

Hhere’s a nice review of the 24 Nov. 08 Scarecrow Mobius gig at the Outpost by Jon Garelick of the Boston Phoenix: http://thephoenix.com/Boston/Music/72937-Mixed-grill//

Outpost featured in Cambridge Chronicle, 19 June 2008:
An-Outpost-on-the-edge-of-music

John Voigt featured in Cambridge Chronicle, 14 July 2008

Nice write up on Outpost in the Glob, Sunday 27 Jan. 2008 Outpost is the 2nd item:
http://www.boston.com/ae/music/articles/2008/01/26/six_nights_out____what_youre_hear_who_youll_meet/

on Richard Sandler's Films:
http://www.bloggernews.net/113600
On our "Small Arts Group Die Off", 13 January:
Globe: http://www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/articles/2008/01/12/small_arts_groups_are_dying_to_be_heard/
Big Red & Shiny:
http://www.bigredandshiny.com/cgi-bin/retrieve.pl?issue=issue75&section=article&article=DONT_DRINK_THE_1485440
BILL MARX/The Arts Fuse: Boston Foundation to Small Theatres - Drop Dead Please!
http://www.theartsfuse.com/2008/01/20/boston-foundation-to-small-theaters-drop-dead-please/#more-401

nonprofit jobs

november

Sunday 1 November @ Outpost, 8pm $5/10
“Tom Hall & Session 3”
Sunday 1 November @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o

Tom Hall - tenor & bari sax /Jeff Song - cello & bass guitar / Curt Newton - drums

The Sessions, a series of performances hosted by saxophonist Tom Hall brings together creative musicians from any and all musical genres and styles and turns them loose in an improvisatory setting.

Session IV features The Blooming, a collaboration between Tom Hall on saxophones, Jeff Song on cello and bass guitar, and Curt Newton on drums. With a spontaneous weaving of melody, pulse, and texture, they create songs you have almost heard before, music emerging just beyond your headlight beams.

Tom Hall (tenor and baritone sax) has spent his life improvising all kinds of music, in groups such as Your Neighborhood Sax Quartet, Bob Nieske's Wolf Soup, Bruce Katz Band, and with people such as John Medeski, D.J. Logic, Jon Damian, Matt Maneri, Tim Ray, Duke Levine, Curt Newton, Dave Bryant, and Dave Tronzo.

Jeff Song (cello and bass guitar) has worked with Ute Lemper, Matt Turner, Miya Masaoka, Jody Blackwell and Jeff Robinson, and led his own groups including Lowbrow. Primarily a bass guitarist and cellist, he also performs and records contemporary improvised music on the kayagum, a Korean 12-string zither.

Curt Newton (drums) has performed and recorded with Ken Vandermark, Joe Morris, Nate McBride, Pandelis Karayorgis, Charlie Kohlhase, Soo-Jung Kae, and The Blue Ribbons. He also plays the chang-go, a Korean drum, in a contemporary improvised music duo with Jeff Song.

www.freeimprovisation.com

Monday 2 November @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Peeping Tom (France, Sweden)
Pierre-Antoine Badaroux - sax
Joel Grip - double bass
Antonin Gerbal - drums

This high-energy improv trio just recently released a CD on Umlaut
Records - distributed by NorthCountry Distributors in USA. The release
of a concert in Sweden at Impro Festival Hagenfesten with guests Evan Parker
and Axel Dörner was a great success!

Listen:
http://www.umlautrecords.com/?albumId=44
http://www.myspace.com/peepingtomjazz

Thursday 5 November @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Courtney Brown’s Sidewalk Tzara presents:
Anni Hi = performance art
+Macerated Pony - performance art troupe
+Jon Glancy & Friends

Anni Hi is an amateur social scientist--not to be confused with her brief stint in selling personalized amateur soft-core web cam videos--investigating the ways women exist in and with popular culture. Hi conducts field research by entering into places that form contemporary female visual and cultural representation. She is interested in the idea of microfame, and how it relates to a culture cultivated to be watched by others. No stranger to microfame herself, Hi has become a Youtube cewebrity. You can watch her videos at www.youtube.com/user/scandalishious or visit her website at www.scandalishious.com. She will also be appearing on a reality TV dating show on Vh1 in January which she is contractually obligated to say no more about. Hi is currently pursuing her MFA somewhere in upstate NY.

Macerated Peony, Music and Performance Art

Macerated Peony is multi-disciplinary ensemble founded at Florida’s Atlantic Centre for the Arts in 2009 by Dawn Weleski, Margaret Schedel and Sarah O’Halloran. We were drawn together by our shared interest in seriously playful/playfully serious experimentation and collaboration. Our work together includes musical improvisation and composition, sculpture, performance art, and video.

Dawn Weleski is a multi-disciplinary Pittsburgh artist that re-purposes local newspapers, public transportation commutes, and meals with family as transformative social stages to reveal their own social wellness and cultural renewal and to provide a forum for provisional awareness. Her work often acts as a political and social stress test, measuring the health of routine within shared cultural behavior. She encourages relating to the other by opening entry into unfamiliar and uncomfortable systems, by implicating and embedding within the work its own collaborative rules, and by reanimating defunct or retarded connections between seemingly disparate people and places in a state of transition.

Margaret Anne Schedel is a composer and cellist specializing in the creation and performance of ferociously interactive media. Her works have been performed throughout the United Stated and abroad. While working towards a DMA in music composition at the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music, her interactive multimedia opera, A King Listens, premiered at the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center and was profiled by apple.com. She is working towards a certificate in Deep Listening with Pauline Oliveros and has studied composition with Mara Helmuth, Cort Lippe and McGregor Boyle. She serves as the musical director for Kinesthetech Sense and sits on the boards of 60x60 Dance, the BEAM Foundation, the Electronic Music Foundation Institute, the International Computer Music Association, the New West Electronic Art and Music Organization, and Organised Sound. She contributed a chapter to the Cambridge Companion to Electronic Music and her article on generative multimedia was recently published in Contemporary Music Review. Her work has been supported by the Presser Foundation, Centro Mexicano para la Música y les Artes Sonoras, and Meet the Composer. In 2009 she won the first Ruth Anderson Prize for her interactive installation Twenty Love Songs and a Song of Despair. As an Assistant Professor of Music at Stony Brook University, she serves as Co-Director of Computer Music and is a core faculty member of cDACT, the consortium for digital art, culture and technology.

Sarah O’Halloran is a composer and performer from Ireland. She is currently a doctoral student in Composition and Computer Technology at University of Virginia working on a practice that brings together music, performance art, and sculpture. In 2004 she graduated from University College Cork with a BA in Music and English, and two years later she completed an MPhil in Musicology focusing on issues of sexual, gender, and national identity in Gerald Barry’s operas. In 2007 she completed an MA in Sonic Arts at Queens University Belfast. Before moving to the US Sarah was based in Cork, Ireland, where she lectured in music part-time at UCC, and was co-director of the Quiet Music Festival, which brought Alvin Lucier and Pauline Oliveros to Ireland for the first time. Sarah's work includes concert music, improvisation, installations, and sculptures. Her music has been performed at festivals including Gaudeamus (Netherlands), Sonorities (UK), and Ostrava Days (Czech Republic).

Jon Glancy with Friends, Musical Improvisation

Gabe Crusier can flow, Abe Taber can fret, Deg Clinter can pick and Jon Glancer can hit.. But WHAT, exactly, shall be done about it?!!!
Come find out before we do, and then lie to us about it: we don't mind, we're used to it.
Friday 6 November @ OUTPOST, 8pm $5/10
VORTEX series for new & improvised music presents:
Todd Brunel Vortex Ensemble
Rob Bethel - cello / John Mclellan - drums / Todd Brunel - clarinets / Tom Duprey - trumpet

Esther Viola Vortex Ensemble
Esther Viola - oboe, voice / Sarvenaz Moshfegh - cello / Silvana Costa - spoken word

http://improvortex.blogspot.com/

Saturday 7 November @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Cook/Dijkstra/William
Laurence Cook - drums / Jorrit Dijkstra - sax / Jacob William - bass

Wednesday 11 November @ Outpost 8pm $10 or b/o
an evening of singer/songwriters with:
Ben Reynolds/ Glenn Jones / Eric Carbonara

Ben Reynolds, a Glasgow-based singer songwriter and acoustic instrumentalist has recently released an album on Tompkins Square Records

http://www.myspace.com/benreynoldsmusic
http://www.tompkinssq.com/
http://www.ericcarbonara.org
http://www.myspace.com/ericcarbonara
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Eric-Carbonara/44850021307

Thursday 12 November @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
CITIZENS ORCHESTRA
Laurence Cook - drums
Kevin Frennette - guitar
Forbes Graham - trumpet
Stephen Haynes - trumpet
Jim Hobbs - alto saxophone
Glynis Lomon - cello
Nick Skrowaczewski - vibraphone
Jacob William - bass
Jason Zappa - tenor and baritone saxophone
Eric Zinman - piano

Eric Person
Friday 13 November @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Bryant / Person / Charland / Bowman
Dave Bryant - piano / Eric Person - sax & flute / Jef Charland - bass / Chris Bowman - drums

Eric Person
For over twenty years, Eric Person has been committed to composing, recording and performing contemporary American music. He plays the alto and soprano saxophones and flute and is featured as a leader and sideman on more than 30 recordings. Eric studied at the St. Louis Conservatory of Music and
has been active in the New York and international jazz scene for decades. His broad range of experience with Dave Holland, McCoy Tyner, Chico Hamilton, Ronald Shannon Jackson, the World Saxophone Quartet, and John Hicks, have all contributed greatly to his mature alto and soprano sound and
his skills as an arranger and composer.
www.ericperson.com
http://www.myspace.com/epmf

NOTE: THE NEW LANGUAGE COLLABORATIVE SHOW LISTED FOR TONIGHT, SATURDAY 14 NOV, IS NOT HAPPENING. SORRY FOR THE INCONVENIENCE. THEY WILL BE PLAYING THURSDAY 10 DECEMBER.

Sunday 15 November @ Outpost, 4:30 - 7:30 pm, by donation
Urban Homesteader's League Pot Luck Workshop & Skill Swap
We've been holding these monthly local and seasonal food potlucks/free stuff swaps, and they've been a ton of fun. We've typically been getting between 15 and 30 people attending. http://www.meetup.com/Urban-Homesteaders-League/calendar/11673564/

Monday 16 November @ Outpost, 8pm
David Kirby + Reed Rosenberg
Richard Kamerman + Vic Rawlings
David Kirby Solo
http://www.silenceandsocialism.com
Bios ->

Richard Kamerman prefers small sounds to large sounds but that doesn't
mean they are always performed as quiet sounds. He also likes
accidental sounds and collecting his instruments from people's trash
on the street. Although essentially a percussionist, he rarely sits
behind a drum kit, preferring to explore the percussive behaviors of
various re-purposed electronics - computer circuit boards, mechanical
parts. He has no time for cigar breaks.

David Kirby is an Atlanta-based digital composer making a transition
to analog improvisation using cassette tapes. He operates the
Homophoni web label, with a focus on electroacoustic music, and
recently released his first improvised recording,
entitled Cittacaura (http://www.homophoni.com/homo037.html)

Reed Evan Rosenberg is a musician and multimedia artist based in New
York City. Since 2007 Rosenberg has explored the possibilities of the
computer as instrument by crafting various programs that are meant to
perform classic computer music techniques. Programs that should
generate stochastic synthesis, granular synthesis, or waveshaping
however are purposefully under-reasearched and thus mathematically
incorrect, letting the artist's intuition and imagination pick up
where the intimate knowledge of "correct" programming technique leaves
off.

Vic Rawlings is active in the Boston improvised music community.
His performances focus on the metamusical potential of unstable sounds
and silences. He is an instrument builder specializing in modifications
of existing instruments. In addition to his extensive cello preparations,
he continually develops an electronic instrument from extant analog
circuitry, producing, in effect, an analog synthesizer with a highly
unstable interface.

Tuesday 17 November @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Jack Pezanelli / Sheryl Bailey Guitar Duo

Wednesday 18 November @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Variable Density Sound Orchestra:
Garrison Fewell - guitar, bow, slide & percussion / Kelly Roberge - tenor sax

Thursday 19 November @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Dave Fox 4 in “Adventures in Sound”
Bruno Raberg - bass / Josh Rosen - keys / Dave Tronzo - guitar / Phil Grenadier - trumpet / Dave Fox - drums

PLEASE NOTE CHANGE IN TIME OF THIS EVENT:

Friday 20 November @ Outpost - 9pm, $5/10
Chagall Performance Art Collaborative
Special guest poet Judson Evans performs unheard poems from his Museum of Impossible Inventions and Sounds in Bloom plays Steve Lacy’s Jazz combined with spoken word by Diana Norma. Also, Sounds in Bloom’s own Lacy-inspired Jazz heads will be with a glorious rhythm section of equally experimental players. Bring your own spoken word to try it out with melodic jazz improvisation!
Judson Evans - poet
Diana Norma - poet
Dennis Shafer - saxophone
John Hurley - guitar
Jason Felitto - bass
Rob Rudin - drums

Saturday 21 November @ Outpost 8pm $10 or b/o
green umbrellas presents
Marenglen "Geni" Skendo, assorted flutes, shakuhachi / Yasmine Azaiez, violin / Junko Simons - cello

Sunday, 22 November, 3 pm, @ Outpost - open donation
Small Animal Project Reading Series presents
Lily Brown, Andrew McDonald, & Joshua Marie Wilkinson

Sunday 22 November @ OUTPOST, 8pm $5 or b/o
markus nechay presents
“The Whimsy!” Song & poesy, bohemian vaudeville, open mic

Lily Brown was born and raised in Massachusetts, and currently lives in Chicago and in Athens, Georgia, where she is a Ph.D. student at the University of Georgia. Her first book, Rust or Go Missing, is forthcoming in 2010 from Cleveland State University Poetry Center, and her poems have appeared in Fence, Pleiades,Denver Quarterly, and Tarpaulin Sky, among other journals. Her chapbook, Old with You, is available from Kitchen Press.

Andrew McDonald is an undergraduate Creative Writing student at Lesley University. He lives in Allston, MA and has never been published.

Joshua Marie Wilkinson hails from Seattle. He is the author of four books of poetry, most recently The Book of Whispering in the Projection Booth (Tupelo, 2009). Two new projects are due out in 2010: Selenography (Sidebrow), a book-length collaboration with the Polaroids of Califone’s Tim Rutili and Poets on Teaching, an anthology featuring short essays by 101 poets (Iowa). He lives in Chicago and Athens, Georgia.

Tuesday 24 November @ Outpost, 8pm
An Evening of Experimental & Ambient Guitar
Animal Hospital (local guitar/loop based experimental)
+Aiden Baker (ambient guitar from canada),
+Brandon Terzakis (local prepared guitar/drone),

3 Guitars, presented by Sound Pool
experimental and ambient music by Aidan Baker, Animal Hospital, and Brandon Terzakis

Aidan Baker is based out of Toronto, Canada. Highly prolific, Aidan is known primarily for his expansive discography of guitar based ambient/drone compositions, as well as being one half of the shoegaze-doom-metal duo Nadja. His solo and collaborative recordings have been released on labels such as aRCHIVE, Die Stadt, 20 Buck Spin, and Important Records. For this evening Aidan will be joined on drums by Kevin Micka for a special collaborative set.
www.aidanbaker.org

Animal Hospital is the solo project of Boston's own Kevin Micka. Almost constantly on tour, recording, and evolving, Animal Hospital is one of Massachusett's most active in intruiging electronics based projects. Combining influenced from all over the musical spectrum, guitar, drums, and modified electronics, Animal Hospital creates a cascading melodic haze with a traditional song burried somewhere at its core.
www.animalhospitalmusic.com

Brandon Terzakis may have just recently relocated to Boston, but he has quickly established himself as a name to watch. Working with prepared guitar and utilizing traditional improvisational training Brandon's work ranges from the subtle and static to relentlessly agressive. Glistening overtones meet the distorted murk we all try and deny.
www.myspace.com/brandonterzakis

Wednesday 25 November @ Outpost, 8pm $5/10
Search Music Sessions with Nat Mugavero
Nat Mugavero - percussion, zen lunacy + weekly guests tba

Saturday 28 November @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Steve Lantner Trio
Steve Lantner - piano / Joe Morris – bass / Laurence Cook - drums

THIS SHOW IS CANCELED AS THE FILMMAKER WAS INJURED IN A CAR ACCIDENT
Sunday 29 November @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
subconsciouscafe presents
Herb Robertson - trumpet & Ana Isabel Ordonez - film (DC)
Herb Robertson - trumpet / Ed Ricart - electric guitar, processing & guests
improvise scores for two silent films created by director Ana Isabel Ordonez, incl. “Order From Chaos”

OUTPOST186 Concert & Event Schedule, October 2009

2009-10-01T20:22:00.056-04:00

Darius Jones (photo: Petra Cvelbar) The Darius Jones Trio see Monday 19 October

OUTPOST: 186 ½ Hampshire St., Inman Sq. Cambridge - All Ages

(CONCERT & EVENT CALENDER FOLLOWS BOILERPLATE, BELOW)

OUTPOST NEWS:

OUTPOST is available for meetings, rehearsals & (non-musical) daytime events!

OUTPOST wins Editor's Pick for BEST EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC VENUE in the Phoenix Best 2009!

OUTPOST featured in a short film, THE VENUE (april 2009)

19 August 2008 - Outpost has acquired a fabulous Yamaha U3 full-size upright piano - come check it out!

OUTPOST DIRECTIONS: Near cr. Prospect, opposite Hess gas, behind 7-11. Big ‘186’ on R side. Follow walk at Left to gallery, REAR.

OUTPOST CONCERT INFO:
All shows 8pm door unless otherwise noted.
General admission, suggested donation at door.
No reservations, come early!
All shows all ages.
No smoking, alcohol, ether or laudenum please!

ART
Outpost regularly exhibits visual art! If you are an artist and would like to exhibit @ Outpost, please send your website url to robchalfen@hotmail.com, or arrange to show your portfolio. Outpost does not charge for exhibits.

CURRENT EXHIBIT
Outpost is now showing paintings by Scott Cahaly
On exhibit: "Geisha Girls", oils, 2000

GALLERY HOURS:
Gallery exhibits may be viewed during scheduled shows or by appointment.
CONTACT: robchalfen@hotmail.com

EMAIL LIST SIGN-UP: http://Outpost186.FanBridge.com

BOOKING: OUTPOST is currently available as a rental @ $40 per concert event.
NOTICE OF RATE CHANGE: Bookings from 1 Sept. 2009 will be $50 per event. Still cheap!
CONTACT: Rob Chalfen, director: robchalfen@hotmail.com
DETAILS:OUTPOST PRODUCER'S HANDBOOK - You must read this before you produce a show @ Outpost!
NOTE: You must be 21 to produce events at Outpost.

WE GET PRESS!!

Blog review of 27 Aug. 2009 Dave Bryant show

Hhere’s a nice review of the 24 Nov. 08 Scarecrow Mobius gig at the Outpost by Jon Garelick of the Boston Phoenix: http://thephoenix.com/Boston/Music/72937-Mixed-grill//

Outpost featured in Cambridge Chronicle, 19 June 2008:
An-Outpost-on-the-edge-of-music

John Voigt featured in Cambridge Chronicle, 14 July 2008

Nice write up on Outpost in the Glob, Sunday 27 Jan. 2008 Outpost is the 2nd item:
http://www.boston.com/ae/music/articles/2008/01/26/six_nights_out____what_youre_hear_who_youll_meet/

on Richard Sandler's Films:
http://www.bloggernews.net/113600
On our "Small Arts Group Die Off", 13 January:
Globe: http://www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/articles/2008/01/12/small_arts_groups_are_dying_to_be_heard/
Big Red & Shiny:
http://www.bigredandshiny.com/cgi-bin/retrieve.pl?issue=issue75&section=article&article=DONT_DRINK_THE_1485440
BILL MARX/The Arts Fuse: Boston Foundation to Small Theatres - Drop Dead Please!
http://www.theartsfuse.com/2008/01/20/boston-foundation-to-small-theaters-drop-dead-please/#more-401

nonprofit jobs

October

Thursday 1 October @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Fluxist Event
The performance is a production of the Institute for Intermediate Studies, a collaborative performance art group based in Berlin and Boston. The October 1st performance will be a Fluxist concert going on simultaneously in Berlin and Cambridge, with groups of artists in each city performing the same scores, though with different performances.

Friday 2 October @ Outpost, 8:00pm $10 or b/o
Garrison Fewell + Vortex Other Dimension Ensemble tba
Garrison Fewell - guitar
+
“The Vortex Other Dimension Ensemble”
Todd Brunel - bass clarinet / Rob Bethel - cello /
Esther Viola - oboe / John Mclellen - drums

Saturday 3 October @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
"the ishmaeLites"

You are invited to the debut of a musical group that has members who are descended from people who once traveled in an annual route in the American Midwest in the 1800s. Going by the Indiana towns of Mecca and Morocco, passing the Illinois village of Mahomet, the 'Tribe of Ishmael' was a group of nomadic families with a passion for music and dance. The 20th century destruction of that tribe is detailed in a new book, "Inventing America's 'Worst' Family." Now, with a song-cycle that honors their forbears, the ishmaeLites are beginning a concert campaign to return to Indiana and the nomadic life of their ancestors. This benefit will also help the ishmaeLites in their support of Prairie Restoration. As the Great Plains empty out, the ishmaeLites are proposing a nomadic option for a sustainable future that
includes returning some of the Prairie to its original glory. Come join the caravan!

Sunday 4 October @ Outpost, 8pm
Tom Hall presents Session 3
Tom Hall - Tenor & Bari sax
Jeff Galindo - Trombone
Marty Ballou - Bass

The Sessions is a series of performances hosted by saxophonist Tom Hall, bringing creative musicians from any and all musical styles and genres together and turning them loose in a free improvisatory setting. For Session III, the third event in this series, Tom invites trombonist Jeff Galindo and bassist Marty Ballue to join him at The Outpost for an evening of trio improvisations.

Tom Hall (Tenor and Baritone Sax) has spent his life improvising all kinds of music, in groups such as Your Neighborhood Sax Quartet, Bob Neiske’s Wolf Soup, Bruce Katz Band, Club d’Elf and with people like John Medeski, D.J. Logic, Jon Damian, Matt Maneri, Tim Ray, Duke Levine, Curt Newton, Dave Bryant and Dave Tronzo.

Marty Ballou (bass) is a sought after session man in all genres of jazz, blues, folk, and pop. His performing and recording credits include Jay McShann, Jimmy Witherspoon, Scott Hamilton, Herb Ellis, John Hammond, Garth Hudson, Duke Robillard, Dave Maxwell, Greg Piccolo, Jerry Portnoy and Bruce Katz.

Jeff Galindo (trombone), one of the top free-lancing trombonists in the Boston area, has toured with Phil Woods, Makoto Ozone, Robin McKelle, and The New Orleans Jazz Orchestra. In Boston, Jeff performs regularly with the Greg Hopkins Big Band and Nonet, Charlie Kohlhase and the Explorers Club, Pandelis Karyorgis, and his own double quartet with George Garzone.

Monday 5 October
8pm - private rehearsal

Saturday 10 October @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Jacob William Trio
Jacob William - bass / Jim Hobbs - alto / Luther Gray - drums

Sunday, 11 October @ Outpost - 3pm, open donation
Small Animal Project Reading Series presents
Matthew Derby / Lristen Iskandrian / John Dermot Woods

Matthew Derby is the author of Super Flat Times: Stories. His writing has appeared in McSweeney's, Conjunctions, Guernica, Fence, and The Believer, where he served as an editor from 2004-2007.

Kristen Iskandrian's work has been published in Gulf Coast, American Letters & Commentary, Memorious, Denver Quarterly, La Petite Zine, Action Yes, and other journals. She received her PhD in English from University of Georgia, where currently she is an instructor of composition and creative writing. With her husband, daughter, and cantankerous cat, she lives outside of Athens in a funny little house.

John Dermot Woods lives with his family in Brooklyn, NY. He is the author of The Complete Collection of people, places & things (BlazeVOX). His comic chapbook, The Remains, is forthcoming from Doublecross Press. He edits the arts quarterly Action,Yes and organizes the online reading series Apostrophe Cast.

http://smallanimalproject.com/

Sunday, 11 October @ Outpost - 8pm, open donation
Ian Thal presents a reading of his play
TOTAL WAR
What: A staged reading of Total War, a five-act play by Ian Thal (Readings, Theatre)

Press Contact: IanMThal@gmail.com • http://ianthal.blogspot.com • 617-547-2048

Last time Ian Thal staged a reading of his play, Total War, at Cambridge’s Outpost 186, the event was picketed by a lone protester who came with several signs and placards and accosted both audience and actors as they arrived.
Despite the provocations, which included a number of anti-Semitic chants, Thal regarded the evening a success, as it allowed him the opportunity to present a stripped down reading of the play and make plans for a rewrite of a play that had already been named a semi-finalist in the 2009 Dorothy Silver Playwriting Competition.

Total War is a five-act play set at a Catholic university where the student newspaper has published a Holocaust denial advertisement. Before faculty, students, and staff can begin the expected dialogue on free speech and religious pluralism, an anarchist-cell using the nom de guerre of “Total War” begins a campaign of guerrilla art attacks.

Though a work of fiction, Total War was inspired by events Thal witnessed while attending graduate school. The play explores the history (and potential futures) of Jewish-Catholic relations, historical memory, and the conflict between grass-roots activism and institutional power. It is a story made timely after the scandal surrounding Vatican’s recent lifting of the excommunication of the anti-Semitic Society of Saint Pius X and its Holocaust-denying Bishop, Richard Williamson.

Bio:
Ian Thal is best known locally as a mime, puppeteer, and poet. He has performed with Bread and Puppet Theatre, was a founding member of Cosmic Spelunker Theater and frequently performs with the commedia dell’arte troupe, i Sebastiani. He has taught mime and commedia at The Huntington Theatre, The Stoneham Theatre, and Open Air Circus. His poetry has appeared in such magazines as BOOM! For Real, Flash!Point, Poesy, Ibbetson Street Press, and Crooked River Press and the anthologies Becoming Fire: Spiritual Writings from Rising Generations (Andover, MA: Andover-Newton Publications), Tokens: Contemporary Poetry of the Subway (New York: P & Q Press.) and Out of the Blue Writers Unite, and the forthcoming Crude: Poetry After the Age of Oil (Columbus, OH: Pudding House Press) and has been exhibited at Boston City Hall and incorporated into a public installation at the 2003 Boston Cyberarts Festival. His blog about Bread and Puppet Theatre is on the reading list for a course currently offered at Royal Holloway, University of London.

Tuesday 13 October - 8pm, private rehearsal

Thursday 15 October @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Dave Fox 4 in “Adventures in Sound”
David Tronzo - guitar / Phil Grenadier - trumpet / Dylan Coleman-Tuntstall - bass /
Josh Rosen - piano, keys, special effects / Dave Fox - drums, percussion

Friday 16 October @ Outpost - 6+8pm, $5/10
Sounds in Bloom & Chagall Performance Collaborative presents:
INTERDISCIPLINARY ARTS CABARET
feature:
6pm: CAMBRIDGE WRITER'S WORKSHOP
8pm: Joe Moffet & Rita Banerjee

Trumpeter Joe Moffet and Poetess Rita Banerjee team up to host the Inter-Disciplinary Arts Cafe, featuring Steve-Lacey-inspired aural effects and flowing spoken word. Also, come at 6pm to participate in the Cambridge Writers Workshop, a cozy gathering of writers and whistle-wetting pen-itching literature enthusiasts seeking to share with one another their latest tasty prose and poetry licks.

NOTE: THE FOLLOWING EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED:
Saturday 17 October @ Outpost, 4:30 - 6:30 pm, by donation
Urban Homesteader's League Pot Luck Workshop & Skill Swap
We've been holding these monthly local and seasonal food potlucks/free stuff swaps, and they've been a ton of fun. We've typically been getting between 15 and 30 people attending.

Here's a link to the site: http://www.meetup.com/Urban-Homesteaders-League/

Saturday 17 October @ Outpost 8pm $10 or b/o
green umbrellas presents
Simons/Cook/Hobbs/Wang
Junko Simons - electric cello / Laurence Cook - drums / Jim Hobbs - alto

Sunday 18 October @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Ursonate Urchestra
Dada artist Kurt Schwitters’s classic “Sonata In Primeval Sounds,” also called “Ursonate,” is performed by vocalists Andy Laties and Rebecca Migdal, and percussionist Eric Blitz, with John Landino (tronbone, trumpet, cello), Denis Luzuriaga (synths), and Glove (guitar, tape measure), plus special guests, invented-instrument-makers Mitch Ahern (electoluxopipeophone, crutch)and Pronoblem (bass, board, cane, clarinet),
http://www.gonzocomixandtours.com/
http://www.sonicbids.com/epk/epk.aspx?epk_id=33210

Darius Jones

Monday 19 October @ Outpost, 8pm $10
subconsciouscafe presents cd release:
The Darius Jones Trio featuring Cooper-Moore & Rakalam Bob Moses
The Darius Jones Trio
Darius Jones: Alto sax and Compositions
Cooper-Moore: Piano and Diddley-bow
Rakalam Bob Moses: Drums

Darius Jones is an extraordinarily gifted young alto saxophonist and composer; Man'ish Boy (A Raw & Beautiful Thing) is his remarkable debut as a leader. Jones joined the New York music community in 2005, after living and studying in Richmond, VA. In his short time here, he has amazed and inspired musicians and audiences from widely divergent backgrounds with his meticulously honed musical gifts. Soul-power is at his foundation; forward looking expression always at the fore. Some bands Jones currently works with are the Cooper-Moore Trio, Mike Pride's From Bacteria to Boys, William Hooker's Bliss (East), and Trevor Dunn's Proof Readers. Jones also has a band with Travis LaPlante, Andrew Smiley, and Jason Nazary called Little Women; their first record Teeth came out in 2008.

Man'ish Boy is a deeply personal work that found Jones meditating on his life growing up in the south: not an easy life, but one suffused with familial love, hard work and self-assurance. His experiences in church, particularly hearing gospel choirs – the ecstatic combination of powerful individual voices coming together to create something greater – were a deep inspiration for this project. An abiding respect for elders and the breadth of life experience they bring led Jones to ask master musicians Cooper-Moore (piano, diddley-bo) and Rakalam Bob Moses (drums) to be part of this project. Jones first met Moses at a performance while still in Virginia, and they have had a close relationship ever since. Jones joined forces with Cooper-Moore, a fellow Virginian and church-goer as a youth, after moving to NYC. Cooper-Moore was asked specifically to also play diddley-bo here: a one-wire stringed instrument with roots in the deep south via Africa; with it, he most definitely brings the organic funk.

Herein: ballads of deeply affecting tenderness, an intense polyrhythmic excursion that literally does chase the ghost in holiness fashion, a series of open-ended pieces that further display the remarkable improvisational gifts of the three musicians, and more. The album's bonus track, Chaych!, features Darius' regular working trio with fellow younger highlights on the NYC new music stage Adam Lane: bass and Jason Nazary: drums, and makes abundantly clear the connection between juke joints and churches of the deep south. –SJ

"Darius Jones is one of those rare talents that when you first here him you scratch your head because its all there-the concept,the virtuosity,a real improvisational mind-i feel really good about the future of this music knowing that a real and pure talent like Darius exists."
matthew shipp

"A phenomenal debut, Man'ish Boy (A Raw & Beautiful Thing) presents the singular artistry of Darius Jones; a new voice poised to receive widespread acclaim from the jazz underground." Troy Collins, All About Jazz

Cooper-Moore
Cooper-Moore
As a child prodigy Cooper-Moore played piano in churches near his birthplace in the Piedmont region of the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. His performance roots in the realm of avant jazz music date to the NYC Loft Jazz era in the early/mid-70s. His first fully committed jazz group was formed in 1970 - the collective trio Apogee with David S. Ware and drummer Marc Edwards. Sonny Rollins asked them to open for him at the Village Vanguard in 1973, and they did so with aplomb. A recording of this group was made in 1977, and later issued as Birth of a Being on hatHut under Ware’s name. Following an evidently rather trying European tour with Ware, Beaver Harris, and Brian Smith in 1981, Cooper-Moore returned home and completely destroyed his piano, with sledgehammer and fire, in his backyard. He didn’t play piano again until some years after, instead focusing his energies from 1981-1985 on developing and implementing curriculum to teach children through music via the Head Start program. Returning to New York in 1985, he spent a great part of his creative time working and performing with theatre and dance productions, largely utilizing his hand-crafted instruments. It was not until the early 90s, when William Parker asked him to join his group In Order To Survive, that Cooper-Moore’s pianistic gifts were again regularly featured in the jazz context. In the early 'aughts the group Triptych Myth was his own first regular working jazz group in decades and together they blazed some trails (may again!) and released two albums; one rich formative, one exquisite. Cooper-Moore's creative story continues well-strong and unabated into the present day. -SJ

"One of New York's most effusive but reclusive musical geniuses, Cooper-Moore is a one-man New Orleans jazz funeral flailing like the Grambling State marching band across a vaudeville stage." - Andy Battaglia, Salon.com

Bob Moses
Drummer, composer, artist, poet, dancer, visionary, nature mystic: Bob Moses's life has been a continuous quest for vision, spirit, compassion, growth, and mastery in a multiplicity of art forms. A partial list of stellar musicians Bob Moses has worked and/or recorded with both as a leader and a sideman includes: Charles Mingus, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Jim Pepper, Larry Coryell, The Free Spirits, Dave Liebman, Gary Burton, Keith Jarrett, Steve Swallow, Michael Gibbs, Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays, Paul Bley, Herbie Hancock, Jack DeJohnette, Jaco Pastorius, Hal Galper, Michael Brecker, Randy Brecker, Steve Kuhn, Sheila Jordan, Bobby McFerrin, Dave Sanborn, Bill Frisell, Eddie Gomez, Don Alias, John Scofield, Terumasa Hino, Dave Holland, Charlie Haden, Hermeto Pascoal, Jovinos Santos Neto, Danillo Perez, David Sanchez, Chucho Valdes, Jimmy Slyde, Savion Glover, Gregory Hines, Stan Strickland, Tiger Okoshi, Nana Vasconcelos, Obo Addy, John Medeski, Vernon Reid, DJ Logic, Badal Roy, Ravikiran, Master Anand, Raqib Hassan, Sam Rivers, Pharoah Sanders, Tisziji Muñoz, and many others. Moses's first recording as a leader was the 1968 album Love Animal, with Jim Pepper, Larry Coryell, Steve Swallow, and Keith Jarrett. The albums Bittersuite in the Ozone and Love Everlasting, the later recorded with spiritual master and guitar genius Tisziji Muñoz, both received five stars in Downbeat. The album Love Everlasting, recorded September 23, 1987, features Jerry Bergonzi, George Garzone, John Medeski, and John Lockwood, while the album Drumming Birds, also 1987, features percussion duets with Billy Martin.

"Leave it to Moses, a multi-directional shamanistic groovilator, to put all the pieces together. On Time Stood Still, another sprawling production of DeMille-ian scale. He seamlessly blends Monk, funk, tap, hip hop, bebop, big band, blues, Bahia, Tanzania, and the avant garde into one organic package while paying homage to the spirits of Gil Evans, Charles Mingus, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, and Jaco Pastorius."-Bill Milkowski, Downbeat

Friday 23 October @ Outpost, 8pm, $15 or b/o
ERIC ZINMAN / LAURENCE COOK / LINDA CLAVE:
"THE PAINTING PERCUSSION ORCHESTRA"
Eric Zinman - piano / Laurence Cook - drums / Linda Clave - painting
http://www.ericzinman.com/upcomingperformances.html

One painter creates bright moving colors

2 musicians create a percussion orchestra of varying mass/density/seemingly infinite timbre/ sparkling lines ................high and low frequencies, shakes and tremors ......sounds of unknown origin

Dynamics is rhythm.........Rhythm is form........the ensemble is empathy in action

Linda Clave - painting 36X36
Eric Zinman - piano, yamaha CP300
Laurence Cook - drums, percussion table, casio keyboard

"We will entertain you in the most Halloween way"- ez

Saturday 24 October - Gentle Flow Yoga class, 10-11:15am, $12 donation

Yoga builds strength and flexibility withing a framework of mindfulness.
It can help reduce stress and improve concentration. This mixed level
class will explore standing poses, twists, forward bends, back bends,
and inversions withing a moderate flow practice. Special attention will
be paid to correct alignment and injury prevention.Please join us in
comfortable clothing and bare feet.

Bring a mat if you can (a limited number are available to borrow).
For more information email the instructor, Naomi Bennett, at
morninghood@yahoo.com

NOTE: Due to the fact he is ALL THUMBS, Dr. Lantner will not be able to appear. Junko Simons will lead a stellar aggregation to be announced.Saturday 24 October @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
STEVE LANTNER - solo piano

Sunday 25 October @ Outpost, 7 + 8:15pm, $4
Susie Davidson presents : FILM :
"The Holocaust: Memory and Legacy"

featuring Boston-area Holocaust survivors, children of survivors, Holocaust educators and liberating World War II soldiers, and music from blues virtuoso Ronnie Earl, Klezmer musician Glenn Dickson (Shirim, Naftule's Dream), the Terezin Chamber Music Quartet, and singer Rosalie Gerut.

Monday 26 October @ Outpost 8pm $10 or b/o
Bryant / Leonard / Song / Newton
Dave Bryant - keyboards
Neil Leonard - saxophones and electronics
Jeff Song - cello and kayagum
Curt Newton - drums

Tuesday 27 October @ Outpost, 8pm
the Unusual film series

Wednesday 28 October @ Outpost, 8pm $5/10
search music sessions with Nat Mugavero
Nat Mugavero - percussion, zen lunacy + weekly guests tba

Thursday 29 October @ OUTPOST, 8pm $5 or b/o
markus nechay presents
“The Whimsy!” Song & poesy, bohemian vaudeville, open mic

Friday 30 October @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Bruno Raberg & Allan Chase
Bruno Raberg - bass / Allan Chase - alto sax

OUTPOST186 Concert & Event Schedule, September 2009

2009-08-30T12:14:00.037-04:00

Garrison Fewell, Saturday 5 October

OUTPOST: 186 ½ Hampshire St., Inman Sq. Cambridge - All Ages

(CONCERT & EVENT CALENDER FOLLOWS BOILERPLATE, BELOW)

OUTPOST NEWS:

OUTPOST is available for meetings, rehearsals & (non-musical) daytime events!

OUTPOST wins Editor's Pick for BEST EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC VENUE in the Phoenix Best 2009!

OUTPOST featured in a short film, THE VENUE (april 2009)

19 August 2008 - Outpost has acquired a fabulous Yamaha U3 full-size upright piano - come check it out!

OUTPOST DIRECTIONS: Near cr. Prospect, opposite Hess gas, behind 7-11. Big ‘186’ on R side. Follow walk at Left to gallery, REAR.

OUTPOST CONCERT INFO:
All shows 8pm door unless otherwise noted.
General admission, suggested donation at door.
No reservations, come early!
All shows all ages.
No smoking, alcohol, ether or laudenum please!

ART
Outpost regularly exhibits visual art! If you are an artist and would like to exhibit @ Outpost, please send your website url to robchalfen@hotmail.com, or arrange to show your portfolio. Outpost does not charge for exhibits.

CURRENT EXHIBIT
Outpost is now showing paintings by Scott Cahaly
On exhibit: "Geisha Girls", oils, 2000

GALLERY HOURS:
Gallery exhibits may be viewed during scheduled shows or by appointment.
CONTACT: robchalfen@hotmail.com

EMAIL LIST SIGN-UP: http://Outpost186.FanBridge.com

BOOKING: OUTPOST is currently available as a rental @ $40 per concert event.
NOTICE OF RATE CHANGE: Bookings from 1 Sept. 2009 will be $50 per event. Still cheap!
CONTACT: Rob Chalfen, director: robchalfen@hotmail.com
DETAILS:OUTPOST PRODUCER'S HANDBOOK - You must read this before you produce a show @ Outpost!
NOTE: You must be 21 to produce events at Outpost.

WE GET PRESS!!

Blog review of 27 Aug. 2009 Dave Bryant show

Hhere’s a nice review of the 24 Nov. 08 Scarecrow Mobius gig at the Outpost by Jon Garelick of the Boston Phoenix: http://thephoenix.com/Boston/Music/72937-Mixed-grill//

Outpost featured in Cambridge Chronicle, 19 June 2008:
An-Outpost-on-the-edge-of-music

John Voigt featured in Cambridge Chronicle, 14 July 2008

Nice write up on Outpost in the Glob, Sunday 27 Jan. 2008 Outpost is the 2nd item:
http://www.boston.com/ae/music/articles/2008/01/26/six_nights_out____what_youre_hear_who_youll_meet/

on Richard Sandler's Films:
http://www.bloggernews.net/113600
On our "Small Arts Group Die Off", 13 January:
Globe: http://www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/articles/2008/01/12/small_arts_groups_are_dying_to_be_heard/
Big Red & Shiny:
http://www.bigredandshiny.com/cgi-bin/retrieve.pl?issue=issue75&section=article&article=DONT_DRINK_THE_1485440
BILL MARX/The Arts Fuse: Boston Foundation to Small Theatres - Drop Dead Please!
http://www.theartsfuse.com/2008/01/20/boston-foundation-to-small-theaters-drop-dead-please/#more-401

nonprofit jobs

september

Wednesday 2 September @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
en route to Tangelwood:
Ben Powell Quartet
Ben Powell - Violin
Cedric Hanriot - Piano/Organ
Aaron Darrell - Bass
Devin Drobka - Drums
http://jazztimes.com/guides/artists/13754-ben-powell
http://profile.myspace.com/benpowell1

Thursday, 3 September @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Courtney Brown’s Sidewalk Tzara --> experimental absurdity
presents
QWFWQ
Andrea Pensado - electronics /Greg Kowalski - video (Krakow, Poland)
+Brian S. Ellis - poet

qwfwq
Composer and sound artist Andrea Pensado teamed up with digital artist Greg Kowalski in Krakow, Poland, in 1997 to form Qfwfq duo. The duo's main concern has been live sound-image interaction and the use of movement to articulate complex sounds and digital visual material. Their work is highly performatic and often involves the use of sensors and/or motion tracking devices. The elements of Qfwfq’s artistic language are: interactivity, which is treated as an expressive parameter in itself, projected images, electronic sound, voice, movements and / or actions.

Brian S. Ellis is a poet who performs writing of his own devising. He has been reading in the New England area for four years, and has been touring nationally for two. This includes but is not limited to several local and national slam poetry competitions. His first full book of poems was published in two thousand eight with Write Bloody Books. He has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize twice.

April Ranger, spoken word poetry

April Ranger is perhaps best known in Boston as the winner of Emerson
College's Nicole DusFresne Playwriting award, but she became an almost
instant Cambridge favorite when she began reading regularly on the
Cantab open mic. Since day one, her vivid, original imagery has been
eliciting longing sighs from our audience, making her the local master
of the Oh-I-Wish-I-Had-Written-That poem.

Todd Brunel
Friday 4 September @ OUTPOST, 8pm $5/10
VORTEX series for new & improvised music presents:
Brunel/Fieldman/Avalone
Todd Brunel - clarinets / Gary Fieldman - drums / Julee Avalone - flute

Gary Fieldman is the leader of Field Affect and the Know Trio. He has performed with Joanne Brackeen, David Liebman, Bill Frisell, Ben Monder and Bevan Manson, and has recorded with Don Byron and George
Garzone.

Todd Brunel has performed with Bobby Watson, the Butch Morris Group, and has made appearances in the SEAMUS festival, Carnegie Hall and Preservation Jazz Hall in New Orleans. Both Gary and Todd are members
of Musaner and the Circadian Rhythm Kings.

Julee Avalone
A local freelance artist and multi-instrumentalist, Julee also performs with the New England Skyscraper conducted by Lawrence Butch Morris. Check out a video of Julee here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-1dpcm54Aw

Saturday 5 September @ Outpost, 8:00pm $10 or b/o
Garrison Fewell / Eric Hofbauer Duo

Garrison Fewell - guitar, slide, sticks, bells and percussion
Eric Hofbauer - guitar, metal box, sticks and percussion

The duo's latest release, "The Lady of Khartoum", is an eclectic series of duets inspired by the deeper roots of jazz in the music of West Africa, Persia and the Arabic-Islamic world that juxtaposes ancient traditions with the language and techniques of contemporary improvisation.

Most of their duets are completely improvised and reference such diverse elements as Congolese mythology, Delta blues, Sun Ra, a muezzin’s call to prayer and the sonorities of traditional instruments such as the oud, kora and African thumb piano. The duo also plays original compositions as well as interpretations of music by Thelonious Monk and John Tchicai.

The duo is also featured in Garrison's newest project, the Variable Density Sound Orchestra with a CD on Creative Nation Music. A 6 piece band featuring trumpeter Roy Campbell, Jr, and Italian reedman Achille Succi, the VDSO has a newer but as yet unreleased recording that expands to a nonet and adds trombonist Steve Swell and saxophonist Kelly Roberge to the mix with double basses John Voigt and Dmirty Ishenko powered by drummer Miki Matsuki.

In keeping the Variable Density theme, Garrison and Eric will improvise their way through the evening and play some tunes from their recordings with the larger ensemble. Yes Folks, they will play ALL the parts of nine instruments simultaneously on just TWO GUITARS! (Well, sometimes they throw in a third guitar, but only four hands).

creative nation music

Tuesday 8 September @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Raed Yassin Quartet (Amsterdam)
Tuesday 8 September @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Raed Yassin Quartet (Amsterdam)
jeff carey - live electronics /morton olsen - percussion / audrey chen - cello, voice / raed yassin - acoustic bass
+ SKINNY VINNY
Josh Jefferson - sax / Andrew Eisenberg - drums

Friday 11 September @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Joe Morris’ WILDLIFE.
Joe Morris - bass / Petr Cancura - saxophones / Luther Gray - drums

Saturday 12 September @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Jacob William Quintet
Laurence Cook - drums / Steve Lantner - piano / Jim Hobbs - alto / Keiichi Hashimoto - trumpet / Jacob William - bass
http://www.transientones.com

Sunday 13 September @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Insurgent Theatre
http://insurgenttheatre.org/projects/uc/uc.html
+ "Xiphoid Dementia"

http://www.existest.org/fliers/ulysses_crewman/

Monday 14 September @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Dave Bryant/Mike Rivard/James Kamal Jones
Dave Bryant - piano / Mike Rivard - bass / James Kamal Jones - drums

Tuesday 15 September @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Ken Silverman / Blaise Siwula / John McLellen
Ken Silverman - guitar, hand percussion / Blaise Siwula - reeds John McLellen - drums
+ Charlie Kohlhase Trio
Charlie Kohlhase - Sax /Jef Charland - bass / Mike Connors - drums & glockenspiel

Thursday 17 September @ Outpost 8pm $10 or b/o
Dave Fox 4: “Adventures in Sound”
Bruno Raberg - bass / Josh Rosen - keys / Phil Grenadier - trumpet / Dave Fox - drums

Friday 18 September 1-6pm Private Event

Friday 18 September @ Outpost - 8pm, $5/10
Sounds in Bloom & Chagall Performance Collaborative presents:
INTERDISCIPLINARY ARTS CABARET

Saturday 19 September @ Outpost 8pm $10 or b/o
green umbrellas presents
Lance Bryant & Lyricalia String Quartet
Lance Bryant - sax
Andrew Eng & Miguel Garcia-Bender - violins
David Koonce - viola
Junko Simons - cello

Thursday 24 September 2-6pm Yoga class

Thursday 24 September @ Outpost 8pm $10 or b/o
Ginger Ibex
Sharon Crumrine - keys / Betty Widerski - mezzo viola / Michael Steigman - drums / Jane Park - violin / Ann Marie Bottcher - cello

Jeff Platz

Friday 25 September @ Outpost 8pm $10 or b/o
an evening of
Strange Guitar with
with
PLATZ'S OH PULSAR TRIO
+Kevin Frenette Group
+Chris Welcome Ensemble (Brooklyn)

PLATZ'S OH PULSAR TRIO:

JOHN MCLELLAN-DRUMS
JEFF PLATZ-GUITAR
KIT DEMOS-BASS

KEVIN FRENETTE GROUP:

KEVIN FRENETTE-GUITAR
JAMES ROHR-PIANO
ERIC ROSENTHAL-DRUMS

CHRIS WELCOME ENSEMBLE:

CHRIS WELCOME-GUITAR
JONATHAN MORRITZ-TENOR SAXOPHONE
SHAYNA DULBERGER-BASS
JOHN MCLELLAN-DRUMS

Saturday 26 September @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Steve Lantner Quartet
Allan Chase – saxophones / Steve Lantner - piano / Joe Morris – bass / Luther Gray – drums

Wednesday 30 September @ Outpost, 8pm $5/10
search music sessions with Nat Mugavero
Eric Hofbauer - guitar / Nat Mugavero - percussion, zen lunacy / weekly guests tba

OUTPOST186 Concert & Event Schedule, August 2009

2009-07-31T10:58:00.032-04:00

Matthew Shipp, Saturday 8 August (photo: Dan Audain, Montreal Jazz Festival)

OUTPOST: 186 ½ Hampshire St., Inman Sq. Cambridge - All Ages

august

Saturday, 1 August @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
QUERTYSAUR
avant garde jazz guitar & drums

Thursday, 6 August @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Courtney Brown’s Sidewalk Tzara --> experimental absurdity

Aaron Larget-Caplan, guitar
Called “a riveting artist” by the G. Acosta of the Washington Post, classical guitarist Aaron Larget-Caplan rides the razor’s edge of the guitar, bringing together the traditional, non-traditional, & contemporary music into exciting and thought provoking programs. He is the founder of the Spanish music & dance group ¡Con Fuego! and the New Lullaby Project. Aaron was born in Oklahoma, raised in Colorado, and graduated from the New England Conservatory. He now resides in greater Boston with wife and muse Catherine.

Abram Taber, guitar and electronics

Abram Taber is a musician and educator currently residing in Medford, MA.

In addition to his day job as a high school music director, he performs in several musical ensembles including the Musical Theatre, Verre and Glancy, Dubler & Taber. He has previously performed with Paraffin Section, Pyotr, Slurred Murrays and Abernathy.

Abram has recently begun working as a solo performer, spurred on by the 2009 RPM Challenge. His solo performances combine elements of pre-composed themes and improvisation. Instrumentation includes electric bass, electric guitar, drums, voice, effects, found sounds and more. The music brings together ideas from minimalism, psychedelia, indie rock, avant-garde classical and noise.

Friday 7 August @ OUTPOST, 9pm $5/10
VORTEX series for new & improvised music presents:
“The Vortex Other Dimension Ensemble”
Todd Brunel - bass clarinet / Rob Bethel - cello / Esther Viola - oboe

Saturday 8 August @ OUTPOST, 3pm by donation
UnAffiliated Reading Series is proud to present
"Truck Darling" (Jeni Olin)
+ Guillermo Parra

"Truck Darling" (Jeni Olin) is the author of Blue Collar Holiday, published by Hanging Loose in 2005. Her most recent publication is a chapbook of pharmaceutical sonnets about antidepressants titled THE PILL BOOK from Faux Press, 2008.

Guillermo Parra was born in Cambridge, MA in 1970 (year of the dog). He is the author of Caracas Notebook and the forthcoming Phantasmal Repeats (Petrichord Books). His poems, essays and translations have appeared in Effing, The C.L.R. James Journal, Fascicle and 6x6. He lives in Durham, NC and writes the blog Venepoetics.

Matthew Shipp @ Montreal Jazz Festival

Saturday 8 August @ OUTPOST, 8pm $10 or b/o
subconsciouscafé presents
MATTHEW SHIPP - solo piano
(David S. Ware, Roscoe Mitchell, DJ Spooky, William Parker)
+Jim Hobbs - alto / Laurence Cook - drums

Matthew Ship performance video w Daniel Carter: saxophone William Parker: Bass Gerald Cleaver: Drums

Matthew Shipp (born December 7, 1960) is an American pianist, composer and bandleader.

Shipp was raised in Wilmington, Delaware, and began playing piano at six years old. His mother was friend of trumpeter Clifford Brown.

He was strongly attracted to jazz, but also played in rock groups while in high school. Shipp attended the University of Delaware for one year, then the New England Conservatory of Music, where he studied with saxophonist/composer Joe Maneri. He has cited private lessons with Dennis Sandole (who also taught saxophonist John Coltrane) as being crucial to his development.

Shipp has been very active since the early 1990s, appearing on dozens of albums as a leader, sideman or producer. He was initially most active in free jazz, but has since branched out, notably exploring music that touches on contemporary classical, hip hop and electronica. His dense, percussive style is often compared to Cecil Taylor's, although Shipp has argued such comparisons are mostly superficial.

Shipp has long been a member of saxophonist David S. Ware's quartet. He has recorded or performed with many musicians, including William Parker, DJ Spooky, Joe Morris, Daniel Carter, Roscoe Mitchell, Mat Maneri, High Priest and Beans of Antipop Consortium, and El-P.
(source: Wikipedia)

Marcia Deihl Birthday Flyer, 1980
Sunday 9 August @ Outpost, 2 - 5pm free
MARCIA'S DEIHL’S BIZARRE SONG CONTEST and TURNING 60 BIRTHDAY PARTY!
Settled? Settling? Unsettled? Come celebrate and bring your favorite bizarre song * * * Prizes for all * * * No gifts, please, but refreshments welcome.

Tuesday 11 August @ Outpost, 8pm $5/10
alpaca beretta (pittsburgh)
+anita fix (new york)
bach watson bach on the banjo from boston

alpaca beretta (pittsburgh)
somewhere between the pickin' strings and quaint country harmonies of the 1920's and the mystical electronic wonderland of the 2020's, you'll find alpaca beretta. their sometimes harmonious, sometimes dissonant dulcimer-uke-electro-rama tells stories of whiskey, barrooms, love, murder, farm living, paleontology, greek mythology, whiskey, bank robberies, springtime, and many other things that are essential to understanding our humanity.

anita fix (new york)
Anita Fix and Return the Land is a folk propaganda agenda presented through queer performance, absurd fictional jabs, and blatant non-fiction pleas aimed at adding to the dialogue of preservation of original peoples and their voices, and also marginalized people and their voices. we recognize the european experiment on this continent and other former tribal lands as a complete failure, whereby arrogant would-be caretakers have flunked the boyscout test (they/we have not left the campsite (the land) as we have found it, they/we have not improved said land, and they/we have not packed in and packed out). we advocate a a complete abdication of the U.S. government and way of life and surrender to the leadership of the original peoples of this hemisphere.

Thursday 12 August @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Merenda/Turner/Mclellan
performing
Birds Swimming * Fish Flying
Improvisations based on that
(and other things)
the music of james merenda
James Merenda - alto sax, piano / John Turner - bass
John Mclellan - drums

guests – Vanessa Morris - voice / Scott Sandvik - guitar

Friday 14 august @ Outpost - 8pm, $5/10
Sounds in Bloom & Chagall Performance Collaborative presents:
INTERDISCIPLINARY ARTS CABARET

Saturday 15 August @ Outpost 8pm $10 or b/o
green umbrellas presents
Junko Simons/Jane Wang/Tom Plsek
Junko Simons - cello / Jane Wang - bass / Tom Plsek - trombone, electronics

Sunday 16 August - 7 + 8:15pm - $4 donation
FILM:
“The Holocaust: Memory and Legacy" by Susie Davidson
New one-hour documentary film on local Holocaust survivors

Monday 17 August @ Outpost, 8pm $5/10
Radio Friendly: Songs by American Pirates performs
"Wars and Tornadoes"
+ John Cage's "Lecture on Nothing"
Aaron Jones - piano, organ, toy piano, auto-harp and voice
Mick Buschbacher - guitar and voice
Anna Marsh - bassoon
Radio Friendly performs arrangements of Tom Waits, Hank Williams and the Louvin Brothers, as well as original settings of William Blake in a style described as primitive, neo-baroque folk (or just a scary childrens show). Led by Aaron Jones who studied harpsichord at the Early Music Institute of Indiana University. Anna Marsh will be joining the group on baroque bassoon along with Mick Buschbacher, guitar. The show will close with a performance of John Cage's 'Lecture on Nothing.'
Take a listen: http://www.myspace.com/americanpirates

Tuesday 18 August @ Outpost, 8pm $5/10
Joe Onishi Electroacoustic Trio
Joe Onishi - synth
Noell Dorsey - vocal
Andrew Eisenberg - percussion

Wednesday 19 August @ Outpost, 8pm - $10 or b/o
from San Francisco:
COPUS
+PHOENIX RISING

COPUS
Royal Kent - poet / Monica Williams - flute / Greg Mcray - drums / Patrick Mahon - bass / Rick Campbell - percussion

COPUS combines powerful poetics with lyrical melodies and strong beats.

In September 2007 COPUS premiered 'The Elements - A World Rhythm Jazz Opera' featuring music, spoken word, dance, and video as part of the Unite Africa Now worldwide festival

www.myspace.com/copusmusic
www.copuscatalog.com
www.sonicbids.com/copus

PHOENIX RISING presents soundscapes of light and energy

Monica Williams - flute / Wendy Loomis - pianist, composer

PHOENIX RISING are creators of Soundscapes from San Francisco, and who have been creating a buzz in the new age and healing arts communities. Their latest CD has been on the NAR Charts for the last 5 months, having airplay on both national and international radio stations and cable music programs (reaching #9 in March). They were nominated for best Acoustic Album of the Year in 2009 by the LA Music Awards, and Best New Age Song of the year in the 2008 Hollywood Music Awards. Composer/pianist Wendy Loomis has won the ASCAPlus award for composition for the past 2 years and flutist Monica Williams is an Eastman alumna who has won a long list of flute competitions.

Latest Review from New Age Retailer - 'Ascension' by Phoenix Rising

“One of the more interesting releases so far this year, Ascension from Phoenix Rising (pianist Wendy Loomis and flutist Monica Williams) musically “interprets” the seven charkas using an assortment of acoustic instruments played by both the duo and six different guest artists. Despite this “mixed bag” approach, the CD’s musical theme is manifested by the presence of Loomis (who composed the tracks) and Williams (who arranged them). Other artists on the CD are Jennifer Lim on guzheng, Debra Podjed on tabla, Jessica Styler on hang drum, Suellen Primose on cello, Irina Mikhailova on vocals, and Karen Segal on guitar. You can tell by these diverse global instruments that the album bears some world music influences, but overall this is better described as contemporary acoustic music. Or you could simply say these eight women craft music of warmth and beauty that touches the heart and soul with gentleness and grace. Either way, Ascension is a musical delight to be cherished.” ~Bill Binkelman, “New Age Retailer”

www.myspace.com/bayareacontemporarymusic
www.phoenixrisingmusic.net
www.sonicbids.com/phoenixrising

NOTE : CANCELLED DUE TO UNEXPECTED OBLIGATIONS - next DF4 gig 17 Sept @ Outpost
Thursday 20 August @ Outpost 8pm $10 or b/o
Dave Fox 4: “Adventures in Sound”
Bruno Raberg - bass / Josh Rosen - keys / David Tronzo - guitar Dave Fox - drums

Friday 21 August @ Outpost 8pm $10 or b/o
Jeremy Quick Trio
Jeremy Quick - Guitar
Shane Allessio - Acoustic Bass
Miki Matsuki - Drums

The Jeremy Quick Trio will be performing original jazz compositions and arrangements of contemporary popular and alternative songs.

Saturday 22 August @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Steve Lantner Triowith special guest Laurence Cook
Steve Lantner - piano / Joe Morris – bass / Laurence Cook - drums

Tuesday 25 August @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
from Longy comes
COSMIC HORN POWER
Justin Meyer - Bass / David Mitton - Alto sax / Andrew Frankhouse - Tenor / Pablo Elurhans - drums

Wednesday 26 August @ Outpost, 8pm $5/10
search music sessions with Nat Mugavero
Eric Hofbauer - guitar / Nat Mugavero - percussion, zen lunacy / weekly guests tba

Thursday 27 August @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Bryant/Hall/Turner/Rosenthal
Dave Bryant - piano
Tom Hall - tenor sax
John Voigt - bass
Eric Rosenthal - drums

Friday 28 August @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
3 Solo Non-Computer Electronic Performances:
Ming Ming Dance Co
+ Many Mansions (Whitehaus Collective, JP)

september

Wednesday 2 September @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
en route to Tangelwood:
Ben Powell Quartet
Ben Powell - Violin
Cedric Hanriot - Piano/Organ
Aaron Darrell - Bass
Devin Drobka - Drums
http://jazztimes.com/guides/artists/13754-ben-powell
http://profile.myspace.com/benpowell1

Thursday, 3 September @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Courtney Brown’s Sidewalk Tzara --> experimental absurdity
presents
QWFWQ
Andrea Pensado - electronics /Greg Kowalski - video (Krakow, Poland)
+Brian S. Ellis - poet

qwfwq
Composer and sound artist Andrea Pensado teamed up with digital artist Greg Kowalski in Krakow, Poland, in 1997 to form Qfwfq duo. The duo's main concern has been live sound-image interaction and the use of movement to articulate complex sounds and digital visual material. Their work is highly performatic and often involves the use of sensors and/or motion tracking devices. The elements of Qfwfq’s artistic language are: interactivity, which is treated as an expressive parameter in itself, projected images, electronic sound, voice, movements and / or actions.

Brian S. Ellis is a poet who performs writing of his own devising. He has been reading in the New England area for four years, and has been touring nationally for two. This includes but is not limited to several local and national slam poetry competitions. His first full book of poems was published in two thousand eight with Write Bloody Books. He has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize twice.

April Ranger, spoken word poetry

April Ranger is perhaps best known in Boston as the winner of Emerson
College's Nicole DusFresne Playwriting award, but she became an almost
instant Cambridge favorite when she began reading regularly on the
Cantab open mic. Since day one, her vivid, original imagery has been
eliciting longing sighs from our audience, making her the local master
of the Oh-I-Wish-I-Had-Written-That poem.

Friday 4 September @ OUTPOST, 8pm $5/10
VORTEX series for new & improvised music presents:
Brunel/Fieldman/Avalone
Todd Brunel - clarinets / Gary Fieldman - drums / Julee Avalone - flute

Gary Fieldman is the leader of Field Affect and the Know Trio. He has performed with Joanne Brackeen, David Liebman, Bill Frisell, Ben Monder and Bevan Manson, and has recorded with Don Byron and George
Garzone.

Todd Brunel has performed with Bobby Watson, the Butch Morris Group, and has made appearances in the SEAMUS festival, Carnegie Hall and Preservation Jazz Hall in New Orleans. Both Gary and Todd are members
of Musaner and the Circadian Rhythm Kings.

Julee Avalone
A local freelance artist and multi-instrumentalist, Julee also performs with the New England Skyscraper conducted by Lawrence Butch Morris. Check out a video of Julee here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-1dpcm54Aw

Saturday 5 September @ Outpost, 8:00pm $10 or b/o
Garrison Fewell / Eric Hofbauer Duo

Garrison Fewell - guitar, slide, sticks, bells and percussion
Eric Hofbauer - guitar, metal box, sticks and percussion

The duo's latest release, "The Lady of Khartoum", is an eclectic series of duets inspired by the deeper roots of jazz in the music of West Africa, Persia and the Arabic-Islamic world that juxtaposes ancient traditions with the language and techniques of contemporary improvisation.

Most of their duets are completely improvised and reference such diverse elements as Congolese mythology, Delta blues, Sun Ra, a muezzin’s call to prayer and the sonorities of traditional instruments such as the oud, kora and African thumb piano. The duo also plays original compositions as well as interpretations of music by Thelonious Monk and John Tchicai.

The duo is also featured in Garrison's newest project, the Variable Density Sound Orchestra with a CD on Creative Nation Music. A 6 piece band featuring trumpeter Roy Campbell, Jr, and Italian reedman Achille Succi, the VDSO has a newer but as yet unreleased recording that expands to a nonet and adds trombonist Steve Swell and saxophonist Kelly Roberge to the mix with double basses John Voigt and Dmirty Ishenko powered by drummer Miki Matsuki.

In keeping the Variable Density theme, Garrison and Eric will improvise their way through the evening and play some tunes from their recordings with the larger ensemble. Yes Folks, they will play ALL the parts of nine instruments simultaneously on just TWO GUITARS! (Well, sometimes they throw in a third guitar, but only four hands).

creative nation music

Tuesday 8 September @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Raed Yassin Quartet (Amsterdam)
Tuesday 8 September @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Raed Yassin Quartet (Amsterdam)
jeff carey - live electronics /morton olsen - percussion / audrey chen - cello, voice / raed yassin - acoustic bass

Friday 11 September @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Joe Morris’ WILDLIFE.
Joe Morris - bass / Petr Cancura - saxophones / Luther Gray - drums

Saturday 12 September @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Jacob William Quintet
Laurence Cook - drums / Steve Lantner - piano / Jim Hobbs - alto / Forbes Graham - trumpet / Jacob William - bass

Sunday 13 September @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Insurgent Theatre
http://insurgenttheatre.org/projects/uc/uc.html
+ "Xiphoid Dementia"

http://www.existest.org/fliers/ulysses_crewman/

Monday 14 September @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Dave Bryant/Mike Rivard/James Kamal Jones
Dave Bryant - piano / Mike Rivard - bass / James Kamal Jones - drums

Tuesday 15 September @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Ken Silverman / Blaise Siwula / John McLellen
Ken Silverman - guitar, hand percussion / Blaise Siwula - reeds John McLellen - drums

Thursday 17 September @ Outpost 8pm $10 or b/o
Dave Fox 4: “Adventures in Sound”
Bruno Raberg - bass / Josh Rosen - keys / David Tronzo - guitar Dave Fox - drums

Friday 18 September @ Outpost - 8pm, $5/10
Sounds in Bloom & Chagall Performance Collaborative presents:
INTERDISCIPLINARY ARTS CABARET

Saturday 19 September @ Outpost 8pm $10 or b/o
green umbrellas presents
Lance Bryant & Lyricalia String Quartet
Lance Bryant - sax
Andrew Eng & Miguel Garcia-Bender - violins
David Koonce - viola
Junko Simons - cello

Thursday 24 September @ Outpost 8pm $10 or b/o
Ginger Ibex
Sharon Crumrine - keys / Betty Widerski - mezzo viola / Michael Steigman - drums / Jane Park - violin / Ann Marie Bottcher - cello

http://www.myspace.com/lancebryant

Friday 25 September @ Outpost 8pm $10 or b/o
an evening of
Strange Guitar with
with
Jeff Platz Trio
+Kevin Frenette Group
+Chris Welcome Group (Brooklyn)

Saturday 26 September @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Steve Lantner Quartet
Allan Chase – saxophones / Steve Lantner - piano / Joe Morris – bass / Luther Gray – drums

Wednesday 30 September @ Outpost, 8pm $5/10
search music sessions with Nat Mugavero
Eric Hofbauer - guitar / Nat Mugavero - percussion, zen lunacy / weekly guests tba

October

Thursday 1 October @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Courtney Brown’s Sidewalk Tzara --> experimental absurdity

Friday 2 October @ Outpost, 8:00pm $10 or b/o
Garrison Fewell tba
Garrison Fewell - guitar + guests

Sunday 4 October @ Outpost, 8pm
Tom Hall presents Session 3
Tom Hall - Tenor & Bari sax
Jeff Galindo - Trombone
Marty Ballou - Bass

SESSION 3 is a series of shows of freely improvised music with a mix of various musician friends and colleagues, many of whom are not a part of the improv scene per se but who I think are great improvisers who would thrive when turned loose in a free improvisatory setting. A little cross pollination, maybe resulting in a few improvised hybrid species... who knows!?!

Depending on what happens, once it gets going it's possible I may want to expand it into an open free improv workshop, where players of all persuasions come together each month to explore specific aspects of improvisation.

Friday 9 October @ OUTPOST, 9pm $5/10
VORTEX series for new & improvised music presents:
“The Vortex Other Dimension Ensemble”

Saturday 10 October @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Jacob William Trio
Jacob William - bass / Jim Hobbs - alto / Luther Gray - drums

Sunday, 11 October @ Outpost - 3pm, open donation
Small Animal Project Reading Series presents
matthew derby & kristen iskandrian

Friday 23 October @ Outpost, 8pm, $10 or b/o
ERIC ZINMAN / LAURENCE COOK / LINDA CLAVE
Eric Zinman - piano / Laurence Cook - drums / Linda Clave - painting

Saturday 24 October @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
STEVE LANTNER - solo piano

Sunday 25 October @ Outpost, 7 + 8:15pm, $4
Susie Davidson presents : FILM

Monday 26 October @ Outpost 8pm $10 or b/o
Bryant / Leonard / Song / Newton
Dave Bryant - keyboards
Neil Leonard - saxophones and electronics
Jeff Song - cello and kayagum
Curt Newton - drums

Wednesday 28 October @ Outpost, 8pm $5/10
search music sessions with Nat Mugavero
Nat Mugavero - percussion, zen lunacy + weekly guests tba

november

Wednesday 11 November @ Outpost 8pm $10 or b/o
an evening of singer/songwriters with:
Ben Reynolds/ Glenn Jones / Eric Carbonara

Ben Reynolds, a Glasgow-based singer songwriter and acoustic instrumentalist has recently released an album on Tompkins Square Records

http://www.myspace.com/benreynoldsmusic
http://www.tompkinssq.com/
http://www.ericcarbonara.org
http://www.myspace.com/ericcarbonara
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Eric-Carbonara/44850021307

Sunday, 22 November, 3 pm, @ Outpost - open donation
Small Animal Project Reading Series presents
Lily Brown, Andrew McDonald, & Joshua Marie Wilkinson

Saturday 28 November @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Steve Lantner Quartet
Allan Chase – saxophones / Steve Lantner - piano / Joe Morris – bass / Luther Gray – drums

DECEMBER

Monday 14 December @ Outpost, 8 pm
Small Animal Project Reading Series presents
Jack Christian, Cheryl Clark Vermeulen, Zach Savich

(some) CONCERT SERIES AT OUTPOST:

VORTEX - 1st Fridays, 8pm $5/10
Microtonal soundscapes painted over a radiant sea of anarchy. New and improvisational music, featuring various guest artists in different incarnations, seeking truth and the voice that brought them to this point. Hosted by Todd Brunel - http://www.clarinetconspiracy.com

INTERDISCIPLINARY ARTS CABARET with SOUNDS IN BLOOM3rd Fridays, 8pm
http://www.myspace.com/dnorma
Sounds in Bloom is an internationally performing poetry-music-movement-art collaborative that performs in theaters, bookstores, concert halls, art galleries, educational settings. and forests. Sounds in Bloom recently started the Chagall Performance Art Collaborative Series, which is currently in residence at Outpost 186 in Cambridge every third Friday of the month.

Together with saxophonist/composer Dennis Shafer (co-founder), they collaborate with a variety of international artists, and give workshops to children and adults.
subconsciouscafe new chamber music : - occasional Saturdays, 8pm $10 or b/o
Rob Chalfen's long-running improvised music series continues at OUTPOST and elsewhere. Innovative chamber music at play on the spectra of jazz, electronic, classical and world. Also may be dug by the non-subconscious mind.
robchalfen@hotmail.com

THE WHIMSY! - 1 Sunday/mo, 8PM $5 or b/o
Song & poesy, bohemian vaudeville, open mic
Hosted by Markus Nechay - markusnechay@yahoo.com

Steve Lantner presents : 4th Saturdays
slantner@comcast.net

Dave Pryant presents : monthly, by announcement
DaveBryant1@comcast.net

SERIES PRODUCERS:
subconsciouscafe : Rob Chalfen : robchalfen@hotmail.com
VORTEX : Todd Brunel : thbrunel@earthlink.net
The Whimsy! : Markus Nechay - markusnechay@yahoo.com
Steve Lantner presents : slantner@comcast.net http://stevelantner.com/
Courtney Brown
Dave Bryant presents : DaveBryant1@comcast.net
Josh Jefferson : jefferson.joshua@gmail.com
Joseph Moffett : moffjazz@comcast.net
John Mulrooney : poetics - jmulrron2002@yahoo.com

DISCLAIMER:
This disclaimer is for reflexive and tautological purposes only, and may not be construed as eluding responsibility for any errors, typos, or logical absurdities, real or imagined, that may be contained in this notice, without further notice.

Thank you,
Harlan T. Flash
Corresponding Secretary,
Outpost World Enterprises

OUTPOST186 Concert & Event Schedule, July 2009

2009-06-28T19:59:00.060-04:00

Matthew Shipp, Saturday 8 August (photo: Dan Audain, Montreal Jazz Festival)

OUTPOST: 186 ½ Hampshire St., Inman Sq. Cambridge - All Ages

(CONCERT & EVENT CALENDER FOLLOWS BOILERPLATE, BELOW)

OUTPOST NEWS:

OUTPOST is available for meetings, rehearsals & (non-musical) daytime events!

28 June: please bear with us as we restore the listings from computer catastrophe. thanx

OUTPOST wins Editor's Pick for BEST EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC VENUE in the Phoenix Best 2009!

OUTPOST featured in a short film, THE VENUE (april 2009)

19 August 2008 - Outpost has acquired a fabulous Yamaha U3 full-size upright piano - come check it out!

OUTPOST DIRECTIONS: Near cr. Prospect, opposite Hess gas, behind 7-11. Big ‘186’ on R side. Follow walk at Left to gallery, REAR.

OUTPOST CONCERT INFO:
All shows 8pm door unless otherwise noted.
General admission, suggested donation at door.
No reservations, come early!
All shows all ages.
No smoking, alcohol, ether or laudenum please.

ART
Outpost regularly exhibits visual art! If you are an artist and would like to exhibit @ Outpost, please send your website url to robchalfen@hotmail.com, or arrange to show your portfolio. Outpost does not charge for exhibits.

CURRENT EXHIBIT
Outpost is now showing paintings by Scott Cahaly
On exhibit: "Geisha Girls", oils, 2000

GALLERY HOURS:
Gallery exhibits may be viewed during scheduled shows or by appointment.
CONTACT: robchalfen@hotmail.com

EMAIL LIST SIGN-UP: http://Outpost186.FanBridge.com

BOOKING: OUTPOST is currently available as a rental @ $40 per concert event.
NOTICE OF RATE CHANGE: From 1 Sept. 2009 bookings will be $50 per event.
CONTACT: Rob Chalfen, director: robchalfen@hotmail.com
DETAILS:OUTPOST PRODUCER'S HANDBOOK - You must read this before you produce a show @ Outpost!
NOTE: You must be 21 to produce events at Outpost.

WE GET PRESS!!

Hhere’s a nice review of the 24 Nov. 08 Scarecrow Mobius gig at the Outpost by Jon Garelick of the Boston Phoenix: http://thephoenix.com/Boston/Music/72937-Mixed-grill//

Outpost featured in Cambridge Chronicle, 19 June 2008:
An-Outpost-on-the-edge-of-music

John Voigt featured in Cambridge Chronicle, 14 July 2008

Nice write up on Outpost in the Glob, Sunday 27 Jan. 2008 Outpost is the 2nd item:
http://www.boston.com/ae/music/articles/2008/01/26/six_nights_out____what_youre_hear_who_youll_meet/

on Richard Sandler's Films:
http://www.bloggernews.net/113600
On our "Small Arts Group Die Off", 13 January:
Globe: http://www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/articles/2008/01/12/small_arts_groups_are_dying_to_be_heard/
Big Red & Shiny:
http://www.bigredandshiny.com/cgi-bin/retrieve.pl?issue=issue75&section=article&article=DONT_DRINK_THE_1485440
BILL MARX/The Arts Fuse: Boston Foundation to Small Theatres - Drop Dead Please!
http://www.theartsfuse.com/2008/01/20/boston-foundation-to-small-theaters-drop-dead-please/#more-401

nonprofit jobs

july

Wednesday 1 July @ Outpost, 8pm - $10 or b/o
The Milling Gowns (Boston)
M - vocals /Sharon Crumrine - piano / Betty Widerski - viola
Allen Esser - drums / Dave Stoops - bass
+ The Boy Who Spoke Clouds (Australia)
+ Chris North

Sunday 5 July + 16 August - 7 + 8:15pm, $4 donation
FILM:
“The Holocaust: Memory and Legacy" by Susie Davidson
New one-hour documentary film on local Holocaust survivors

Thursday 9 July @ Outpost - 8pm - $10 or b/o
Dave Bryant - solo piano

Daniel Carter & Jeff Platz, Friday 10 July

Friday 10 July @ Outpost, 8pm $10
Jeff Platz/Daniel Carter Quartet
(Sun Ra, Cecil Taylor, Thurston Moore, Hamiet Bluiett, Sam Rivers, Sunny Murray, DJ Logic, Medeski Martin & Wood...)
Jeff Platz - guitar / Daniel Carter - reeds, trumpet, flute
Kit Demos - bass /John Mclellan - drums

DANIEL CARTER
Flutist/saxophonist/trumpeter Daniel Carter isn't as well-known as some of his contemporaries on the New York free jazz scene, which may partially be due to the fact that he refuses to name his own projects after himself. But judging from his long history of playing in New York and his winding, exploratory recordings, he deserves to be as well-known as peers like David S. Ware or William Parker.

Carter began playing in New York in the early '70s and he sporadically recorded during that decade with artists such as Gunter Hampel and Bob Moses. But due to his reputation as an avant-garde musician, he had difficulty finding steady gigs and began performing as a street musician around 1978. In 1981, he joined Other Dimensions in Music, a quartet that also features Roy Campbell on trumpet, Parker on bass, and Rashid Bakr on drums; the group released a self-titled album on Silkheart in 1989. During the 1980s, Carter also played with punk rock groups.

His recording career really took off in the 1990s. He continued to play with Other Dimensions In Music and began recording with another quartet called Test. Test, featuring multireedist Sabir Mateen, bassist Matthew Heyner, and drummer Tom Bruno, still frequently performs on subway platforms. Carter also recorded with non-jazz acts like avant-rock songwriter David Grubbs and electronic musicians Spring Heel Jack and DJ Logic. Since 1999, Carter has kept himself busy with projects on the Aum Fidelity and Thirsty Ear labels. ~ Charlie Wilmoth, All Music Guide

Saturday 11 July @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
The Dirty Dishes
“…spindly guitar solos evocative of Dinosaur Jr.” -The Boston Globe
“…big guitar solos that stand out like clunky jewelry." -The Weekly Dig
+Binary Marketing Show

Sunday 12 July @ Outpost 8pm $10 or b/o
The Music of Morgan Evans-Weiler
Compositions, improvisations, arrangements and soundscapes
Morgan Evans-Weiler - violin / Will Thomas - percussion
Peter Evans - various instruments / Anna Ward - voice
Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe - guitar, laptop
Kevin Overshiner - Tibetan bowls, sound

Monday 13 July @ Outpost 8pm $10 or b/o
green umbrellas presents
Junko Simons/Allan Chase/Luther Gray
Junko Simons - cello / Allan Chase - alto / Luther Gray - drums

Full Source

Friday 17 July @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Tim Dwyer presents
A night of handsome summer breezes, acoustic thoughts and electronic pops
Full-Source Electronica / Indie / Acoustic
+The Young and Old Indie / Folk / Melodramatic Popular Song
+ACLU Benefit Country / Pop / Hardcore
+Water for Ivan Acoustic / Alternative / Folk

Daryl Shawn

Saturday, 18 July @ Outpost, 8pm $10
Daryl Shawn & Jonathan Lamaster
Daryl Shawn - cassette tape loops (Oaxaca, Mexico)
Jonathan Lamaster - violin (Winthrop)
Jonathan Lamaster

Tuesday 21 July, 8 pm @ Outpost - open donation
Small Animal Project Reading Series presents
David Blair, David Rivard & Sam Witt

Wednesday 22 July @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Pineapple Explode (Nashville)
NOTE: Our apologies, this show was mistakenly listed by us, and was not in fact booked.
-Outpost.

Matt Davignon - photo: Peter Kaars
Friday 24 July @ Outpost, 8pm $5/10
The Vortex Other Dimension Ensemble
featuring on tour: Matt Davignon (Oakland, CA)
Todd Brunel - bass clarinet / Junko Simons - cello / Matt Davignon - electronics / Esther Viola Kurtz - oboe

Saturday 25 July @ Outpost, 3pm $by donation
Starving & Useless Presents:
A poetry reading with Francesco Grisanzio and Todd Letendre
And book release for Toxic Inpublication Vol. 1.

Starving & Useless was founded in 2007 by Letendre and Grisanzio with the goal of getting fellow young writers heard. Their chapbook, Toxic Inpublication, is their first DIY outlet for young, local writers. Copies of Toxic Inpublication will be available the night of the reading.
For any questions or comments, please go to: myspace.com/starvinganduseless
Or email us at: Starvinganduseless@gmail.com

Steve Lantner
Saturday 25 July @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Steve Lantner Quartet
Allan Chase – saxophones / Steve Lantner - piano / Joe Morris – bass / Luther Gray – drums

Jim Hobbs & Forbes Graham

Sunday 26 July @ Outpost, 8pm $5 or b/o
Forbes Graham presents
Fundraiser for Birgit Ulher and Leonel Kaplan's Feb 2010 East Coast Trip! Birgit Ulher and Leonel Kaplan, both fantastic fellow trumpet players,
will be coming to the east coast in February 2010. To help raise funds
for the trip, we are presenting a performance of "Today's Media". It's a
fun, interactive composition. Bring a copy of a recent newspaper or
magazine!
A performance of “Today’s Media”- an interactive compostion with:
FORBES GRAHAM QUARTET
Jim Hobbs - alto saxophone
Kevin Frenette - guitar
Forbes Graham - trumpet
DJ Jarrod Fowler on the wheels of steel (Laptop?)

"Today's Media" is an interactive, participatory composition for musicians and audience. Bring a copy of a newspaper and be ready to read!

We also need fun characters like fake (or real) reporters, etc. If
anyone can bring a portable radio or TV that would be great too!

Wednesday 29 July @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Search Music series presents
Nat Mugavero Trio
Nat Mugavero - drums / Eric Hofbauer - guitar / TBA bass

Thursday 30 July @ Outpost. 8pm $10 or b/o
BILL NACE/JAKE MEGINSKY/GREG KELLEY
Bill Nace - guitar / Jake Meginsky - percussion / Greg Kelley - trumpet
+Frederick Farryl Goodwin - poet

Opening:
Frederick Farryl Goodwin
reading

Hardcore singer, theatre director, furniture salesman, debt collector, performance poet, farm hand, house painter, and lumber truck driver Fredd Goodwin celebrates the release of his new book of poetry on Miami University Press, Virgil's Cow.

Friday 31 July @ Outpost 8pm $10 or b/o
Ginger Ibex
playing the original instrumental songs of Sharon Crumrine - "The wordless intersection of Rock and Classical"
Sharon Crumrine - keys / Betty Widerski - mezzo viola / Michael Steigman - drums / Jane Park - violin / Ann Marie Bottcher - Cello

+Bitch Trifecta
Jane Park - guitar & vocals

OUTPOST186 Concert & Event Schedule, June 2009

2009-05-30T10:45:00.053-04:00

Melissa Kassel - Saturday, 27 June, 8pm

OUTPOST: 186 ½ Hampshire St., Inman Sq. Cambridge - All Ages

OUTPOST NEWS:
OUTPOST wins Editor's Pick for BEST EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC VENUE in the Phoenix Best 2009!

OUTPOST featured in a short film, THE VENUE (april 2009)

20 March 2009 - Wednesdays are now open for rental, beginning April 2009.

19 August - Outpost just got a fabulous Yamaha U3 full-size upright piano! Come check it out!

OUTPOST DIRECTIONS: Near cr. Prospect, opposite Hess gas, behind 7-11. Big ‘186’ on R side. Follow walk at Left to gallery, REAR.

OUTPOST CONCERT INFO:
All shows 8pm door unless otherwise noted.
General admission, suggested donation at door.
No reservations, come early!
All shows all ages.
No smoking, alcohol, ether or laudenum please.

ART
Outpost regularly exhibits visual art! If you are an artist and would like to exhibit @ Outpost, please send your website url to robchalfen@hotmail.com, or arrange to show your portfolio. Outpost does not charge for exhibits.

CURRENT EXHIBIT
Outpost is now showing paintings by Scott Cahaly
On exhibit: "Geisha Girls", oils, 2000

GALLERY HOURS:
Gallery exhibits may be viewed during scheduled shows or by appointment.
CONTACT: robchalfen@hotmail.com

EMAIL LIST SIGN-UP: http://Outpost186.FanBridge.com

BOOKING: OUTPOST is currently available as a rental @ $40 per concert event.
CONTACT: Rob Chalfen, director: robchalfen@hotmail.com
DETAILS:OUTPOST PRODUCER'S HANDBOOK - You must read this before you produce a show @ Outpost!
NOTE: You must be 21 to produce events at Outpost.

WE GET PRESS!!

Hhere’s a nice review of the 24 Nov. 08 Scarecrow Mobius gig at the Outpost by Jon Garelick of the Boston Phoenix: http://thephoenix.com/Boston/Music/72937-Mixed-grill//

Outpost featured in Cambridge Chronicle, 19 June 2008:
An-Outpost-on-the-edge-of-music

John Voigt featured in Cambridge Chronicle, 14 July 2008

Nice write up on Outpost in the Glob, Sunday 27 Jan. 2008 Outpost is the 2nd item:
http://www.boston.com/ae/music/articles/2008/01/26/six_nights_out____what_youre_hear_who_youll_meet/

on Richard Sandler's Films:
http://www.bloggernews.net/113600
On our "Small Arts Group Die Off", 13 January:
Globe: http://www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/articles/2008/01/12/small_arts_groups_are_dying_to_be_heard/
Big Red & Shiny:
http://www.bigredandshiny.com/cgi-bin/retrieve.pl?issue=issue75&section=article&article=DONT_DRINK_THE_1485440
BILL MARX/The Arts Fuse: Boston Foundation to Small Theatres - Drop Dead Please!
http://www.theartsfuse.com/2008/01/20/boston-foundation-to-small-theaters-drop-dead-please/#more-401

nonprofit jobs

june
Garrison Fewell
Wednesday 3 June @ Outpost 8pm $5/10
"Garrison Fewell and the Variable Density Sound Orchestra"

celebration for Miki's return to Boston, New Artist Visa in hand !

Garrison Fewell - Guitar / Eric Hofbauer - Guitar / Kelly Roberge - Tenor
John Voigt - Bass / Miki Matsuki - Drums

The Variable Density Sound Orchestra is veteran Boston-based guitarist/composer Garrison Fewell's newest working ensemble. As the band’s name implies, its original music, composed and conceived by Fewell, explores a wide range of textures and musical interactions. “The goal,” he explains, “is to create balance, not allowing individual soloists, collective instant composing or pre-composed material to dominate for too long.”

Fewell actively shapes the ensembles music with the other musicians. [The music]ranges from completely improvised to original compositions with a stronger framework for individual expression, takes its inspiration from longstanding interests such as ancient cultures, spirituality, and the music of Albert Ayler, Anthony Braxton and Sun Ra.

"Guitarist Garrison Fewell has never stopped moving forward on his musical journey from accomplished post-bop guitarist to free-jazz explorer. You can still hear the thoughtfulness, tenderness, and intimacy; careful listening; and the rigorous construction of line and feel for melody. The Variable Density Sound Orchestra is a group well suited to realizing Garrison's concepts and compositions." -Ed Hazell

Thursday, 4 June @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
An evening of diverse improv with Paul Metzger, Elaine Evans, Amen Dunes and Ernst Karel.

Paul Metzger
A virtuoso on a myriad of stringed instruments, Minneapolis-based experimental/progressive folk artist Paul Metzger focuses much of his creative energy on his 21-string modified banjo. A student of both Eastern and Western traditional music, Metzger first appeared on a split album that featured guitarist Ben Chasny (Six Organs of Admittance) and lauded improv drummer Chris Corsano on one side and Metzger's unique improvisational guitar work on the other. He released the full-length Three Improvisations on Modified Banjo for Chairkickers Music in 2005, followed by Deliverance for the Locust
label in 2007. ~ James Christopher Monger, All Music Guide

http://paulmetzger.net/
http://www.myspace.com/paulmetzger

Elaine Evans
Multi-instrumentalist Elaine Evans explores freeform improvisation with varied wind, string, and percussion instruments. Elaine’s current direction is improvisations with pocket trumpet and loop pedal, layering harmonies, dissonances, and rhythms. Elaine toured Europe with her trumpet and loop pedal in 2008. Elaine is a founding member of the International Novelty Gamelan, a group using the undeniable soul and approach of ancient Javanese musical tradition to create new, modern works of startling beauty and originality. Elaine composes for the group in addition to performing.

http://www.myspace.com/elaineevans

Amen Dunes
A lot of crazy shit can happen to a man when he goes solitary in a ramshackle Catskill Mountain home for an extended stretch of time-especially for a city kind of guy. But if Amen Dunes's 12 tracker DIA is one possible outcome of the guy alone-in-a-cabin- story, then a little tape saturated brain frying is something we should all live comfortably with because this is a batch of seriously raw & inspired loner psych grit that owes a debt to the diy soundz of the George Brigman's of the world. That was 2006. These days the lone wolf behind Amen Dunes -Damon McMahon calls a small two room apartment overlooking the Temple of Earth in North-Central Beijing home, where he watches old men fly kites and sing opera every morning. Who knows what'll come out of that.

http://www.myspace.com/amendunes
http://www.locustmusic.com/index.php?option=com_artists&task=view&cid=97&Itemid=6

Ernst Karel works with analog electronics and with location recordings, sometimes separately, sometimes in combination, to create audio pieces that move between the abstract and the documentary. His most recent albums are Electricals (another timbre, 2009) by EKG [], Falter 1-5 (Cathnor, 2009) with Annette Krebs, and Heard Laboratories, composed of recordings made in scientific research environments at Harvard University, to be released later this year on and/O

http://ek.klingt.org
http://ekg.klingt.org
http://anothertimbre.com
http://cathnor.com/
http://and-oar.org

Friday 5 June @ Outpost, 8pm $5/10
the Vortex Series for New and Improvised Music presents:
The Vortex Other Dimension Ensemble
Rob Bethel - cello / Todd Brunel - clarinets
Aubrey Johnson - vocals / Emile Tobenfeld - visual poetry
This multidimensional group will approach music and art from every corner of a wide imagination. Rob Bethel is a critically acclaimed classical and avant guard cellist who plays in numerous groups around New England. A recent New England Conservatory graduate, Aubrey Johnson is carving a bold path as a jazz vocalist, making numerous local appearances and in festivals around the United States. Dr T is a frequent Other Dimension traveler as well as Todd Brunel, who always enjoys a ride to the Other Side!

Rob Bethel on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvQf3X6PXdE
Aubrey Johnson on myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/aubreykjohnson

Saturday, 6 June @ Outpost, 8pm $10
Michael Huse Trio (NYC)
Jeremy Quick - guitar
Alfred Marra - vibraphone
Michael Huse - bass

Wednesday 10 June @ Outpost 8pm $10 or b/o
"Search Music"
Nat Mugavero - drums / Eric Hofbauer - guitar / John Lockwood - bass / Leo Genovese - piano + surprise guests!

Brian Ellis

Thursday, 11 June @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Courtney Brown’s Sidewalk Tzara --> experimental absurdity
presents
Hartford Sound Alliance

Bill Solomon (percussion), Lief Ellis (laptop/electronics), Matt Sargent (laptop/electronics/guitars) are members of the Hartford Sound Alliance, a flexible, CT-based collective of composers, performers, sound engineers, and artists. They regularly perform as a trio, creating visceral, improvisation-based music that especially focuses on the real-time recycling of live sound, collaborative processing, incorporation of field recording in live performance, and group composition. They have recently performed as a trio at Real Art Ways (Hartford, CT) [in collaboration with video artists Liz Stephens and Devan Mulvaney], the New Britain Arts Alliance Gallery (New Britain, CT), and the Hartford Art School (West Hartford, CT).

Brian S. Ellis, spoken word poetry

Brian S. Ellis is a poet who performs writing of his own devising. He has been reading in the New England area for four years, and has been touring nationally for two. This includes but is not limited to several local and national slam poetry competitions. His first full book of poems was published in two thousand eight with Write Bloody Books. He has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize twice. For more information go to http://www.myspace.com/brianstephenellis

Sunday 14 June @ Outpost 8pm $10 or b/o
Bryant/Newton/Leonard/Song
Dave Bryant - piano / Curt Newton - drums / Neil Leonard - sax & electronics / Jeff Song - cello & kayagum
Please join us this Sunday for an adventuresome performance with this imaginative ensemble. I’m looking forward to my first opportunity to play with multi-instrumentalist Jeff Song, as well as the chance to reconnect with Neil and Curt.

Wednesday 17 June @ Outpost 8pm $10 or b/o
"Search Music"
Nat Mugavero - drums / Eric Hofbauer - guitar / John Lockwood - bass / Leo Genovese - piano + surprise guests!

Thursday 18 June @ Outpost 8pm $10 or b/o
Dave Fox 4: “Adventures in Sound”
Bruno Raberg - bass / Josh Rosen - keys / David Tronzo - guitar Dave Fox - drums

NOTE: NOT ON FOR TONITE, THIS EVENT WILL CONTINUE IN JULY
Friday 19 June @ Outpost - 8pm, $5/10
Sounds in Bloom & Chagall Performance Collaborative presents:
INTERDISCIPLINARY ARTS CABARET

Monday 22 June @ Outpost 8pm $5/10
GODXILIARY PRESENTS: EAR THEATER
improvisations in sound design featuring:
futureboots (nyc), jerohme spye (baltimore), the machinist (chicago),
mikrosopht (boston), minusbaby (nyc), & protman (chicago)
for more information on artists and events please visit godxiliary.com
"...sounds, whether they be electronically generated, tapes, fields, ambient, spoken, or *gasp* traditional physical instrumentation - largely improvised...we are happy with the experimental and strange atmospheres of the best sound-designed film
and stage work and other experimental avant garde sonic explorations."

tues 23 June - private rehearsal.

James Merenda
Wednesday 24 June @ Outpost - 8pm $10 or b/o
TICKLE JUICE
playing the music of James Merenda

James Merenda - alto saxophone
Tom Duprey - cornet
John Turner - electric bass
Jared Seabrook - drums
Andrew Stern - guitar

This is a brand new project with all new music from James Merenda

James Merenda - alto sax

Creating a thriving jazz scene for musicians of all levels to play live and make connections, James has been hosting weekly and monthly open jam sessions at Costello’s in Jamaica Plain, the Center for Arts in Natick , Matt Murphy’s Pub and The Mission since 2001.

Always active, James has performed with; Ran Blake at the Knitting Factory, the Darmstadt Jazz Festival in Germany and recorded on Hatology Records; with Roswell Rudd and Beat Science, Cameron Brown, Joe McPhee, Joe Hunt, former Ornette Coleman keyboardist Dave Bryant and drummer James Kamal Kones, Grammy Award winning pianist David Maxwell, the Either/Orchestra, the Ardvark Orchestra, the Slip, contemporary guitarists Marc Ribot, David Fiuczynsdi, Dave Tronzo and with drummer Bob Gullotti. James has also performed on Radio France, Radio Europa in Italy and in Holland, Switzerland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Sweden, Denmark and Belgium.

Tom Duprey - cornet

Tom and James met while attending New England Conservatory in the mid-late '80s. Between that time period and now, Tom has been involved in many trumpet pursuits in all genres. He has performed with Robert Gullet, Dionne Warwick, Johnny Mathis and Tommy Tune, as well as local groups such as Newburyport Choral Society Orchestra, The Brass Connection Brass Quintet, and the Boston Gay Men's Chorus.

John Turner - electric bass

A veteran of the New England jazz scene, bassist John Turner has performed and recorded with many New England area and national artists, including the Either/Orchestra, Charlie Kohlhase, Scott Hamilton, Roswell Rudd, Lee Konitz, members of Ornette Coleman's Prime Time, the White Heat Swing Orchestra, and many others.

Andrew Stern - guitar

Boston guitarist Andrew Stern keeps busy in a multiplicity of musical styles and settings. A musical character actor, he often finds himself making his sound contribution to new and adventurous musical situations. Andrew is a member of Fat Little Bastard, Beat Circus, Andromeda4, Union Suit, the Gill Aharon Trio and also performs regularly with his jazz combo at many fine establishments around Boston and New York.

Jared Seabrook - drums

Jared Seabrook was born in Foxboro, MA. He began playing drums at 11, and has since become one of the most active gigging drummers around. Jared has played a variety of musical styles throughout the US, Europe, and Canada. He has performed with a number of musicians including Wynton Marsalis, John Medeski, and Leo Genovese. Jared currently lives and performs in Boston.

Thursday 25 June @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Steve Lantner Quartet
Allan Chase – saxophones / Steve Lantner - piano / Joe Morris – bass / Luther Gray – drums

Lo Galluccio
Friday 26 June @ Outpost - 8pm, $10 or b/o
ERIC ZINMAN/LO GALLUCCIO DUO
Eric Zinman - piano / Lo Galluccio - vocals

LO GALLUCCIO (vocals)
has been performing spoken word and song since the early 90’s in NYC with a band called, “Fish Pistol” – bandmates were Dave Tronzo, Roy Nathanson and Brad Jones. Her first solo project was “Being Visited” an avant-garde pop CD on the Knitting Factory label, followed by a track for John Zorn on the Marc Bolan CD. Since moving to Boston in 2001, she’s produced a second solo CD, “Spell on You” featuring jazz/gospel pianist Geoffrey Dana Hicks and published a chapbook of poems called, “Hot Rain” and a book on Cervena Barva Press called, “Sarasota VII.” New York DJ Vin Sclesa wrote of “Being Visited,” “by turns mysterious, seductive, surreal and spacy.” She’s honored to be collaborating with Eric in an exploration of old and new works and welcomes ee cummings as a special guest.
http://logalluccio.atspace.com

ERIC ZINMAN (piano/keyboards)
Eric Zinman, piano, was born in Boston in 1963. At the forefront of creative music for more than 20 years, Eric Zinman’s piano playing is known internationally and has been described as a “fleet and appealing touch”. Rooted in the language of the avant garde, his vision embraces the role of the piano in the orchestras of the future, the piano’s relation to the trap set drums, its touch, the way it can surround the other instruments and mark varying shifts in weight, the way the piano can also move lyrically within the whole from varying densities of sound masses to sparkling melodies spanning the whole keyboard.

“I am interested in the sensual nature of sound, with the piano that is first and foremost TOUCH. FORM, then, is a manifestation from beggining to end of dynamics and within that the phrasing, silence and an arresting balance between the pedaled and un-pedaled sounds.”

Eric Zinman has played with Craig Schildhauer, Raqib Hassan, Toshi Makihara, Sabir Mateen, Marco Eneidi, Lisle Ellis, Peter Valsamis, Tatsuya Nakatani, Glynis Lomon and Blaise Siwula, Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky, Jan Roder, Thomas Rehnert, John Voigt and Laurence Cook. Mr. Zinman has also composed music for dance and theatre using verbal
directives as well as graphic scores. He is recorded on Ayler and Cadence Records.

ERIC ZINMAN UPCOMING PERFORMANCES

Melissa Kassel

Saturday 27 June @ Outpost - 8pm, $10 or b/o
Melissa Kassel Group

Melissa Kassel - Voice / Tom Zicarelli - piano
Bruno Raberg - bass / Phil Grenadier - trumpet
Original Songs Mixed with Jazz Improvisation
This music represents the beautiful and mysterious side of improvised jazz. From the very first notes that Melissa Kassel sings, the audience is emotionally drawn in to the music. There is a direct line from her heart to her voice – If you have ever heard her sing you will never forget it. The songs are simple, but unusual and dreamlike. The almost telepathic communication between the musicians on stage is as fascinating as the music itself. There is space, suspense, and surprise. You won’t find a more lyrical trumpeter than Phil Grenadier anywhere. His tone is effortless. Notes hang in the air and slowly dissolve. When Phil and Melissa play together you can close your eyes and you won’t be able to tell which is the voice and which is the horn. Bruno Raberg is the engine of rhythm that propels the music forward but lets it turn in any direction at any moment. The sound of the bass is big and round and warm -- sometimes you think you hear a drummer but there is no drummer. Tom Zicarelli plays the keyboard like a palette of colors. He coaxes the piano from a whisper to a roar and back again as if he’s receiving signals from some invisible antenna. Just when you think you're drifting into orbit, the music comes back home to where it started. If you're searching for inspiration and a transcendent musical experience, look no further.

OUTPOST186 Concert & Event Schedule, May 2009

2009-05-01T11:12:00.058-04:00

Joe Morris by Jonathan Sindelman29 May, 8pm

Junko Simons29 May, 8pm

OUTPOST: 186 ½ Hampshire St., Inman Sq. Cambridge - All Ages

OUTPOST NEWS:
OUTPOST wins Editor's Pick for BEST EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC VENUE in the Phoenix Best 2009!

OUTPOST featured in a short film, THE VENUE (april 2009)

20 March 2009 - Wednesdays are now open for rental, beginning April 2009.

19 August - Outpost just got a fabulous Yamaha U3 full-size upright piano! Come check it out!

OUTPOST DIRECTIONS: Near cr. Prospect, opposite Hess gas, behind 7-11. Big ‘186’ on R side. Follow walk at Left to gallery, REAR.

OUTPOST INFO:
All shows 8pm doors unless otherwise noted.
General admission, suggested donation at door.
No reservations, come early!
All shows all ages.
No smoking, alcohol please.

GALLERY HOURS:
Gallery exhibits may be viewed during scheduled shows or by appointment.
CONTACT: robchalfen@hotmail.com

EMAIL LIST SIGN-UP: http://Outpost186.FanBridge.com

BOOKING: OUTPOST is currently available as a rental @ $40 per event.
CONTACT: Rob Chalfen, director: robchalfen@hotmail.com
OUTPOST PRODUCER'S HANDBOOK - you must read this before you produce a show @ Outpost!
NOTE: You must be 21 to produce events at Outpost.

WE GET PRESS!!

Hhere’s a nice review of the 24 Nov. 08 Scarecrow Mobius gig at the Outpost by Jon Garelick of the Boston Phoenix: http://thephoenix.com/Boston/Music/72937-Mixed-grill//

Outpost featured in Cambridge Chronicle, 19 June 2008:
An-Outpost-on-the-edge-of-music

John Voigt featured in Cambridge Chronicle, 14 July 2008

Nice write up on Outpost in the Glob, Sunday 27 Jan. 2008 Outpost is the 2nd item:
http://www.boston.com/ae/music/articles/2008/01/26/six_nights_out____what_youre_hear_who_youll_meet/

on Richard Sandler's Films:
http://www.bloggernews.net/113600
On our "Small Arts Group Die Off", 13 January:
Globe: http://www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/articles/2008/01/12/small_arts_groups_are_dying_to_be_heard/
Big Red & Shiny:
http://www.bigredandshiny.com/cgi-bin/retrieve.pl?issue=issue75&section=article&article=DONT_DRINK_THE_1485440
BILL MARX/The Arts Fuse: Boston Foundation to Small Theatres - Drop Dead Please!
http://www.theartsfuse.com/2008/01/20/boston-foundation-to-small-theaters-drop-dead-please/#more-401

nonprofit jobs

MAY

Santiago Latorre
Friday, 1 May @ OUTPOST, 8pm $10 or b/o
rob chalfen & subconsciouscafe presents:
Órbita (Barcelona) with
Santiago Latorre
www.santiagolatorre.com
www.myspace.com/santiagolatorre

Santiago Latorre is a musician and sound engineer who lives and works in Barcelona.

At the age of 11 he began to play sax and a few years later, he started electronic engineering. These two parallel interests led to the development of his Sonification of the Human Genome, the project that marked the beginning of Santiago’s fascination with musical experimentation and new sounds.

He has composed music for dance, theatre, fashion and videoart including the contemporary dance piece PIEL, the play Radio-Patera and the video projects Fünf, On the terrace and Sobrevive, in collaboration with Ivonne Dippmann.

In 2005 he started working on his personal projects, searching for cyclical structures, surrounding melodies and subtle textures. He used layers of sax, accordion, piano, voice and synthesised sounds to progressively construct and deconstruct the tracks. This work is now compiled in Órbita, his debut album (Accretions, November 08).

Santiago Latorre has performed in several festivals and clubs around Spain SONAR, LEM, La noche en blanco de Madrid, Festival de músicas de verano de Ponferrada, Heliogabal...) and has toured in south-east China, collaborating with Hong-Kong based artist Dickson Dee.

He is the house engineer at Grabaciones Silvestres, one of the leading recording studios in Spain.

about ÓRBITA:

Órbita is the debut release from Santiago Latorre, a Barcelona-based musician and sound engineer, who has crafted an elegant and delicate work. Latorre uses layers of sax, accordion, piano, voice and synthesised sounds to progressively construct and deconstruct the pieces.

"Magical as a new world, subtle and delicate in every shade, melancholic and lively, Latorre can be considered a revelation." - All about jazz I Italia

"A mix of elegant jazz and gentle electrónica, Órbita is ostensibly inspired by the planets rotation and the unavoidable progress of time. […] A warm, optimistic hymn to experience." - Plan B, UK

According to the artist, Órbita is about turning and evolving, always the same journey but constantly changing, getting older, slowly dying. As a planet that goes around the sun, each track comes back to the same place a number of times. But everytime, something has happened, a year has passed.

For more info about the artist (and a video) please visit: www.santiagolatorre.com

For more info about this release please visit: www.accretions.com
Contact us at: sounds@accretions.com

Production for subconsciouscafe by : Rob Chalfen - robchalfen@hotmail.com

Saturday, 2 May @ Outpost, 8pm $10
Bern Nix/Dave Bryant Quartet

Featuring former members of Ornette Coleman’s Prime Time

Dave Bryant - piano / Bern Nix - guitar / John Turner - bass / Eric Rosenthal - drums

“For years, keyboardist Bryant and guitarist Nix were cornerstones of Ornette Coleman’s Prime Time band. Check them out if you want to hear why the best of the jazz avant-garde is as focused as it is ferocious.”
Jon Garelick, Boston Phoenix, 24 April 2009

@ Lilypad 1353 Cambridge St. Inman Square, Cambridge
Sunday, 3 May @ Lilypad, 9:30-11:45pm $10 all ages
subconsciouscafe productions presents
“David Maxwell’s OutTakes Unlimited”
Jim Hobbs - saxes / Forbes Graham - trumpet /Luther Gray - drums /Jacob William - bass / David Maxwell - piano, ethnic reeds, gongs

Thursday, 7 May @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Courtney Brown & Sidewalk Tzara --> experimental absurdity
Mem1 http://www.mem1.com/
+Area C http://www.areacmusic.com/
+Courtney Brown http://www.courtney-brown.net

Friday 8 May @ OUTPOST, 8pm $5/10
VORTEX series for new & improvised music presents:
The Vortex 4:
Todd Brunel - clarinets / Phil Neighbors - vibes / Tom Lubelczyk - bass / Jerome Deupree - drumset.

This band creates deeply hypnotic trance like music, experimental and
accessible...as previously advertised, "space music from the other
side of the universe..."

Saturday 9 May @ Outpost, 3pm - donation by jar
The Unaffiliated Reading Series presents

Peter Gizzi
Peter Gizzi was born in 1959 and grew up in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. He holds degrees from New York University, Brown University, and the State University of New York at Buffalo. His books include The Outernationale (Wesleyan, 2007), Some Values of Landscape and Weather (2003), Artificial Heart (1998), and Periplum (1992). He has also published several limited-edition chapbooks, folios, and artist books. His work has been widely anthologized and translated into numerous languages.

David Larsen
David Larsen is the author most recently of Names of the Lion just out from Atticus/Finch and The Thorn (2005) from Faux Press. He lives in New Haven.
http://bostonpoetry.blogspot.com/

Friday, 9 May @ Outpost - 8pm, $10 or b/o
Forbes Graham presents
Graham/Albro/Jefferson
Forbes Graham - trumpet / Tim Albro - guitar /Josh Jefferson - multi-reeds
+INSECT FACTORY

Insect Factory is the music of Silver Spring, MD guitarist Jeff Barsky. His playing creates thick waves of textured sound, building hypnotic and atmospheric drone fields.

Insect Factory live performances frequently incorporate additional instrumentation, and Barsky has also collaborated onstage with the likes of avant-trumpeter Forbes Graham (of Tzadik’s Kayo Dot), bass player Joe Lally (of Fugazi), and the DC improv collective Kohoutek, which combines elements of abstract noise, heavy rhythms, free jazz, and psychedelic rock.

www.insectfields.org

Friday 15 May @ OUTPOST, 8pm $5/10
Sounds in Bloom & Chagall Performance Collaborative present
INSTALLATION PERFORMANCE ART AND SPATIAL POETICS

Come see this ephemeral, ethereal art event featuring sculptors, video art, poetry, and music. Stretch your imagination of what is a performance in this interactive show!

Sounds in Bloom: www.myspace.com/dnorma
Dennis Shafer: www.dennisshafer.com

Lola Danza
Saturday, 16 May @ Outpost - 8pm, $10 or b/o
rob chalfen & subconsciouscafe presents:
Lola Danza and Friends!
Lola Danza - Voice
Nat Mugavero - Drums
Eric Hofbauer - Guitar
Justin Purtil - bass
http://www.myspace.com/loladanza
http://www.LolaDanza.com

BOSTON PHOENIX EDITOR'S PICK FOR THIS GIG!

"Ms. Danza gives hope to the future of jazz." - Boston Herald

"Lola Danza is a part of a new breed of jazz singer writing original material and experimenting. And she has the chops to pull it off." - Jon Garelick, Boston Phoenix

“With a stunning voice that elongates words and phrases with almost ethereal clarity, Danza follows her own muse stylistically, preferring the spare and airy to the busy and hot.” - Bob Young, Boston Herald

Lola’s interview on WGBH Boston’s, “Eric in the Evening” Jazz Show, February 25, 2009
Part I
Part II

Lola Danza
Exquisite, Unique, Extraordinary, Honest and Passionate are the ways to describe Lola Danza as a vocalist and composer. Ms. Danza’s music is innovative and the result is the creation of a new idiom in music. She infuses beautiful flowing melodies and creative improvised lines with effortless mastery.

With her four-octave range and vast array of vocal technique, Ms. Danza’s voice is rich, full and resonate. Lola’s music reveals a special connection to her soul that cultivates mutual inspiration between the musicians and enchants the audience.

Lola’s music and compositions encompass myriad musical styles that span the world: from Asia to Latin America and including the influences of classical, jazz, contemporary American, gypsy, folk, and Flamenco music.

Written with intensity and honesty, the songs are spiritual, her lyrics sheer poetry filled with insight that everyone can relate to and understand. The music evokes images of impressionistic and abstract paintings rich in texture and colour.

In 1997 Lola came to Berklee College of Music on scholarship, graduating with a bachelors degree in Vocal Jazz Performance in 2001. Lola has opened her own music school where she teaches and has been known to “Work Miracles”, said one student.

Ms. Danza has performed with world renown jazz artists such as Steve Kuhn, Sheila Jordan, Kevin Mahogany, Lewis Nash and Leni Stern.

Lola Danza; Recording Artist, Performer, Composer and Teacher.

Sunday 17 May @ Outpost - 8pm, $5/10
Charles Licata Ensemble
Tom Halter - trumpet / Charles Licata - sax / Mike Shea - piano / Larry Roland - bass / James Kamal Jones - drums

Wednesday, 20 May @ Outpost - 8pm $10 or b/o
Tyler Wilcox/Paul Neidhardt
Tyler Wilcox (Bellingham, WA) - soprano Sax
Paul Neidhardt (Baltimore) - percussion
+nmperign
Greg Kelley - soprano sax
Bhob Rainey - trumpet

Thursday, 21 May @ Outpost 8pm $10 or b/o
Dave Fox 4: “Adventures in Sound”
Phil Grenadier - trumpet / Josh Rosen - keys, effects / Bruno Raberg - bass / Dave Fox - drums

Friday 22 May @ Outpost - 8pm, $5/10
Sam Dickey Trio

Sam Dickey - Guitar
Aaron Darrell - Bass
Devin Drobka - Drums

Formed in 2008 in Boston and comprised of three long-time friends and like-minded musicians, the Sam Dickey Trio plays an innovative blend of Jazz, Rock, Malian Folk Music, Brazilian Samba and Capoeira, and Old-School Soul. Come for an evening of original compositions, deep grooves, and telepathic ensemble interplay.www.myspace.com/sammdickey

Saturday 23 May @ Outpost - 8pm, $10 or b/o
Cabiria Jacobson Wants to Sing You a Song
Joined by Danny Padgett and Molly Wood on piano, Cabiria will sing songs by Harold Arlen, George Gershwin, Edith Piaf, Hoagy Carmichael, Cole Porter, Reynaldo Hahn, Christopher Berg, and more. Cabiria draws on jazz, folk, and classical styles and memes, melding them together to form a deeply expressive, graceful, and inventive performance experience for her audiences.
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Sunday 24 May @ OUTPOST, 8pm $5 or b/o
markus nechay presents
“The Whimsy!” Song & poesy, bohemian vaudeville, open mic

Steve Lantner
Tuesday 26 May @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Steve Lantner Quartet
Allan Chase – saxophones / Steve Lantner - piano
Joe Morris – bass / Luther Gray – drums

Thomas Helton
Wednesday, 27 May @ Outpost - 8pm $10 or b/o
subconsciouscafe & VORTEX present:
Thomas Helton (Houston TX) microtonal bass
www.myspace.com/thomasheltonbass
playing solo and with:
Todd Brunel - bass clarinet
Scott Dakota - fretless guitar
plus!
Trio Microcosmique:
Scott Dakota/Lainey Schulbaum/Rachel Jayson

Thomas Helton
For 15 years Thomas Helton has laid down basslines for jazz ensembles in Houston and around the US. He has deep-seated love and respect for jazz traditions, ingrained by instructors like Shelly Berg and Larry Slezak. In a tribute to Houston musicians, he compiled and published the first Houston Musician's Realbook. He has appeared at the Montreux Jazz Festival, and has recorded with Joe LoCascio, Carol Morgan, Chris Connolly, Smitty, Kevin Patton, & Cindy Scott.

Thomas brings all of his passion and experience for jazz to the table when it comes to his other half, avant-garde music. Early in his jazz career, Thomas was inspired by the sounds of John Zorn and Peter Kowald to venture outside mainstream musical bounds. This journey began with the Rosta Jazz Avengers, a Houston-based quartet all about free improvisation and sonic exploration. Thomas quickly jumped into composition, beginning to develop a style that combines thematic composition with free improvisation, a sort of loosely controlled writing style showcasing his hand-selected performers.

Thomas has released three albums to date. "Good Robot" (2007) and "Experimentations in Minimalism" (2006) feature compositions for small ensemble. "Doublebass" (2003) is a collection of live, freely-improvised solo performances. Thomas also appears on the 2003 Norcal Noise Fest compilation CD, as well as the KUHF "The Front Row" 2006 compilation CD.
http://www.thomashelton.com

Todd Brunel
Todd Brunel is an innovative, critically acclaimed clarinetist who performs extensively as a crossover classical and jazz musician. In the world premiere event 'From Requiem to Renewal' at Boston College, clarinetist Todd Brunel and pianist Synthia Sture played with “Tremendous virtuosity and heart," The Boston Globe. He has premiered works by numerous composers including: George ‘Skip’ Brunner, Matthew D. Harder, Rick Sowash, Ara Sarkissian, Jose Louis Hurtado, Johnny Reinhard, Vuk Kulenovic, Arnesto Klar, Pamela Watson, and Vache Sharafyan. “The perfect control over the instruments allowed the soloists the subtle at times almost jocular transition through different styles and genres.” Musical Horizons Magazine.

As a jazz/improvisational performer and composer, he produces The Vortex Series for new and improvised music, a frequent jazz "pick of the week" in the Boston Phoenix and the Boston Globe. Among his hundreds of performances at clubs and social establishments, Brunel has played at the Montreal Jazz Festival, The Bowery Poetry club, The National Black Arts Festival, The International Woodwind Festival, Preservation Jazz Hall, Ryles, CBGB’s Gallery, The Boston Music Festival and the American Microtonal Festival under the direction of Johnny Reinhard. He is a founding member of Neon Juju, a literary music ensemble, the Lilli Lewis Project, The Rivera Brunel Method, the Circadian Rhythm Kings (2008 Innova Recordings) Musaner, The DNB Trio, the Black Dust Ensemble and the Vortex Other Dimension Ensemble. His work with conductor and composer Lawrence ‘Butch’ Morris includes Conductions recorded in NYC and performances in Boston, with the New England Skyscraper. He collaborates frequently with the Jeff Robinson Trio and as a featured artist at Rob Chalfen's Subconscious Café with David Maxwell’s Ether Bandits and bassist John Voigt.

Trio Microcosmique (pronounced "tree-o mee-kro-kos-meek") presents live performance compositions and improvisations in Just Intonation and Microtonality

Vos amis le Trio:

~ Scott Dakota (The Moors, Valhalla Kittens, Producer) - wide range fretless guitar, loops and soundscapes

~ Lainey Schulbaum (The Steamy Bohemians, Calycadenia) - voice, loops and soundscapes

~ Rachel Jayson (Jaggery, Walter Sickert and the Army of Broken Toys) - viola, melodic and rhythmic fire

Don't be scared by the "microtonal" tag! The arid, astringent art thing is cool - don't get me wrong - but we're not about that. No frets or fixed pitches are present here, so from all possible notes we can choose to play the extra pretty and harmonically unified and interesting ones. Notes you don't ordinarily hear, new sounds! It's natural intonation, like a string quartet or a cappella vocal group. And for the math and history buffs among you, Just Intonation utilizes whole number frequency ratios in the style beloved of the ancient Sumerians, Egyptians, Vedics, and that Pythagoras dude, with some modern twists. Artsy this may be, but fun it will be as well. You know you are curious now.

Scott Dakota
Scott Dakota (The Moors, Valhalla Kittens, Producer of The Steamy Bohemians and others), fretless wide range guitar, microtonal and just intonated improvisations, live looping, and soundscapes.

Vic Rawlings
Thursday, 28 May @ Outpost - 8pm $5/10

Benny Nelson
+Vic Rawlings/Bryan Eubanks Electronics Duo
+Ouest (Brendan Murray / Howard Selzer / Jay Sullivan)

Ouest's music is full of warm, grainy textures and hazy static. Very little happens over the course of a Ouest performance; Stelzer has said that the goal of the project is to "create a sound that is devoid of human hands or specific gestures." To that end, various sonic elements (a gentle crackle, the murky outline of a melodic phrase) are often simply set in mesmerizing motion by the players and then left alone. Trust me, it's far, far more engaging in practice than it reads on paper.

Instrumentation is turntable, samplers, microphones, electronics, cassette tapes, various amplified objects, laptop computer, and similar stuff.

Joe Morris by Jonathan Sindelman
Friday 29 May @ Outpost - 8pm, $10 or b/o
green umbrellas presents
Junko Simons/Joe Morris Duo
Junko Simons - cello & Joe Morris - guitar

Junko Simons
Cellist Junko Fujiwara Simons is an active classical cellist and “creative musician”/ improviser. She has performed with Joe Morris, Allan Chase, Tom Plsek, Charlie Kohlhase, Jane Wang, and Jim Hobbs. Junko Simons has also participated in composer/conductor Lawrence 'Butch' Morris’s “Conduction©” series. She is also a member of the classical chamber groups Kalliope Piano Trio and the Palimpsest Ensemble. Junko Simons holds adjunct faculty positions at Boston College and Phillips Academy Andover, as well as teaching private students. Her work can be found on the Waterbug, Lucent Music, and Sonomu labels. She has a Master of Music degree from Northwestern University in Evanston, IL, and a Bachelor of Music degree from Lawrence University in Appleton, WI.

Saturday 30 May - 8pm $5/10
Alex Wan & The Cultural Fusion

(some) CONCERT SERIES AT OUTPOST:

VORTEX - 1st & 3rd Fridays, 8pm $5/10
Microtonal soundscapes painted over a radiant sea of anarchy. New and improvisational music, featuring various guest artists in different incarnations, seeking truth and the voice that brought them to this point. Hosted by Todd Brunel - http://www.clarinetconspiracy.com

subconsciouscafe new chamber music : - occasional Saturdays, 8pm $10 or b/o
Rob Chalfen's long-running improvised music series continues at OUTPOST and elsewhere. Innovative chamber music at play on the spectra of jazz, electronic, classical and world. Also may be dug by the non-subconscious mind.
robchalfen@hotmail.com

THE WHIMSY! - 1 Sunday/mo, 8PM $5 or b/o
Song & poesy, bohemian vaudeville, open mic
Hosted by Markus Nechay - markusnechay@yahoo.com

Steve Lantner presents : 4th Saturdays
slantner@comcast.net

Dave Pryant presents : monthly, by announcement
DaveBryant1@comcast.net

SERIES PRODUCERS:
subconsciouscafe : Rob Chalfen : robchalfen@hotmail.com
VORTEX : Todd Brunel : thbrunel@earthlink.net
The Whimsy! : Markus Nechay - markusnechay@yahoo.com
Steve Lantner presents : slantner@comcast.net http://stevelantner.com/
Courtney Brown
Dave Bryant presents : DaveBryant1@comcast.net
Josh Jefferson : jefferson.joshua@gmail.com
Joseph Moffett : moffjazz@comcast.net
John Mulrooney : poetics - jmulrron2002@yahoo.com

DISCLAIMER:
This disclaimer is for reflexive and tautological purposes only, and may not be construed as applying to any errors, typos, or logical absurdities, real or imagined, that may be contained in this notice, without further notice.

Thank you,
Harlan T. Flash
Corresponding Secretary

OUTPOST186 Concert & Event Schedule, April 2009

2009-04-03T22:48:00.054-04:00

Santiago Latorre, 1 May

OUTPOST: 186 ½ Hampshire St., Inman Sq. Cambridge - All Ages

OUTPOST NEWS:
OUTPOST wins Editor's Pick for BEST EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC VENUE in the Phoenix Best 2009!

OUTPOST featured in a short film, THE VENUE (april 2009)

20 March 2009 - Wednesdays are now open for rental, beginning April 2009.

19 August - Outpost just got a fabulous Yamaha U3 full-size upright piano! Come check it out!

OUTPOST DIRECTIONS: Near cr. Prospect, opposite Hess gas, behind 7-11. Big ‘186’ on R side. Follow walk at Left to gallery, REAR.

OUTPOST INFO:
All shows 8pm doors unless otherwise noted.
Admission by donation at door.
No reservations, come early!
All shows all ages.
No smoking, alcohol please.

GALLERY HOURS:
Gallery exhibits may be viewed during scheduled shows or by appointment.
CONTACT: robchalfen@hotmail.com

EMAIL LIST SIGN-UP: http://Outpost186.FanBridge.com

BOOKING: OUTPOST is currently available as a rental @ $40 per event.
CONTACT: Rob Chalfen, director: robchalfen@hotmail.com
OUTPOST PRODUCER'S HANDBOOK - you must read this before you produce a show @ Outpost!
NOTE: You must be 21 to produce events at Outpost.

WE GET PRESS!!

Hhere’s a nice review of the 24 Nov. 08 Scarecrow Mobius gig at the Outpost by Jon Garelick of the Boston Phoenix: http://thephoenix.com/Boston/Music/72937-Mixed-grill//

Outpost featured in Cambridge Chronicle, 19 June 2008:
An-Outpost-on-the-edge-of-music

John Voigt featured in Cambridge Chronicle, 14 July 2008

Nice write up on Outpost in the Glob, Sunday 27 Jan. 2008 Outpost is the 2nd item:
http://www.boston.com/ae/music/articles/2008/01/26/six_nights_out____what_youre_hear_who_youll_meet/

on Richard Sandler's Films:
http://www.bloggernews.net/113600
On our "Small Arts Group Die Off", 13 January:
Globe: http://www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/articles/2008/01/12/small_arts_groups_are_dying_to_be_heard/
Big Red & Shiny:
http://www.bigredandshiny.com/cgi-bin/retrieve.pl?issue=issue75&section=article&article=DONT_DRINK_THE_1485440
BILL MARX/The Arts Fuse: Boston Foundation to Small Theatres - Drop Dead Please!
http://www.theartsfuse.com/2008/01/20/boston-foundation-to-small-theaters-drop-dead-please/#more-401

APRIL

Thursday, 2 April @ Outpost - 8pm, $10
The Band That Can't Be Named presents The World Premiere of
“A Show that Can't Be Named”

Last year, in response to the Boston Foundation's request that small arts groups either merge or 'find an exit strategy,' Ian MacKinnon produced "The Small Arts Group Die-Off" at Outpost and put his Artezani Theater to death. Now, with Eric Zinman on keyboards, Stephan Ripke on drums, and other guests, Ian invites you to hear the first fruits of a multi-year effort to create his own kind of music theater. Is it a musical? Not really, since there's no 'book.' Is it a rock opera? It could be: over 20 songs tell a bizarre, 95% true story of nomads, bad science, and the American Prairie. If you know Ian or Eric, you probably know what the title is and why it cannot yet be named. Will you say you saw it when it was anonymous? Maybe: Ian's "Elect Better Actors" won a national manifesto contest for the future of American Theater that was judged by Tony Kushner and others.

Ian MacKinnon - voice, guitar
Eric Zinman - yamaha CP300
Stephen Ripke - drums

Friday 3 April - private rehearsal

SATURDAY 4 APRIL @ Outpost 8pm $15 or b/o
The Exchange:Paintings and Performances (#2)
Painter Linda Clave inspired by Austrian Saxophonist Mario Rechtern
for TransCultural Exchange 2009 "Here There and Everywhere" with
New Language Collaborative for live painting and musical performances.

New Language Collaborative
Eric Zinman - piano / Glynis Lomon - cello, voice / Syd Smart - drums
Linda Clave - action painting

What might new language be?

Coming out of these emotional ponds, lakes and seas spreading out and merging into each other- not a communication in the sense of pure conversation, discourse and interaction to the point of the said but rather grasping the sensuality and sensual expressions of the said by emotional shares and sensual contributions to the said, grasping the energies and shipping the vessel on them, waves surfing, drowning and getting rescued by drums or cello or piano and back on board through space and friendships among the travelers speaking, feeling and thoughts from the moment as necessary to describe flight position and desire to break even with the needed distinction of the status quo, to know who and where we are today.........tomorrow is another day another journey...............

- eric zinman www.ericzinman.com

Poetic Review of Linda Clave/New Language, 29 March:

Color form dissolves,

undefines the movement of the brush,

which licks the canvas while the three

musicians play--jam melodies that linger

and dissolve like the paint into inaccessible

phrases with nothing to grab onto, and then

caterwauling together finding their common

thread in a brush stroke.

I was sad to see the foot disappear into

layers of inarticulate overlap, color meld into

color, the artist taking a roller to smush the layers of paint

until they merge soft as down blurring the boundaries

between one and other, smears of color, layers of sound

all enveloping us, we dozen listeners, in their web of

enterprise, a journey that began at 8 and had an end

with the artist’s statement, “Well, it is 9:00 after all,

but I could paint forever.”

A promise made to get us home left us hungry for more of the

story, the unfolding dialogue between notes and

strokes. None of us knew what to expect but

loved that we were co-creators of the energetic space

and stayed long after for the wine and cheese,

the fresh baked bread, and conversation among the

disparate acquaintances who filled the space, and made

their own kind of jazz, the improviso of conversation,

the scat of ceremony, as the night rolled on and

Monday soon would call.

- Martha Thayer

Linda Clave painting

Sunday 5 April @ OUTPOST, 6pm $5/10 or b/o
Sounds in Bloom & Chagall Performance Collaborative present
Opening Concert: POETRY IN DIALOGUE

Sounds in Bloom: Diana Norma Szokolyai (Hungarian & American), poetry
Dennis Shafer, saxophone and musical guests
+ Ellom in Voice, Estonian poet: American debut performance

Drawing on Eastern European imagery, mystical connections to their Finno-Ugric ancestry, and a deep connection to forests and mountain rivers, Norma and Ellom explore "the deadly and wide oceans inside" and "the dusty gold of souls tangled inside the Earth, that cosmic ball" (excerpts of some of the poetic dialogue, Ellom's followed by Norma's verse). This is the first time they will perform together in the U.S., bringing their debut Parisian show to American audiences in April 2009. Musical direction by Dennis Shafer.

Sounds in Bloom: www.myspace.com/dnorma
Ellom in Voice: www.myspace.com/alonetimewithme
Dennis Shafer: www.dennisshafer.com

Tuesday 7 April - private rehearsal

Friday, 10 April @ Outpost - 8pm, $5/10
Bird.Fly.Yellow
+ Low Road

Bird.Fly.Yellow
Joe Moffett: Trumpet
Dan Blacksberg: Trombone
Daniel Durham: Bass
Dave Flaherty: Drums
http://myspace.com/birdflyyellow

Low Road
Ruth Lepson - poetry / Noah Preminger - sax / Eric Lane - piano

Saturday 11 April @ OUTPOST, 8pm $10 or b/o
subconsciouscafé presents
BURTON GREENE & PERRY ROBINSON

Burton Greene
Burton Greene - piano
Perry Robinson - clarinet
Burton Greene figured prominently in New York's free jazz movement of the '60s, performing with such major figures as Marion Brown, Sam Rivers, Gato Barbieri, and Alan Silva. As a child, Greene studied classical music at the Fine Arts Academy in Chicago; from 1956-1958 he studied jazz with Dick Marx. Greene moved to New York in the early '60s, as the city's free jazz movement was gathering momentum. There, he formed the Free Form Improvisation Ensemble with Silva in 1963 -- reputedly one of the first groups devoted to playing a wholly improvised music. In 1964, he joined the Jazz Composer's Guild. During the mid-'60s, he recorded for the ESP-Disk label as a leader, before moving to the Netherlands in 1969. Greene became something of a journeyman, performing all over Europe while maintaining a residence on a houseboat in Amsterdam. He recorded intermittently in the '70s and '80s. Greene became one of the few free jazz musicians to experiment with synthesizers. He's played solo and led various bands of unusual instrumentation; a recent project is a klezmer group called Klez-Jazz, which features clarinetist Perry Robinson. During the '90s, Greene recorded more frequently in the U.S., notably for the Cadence Jazz and C.I.M.P. labels. Greene's autobiography is entitled Memoirs of a Musical “Pesty Mystic” -- or -- From the Ashcan to the Ashram and Back Again, published by Cadence Jazz Books.

Perry Robinson
For over four decades, Perry Robinson has been the sui generis master of the clarinet in jazz, folk and avant-garde music. Early in his career he was a sideman with Tete Montoliu, and he has since worked with some of the world’s best musicians, including the Brubeck Family, Gunter Hampel, Henry Grimes, Bill Dixon, Naná Vasconcelos, Carla Bley, Archie Shepp, Charlie Haden, Badal Roy, John Carter, Anthony Braxton, Mark Whitecage, Pete Seeger and George Clinton. He has been a mainstay of Burton Greene’s Klezmokum and of Lou Grassi’s Po Band, which has recorded with Marshall Allen, John Tchicai and Joseph Jarman on CIMP. His own trio Raga Roni, featuring Badal Roy and Ed Schuller, released its self-titled debut disc in 2002 on Geetika Records. Robinson also performed on William Parker’s trio recording Bob's Pink Cadillac on Eremite. The Perry Robinson Quartet, featuring pianists Simon Nabotov and Christoph Adams, bassist Ed Schuller and drummer Ernst Bier, has released four CDs: Nightmare Island, Call To The Stars, Angelology and Still Traveling on the West Wind and Timescraper labels; the trio of Robinson-Schuller-Bier is featured on Children's Song (Konnex Records). Recently Perry has been playing with Wynne Paris and Groovananda, the band Centazzo-Robinson-Stowe featuring percussionist Andrea Centazzo and pianist Nobu Stowe, the Israeli clarinetist Harold Rubin, U.S. Pipe & the Balls Johnson Dance Machine, and the Israeli composer-pianist Anat Fort, whose new ECM release A Long Story features Perry. Perry's autobiography, The Traveler, was published in 2002.

Production: Rob Chalfen

Sunday 12 April @ OUTPOST, 4-6pm $5 or b/o
The Center for Arabic Culture presents
An afternoon of Arabic poetry
Come celebrate spring with an afternoon of Arabic poetry with your friends and family!

CAC is hosting a poetry reading at Outpost186 in Cambridge! Enjoy the poetry of Hamdi el-Dib, translated by Sara el-Dib. Hamdi el-Dib is a scholar and poet from Alexandria, Egypt who has taught Arabic literature in Egypt. Open mic is available after for any other poets or writers.

Suggested donation is $5. Refreshments and light snacks will be provided. Families and children are welcome!

Contact: Fatima Jafri - fatimasjafri@gmail.com

Sunday 12 April @ OUTPOST, 8pm $5 or b/o
markus nechay presents
“The Whimsy!” Song & poesy, bohemian vaudeville, open mic

Thursday 16 April @ Outpost - 3pm, open donation
Linda Clave presents talk #1 on her paintings & the music of Austrian composer & musician Mario Rechtern
Meet the artist and veiw the art work from the exchanges with Mario Rechtern, Eric Zinman and New Language Collaborative.
Video reveiew of the performances
http://www.transculturalexchange.org/hereandthere/thing/thing1/pages/page02.htmlhttp://www.
Dear Friends,
My friend Linda Clave will be showing a new series of music paintings based on recent work I have done with her, Mario Rechtern and New Language Collaborative. It is part of a juried cultural exchange that took place in 2008. To see these paintings is an experience you will not forget. Briefly, they are attractive in the visceral sense. Gradually you begin to see the layers unfold (as is often said in the arts)/I hope some of you can attend the performances. This promises to be fun in the Dionysian way as a grascious donation of wine from Vineyard brands features the 2005 Marques de Caceres. Many believe this is one of the best Rioja vintages in 50 years.................for all your senses and of course to your health...............Saluté

peace and regards,

Eric Zinman

Thursday, 16 April @ Outpost 8pm $10 or b/o
Dave Fox 4: “Adventures in Sound”
Bruno Raberg - bass / Josh Rosen - keys / David Tronzo - guitar Dave Fox - drums

Friday 17 April @ OUTPOST, 8pm $5/10
Sounds in Bloom & Chagall Performance Collaborative present

INTERDISCIPLINARY ARTS CABARET

Artists from all disciplines, from poetry to installation art to music, all combine in an extravaganza show at the OUTPOST, with hosts Sounds in Bloom and Momentum.

Saturday 18 April @ Outpost - 3pm, open donation
Linda Clave presents talk #2 on her paintings.

"Brain Plasticity and Paintings of Linda Clave" with the New Language Collaborative.

"Brain plasticity is about how the brain makes new pathways to make your task easier.
Example: The first time you get a new task you are responsible for 100 percent of
allt he work. A few days later you have to do only 80% as the rest of the job gets
done for you by your brain and body. Over time your task is to do 20% or less and
the brain and body know how to do the rest.

"An unusual aspect of this can be seen in some of Linda Clave's art.
You look at some of the paintings and there doesn't seem to be much there.
You come back five minutes later and the image starts connecting with you.
This effect can go on for a while, each time you get more out of the painting.

It seems that the initial image is taken by the brain and it is worked on so that the
second look five minutes later your brain inputs it's own impact on what the painting
represents.

-Walter Ness

Saturday 18 April - 8pm $5/10
Alex Wan & The Cultural Fusion
Standard Jazz Jam and Funk/Hip Hop Jam

Sunday 19 April @ OUTPOST, 8pm $5/10
Transientones presents
Flow-N: Trio
Jacob William - bass / Jim Hobbs - alto / Luther Gray - drums

Monday, 20 April @ Outpost, 8pm $10
Scarecrow Mobius
Dave Bryant - piano / James Merenda - alto sax / Mike Rivard - bass / James Kamal Jones - drums

Thursday, 23 April @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
David Maxwell’s Eastern Front
David Maxwell - piano / Fred Stubbs - turkish ney /Warrick Moses - clarinet / Blake Newman - bass / Mac Ritchey - ud

www.davidmaxwell.com
http://www.myspace.com/maximummaxwellmusic

FRED STUBBS

Frederick Stubbs studied ney under Niyazi Sayin and Ihsan Ozgen. A founding member of Boston's Eurasia Ensemble and Euphony Groove, he has also worked with El Arte Flamenco, Dunya, Mercan Dede, and Subluna. He currently teaches music at the Lexington Montessori School and lectures in World music and Ethnomusicology at UMass Boston.

MAC RITCHEY

Once referred to as a "musical Swiss army knife", multi-instrumentalist Mac Ritchey has been plucking strings for decades. Studying electronic music at Oberlin College and anthropology at Brandeis University, Mac has been influenced by a vast palette of musical traditions and genres. His primary focus for the past 10 years has been on the oud, otherwise known as the Arabic lute. The other hat he most often wears is that of music producer and proprietor of Possum Hall Recording Studios in Carlisle MA. His primary music group 35th Parallel has been performing through the Northeast for the past 8 years. For more about Mac’s music and various projects: http://35thparallel.com and http://possumhall.com

WARRICK MOSES

Originally from South Africa, Warrick Moses holds a Master of Woodwind Performance degree from the Boston University College of Fine Arts. Warrick is currently a graduate ethnomusicology student at Tufts University, where his research interests include kirtan devotional chanting, and hip-hop in Cape Town. As a performing clarinettist, he draws inspiration from Greek and Turkish musical traditions, as well as Ethiopian jazz. Warrick also teaches in the greater Boston area.

Friday, 24 April @ Outpost, 8pm - $5/10
TRAVELIN’ LIGHT
3-part vocals, brass and guitar; Travelin’ Light is about taking jazz tunes and standards and finding new things to say with them. “Bright Moments” and “From This Moment On” meeting for the first time; Peaches En Regalia performed w. original lyrics covering every note in Zappa’s opus; “But Not For Me” with Chet Baker’s signature intro and solo lyricized; “Peggy’s Blue Skylight” with each of Mingus’ ferocious parts and Booker Irvin’s solo covered...

Travelin’ Light singers are Steve Provizer (also on trumpet and trombone), Gabriella Silva and Ed Meradith. They are all veterans of jazz, rock and classical music who find themselves on the same harmonic page. For more, got to www.sonicbids.com/travelinlight. Nick Grondin is our fine guitarist. An active bandleader himself, go to www.nickgrondin.com to find out more.

Saturday 25 April @ Outpost, 3pm
John Mulrooney poetics presents
Corina Copp & Dana Ward

Corina Copp's recent poems and performance texts have appeared in Aufgabe, Antennae, Poets on Painters, Denver Quarterly, EOAGH, 6x6, and Serie Alfa. She is the author of the chaplet Play Air (Belladonna* 2005) and e-book Carpeted (Faux Press 2004). Her short play, "A Week of Kindness" was produced in the 2007 Tiny Theater Festival at the Ontological-Hysteric Theater; and she has performed in plays at Brooklyn Arts Exchange (BAX) and the NYC International Fringe Festival. She lives in Brooklyn, where she is pursuing graduate studies in playwriting.

Dana Ward lives in Cincinnati where he edits Cy Press. He is the author of books like Goodnight Voice (House Press, 2008) the Drought (Open 24hrs, forthcoming 2009) & others on the way. He works as an advocate for adult literacy. He's made some terrific new friends these last weeks, & for that he's very grateful.
Saturday, 25 April @ Outpost, 8pm $5/10
Steve Lantner Quartet
Allan Chase – saxophones
Steve Lantner - piano
Joe Morris – bass
Luther Gray – drums

Sunday 26 April @ OUTPOST, 8pm $5/10
Ian Thal presents
a staged reading of his play "Total War"

Press Contact: IanMThal@gmail.com • http://ianthal.blogspot.com • 617-547-2048

Ian Thal hosts a staged reading of his play, Total War which was recently named a semi-finalist in the 2009 Dorothy Silver Playwriting Competition.
Total War is a five-act play set at a Catholic university where the student newspaper has published a Holocaust denial advertisement. While faculty and staff attempt to show solidarity with the small Jewish community on campus, an anarchist-cell using the nom de guerre of “Total War” begins a campaign of guerrilla art attacks before a predictable dialogue on free speech and religious pluralism can begin.

Though a work of fiction, Total War was inspired by events Thal witnessed while attending graduate school, exploring the history (and potential futures) of Jewish-Catholic relations, historical memory, and the conflict between grass-roots activism and institutional power. It is a story made timely after the scandal surrounding Vatican’s recent lifting of the excommunication of the anti-Semitic Society of Saint Pius X and its Holocaust-denying Bishop, Richard Williamson.

The staged reading is for an audience to experience a stripped-down version of a work-in-progress, and an opportunity for the author to listen to actors and solicit feedback.

Bio:

Ian Thal is best known locally as a mime, puppeteer, and poet. He has performed with Bread and Puppet Theatre, was a founding member of Cosmic Spelunker Theater and frequently performs with the commedia dell’arte troupe, i Sebastiani. He has taught mime and commedia at The Huntington Theatre, The Stoneham Theatre, and Open Air Circus. His poetry has appeared in such magazines as BOOM! For Real, Flash!Point, Poesy, Ibbetson Street Press, and Crooked River Press and the anthologies Becoming Fire: Spiritual Writings from Rising Generations (Andover, MA: Andover-Newton Publications), Tokens: Contemporary Poetry of the Subway (New York: P & Q Press.) and Out of the Blue Writers Unite, and the forthcoming Crude: Poetry After the Age of Oil (Columbus, OH: Pudding House Press) and has been exhibited at Boston City Hall and incorporated into a public installation at the 2003 Boston Cyberarts Festival. His blog about his experiences with Bread and Puppet Theatre was recently placed on the reading list for a course at Royal Holloway, University of London.

Monday 27 April @ Outpost - 8pm, open donation
Small Animal Project presents
a reading by Noy Holland and Kate Schapira

Noy Holland is the author of two collections of short fiction, What Begins With Bird (FC2), and The Spectacle of the Body (Knopf), and the recipient of fellowships from the NEA and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Her stories have appeared in The Quarterly, Conjunctions, Black Warrior Review, Ploughshares, Open City, New York Tyrant, Denver Quarterly, NOON, and others. She is a Professor in the MFA program for Writers and Poets at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where she co-directs the Juniper Initiative.

Kate Schapira lives in Providence, where she writes, teaches, and runs the Publicly Complex reading series. In addition to making her own chapbooks, she's the author of four chapbooks published by other people, including The Love of Freak Millways and Tango Wax (Cy Gist Press) and two mini-chaps from Rope-A-Dope Press. She just started working with first graders as a Writer in the Schools.

Tuesday 28 April
private rehearsal

Thursday, 30 April @ Outpost 8pm, $10 or b/o
Dijkstra / Karayorgis / Newton
Jorrit Dijkstra - alto sax / Pandelis Karayorgis - piano
Curt Newton - drums www.jorritdijkstra.com

We now have a web page specifically for this trio, with sound:
http://karayorgis.com/DKNtrio.html

(some) CONCERT SERIES AT OUTPOST:

VORTEX - 1st & 3rd Fridays, 8pm $5/10
Microtonal soundscapes painted over a radiant sea of anarchy. New and improvisational music, featuring various guest artists in different incarnations, seeking truth and the voice that brought them to this point. Hosted by Todd Brunel - http://www.clarinetconspiracy.com

subconsciouscafe new chamber music : - occasional Saturdays, 8pm $10 or b/o
Rob Chalfen's long-running improvised music series continues at OUTPOST and elsewhere. Innovative chamber music at play on the spectra of jazz, electronic, classical and world. Also may be dug by the non-subconscious mind.
robchalfen@hotmail.com

THE WHIMSY! - 1 Sunday/mo, 8PM $5 or b/o
Song & poesy, bohemian vaudeville, open mic
Hosted by Markus Nechay - markusnechay@yahoo.com

Steve Lantner presents : 4th Saturdays
slantner@comcast.net

Dave Pryant presents : monthly, by announcement
DaveBryant1@comcast.net

SERIES PRODUCERS:
subconsciouscafe : Rob Chalfen : robchalfen@hotmail.com
VORTEX : Todd Brunel : thbrunel@earthlink.net
The Whimsy! : Markus Nechay - markusnechay@yahoo.com
Steve Lantner presents : slantner@comcast.net http://stevelantner.com/
Courtney Brown
Dave Bryant presents : DaveBryant1@comcast.net
Josh Jefferson : jefferson.joshua@gmail.com
Joseph Moffett : moffjazz@comcast.net
John Mulrooney : poetics - jmulrron2002@yahoo.com

DISCLAIMER:
This disclaimer is for reflexive and tautological purposes only, and may not be construed as applying to any errors, typos, or logical absurdities, real or imagined, that may be contained in this notice, without further notice.

Thank you,
Harlan T. Flash
Corresponding Secretary

OUTPOST186 Concert & Event Schedule,March 2009

2009-03-01T12:46:00.063-05:00

Linda Clave painting - see 29 March, 1 May, & gallery talks 16 & 18 April

MARCH

SUNDAY 1 MARCH @ Outpost, 8pm - $10 or b/o
JUSTIN PEAKE (New Oleans)
modified turntable, electrified metal percussion, tongue drum, drumset.

www.myspace.com/justinpeake
www.myspace.com/beautifulbellsmusic

+Sknny Vinny
Josh Jefferson - sax / Andrew Eisenberg - percussion
myspace.com/skinnyvinnyjjape

Wednesday, 4 March @ Outpost - 8PM, $10 or b/o
THE SERIES presents:
Walter Wright - interactive video
Lou Cohen - laptop powered by csound
+
Steve Norton - soprano, alto and baritone saxophones, bass clarinet

Thursday 5 March @ OUTPOST, 8pm $10 or b/o
Courtney Brown presents
Sidewalk Tzara (series) --> electronics, experimental music, and absurdity, with:

MATT WESTON
Solo Percussion and Electronics
+
Woo!! Brown Duo
+
Courtney Brown - voice, accordion, laptop, electronics
Justin Woo - turntables, laptop, electronics
+
Justin Woo - poetry
+
Taber/Glancy/Allon Story Duble

Jon Glancy - drums
Abe Taber - bassist
Allon Story Duble - piano

Woo/Brown Duo performance:
"Water Torture"
A performance art improvisation with goblets of water, baking soda and vinegar, mad scientists, contact mics, and food coloring. Bring umbrellas.

"Breathing"
A non-meditative exploration of breath with bellows like lungs. Combining vernacular styles and experimental sensibilities.

BIOS:
Matt Weston:
plays percussion and electronics, and has performed throughout the US and in Europe. He has appeared on CNN, VH1, and CBS TV. His work has earned critical praise from such publications as the Wire, the Village Voice, Signal To Noise, Cadence, All About Jazz, Grooves, and Bananafish. His solo album Vacuums has garnered international acclaim, as have his recordings with Barn Owl, Tizzy, and Thrillpillow.

Woo!! Brown Duo
Courtney Brown and Justin Woo first started playing dance music together, but then things quickly got weird. Their first public collaboration occurred the Warper Party in NYC, exploring the sound of breath in bellows, motion sensors, electronics, and voice. Courtney is an experimental composer and performance artist inspired by tango, flamenco, John Cage, and early goth rock. Her compositions have been featured in the Chosen Vale Trumpet Seminar, the Festival of New Musics, the Boston CyberArts Festival, SEAMUS, 60x60, and more. Justin Woo is a poet, writer, and dj/turntablist. He has been DJing since 2006 and has spun at events for numerous organizations in the NJ / NYC area.

Taber/Glancy/Allon Story Duble
Abe Taber and Jon Glancy have played in various unknown rock, improv and anti-pop bands
for over a decade with a rotating cast of bearded red-men. Allon Story Dubler is an exceptionally bearded red-man with both classical and pop tendencies formerly of the Thungs. They have all played together exactly once.

Friday 6 March @ OUTPOST, 8pm $5/10
VORTEX series for new & improvised music presents:

"The Morris / Sandvik Duo"
Vanessa Morris - vocal
Scott Sandvik - guitar & vocal
+
"Dennis Shafer / Todd Brunel"
Dennis Shafer - sax / Todd Brunel - clarinet /

Vanessa Morris, vocalist, performs with the Morris/Merenda voice/saxophone duo, her own quartet, and with James Merenda’s Masked Marvels. Her unique vocal style is a blend of many influences ranging from Billie Holiday and Betty Carter to Ornette Coleman and Joao Gilberto. Ms. Morris teaches piano
and voice in the New England Conservatory Preparatory and Continuing Education Program as well as in her private studio in Roslindale.

Scott Sandvik brings all the musical diversity of his aural transcriptions and performances of traditional African-American a cappella music from his solo work to this duo with vocalist and educator Vanessa Morris. Formed in Fall 1998, the combination of a jazz and classical-influenced acoustic guitarist and a historically knowledgeable vocalist performing music that originally featured a single, sometimes wordless vocal line offers boundless potential. Using the originals to spark their creative imaginations, the duo creates a new, reverent approach to performing the nearly forgotten source material.

This year, Dennis Shafer was presented a Legacy Award by Meryl Streep from the Creativity Foundation. A native of Lawrence, Kansas, he returned to Boston this year from Paris, France where he studied with contemporary saxophonist Jean-Michel Goury.

Saturday 7 March @ OUTPOST - 8pm $5/10
Jeremy Harman/Keith Miller/
Jeremy Harman - solo cello
+ Keith Miller - solo bass,
+ Jeremy Harman and Christian Lilly - free music for electric cello/loops and drums

An evening of original composed and improvised music for strings... featuring solo compositions of Jeremy Harman (cello) and Keith Miller (bass), and a set of groove-based improvised music for electric cello/loops and drums with Harman and Christian Lilly (drums).

Sunday 8 March @ OUTPOST, 8pm %5/10
Gleason’s Twins performs composed/improvised settings of poems by its members:
Joe Moffett - trumpet / Kristin Slipp - voice
+
Jim Hobbs - solo saxophone
(Fully Celebrated Orchestra)

Wednesday, 11 March @ Outpost - 8PM, $10 or b/o
THE SERIES presents:
ernst karel - electronics
+ jay sullivan - turntable/ electronics

Thursday 12 March @ Outpost - 8pm $5/10
"Adam Bartczak Republic"

World and funk inspired jazz.

Juan Chavez - violin
Tucker Antell - reeds
Will Caviness - trumpet
Adam Bartczak - trombone
Will Graefe - guitar
Alex Brown - piano
Tal Gamlieli - bass
Mike Calabrese - drums

www.adambartczak.com

Thursday 13 March @ Outpost - 8pm $10 or b/o
Dave Bryant presents
Bryant / Leonard / Turner / Bowman
Dave Bryant – keyboards
Neil Leonard – saxophones and electronics
John Turner – bass
Chris Bowman – drums

Saturday 14 March 8pm $5/10
Alex Wan & The Cultural Fusion
Standard Jazz Jam and Funk/Hip Hop Jam
Alex Wan - guitar / Zack Federick - bass / Wing La - drums/ Mihoko Abe - keys / Matt Wan - trombone / Ted Wan - percussion

Sunday, 15 March @ Outpost - 8pm, $10 or b/o
Charles Licata Ensemble
Tom Halter - trumpet / Charles Licata - sax / Mike Shea - piano / Larry Roland - bass / James Kamal Jones - drums

Wednesday, 18 March @ Outpost - 8PM, $10 or b/o
THE SERIES presents:
curt newton - solo drums
+ nate mcbride - solo bass
+ time & materials - newton/mcbride duo

Thursday,19 March @ Outpost 8pm $10 or b/o
Dave Fox 4: “Adventures in Sound”
Bruno Raberg - bass / Josh Rosen - keys / David Tronzo - guitar Dave Fox - drums

Friday, 20 March @ Outpost, 8pm $5/10
JOSH JEFFERSON presents
Andrew Eisenberg - solo
+lou cohen / josh jefferson duo
+jules vaseylenko / bhob rainey duo

Saturday, 21 March @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
subconsciouscafe presents
KEVIN FRENETTE QUARTET
Kevin Frenette - guitar
James Rohr - fender rhodes
Curt Newton - drums
Ryan McGuire - bass
http://www.myspace.com/kevinfrenette

Boston area guitarist Kevin Frenette has performed throughout the Northeast USA making music that is inspired by both avant-garde jazz and contemporary improvisation. He studied guitar, composition, and music theory at UMASS-Dartmouth where he received a BA in Theory/Composition. He has performed and/or recorded with such artists as Tatsuya Nakatani, Jack Wright, Joe Giardullo, Pandelis Karayorgis, Daniel Levin, Andy McWain, Forbes Graham, Luther Gray, Jane Wang, James Rohr, Curt Newton, John McLellan, Croix Galipault, Gordon Allen, Sarah Weaver, Harvey Sorgen, Brian Melick, Michael Snow, Dan DeChellis, Gwen Laster, Larry Packer, Martha Colby, Lori Freedman, David Gamper, Al Margolis, Ryan McGuire, Jeff Kimmel, Adam Dotson, Joe Moffett, Chris Vellieux, Ricardo Donoso, Jules Vasylenko, Jonathan LaMaster, Andrew Hickman, Eric Platz, Todd Keating and Gabe Cabral. In 2007, Fuller Street Music released Kevin’s first date as a leader: CONNECTIONS. That album featured Frenette with Tatsuya Nakatani on percussion, Andy McWain on piano and Todd Keating on bass.

http://www.myspace.com/kevinfrenette
http://cdbaby.com/cd/kevinfrenette

James Rohr has been wrestling with the piano since the age of 5. Sometimes he tries to play all 88 keys at once, sometimes just a few. He began playing professionally at 14 at a BBQ joint in New Mexico where he played a piano for ribs. In the mid 1990's, James formed a piano trio with Nate Mcbride on bass, and Curt Newton on drums. Together they released three recordings that a few people in Europe and Canada heard. James has had the honor and privelige of playing with many of the great improvisors in the Boston/NYC area. Currently, James is interested in writing and performing songs with his band, the blue ribbons, which he describes as Ray Charles and Johnny Cash meet Captain Beefheart and Sun Ra.

Curt Newton coaxes whispers from drumsets and swing from old tin cans, weaving the jazz, rock, folk, and experimental music traditions together in the spirit of serious playfulness. Over the past two decades he's performed across the U.S., Canada and Europe and recorded over 20 CDs with some of contemporary music's leading figures including Ken Vandermark, Joe Morris, Nate McBride, Pandelis Karayorgis and Charlie Kohlhase. Curt studied drumset with Bob Gullotti and has a Master's degree in Jazz Performance from New England Conservatory, neither of which bears any responsibility for his drumset arrangement of Lutoslawski's String Quartet.

Bassist and composer Ryan McGuire has performed with Luther Gray, Dave Gross, Greg Kelley, Kayo Dot, Ricardo Donoso, Raqib Hassan and the Interdimensional Science Research Orchestra, Forbes Graham and others, and has toured the U.S. and Canada on several occasions. Originally from Cape Cod, McGuire studied Performance at UMass Lowell and composition at the Berklee College of Music. He has also played on recordings released by Tzadik, Hydrahead, Robotic Empire, Sound Devastation, Semata, and Holy Roar Records. He currently performs with Ehnahre, the Epicureans, Dilettante, the Kevin Frenette 4, and the Calliope Quartet- and on occasion, plays solo.

Sunday 22 March @ OUTPOST, 8pm $5 or b/o
markus nechay presents
“The Whimsy!” Song & poesy, bohemian vaudeville, open mic

Tuesday 24 March @ OUTPOST, 8pm $5/10
Transientones presents
Jacob William & Lewis Porter
Jacob William - bass / Lewis Porter - piano / Jun Young Song - Drums

LEWIS PORTER
Lewis Porter, PhD, is a jazz pianist and Professor of Music at Rutgers University in Newark, where he directs the Master's program in jazz history. He is known worldwide for his teaching and for his many books and articles, especially John Coltrane: His Life and Music (published in English in 1998; published in French and Italian editions in 2007). He edited the John Coltrane Reference which appeared in January 2008. He has also published books on jazz history and on Lester Young, and many articles. As a pianist and keyboardist, he is known for a free and open attitude, and an ability to contribute to any type of musical situation. For example, he has performed recently with such artists as Bela Fleck, Wycliffe Gordon, Ravi Coltrane, Joe Morris, Badal Roy, and Jane Ira Bloom; he performed in Europe in November 2007 with Dave Liebman and others. His latest CD, recorded live at Siena Jazz, is Italian Encounter, and it has received only rave reviews. Jazz Times says that Porter is "a helluva piano player," and other critics have written that Dr. Porter "is a deep thinker" whose music is "founded upon depth and cunning use of space." His performance schedule and extended audio and video clips are at http://www.Lewisporter.com

Wednesday, 25 March @ Outpost, 8pm
the SERIES presents
Jefferson/Livolsi/Voigt/Vela
+Ahser - solo electronics

joshua jefferson - alto saxophone
joseph livolsi - drums
john voigt - bass
computer visuals by Vela.

Thursday, 26 March @ Outpost - 8pm, $10 or b/o
"IDIOLECT"
Greg Albert - bass
Devin Collins - drums
Tom Dowd - guitar
Jeremy Vovcsko - alto sax

IDIOLECT is a little-used term to describe the individual language each person develops within the larger context of their culture and society. In this vein, the members of the up-and-coming avant-jazz group Idiolect have pieced together a language that is entirely their own. A language made up of leftover scraps from once-proud mainstream styles like jazz, rock, reggae and funk; yet reinvigorated by the structural genius of 20th century classical music and the sheer violence and beauty of Idiolect's unique improvisational talents. The results are both groundbreaking and reassuring, alien and familiar. Despite the complexity of some of the musical concepts presented, Idiolect maintains a deep connection with open-minded musical audiences by using the terminology of these popular musical genres. Live performance video at www.youtube.com/toddowhams

Friday, 27 March @ Outpost - $10 or b/o
ami mills presents
"Silence Friction"
Ami Mills - trumpet
Derek Beckvold - Bari Sax
Andrew Hock - Guitar
Moses Eder - Drums
Logan Strosahl - Alto Sax
bass - TBA

+"Trio"
Dereck Beckvold - Bari Sax
Luke Moldof - Guitar
Bob Jordan - drums
+ "Toilet Phone"

Saturday, 28 March @ Outpost, 3pm $5/10
john mulrooney poetics presents
Jim Dunn & Simon Pettet

Jim Dunn’s first collection Soft Launch, is the first title in the publishing collaboration, B Is for Beans, between Bootstrap Productions and Pressed Wafer, featuring Boston based poets. Gerrit Lansing has written it contains "flashes of emotional perception that transfigure the sad remains of the City" Dunnʼs previous collection is CONVENIENT HOLE.

Simon Pettet's many books include most recently Hearth, Selected Poems and More Winnowed Fragments, all published by Talisman. He edited The Selected Art Writings of James Schuyler and collaborated with Duncan Hannah on Abundant Treasures and with Rudy Burckhardt on Conversations About Everything and Talking Pictures. British by birth, he lives in New York City.

Saturday, 28 March @ Outpost, 8pm $5/10
steve lantner presents
"Steve Lantner Trio"
Steve Lantner - piano / Luther Gray - drums / Joe Morris - bass
http://stevelantner.com/

Painting by Linda Clave
OUTPOST 186 Presents a rare solo show of works by Linda Clave:
IMPROVISED ACTION, highly imaginative and accomplished music paintings in acrylic will be on display between March 29 through May 1

Art Exhibition and performances and reception including live painting:
March 29 and April 4
Gallery Talks: April 16 and 18, 3pm
Information: 617-470-9200
www.lindaclavearts.com
SUNDAY 29 MARCH @ Outpost 8pm $15 or b/o
The Exchange:Paintings and Performances
Painter Linda Clave inspired by Austrian Saxophonist Mario Rechtern for TransCultural Exchange 2009 "Here There and Everywhere" joined by Eric Zinman Ensemble and the New Language Collaborative for live painting and musical performances.

Eric Zinman Ensemble
Eric Zinman - piano / John Voigt - bass / Joe Livolsi - drums

Linda Clave - action painting

Dear Friends,
My friend Linda Clave will be showing a new series of music paintings based on recent work I have done with her, Mario Rechtern and New Language Collaborative. It is part of a juried cultural exchange that took place in 2008. To see these paintings is an experience you will not forget. Briefly, they are attractive in the visceral sense. Gradually you begin to see the layers unfold (as is often said in the arts)...I hope some of you can attend the performances. This promises to be fun in the Dionysian way as a gracious donation of wine from Vineyard brands features the 2005 Marques de Caceres. Many believe this is one of the best Rioja vintages in 50 years.................for all your senses and of course to your health...............Saluté

peace and regards,

Eric Zinman

OUTPOST186 Concert & Event Schedule, February 2009

2009-02-03T20:15:00.033-05:00

"Potpourri" - Art from U of South Carolina: see 8 Feb.
image: Untitled #1, Nick Oleszczuk
OUTPOST: 186 ½ Hampshire St., Inman Sq. Cambridge - All Ages

NEWS: 19 August - Outpost just got a fabulous Yamaha U3 full-size upright piano! Come check it out!

OUTPOST DIRECTIONS: Near cr. Prospect, opposite Hess gas, behind 7-11. Big ‘186’ on R side. Follow walk at Left to gallery, REAR.

OUTPOST INFO:
All shows 8pm doors unless otherwise noted.
Admission by donation at door.
No reservations, come early!
All shows all ages.
No smoking, alcohol please.

GALLERY HOURS:
Gallery exhibits may be viewed during scheduled shows or by appointment.
CONTACT: robchalfen@hotmail.com617.876.0860

EMAIL LIST SIGN-UP: http://Outpost186.FanBridge.com

WE GET PRESS!!

Hhere’s a nice review of the 24 Nov. 08 Scarecrow Mobius gig at the Outpost by Jon Garelick of the Boston Phoenix: http://thephoenix.com/Boston/Music/72937-Mixed-grill//

Outpost featured in Cambridge Chronicle, 19 June 2008:
An-Outpost-on-the-edge-of-music

John Voigt featured in Cambridge Chronicle, 14 July 2008

Nice write up on Outpost in the Glob, Sunday 27 Jan. 2008 Outpost is the 2nd item:
http://www.boston.com/ae/music/articles/2008/01/26/six_nights_out____what_youre_hear_who_youll_meet/

on Richard Sandler's Films:
http://www.bloggernews.net/113600
On our "Small Arts Group Die Off", 13 January:
Globe: http://www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/articles/2008/01/12/small_arts_groups_are_dying_to_be_heard/
Big Red & Shiny:
http://www.bigredandshiny.com/cgi-bin/retrieve.pl?issue=issue75&section=article&article=DONT_DRINK_THE_1485440
BILL MARX/The Arts Fuse: Boston Foundation to Small Theatres - Drop Dead Please!
http://www.theartsfuse.com/2008/01/20/boston-foundation-to-small-theaters-drop-dead-please/#more-401

FEBRUARY

Sunday, 1 February @ Outpost, 8pm $5/10
Dijkstra / Karayorgis / Newton
Jorrit Dijkstra - alto sax / Pandelis Karayorgis - piano /
Curt Newton - drums
www.jorritdijkstra.com
myspace.com/jorritdijkstra

CDs:
http://cdbaby.com/all/jorritdijkstra

Wednesday, 4 February 2009, @ Outpost - 8PM sharp, $5/10
Brendan Murray and Bhob Rainey - laptop duo
Gordon Marshall - poetry

THE SERIES is every Wednesday at Outpost 186
For listings, go to http://seriesimprov.blogspot.com/

Thursday, 5 February @ Outpost, 8pm $5/10
Courtney Brown presents
Sidewalk Tzara --> electronics, experimental music, and absurdity, with:
COURTNEY BROWN
Her works are heavily influenced by tango, Weimar cabaret, flamenco, and early goth rock, and often cross into performance art. http://www.myspace.com/courtneydbrown

Kirstina Wolfe - electronics, gamba, video (solo)
http://eamusic.dartmouth.edu/~kristina

Hair Style as Performance,with hair stylist,
Alissandra Hipona sound, video, and hair

Jacob Richman and Kirsten Volness
http://www.kirstenvolness.com/
http://www.jacob-richman.com/

Friday 6 February @ OUTPOST, 8pm $5/10
VORTEX series for new & improvised music presents:
"The Vortex 4"
Phil Neighbors - vibes
Todd Brunel - bass clarinet
Tom Lubelczyk - bass
Jerome Deupree - drums

Space music from the other side of the universe...
www.clarinetconspiracy.com

Saturday 7 February 8pm $5/10
Alex Wan & The Cultural Fusion
Standard Jazz Jam and Funk/Hip Hop Jam
Alex Wan - guitar / Zack Federick - bass / Wing La - drums/ Mihoko Abe - keys / Matt Wan - trombone / Ted Wan - percussion

Untitled, Jerry Slayton
Sunday, 8 February @ Outpost, 2-6pm free
ART OPENING: “POTPOURRI” ~
Artists from the University of South Carolina @ Columbia

Outpost 186 Presents works by MFA students from the University of South Carolina @ Columbia, highly imaginative & accomplished works in oil, acrylic & ceramic. Columbia's art scene is an underground mecca of talented artists in need of a little encouragement to show their faces. Especially USC's artists: they have talent and a new prospective on things and have rarely had a chance to show off-campus.

+Dennis Shafer presents Music by “Sounds In Bloom” (Longy)

Artists: Dana Childs, Huy Chu (ceramics), Nick Oleszczuk, and Jerry Slayton

Artist Contact: Heather Bauer - heatherraebauer@yahoo.com, 893.979.1024

Performances at the openings:
Dennis Shafer presents:
-Sounds in Bloom www.myspace.com/dnorma
-Norma Szokolyai - poetry, movement, spoken word
-Dennis Shafer - saxophones www.dennisshafer.com
-with Special Guest Simon Tedeschi www.simontedeschi.com

Sounds in Bloom will premiere works by David Krebs and compose performance art in reaction to the exhibition of art by Nick Oleszczuk, Dana Childs, Jerry Slayton and Huy Chu. Don't miss this exciting, fresh new art in all its dimensions!

Contact: Dennis Shafer, Longy School of Music - www.dennisshafer.com, 785-979-8675

Sunday, 8 February @ Outpost, 8pm $5/10
Dijkstra / Karayorgis / Newton
Jorrit Dijkstra - alto sax / Pandelis Karayorgis - piano /
Curt Newton - drums
www.jorritdijkstra.com
myspace.com/jorritdijkstra

CDs:
http://cdbaby.com/all/jorritdijkstra

Wednesday, 11 February @ Outpost - 8PM, $5/10
The Series presents:

Jorrit Dijkstra - solo saxophone
+
Jed Speare and Forrest Larson

THE SERIES is every Wednesday at Outpost 186
For listings, go to http://seriesimprov.blogspot.com/

Thursday 12 February @ Outpost - 8pm $10 or b/o
Dave Bryant presents
Bryant / Merenda / Turner / Rosenthal
Dave Bryant - keyboards
James Merenda – alto saxophone
John Turner – bass
Eric Rosenthal – drums

Jeff Platz by Jake Playmo
Friday, 13 February @ Outpost - 8pm $10 or b/o
Jeff Platz Quartet
Jeff Platz - guitar / Jim Hobbs - sax / Kit Demos - bass / John McLellan - drums

Saturday, 14 February @ Outpost, 8pm $5/10
Transientones presents
The Jacob William Quintet
Laurence Cook - Drums / Steve Lantner - Piano
Jim Hobbs - Alto / Forbes Graham - Trumpet / Jacob William - bass

Sunday 15 February @ OUTPOST, 8pm $5 or b/o
markus nechay presents
“The Whimsy!” Song & poesy, bohemian vaudeville, open mic

Wednesday, 18 February @ Outpost - 8PM, $5/10
THE SERIES presents:
Microtonal duet:
Matt Samolis - flute, with
Thadd Comstock - guitar
+
Charlie Kohlhase - saxophones
Jef Charland - bass
Mike Charland - drums

For listings, go to http://seriesimprov.blogspot.com/

Thursday, 19 February @ Outpost 8pm $10 or b/o
Dave Fox 4: “Adventures in Sound”
Bruno Raberg - bass / Josh Rosen - keys / David Tronzo - guitar Dave Fox - drums

Friday, 20 February 8pm $10 or b/o
DANIEL LEVIN - solo cello
+ANDREW NEUMANN - solo live electronics
http://www.adneumann.com/ad.html

This solo cello concert is part of a new project entitled "The Seven Layers of Consciousness".
For this project, I use the cello to explore different areas of my psyche.

*Levin has a sound that ranges from subtle and understated to
aggressive; with admirable technique as a performer and a compositional
concept that blends structure with freewheeling exploration, he deserves
to have his name added to the short list of cellists who are making a
mark in improvisational music.*
--John Kelman, All About Jazz Magazine

Daniel Levin was born in 1974 in Burlington, Vermont. He began playing
the cello at age six. He has performed and/or recorded with Billy Bang, Borah Bergman, Tim Berne, Anthony Braxton, Rob Brown, Gerald Cleaver, Whit Dickey, Mark Dresser, Ingebrigt Haker-Flaten, Joe Morris, Joe McPhee, William Parker, Warren Smith, Ken Vandermark, and others. Daniel has recorded as a sideman for Clean Feed, EMANEM, Not Two, and RogueART, and as a leader, for Riti Records, HatHut, and Clean Feed.

www.daniel-levin.com

Saturday, 21 February @ Outpost, 8pm $5/10
Dijkstra / Karayorgis / Newton
Jorrit Dijkstra - alto sax / Pandelis Karayorgis - piano /
Curt Newton - drums
www.jorritdijkstra.com
myspace.com/jorritdijkstra

Sunday, 22 February 8pm $5/10
Alex Wan & The Cultural Fusion
Standard Jazz Jam and Funk/Hip Hop Jam
Alex Wan - guitar / Zack Federick - bass / Wing La - drums/ Mihoko Abe - keys / Matt Wan - trombone / Ted Wan - percussion

Monday 23 February @ Outpost - 8pm, $10 or b/o
Charles Licata Ensemble
Tom Halter - trumpet / Charles Licata - sax / Mike Shea - piano / Larry Roland - bass / Bobby Ward - drums

Wednesday, 25 February @ Outpost - 8PM, $5/10
THE SERIES presents:

Andrew Neumann - electronics

+Little Mystery
Lair Raker - trombone
Eric Dahlman - trumpet
Jim Warshauer - woodwinds
Michael Knoblach - drums.

Friday, 27 February @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Michael Cantor & the Goosepimp Orchestra
www.myspace.com/goosepimp
www.goosepimp.net

Saturday, 28 February @ Outpost, 8pm $5/10
steve lantner presents
"Lantner/Chase"
Steve Lantner - piano / Allan Chase - alto

(some) CONCERT SERIES AT OUTPOST:

VORTEX - 1st & 3rd Fridays, 8pm $5/10
Microtonal soundscapes painted over a radiant sea of anarchy. New and improvisational music, featuring various guest artists in different incarnations, seeking truth and the voice that brought them to this point. Hosted by Todd Brunel - http://www.clarinetconspiracy.com

CELLO ALLEY - 2nd Fridays, 8pm $5/10
New & Improvised Music
We will present all aspects of the modern improvising string player, in solo and ensemble settings, with electronics and without. Hosted by Robert Rivera
www.myspace.com/riveracellist

subconsciouscafe new chamber music : - occasional Saturdays, 8pm $10 or b/o
Rob Chalfen's long-running improvised music series continues at OUTPOST and elsewhere. Innovative chamber music at play on the spectra of jazz, electronic, classical and world. Also may be dug by the non-subconscious mind.
robchalfen@hotmail.com

THE WHIMSY! - 1 Sunday/mo, 8PM $5 or b/o
Song & poesy, bohemian vaudeville, open mic
Hosted by Markus Nechay - markusnechay@yahoo.com

The Series - every Wednesday (exc holidays)
Experimental & jazz-related improvised music
David Gross - gdavidgross@yahoo.com

Steve Lantner presents : 4th Saturdays
slantner@comcast.net

Dave Pryant presents : monthly, by announcement
DaveBryant1@comcast.net

SERIES PRODUCERS:
subconsciouscafe : Rob Chalfen : robchalfen@hotmail.com
VORTEX : Todd Brunel : thbrunel@earthlink.net
Cello Alley : Robert Rivera : cello_alley@hotmail.com
The Whimsy! : Markus Nechay - markusnechay@yahoo.com
Steve Lantner presents : slantner@comcast.net http://stevelantner.com/
Courtney Brown
Dave Bryant presents : DaveBryant1@comcast.net
Josh Jefferson : jefferson.joshua@gmail.com
David Gross : 'The Series' - gdavidgross@yahoo.com,
http://seriesimprov.blogspot.com/
Joseph Moffett : moffjazz@comcast.net
John Mulrooney : poetics - jmulrron2002@yahoo.com

DISCLAIMER:
This disclaimer is for reflexive and tautological purposes only, and may not be construed as applying to any errors, typos, or logical absurdities, real or imagined, that may be contained in this notice, without further notice.

Thank you,
Harlan T. Flash
Corresponding Secretary

OUTPOST186 Concert & Event Schedule, January 2009

2008-12-26T11:50:00.062-05:00

"Potpourri" - Art from U of South Carolina: see 8 Feb.
image: Untitled #1, Nick Oleszczuk
OUTPOST: 186 ½ Hampshire St., Inman Sq. Cambridge - All Ages

NEWS: 19 August - Outpost just got a fabulous Yamaha U3 full-size upright piano! Come check it out!

OUTPOST DIRECTIONS: Near cr. Prospect, opposite Hess gas, behind 7-11. Big ‘186’ on R side. Follow walk at Left to gallery, REAR.

OUTPOST INFO:
All shows 8pm doors unless otherwise noted.
Admission by donation at door.
No reservations, come early!
All shows all ages.
No smoking, alcohol please.

GALLERY HOURS:
Gallery hours are 1-4pm Tuesday through Sunday during exhibitions or by appointment.
CONTACT: robchalfen@hotmail.com617.876.0860

WE GET PRESS!!

Hhere’s a nice review of the 24 Nov. 08 Scarecrow Mobius gig at the Outpost by Jon Garelick of the Boston Phoenix: http://thephoenix.com/Boston/Music/72937-Mixed-grill//

Outpost featured in Cambridge Chronicle, 19 June 2008:
An-Outpost-on-the-edge-of-music

John Voigt featured in Cambridge Chronicle, 14 July 2008

Nice write up on Outpost in the Glob, Sunday 27 Jan. 2008 Outpost is the 2nd item:
http://www.boston.com/ae/music/articles/2008/01/26/six_nights_out____what_youre_hear_who_youll_meet/

on Richard Sandler's Films:
http://www.bloggernews.net/113600
On our "Small Arts Group Die Off", 13 January:
Globe: http://www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/articles/2008/01/12/small_arts_groups_are_dying_to_be_heard/
Big Red & Shiny:
http://www.bigredandshiny.com/cgi-bin/retrieve.pl?issue=issue75&section=article&article=DONT_DRINK_THE_1485440
BILL MARX/The Arts Fuse: Boston Foundation to Small Theatres - Drop Dead Please!
http://www.theartsfuse.com/2008/01/20/boston-foundation-to-small-theaters-drop-dead-please/#more-401

JANUARY
Todd Brunel
Friday 2 January @ OUTPOST, 8pm $5/10
VORTEX series for new & improvised music presents:
The Vortex Other Dimension Ensemble
Timothy Macri - flute / Harris Shilakowsky - violin and electronics
Todd Brunel - clarinets / Emile Tobenfeld - visual poetics / John Mulrooney - spoken word

This special evening of interactive multi-media will feature a transcription for solo flute of the JS Bach Tocatta and fugue in D, an adaptation of the Corelli Christmas Concerto, the JS Bach Chromatic Fantasy and solo clarinet microtonal improvisations.

Note: this show is rescheduled from the 19 Dec snowstorm.

Saturday, 3 January @ Outpost - 8pm $5/10
JOE MOFFETT / LUTHER GRAY
Joe Moffett - trumpet / Luther Gray - drums

Wednesday 7 January @ Outpost, 8pm $5/10
“THE SERIES” presents
improvised/experimental/noise

Grizzler Big Band --- HUGE ---

Dave Gross, sax
Brendan Murray, electronics
Angela Sawyer, electronics, gadgets, toys
Polly Hanson, drums
Forbes Graham, trumpet
Jay Sullivan, turntable, electronics
Steve Norton, reeds
Ryan McGuire, bass
Jules Vaselenko, reeds
Jed Speare, electronics
Noell Dorsey, voice
Jarrod Fowler, percussion
Joshua Jefferson, reeds
David Michael Curry - viola, electronics
Lou Cohen, laptop powered by csound
http://seriesimprov.blogspot.com/

Jim Hobbs
Saturday, 10 January @ Outpost - 8pm $5/10
Transientones presents
william / hobbs / gray
jacob william - bass / jim hobbs - alto / luther gray - drums

Note: the folling show is cancelled, to be resched tba.

Sunday 11 January 8pm
Alex Wan & The Cultural Fusion
Standard Jazz Jam and Funk/Hip Hop Jam
Alex Wan - guitar / Zack Federick - bass / Alec Guiliani - drums/ Mihoko Abe - keys / Matt Wan - trombone / Ted Wan - percussion

Wednesday 14 January @ Outpost, 8pm $5/10
“THE SERIES” presents
experimental/improvised/noise
features:
ophibre
+empty house cooperative

http://seriesimprov.blogspot.com/

Tronzo & Raberg
Thursday, 15 January @ Outpost 8pm $10 or b/o
The Dave Fox 4:“Adventures in Sound”
Bruno Raberg - bass / Josh Rosen - keys / David Tronzo - guitar / Dave Fox - drums

Friday, 16 January @ Outpost - 8pm - $10 or b/o
VORTEX series for new & improvised music presents:
The Vortex 6
Emile Tobenfeld - visual poetry / John Mulrooney - spoken word / Tom Lubelczyk - bass / Phil Neighbors - vibes / Jerome Deupree - drumset / Todd Brunel - bass clarinet, reeds

clarinetconspiracy.com

Nat Baldwin
Saturday, 17 January @ Outpost 8pm $5
NAT BALDWIN (ex dirty projectors)
+Vitamin Seed
+Max Alper Family Band
+Glowing

Note: this show has been rescheduled to Friday, 20 March.
Sunday, 18 January @ Outpost, 8pm $5/10
JOSH JEFFERSON presents
Birdorgan
+lou cohen / josh jefferson duo
+jules vaseylenko / bhob rainey duo

Wednesday 21 January @ Outpost, 8pm $5/10
“THE SERIES” presents
improvised/experimental/noise

Anthony Coleman

+James Coleman - theremin
Lou Cohen - laptop powered by csound

http://seriesimprov.blogspot.com/

Marine Debris

Friday 23 January @ Outpost, 8pm $5/10
Marine Debris
Greg Glassman, Andy Fish, Chris Habetler

Marine Debris is a trio composing and improvising music with video accompaniment. The members all share duties playing electric guitar, bass, lap steel, drums, pedals and keyboards.

The Dirty Dishes

Jenny Tuite - guitar, vocals / Kevin Lynch - drums /Alex Molini - Synth

The Dirty Dishes are an experimental indie-rock band based in Boston. Jenny Tuite sings and plays a mean guitar. Kevin Lynch plays drums and sweats. Together they yearn to create a unique and emotive sound. The pair began performing as a duo during the summer of '08; crafting their distinct musical style which has been compared to The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, My Bloody Valentine, Deerhoof, and The Smashing Pumpkins. The recent addition of Alex Molini on synthesizer further expands the Dirty Dishes' sound.

Saturday 24 January, 3-5 pm $5 or b/o
"John Mulroony & the unaffiliated series" - poetics & spoken word
presents
Mark Lamoureux & Katie Peterson

Mark Lamoureux lives in Astoria, NY. His first full-length collection, Astrometry Orgonon was published by BlazeVOX books in 2008. He is the author of 5 chapbooks: Poem Stripped of Artifice (winner of the New School 2007 Chapbooks Contest), Traceland, 29 Cheeseburgers, Film Poems and City/Temple. His work has been published in print and online in Fence, Mustachioed, miPoesias, Jubilat, Denver Quarterly, Conduit, Lungfull!, Carve Poems, Coconut, GutCult and many others. In 2006 he started Cy Gist Press, a micropress focusing on ekphrastic poetry. He is Reviews Editor for Boog City, a Manhattan-based literary paper, and teaches composition in the CUNY system.

Katie Peterson was born in California and is the author of This One Tree, a book of poems published by New Issues in 2006. She teaches poetry and the humanities at Deep Springs College in California.

Saturday 24 January 8pm
Alex Wan & The Cultural Fusion
Standard Jazz Jam and Funk/Hip Hop Jam
Alex Wan - guitar / Zack Federick - bass / Alec Guiliani - drums/ Mihoko Abe - keys / Matt Wan - trombone / Ted Wan - percussion

Sunday 25 January @ OUTPOST, 8pm $5 or b/o
markus nechay presents
“The Whimsy!” Song & poesy, bohemian vaudeville, open mic

Monday 26 January 8pm $10 or b/o
HUME performs
“HUMANIORA” by Britton Powell
'Humaniora' for upright bass and two reeds which runs about 25”. Some of my music available on myspace.com/humesongs. Influences: Gong, Micheal Hurley, Bela Bartok, Syd Barrett, Arvo Part, Larry Coryell, Laynes west african tapes & BANCO!

+SKINNY VINNY

+
NMPERIGN
bhob rainey, soprano saxophone
greg kelley, trumpet

"For me, there is nothing to be called 'minimal' in their music, in their choice of low and dangerously weak sounds. It would be nonsense to call this music 'minimal'; on the contrary, their way of making music refines our senses and gives precision to a double movement of internalization and openmindedness. So space is opened and landmarks disappear."
-Philippe Alen, _Improjazz_

Britton Powell is a composer and performer with HUME, based in Washington D.C.

SNOW CANCELLATION:

Wednesday 28 January @ Outpost, 8pm $5/10
“THE SERIES” presents
improvised/experimental/noise

Jorrit Dijkstra, solo saxophone

+Jed Speare and Forrest Larson

http://seriesimprov.blogspot.com/

Friday, 30 January @ Outpost 8pm $5/10
Dave Bryant - solo piano
Dave Bryant was a frequent contributor to Ornette Coleman's "Prime Time".
http://www.accuraterecords.com/bryant.html

Steve Lantner
Saturday, 31 January @ Outpost, 8pm $5/10
steve lantner presents
Steve Lantner Quartet
Steve Lantner - piano / Allan Chase - alto / Joe Morris - bass / Luther Gray - drums
celebrating the release of their new CD, Given: Live in Münster (Hat Hut 663)

(some) CONCERT SERIES AT OUTPOST:

VORTEX - 1st & 3rd Fridays, 8pm $5/10
Microtonal soundscapes painted over a radiant sea of anarchy. New and improvisational music, featuring various guest artists in different incarnations, seeking truth and the voice that brought them to this point. Hosted by Todd Brunel - http://www.clarinetconspiracy.com

CELLO ALLEY - 2nd Fridays, 8pm $5/10
New & Improvised Music
We will present all aspects of the modern improvising string player, in solo and ensemble settings, with electronics and without. Hosted by Robert Rivera
www.myspace.com/riveracellist

subconsciouscafe new chamber music : - occasional Saturdays, 8pm $10 or b/o
Rob Chalfen's long-running improvised music series continues at OUTPOST and elsewhere. Innovative chamber music at play on the spectra of jazz, electronic, classical and world. Also may be dug by the non-subconscious mind.
robchalfen@hotmail.com

THE WHIMSY! - 1 Sunday/mo, 8PM $5 or b/o
Song & poesy, bohemian vaudeville, open mic
Hosted by Markus Nechay - markusnechay@yahoo.com

The Series - every Wednesday (exc holidays)
Experimental & jazz-related improvised music
David Gross - gdavidgross@yahoo.com

Steve Lantner presents : 4th Saturdays
slantner@comcast.net

Dave Pryant presents : monthly, by announcement
DaveBryant1@comcast.net

SERIES PRODUCERS:
subconsciouscafe : Rob Chalfen : robchalfen@hotmail.com
VORTEX : Todd Brunel : thbrunel@earthlink.net
Cello Alley : Robert Rivera : cello_alley@hotmail.com
The Whimsy! : Markus Nechay - markusnechay@yahoo.com
Steve Lantner presents : slantner@comcast.net http://stevelantner.com/
Courtney Brown
Dave Bryant presents : DaveBryant1@comcast.net
Josh Jefferson : jefferson.joshua@gmail.com
David Gross : 'The Series' - gdavidgross@yahoo.com,
http://seriesimprov.blogspot.com/
Joseph Moffett : moffjazz@comcast.net
John Mulrooney : poetics - jmulrron2002@yahoo.com

DISCLAIMER:
This disclaimer is for reflexive and tautological purposes only, and may not be construed as applying to any errors, typos, or logical absurdities, real or imagined, that may be contained in this notice, without further notice.

Thank you,
Harlan T. Flash
Corresponding Secretary

OUTPOST186 Concert & Event Schedule, December 2008

2008-11-25T12:14:00.014-05:00

METALUX see Modern Sound Showcase, 16 December
OUTPOST: 186 ½ Hampshire St., Inman Sq. Cambridge - All Ages

NEWS: 19 August - Outpost just got a fabulous Yamaha U3 full-size upright piano! Come check it out!

OUTPOST DIRECTIONS: Near cr. Prospect, opposite Hess gas, behind 7-11. Big ‘186’ on R side. Follow walk at Left to gallery, REAR.

OUTPOST INFO:
All shows 8pm doors unless otherwise noted.
Admission by donation at door.
No reservations, come early!
All shows all ages.
No smoking, alcohol please.

GALLERY HOURS:
Gallery hours are 1-4pm Tuesday through Sunday during exhibitions or by appointment.
CONTACT: robchalfen@hotmail.com617.876.0860

WE GET PRESS!!
Outpost featured in Cambridge Chronicle, 19 June 2008:
An-Outpost-on-the-edge-of-music

John Voigt featured in Cambridge Chronicle, 14 July 2008

Nice write up on Outpost in the Glob, Sunday 27 Jan. 2008 Outpost is the 2nd item:
http://www.boston.com/ae/music/articles/2008/01/26/six_nights_out____what_youre_hear_who_youll_meet/

on Richard Sandler's Films:
http://www.bloggernews.net/113600
On our "Small Arts Group Die Off", 13 January:
Globe: http://www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/articles/2008/01/12/small_arts_groups_are_dying_to_be_heard/
Big Red & Shiny:
http://www.bigredandshiny.com/cgi-bin/retrieve.pl?issue=issue75§ion=article&article=DONT_DRINK_THE_1485440
BILL MARX/The Arts Fuse: Boston Foundation to Small Theatres - Drop Dead Please!
http://www.theartsfuse.com/2008/01/20/boston-foundation-to-small-theaters-drop-dead-please/#more-401

DECEMBER

Wednesday December 3 @ Outpost, 8pm $5/10
“THE SERIES” presents
Kessler/Coleman/Paul
eli kessler - drums / anthony coleman - keyboard/electronics
ashley paul - reeds, etc.

+ jarrod fowler - percussion/electronics

Courtney Brown
Thursday, 4 December @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Courtney Brown presents
Sidewalk Tzara --> electronics, experimental music, and absurdity
features:
COURTNEY BROWNwith ALTAIRA

ALTAIRA
James Borchers - percussion, hyperkalimba
Christian Gentry - chordophones, boomboxes
Peter McMurray - saxophone, whistles, ocarina
Roth Michaels - laptop, melodica, miscellany

Formed in Waltham, MA, Altaira is a group of composer-performers interested in improvisation and electronic music. We perform both our own music and improvisational/aleatoric/intuitive "repertoire" by other composers from the past 60-odd years. Recent performances include a memorial concert series of intuitve music by Karlheinz Stockhausen and a collaborative performance with musicians from Queens College.
Courtney Brown has long harbored aspirations of becoming an Edward Gorey heroine, but her attempts have thus far been foiled. In lieu of her unlikely but tragic demise, she makes strange dark music and fiddles with electronics. Her solo act, Every Night I Lose Control, explores the danger of performance and ultimately exposes the vulnerabilities of its performer. Her works are heavily influenced by tango, Weimar cabaret, flamenco, and early goth rock, and often cross into performance art.

She has performed her solo cabaret act up and down the east coast, including New York, Boston, Providence, Baltimore, and Washington, DC. Her compositions have been featured in the Chosen Vale Trumpet Seminar, the Festival of New Musics, the Boston CyberArts Festival, SEAMUS, and more. In 2008, her work "Places in Time become Magnetic" was selected for inclusion in the Vox Novus 60x60 project. Additionally, she has received mention in the Boston Globe and NHPR. She currently resides in Brooklyn, New York.

Friday, December 5, 2008 @ Outpost - 8:00 $5/10
The Vortex Series for New and Improvised music presents:

"The Vortex 5"

Todd Brunel - clarinets
Jonathan Lamaster - violin and electronics
Robert Rivera - cello
John Voigt - double bass, electronics and spoken word
Jerome Deupree - drumset and percussion

Mark Rothko "No.14 1960"
Saturday, 6 December @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
JOHN VOIGT & HIS HOT DOGS : jefferson-livolsi-voigt
John Voigt - bass
Josh Jefferson - sax
Joseph Livolsi - drums

Manifesto: Concept Jazz in which we three Com-provise (compose/improvise)
from found, imagined or accidentally discovered visual, word, or sound
structures. But sometimes we just go searching and don't find them

Tonight we use Mark Rothko, Mingus, Sun Ra, and radio messages from Saturn.

Wednesday 10 December @ Outpost, 8pm $5/10
“THE SERIES” presents
Strunk/Dorsy
chris strunk - drums / noel dorsy - voice

+duck that
angela sawer - reeds, game calls, etc. /steve norton - reeds, game calls, etc. / josh jefferson - reeds, game calls, etc.

Thursday, 11 December @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
JOSH JEFFERSON presents
NOTE: the series is on break for December & will return January 18 - thanks.

Saturday, 13 December @ Outpost - 8pm $5/10
“Duocity”
Rich Greenblatt - piano / Gilson Schachnik - vibes

Sunday 14 December @ OUTPOST, 8pm $5 or b/o
markus nechay presents
“The Whimsy!” Song & poesy, bohemian vaudeville, open mic

NOTE: this show has been cancelled, to be rescheduled tba. thanx
Monday 15 December @ Outpost, 8pm $10
Russ Gershon presents

McLaughlin, Bencid, Gershon

Tuesday, 16 December @ Outpost - 8pm $5/10
Weirdo Records presents
"A Modern Sound Showcase" with

JENNY GRAF
- weirdo other-world sounds from baltimore, md, of metalux, harrius, bride of no no, etc.
www.myspace.com/metalux

BILL NACE
- guitar wizzard of western mass, vampire belt, X.O.4, northampton wools, etc. www.ecstaticpeace.com

ASCENSION
- dylan hay of idiotunderground...nomadic student of blown speakers and busted electronics www.myspace.com/idiotunderground

ZERFALLT
- lee of astronaught, rotten brain-synth decomposition from boston, ma.
www.myspace.com/zerfallt

EXUSAMWA
- doug from fat day, nell from goat of arms, neil from ergot rot & angela from weirdo records, possibly inside a gingerbread house.
http://weirdorecords.com/cpCommerce/product.php?id_product=5969

Wednesday 17 December @ Outpost, 8pm $5/10
“THE SERIES” presents
Moldof/Kelley/Stelzer
luke moldof - guitar / greg kelley - trumpet
howard stelzer - tapes/electronics

+the epicureans
david gross - sax / ryan mcguire - bass /
ricardo donoso - percussion

Thursday, 18 December @ Outpost, 8pm
Alex Wan presents
“Alex Wan & The Cultural Fusion”
Standard Jazz Jam and Funk/Hip Hop Jam
Alex Wan - guitar / Zack Federick - bass / Alec Guiliani - drums/ Mihoko Abe - keys / Matt Wan - trombone / Ted Wan - percussion

NOTE: THIS SHOW CALLED ONNACOUNNA SNOW, RESCHED DATE: FRIDAY 3 JAN 2009
Friday, December 19 @ Outpost 8:00 $5/10

"The Vortex Other Dimension Ensemble"

Timothy Macri - flute
Harris Shilakowsky - violin and electronics
Todd Brunel - clarinets
Glenn Dickson - clarinet and electronics
Emile Tobenfeld - visual poetics
John Mulrooney - spoken word

This special evening of interactive multi media will feature a
transcription for solo flute of the JS Bach Tocatta and fugue in D,
an adaptation of the Corelli Christmas Concerto, the JS Bach Chromatic
Fantasy and solo clarinet microtonal improvisations.

Saturday, 20 December @ Outpost - 8pm, by donation
Dave Bryant’s All Stars
Dave Bryant - piano / John Turner – bass / Curt Newton – drums / Eric Rosenthal – drums

Saturday, 27 December @ Outpost, 8pm
Alex Wan presents
“Alex Wan & The Cultural Fusion”
Standard Jazz Jam and Funk/Hip Hop Jam
Alex Wan - guitar / Zack Federick - bass / Alec Guiliani - drums/ Mihoko Abe - keys / Matt Wan - trombone / Ted Wan - percussion

(some) CONCERT SERIES AT OUTPOST:

VORTEX - 1st & 3rd Fridays, 8pm $5/10
Microtonal soundscapes painted over a radiant sea of anarchy. New and improvisational music, featuring various guest artists in different incarnations, seeking truth and the voice that brought them to this point. Hosted by Todd Brunel - http://www.clarinetconspiracy.com

CELLO ALLEY - 2nd Fridays, 8pm $5/10
New & Improvised Music
We will present all aspects of the modern improvising string player, in solo and ensemble settings, with electronics and without. Hosted by Robert Rivera
www.myspace.com/riveracellist

subconsciouscafe new chamber music : - occasional Saturdays, 8pm $10 or b/o
Rob Chalfen's long-running improvised music series continues at OUTPOST and elsewhere. Innovative chamber music at play on the spectra of jazz, electronic, classical and world. Also may be dug by the non-subconscious mind.
robchalfen@hotmail.com

THE WHIMSY! - 1 Sunday/mo, 8PM $5 or b/o
Song & poesy, bohemian vaudeville, open mic
Hosted by Markus Nechay - markusnechay@yahoo.com

The Series - every Wednesday (exc holidays)
Experimental & jazz-related improvised music
David Gross - gdavidgross@yahoo.com

Steve Lantner presents : 4th Saturdays
slantner@comcast.net

Dave Pryant presents : monthly, by announcement
DaveBryant1@comcast.net

SERIES PRODUCERS:
subconsciouscafe : Rob Chalfen : robchalfen@hotmail.com
VORTEX : Todd Brunel : thbrunel@earthlink.net
Cello Alley : Robert Rivera : cello_alley@hotmail.com
The Whimsy! : Markus Nechay - markusnechay@yahoo.com
Steve Lantner presents : slantner@comcast.net
Courtney Brown
Dave Pryant presents : DaveBryant1@comcast.net

DISCLAIMER:
This disclaimer is for reflexive and tautological purposes only, and may not be construed as applying to any errors, typos, or logical absurdities, real or imagined, that may be contained in this notice, without further notice.

Thank you,
Harlan T. Flash
Corresponding Secretary

OUTPOST186 Concert & Event Schedule, November 2008

2008-10-31T11:07:00.024-04:00

Howie Stelzer photo: Tom Worster/Word Press (see 12 November)

OUTPOST: 186 ½ Hampshire St., Inman Sq. Cambridge - All Ages

NEWS: 19 August - Outpost just got a fabulous Yamaha U3 full-size upright piano! Come check it out!

OUTPOST DIRECTIONS: Near cr. Prospect, opposite Hess gas, behind 7-11. Big ‘186’ on R side. Follow walk at Left to gallery, REAR.

OUTPOST INFO:
All shows 8pm doors unless otherwise noted.
Admission by donation at door.
No reservations, come early!
All shows all ages.
No smoking, alcohol please.

GALLERY HOURS:
Gallery hours are 1-4pm Tuesday through Sunday during exhibitions or by appointment.
CONTACT: robchalfen@hotmail.com617.876.0860

WE GET PRESS!!
Outpost featured in Cambridge Chronicle, 19 June 2008:
An-Outpost-on-the-edge-of-music

John Voigt featured in Cambridge Chronicle, 14 July 2008

Nice write up on Outpost in the Glob, Sunday 27 Jan. 2008 Outpost is the 2nd item:
http://www.boston.com/ae/music/articles/2008/01/26/six_nights_out____what_youre_hear_who_youll_meet/

on Richard Sandler's Films:
http://www.bloggernews.net/113600
On our "Small Arts Group Die Off", 13 January:
Globe: http://www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/articles/2008/01/12/small_arts_groups_are_dying_to_be_heard/
Big Red & Shiny:
http://www.bigredandshiny.com/cgi-bin/retrieve.pl?issue=issue75§ion=article&article=DONT_DRINK_THE_1485440
BILL MARX/The Arts Fuse: Boston Foundation to Small Theatres - Drop Dead Please!
http://www.theartsfuse.com/2008/01/20/boston-foundation-to-small-theaters-drop-dead-please/#more-401

NOVEMBER

Sunday 2 November @ OUTPOST, 8pm $5 or b/o
markus nechay presents
“The Whimsy!” Song & poesy, bohemian vaudeville, open mic

Wednesday 5 November @ Outpost, 8pm $5/10
G. David Gross & "THE SERIES" presents

Andrew Eisenberg - solo percussion www.myspace.com/dilettantenoise

“slither”
Chris Pottinger & heath moerland - garbage electronics & damaged reeds
http://www.tastysoil.com/

“evenings”
Miles Hanley - electronics
http://www.tapewormtapes.com

Thursday 6 November @ Outpost, 8pm $5/10
Alex Wan presents
“Alex Wan & The Cultural Fusion”

Alex Wan - guitar & electric bass
Wing La - drums
Mihoko Abe - keys
Matt Wan - trombone

Biography:

Alex Wan was born in Hong Kong and came to Boston in the late 60's, he plays both guitar, guitar synthesizer, and bass. He has played in various bands in and around New England, including his own band
"Cultural Fusion". He released his debute solo CD album in 1989, entitled "Cultural Fusion" which consist 11 of his original compositions and arrangements. The album was distributed in US and Europe.

http://alexwanculturalfusion.vpweb.com/
His music can be heard at:

http://www.reverbnation.com/alexwan
VIDEO LINK FOR ALEX WAN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9o_oqbUw5c

Friday 7 November @ OUTPOST, 8pm $5/10
VORTEX series for new & improvised music presents:
‘Sounds In Bloom”
with special guest Srdjan Grujicic
+ "Ara Sarkissian's Exultation"

“Sounds in Bloom “
Dennis Shafer - saxophones / Diana Norma Szokolyai - poetry
Srdjan Grujicic - guitar

Noted for his "Extreme musicality and originality" by French guitarist and composer Roland Dyens,
Srdjan Grujicic composes and performs in all musical genres, in chamber groups and solo perfromances. Since his debut concert at ag 10 in Serbia, he has toured all over Europe and Canada.

"Ara Sarkissian's Exulatation"
Ara Sarkssian - piano / Todd Brunel - clarinets and electronics / Ken Field - alto sax, flute and toys

Howie Stelzer photo: Tom Worster/Word Press
Wednesday 12 November @ Outpost, 8pm $5/10
G. David Gross & "THE SERIES" presents

Howard Stelzer
+Kevin Frenette Quartet

Howard Stelzer - solo electronics
www.howardstelzer.com

Kevin Frenette Quartet
Kevin Frenette - guitar
James Rohr - fender rhodes
Ryan McGuire - bass
John McLelland - drums

http://www.myspace.com/kevinfrenette

Thursday, 13 November @ Outpost 8pm $10 or b/o
“Adventures in Sound”
Bruno Raberg - bass / Josh Rosen - keys / David Tronzo - guitar / Dave Fox - drums
sound clips:
http://www.myspace.com/davidefox
http://www.reverbnation.com/davefox

Katt Hernandez
Friday, 14 November @ Outpost 8pm $5/10
Cello Alley presents
“Robert Rivera + Katt Hernandez”
Robert Rivera - cello
Katt Hernandez - violin
+
Limbic Trio
Liz Ehrman - cello / Phil Morimoto - guitar / Richard Ehrman - percussion

Saturday, 15 November @ Outpost, 3:30 pm
John Mulrooney presents poetry/word with
Damon Krukowski (former Galxie 500/Damon & Naomi)
+ Sarah Riggs.
+IsAbelle Garron

Damon Krukowski is an American musician and publisher. He was one of the founding members and the drummer for the band Galaxie 500. His drumwork with Galaxie 500 received widespread praise for its "simmering presence of jazz classicism"[1]

After Galaxie 500's demise due to guitarist Dean Wareham leaving the band, he went on to play drums in Magic Hour, with Galaxie 500's bassist Naomi Yang, Wayne Rogers and Kate Biggar. After Magic Hour, Krukowski and Yang performed as a duo under the name Damon and Naomi. He also runs the Exact Change Press with Naomi Yang - a book publisher specializing in Dada and Surrealist literature based out of Cambridge, MA.

Isabelle Garron (b. 1968) is a younger generation French poet who teaches in Paris. She is the author of Qu'il faille (Editions Flammarion 2007), Face devant contre (Editions Flammarion 2002), Déferlage II (Editions Les Cahiers de la Seine 2002), and Le corps échéant (Editions Les Cahiers de la Seine 2000). Garron has also participated as poet and/or editor in various French journals, including Petite, Action Poétique, Action restreinte, Rehauts, and La Polygraphe. English translations of her poetry have appeared in Double Change, 1913: a journal of forms, and Verse. The chapbook Face Before Against, in Sarah Riggs's translation, was released by Seeing Eye Books in 2005. Garron's interest in Pierre Reverdy gave rise to a publication of La Lucarne Ovale in its original form (Théâtre Typographique 2001). She is a regular participant with Jean Daive in the France Culture radio broadcast, "Peinture Fraiche" ("Wet Paint") on contemporary art.

Sarah Riggs is a poet, translator, and visual artist. She is the author of Waterwork (Chax Press 2007), 28 télégrammes and 60 textos (éditions de l'Attente, translated by Françoise Valéry, 2006-7), and Chain of Miniscule Decisions in the Form of a Feeling (Reality Street Editions 2007). She has also published a book of essays, Word Sightings: Poetry and Visual Media in Stevens, Bishop, and O'Hara (Routledge 2002). The installation of her drawings, Isibilités, in collaboration with sound, video and cuisine, took place at the galerie éof in autumn 2007. A member of Double Change and director of Tamaas, she has taught at Columbia University in Paris with Omar Berrada. Together they co-translated Marie Borel's Wolftrot (La Presse 2006). She is at work on a translation of Ryoko Sekiguchi's Two Markets, Once Again (Post Apollo, forthcoming). About Waterwork, Ann Lauterbach said: "In five stunning sequences, Sarah Riggs has created a poetics of elastic migrations that imagines the world as clusters, skeins, and motions whose innate peril is miraculously saved in the act of naming..."

Saturday, 15 November @ Outpost, 8pm $5/10
Alex Wan presents
“Alex Wan & The Cultural Fusion”

Alex Wan - guitar & electric bass
Wing La - drums
Mihoko Abe - keys
Matt Wan - trombone

Wednesday 19 November @ Outpost, 8pm $5/10
G. David Gross & "THE SERIES" presents

Noell Dorsy - voice
James Coleman - theremin
Jules Vasylenko - saxophone
+
brendan murray - solo electronics

Noah Preminger
Friday, 21 November @ Outpost, 8pm $5-10
“Bird Fly Yellow”
+ "Low Road"

“Bird Fly Yellow”
Joe Moffett - trumpet / Dan Blacksberg - trombone / Dave Flaherty - drums / Daniel Durham - bass
Bird Fly Yellow is a quartet whose sound is like watching the final scene of Last of the Mohicans — highly dramatic, though you can’t believe you stuck around for the whole movie. Their sound can also be likened to watching a rainbow over Kansas City implode. The group swings violently, with shifts in feel even its members don’t expect. Bird Fly Yellow hails from Philly and Boston, so they are likely under-rehearsed.

opening:
"Low Road"
Ruth Lepson - poet
Eric Lane - keys
Noah Preminger - sax

Based out of the Northeast United States, poet Ruth Lepson, saxophonist Noah Preminger, and keyboardist Eric Lane formed Low Road, a group that sets Lepson’s poetry to music written and performed by Preminger and Lane. The repertoire includes a diverse selection of songs containing strict structure as well as very open, free form. Lepson is the current poet-in-residence at New England Conservatory. Preminger and Lane are recent graduates of the school and frequently perform in the Boston and New York areas.

Ruth Lepson:
I'm poet-in-residence at NEC, have been performing with musicians in recent yrs, & Low Road is making a CD of my poems & their music. My books are: Dreaming in Color, Poetry from Sojourner, and Morphology. I've given readings at the Bowery Poetry Club, La Mama, & on NPR's "All Things Considered," & my poems have been in many mags.

Little Mystery @ Outpost (photo Bill T. Miller)
Saturday, 22 November @ Outpost, 8pm $5/10
JOSH JEFFERSON presents
Little Mysteries
+ Andrew Eisenberg - solo
+ Peter Bonos Trio

Little Mystery improvises music by drawing upon a vast array of jazz and experimental influences to create a free, spacious and frequently ethereal sound scape. This music is created in part by drawing upon a somewhat unusual line-up of instruments to create music that is both visually and sonically evocative.

Eric Dahlman - Trumpet,
Michael Knoblach - Hat Box Drum Set, Percussion
Blair Raker - Trombone
Jim Warshauer - Contra Alto Clarinet, other reed instruments

Andrew Eisenberg - solo percussion
Andrew plays percussion on an assortment of modified drum parts that he has reduced and eroded thru a process of playing and breaking them. myspace.com/skinnyvinnyjjape

Peter Bonos
Peter Bonos Trio

Peter Bonos - Trumpet, Flugelhorn
Zach Iannazzi - Drums
Jeremy Phloyd Starpoli - Trombone

Peter Bonos
Creative composer, improviser and trumpet player Peter Bonos hails from Santa Rosa, CA and is currently based in Northampton, MA. Active in the areas of collective free improvisation, genre-defying solo playing, minimalist composition, klezmer, rock, electronic, and avant garde music, Bonos is currently a performing member of Zebu, Freylekh Valley Orkestr with Hankus Netsky, and Starpoli, Bonos, and Young. Bonos's solo work explores conceptually motivated modes of performance which exploit the outer boundaries of the trumpet's timbral palette in combination with scalar modes specific to the instrument. His varied body of studio-based recordings explore studio composition and sound collage. The Creative Music Collective of Hampshire College and the Purple House have featured concerts currated by Peter. His live and recorded sound design have been featured in recent works of dance choreography and movement performance. I have been a member of these no longer active groups: Perjokte, Triste Sin Richard, Effecto Partido, Sexually Transmitted People, and The Set Up. I have collaborated with Zebu, Tipsy, Bonedaddy, Red Youth, Jonas Golland, Jonathan Glancy, Matt Mondanile, and many others.

Mike Rivard
Monday, 24 November @ Outpost, 8pm $5/10
"Scarecrow Mobius"
James Merenda - alto / Mike Rivard - bass / Dave Bryant - piano / James Kamal Jones - drums

Saturday, 29 November @ Outpost, 8pm
Alex Wan presents
“Alex Wan & The Cultural Fusion”

NOTE: THIS SHOW IS POSTPONED TBA - thanks

OUTPOST186 Concert & Event Schedule, October 2008

2008-10-01T17:51:00.034-04:00

Neil Leonard - see Saturday 25 October

OUTPOST: 186 ½ Hampshire St., Inman Sq. Cambridge - All Ages

NEWS: 19 August - Outpost just got a fabulous Yamaha U3 full-size upright piano! Come check it out!

OUTPOST DIRECTIONS: Near cr. Prospect, opposite Hess gas, behind 7-11. Big ‘186’ on R side. Follow walk at Left to gallery, REAR.

OUTPOST INFO:
All shows 8pm doors unless otherwise noted.
Admission by donation at door.
No reservations, come early!
All shows all ages.
No smoking, alcohol please.

GALLERY HOURS:
Gallery hours are 1-4pm Tuesday through Sunday during exhibitions or by appointment.
CONTACT: robchalfen@hotmail.com617.876.0860

WE GET PRESS!!
Outpost featured in Cambridge Chronicle, 19 June 2008:
An-Outpost-on-the-edge-of-music

John Voigt featured in Cambridge Chronicle, 14 July 2008

Nice write up on Outpost in the Glob, Sunday 27 Jan. 2008 Outpost is the 2nd item:
http://www.boston.com/ae/music/articles/2008/01/26/six_nights_out____what_youre_hear_who_youll_meet/

on Richard Sandler's Films:
http://www.bloggernews.net/113600
On our "Small Arts Group Die Off", 13 January:
Globe: http://www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/articles/2008/01/12/small_arts_groups_are_dying_to_be_heard/
Big Red & Shiny:
http://www.bigredandshiny.com/cgi-bin/retrieve.pl?issue=issue75§ion=article&article=DONT_DRINK_THE_1485440
BILL MARX/The Arts Fuse: Boston Foundation to Small Theatres - Drop Dead Please!
http://www.theartsfuse.com/2008/01/20/boston-foundation-to-small-theaters-drop-dead-please/#more-401

OCTOBER
Thursday, 2 Oct. @ OUTPOST, 8pm $10 or b/o
subconsciouscafé presents
From Denmark
TRIO CHROCH

Omsider skete det !

- debut CD med Trio Chroch " Live at Dexter "

Spontan musik med et smil !

Trio Chroch " Live at Dexter " AACD 1009 blev optaget den 14 januar 2000 foran et oplagt og medlevende publikum, som overgav sig til varmen, humoren, det store engagement og den charmerende drengede facon. Publikum tog Trio Chroch på ordet og deltog i en rejse igennem farverige lydcollager - en rejse, hvor grænser blev brudt og døre blev åbnet til nye musikalske landskaber.

Trio Chroch er et ungt orkester på den danske musikscene, der går nye veje for at komme med et friskt og publikumsvenligt bud på spontan musik - musik skabt i nuet. Ny musik spillet på et højt kunstnerisk niveau, der opstår i en dialog med publikum og omgivelserne. Toner og lyde der taler til alle sanser og sætter fantasien i gang.

Trio Chroch holdt deres ord - der var noget for både øre og øje……

" Trio Chroch spiller musik der ikke plejer at være for alle - for alle ! "

Bo Stief

Trio Chroch er :
Christoffer Møller: piano, synth, trompet, vocal
Robert Cole Rizzi: guitar, elektronik, perc, vocal
Chano Olskær: trommer, perc, vocal

Trio Chroch, DK & Richard J. Rizzi, USA – creative music and spoken words

Trio Chroch play spontaneous music in a way that’s warm, honest, friendly and turned towards the audience. New music performed with excellence in an ongoing dialog with the spectators and the surrounding environment.
The music is innovative and imaginative. Trio Chroch is committed to guide the listeners on a voyage through colourful collages of sounds, and join them on a journey where boundaries will collapse and new musical landscapes will unfold.
Richard J. Rizzi has been writing and performing poetry for over 40 years in various settings and expressions. With Trio Chroch he recites and adapts his words to melt together in a united search for new unexplored territory
.

Trio Chroch; Christoffer Møller, Piano
Robert Cole Rizzi, Guitar
Chano Olskær, Drums

“A spellbinding evening of improvisation”
Stephen Pedersen (Arts Reporter Halifax Herald)
” They play music that usually isn’t for everyone – for everybody!”
Bo Stief (Danish musician & composer) about Trio Chroch)

Visit our homepage www.chroch.dk

Trio Chroch has among other places performed at: Copenhagen Jazz Festival, Århus Jazz Festival, Av – Art Festivals, Magic Music Festival, Kolding Kontempoary Festival, Live on Danish National Radio. Trio Chroch toured in and around New York in November 2000, October 2001, October 2002 and September 2003 among the venues we where fortunate to perform were “Knitting Factory” “CBGB’s” and ”Roulette” in NYC.
Apart from the US tours Trio Chroch had the opportunity to tour in Germany, Latvia, Estonia and Sweden over the past couple of years.

Robert Cole Rizzi, Hasselvænget12, 6091 Bjert, tlf.7557 1486 mob.2645 7480, email: rizzi@get2net.dk, www.chroch.dk

Friday, 3 October @ Outpost, 8pm $5/10
VORTEX series for new & improvised music presents:
"The Vortex Other Dimension Ensemble/Sounds in Bloom/Momentum"
A SPECIAL COLLABORATION with:
Emile Tobenfeld - video art / Diana Norma Szokolyai - poetry, movement / Dennis Shafer - saxophones / Dawson Hill -keyboard and theatre / Chris Montecalvo - percussion / Jason Felitto - electric bass

http://www.myspace.com/dnorma
http://www.myspace.com/momentumboston

Join us for an evening where all forms of art converge! Start out with poetry and music, then add video art improvisation by "Dr. T" (Emile Tobenfeld) and then add masterful theatrical improvisation by Momentum. Momentum frequently appears in poetry spoken word nights at the Milky Way in Jamaica Plain and has also played at Matt Murphy's Pub and on WERS radio.

(please note change in lineup for this show)
Saturday, 4 October 2008
MAX ALPER - IMPROVISED DRONING ENERGY - WWW.MYSPACE.COM/MAXALPERMUSIC

max alper family band - sleepy compositions and free improvisation. for the young and old, combining minimalist classical and third stream free form structured compositions to bring a new, mood-bending sound. (image attached)
www.myspace.com/maxalpermusic

dan lawrence - energetic, loud, and tasteful. dan lawrence and his band bring a fun and trippy sound to their shows, definitely a crowd pleaser.

diamond mouse - raw and organic, Jamaica Plain's Diamond Mouse bring a folk sound like no other.

Sunday, 5 October @ Outpost 8pm $8 or b/o
bohemian vaudeville:
“Binding the Cosmic Beasts:Alien Bondage on a Sunday”
Join these other worldly creatures in a wild adventure tearing between dimensions. With Clara the Chanteusse and Ruckus Muckus http://www.ruckusmuckus.com

Pandit Ravinder Goswami and Ramchandra Pandit
Tuesday, 14 October @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o

Pandit Ravinder Goswami and Ramchandra Pandit

Pandit Ravinder Goswami and Ramchandra Pandit are masters of the Varanasi style... on their Spirit of Banaras tour this year mostly playing colleges. Goswami is a senior performer of the national scene... truly brilliant musician.

Wednesday, 15 October @ Outpost, 8pm $5/10
“G. David Gross Presents”
bsc
unnamed bigband

bsc:
bhob rainey - soprano sax
james coleman - theremin
liz tonne - voice
greg kelley - trumpet
vic rawlings - cello/electronics
mike bullock - upright bass
chris cooper - guitar

unnamed bigband:
dave gross - alto saxophone
polly hanson - percussion
forbes graham - trumpet
angela sawyer - electroncs
josh jefferson - bass clarinet
jules vasylenko - alto saxophone
nathan aylers - guitar
jay sullivan - turntable
lou cohen - electronics

Friday, 17 October @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
“Dave Maxwell’s Ether Bandits”
Dave Maxwell - piano
Todd Brunel - bass clarinet
Robert Rivera - cello
Lawrence Cook - drums

Saturday, 18 October @ Outpost - 8pm $5/10
Greenblatt/Schachnik Duo

Rich Greenblatt - piano
Gilson Schachnik - vibes ‏

Roger Miller by Bill T. Miller
Sunday 19 October @ Outpost - 7pm $5/10
“MILLER, MILLER & WESTON”
Ben Miller - prepared stereo guitar, electronics www.benmiller.info
Roger Miller - samples, toy piano
Matt Weston - percussion, electronics

Bhob Rainey and friends
Bhob Rainey and friends, TBA
http://www.myspace.com/lloydlyson

Josh Jefferson - sax + Vic Rawlings - cello -

Monday, 20 October @ Outpost - 7pm $5/10
Forbes Graham presents
-Dave Dove/Paul duo
-Forbes Graham/Josh Jefferson/David Gross

Wednesday, 22 October @ Outpost, 8pm $5/10
“G. David Gross Presents”
Minority Unit - world premiere of this power/grind/thrash trio
featuring:
ricardo donoso - drums
luke moldof (ex-craniopagus) - guitar
jules vasylenko - sax

Josh Jefferson - saxophone
Lou Cohen - laptop powered by Csound

Charlie Kohlhase - saxophones
Jef Charland - bass
Chris Punis - drums

Friday, 24 October @ Outpost - 8pm $5-10
Richard Tarantino - homemade percussion and amplified/prepared sheet metal objects
(Emperor Nortons stationary Marching Band)
Grantley Smith - percussion/electronics (also of ENSMB and many other boston jazz/improv groups)

Neil Leonard
Saturday, 25 October /@ Outpost - 8pm $10 or b/o
Dave Bryant presents:
"Leonard/Wang/Newton/Bryant"
Neil Leonard – reeds and electronics / Jane Wang – bass / Curt Newton – drums / Dave Bryant - keys

Sunday, 26 October @ Outpost - 7pm $5/10
“Forbes Graham presents (tba)

note: The Dante piece will be scheduled for another time.

Jon Glancy & Peter Bonos
Wednesday, 29 October @ Outpost, 8pm $5/10
“G. David Gross Presents”
"PB 'n J"
+"empty house cooperative"

PB 'n J
Francis Jon Glancy - Percussion, homemade instruments
Nat Mugavero - Drums
Peter Bonos - Trumpet, Fluegelhorn
http://www.myspace.com/peterbonos

empty house co-operative
david michael curry - viola/electronics
http://emptyhousecooperative.blogspot.com/

Thursday 30 October @ Outpost, 8pm $5/10
Alex Wan presents
“Alex Wan & The Cultural Fusion”

Alex Wan - guitar & electric bass
Wing La - drums
Mihoko Abe - keys
Matt Wan - trombone

Biography:

Alex Wan was born in Hong Kong and came to Boston in the late 60's, he plays both guitar, guitar synthesizer, and bass. He has played in various bands in and around New England, including his own band
"Cultural Fusion". He released his debute solo CD album in 1989, entitled "Cultural Fusion" which consist 11 of his original compositions and arrangements. The album was distributed in US and Europe.

http://alexwanculturalfusion.vpweb.com/
His music can be heard at:

http://www.reverbnation.com/alexwan
VIDEO LINK FOR ALEX WAN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9o_oqbUw5c

(some) CONCERT SERIES AT OUTPOST:

VORTEX - 1st & 3rd Fridays, 8pm $5 or b/o
Microtonal soundscapes painted over a radiant sea of anarchy. New and improvisational music, featuring various guest artists in different incarnations, seeking truth and the voice that brought them to this point. Hosted by Todd Brunel - http://www.clarinetconspiracy.com

CELLO ALLEY - 2nd Fridays, 8pm $5 or b/o
New & Improvised Music
We will present all aspects of the modern improvising string player, in solo and ensemble settings, with electronics and without. Hosted by Robert Rivera
www.myspace.com/riveracellist

East Coast Chant - 4th Fridays, 8pm $10 or b/o
An interactive, improvisational "kaleidoscope for the ears" fusing jazz, symphonic, microtonal, indigenous, ambient, vocals, written words, and elements from the other side of the universe. Hosted by Toni Pinheiro and members of East Coast Chant.
http://www.improvelocity.com

subconsciouscafe new chamber music : - occas. Saturdays, 8pm $10 or b/o
Rob Chalfen's long-running improvised music series continues at OUTPOST and elsewhere. Innovative chamber music at play on the spectra of jazz, electronic, classical and world. Also may be dug by the non-subconscious mind.

THE WHIMSY! - 3rd Sundays, 8PM $5 or b/o
Song & poesy, bohemian vaudeville, open mic
Hosted by Markus Nechay

AL’S CROCKPOT - Sundays, 8pm $5 or b/o
Al cooks, you eat. Madness, satire, food, music & espresso for the post-apocalyptic set. Crackpots welcome. Hosted by Al Nidle, so it's only fair.

SERIES PRODUCERS:
subconsciouscafe : Rob Chalfen : robchalfen@hotmail.com
VORTEX : Todd Brunel : thbrunel@earthlink.net
East Coast Trance: Toni Pinheiro : improvelocity@comcast.net
Cello Alley : Robert Rivera : cello_alley@hotmail.com
The Whimsy! : Markus Nechay - markusnechay@yahoo.com
Al's Crockpot : Al Nidle - alanidle@hotmail.com
Eric Zinman: studioz@gis.net, ericzinman.com
Birdsongs: Michael Bierylo - mbierylo@berklee.net

DISCLAIMER:
This disclaimer is for reflexive and tautological purposes only, and may not be construed as applying to any errors, typos, or logical absurdities, real or imagined, that may be contained in this notice, without further notice.

Thank you,
Harlan T. Flash
Corresponding Secretary

OUTPOST186 Concert & Event Schedule, September 2008

2008-08-31T10:59:00.033-04:00

BADAL ROY Saturday 27 September 8pm

OUTPOST: 186 ½ Hampshire St., Inman Sq. Cambridge - All Ages

NEWS: 19 August - Outpost just got a fabulous Yamaha U3 full-size upright piano! Come check it out!

OUTPOST DIRECTIONS: Near cr. Prospect, opposite Hess gas, behind 7-11. Big ‘186’ on R side. Follow walk at Left to gallery, REAR.

OUTPOST INFO:
All shows 8pm doors unless otherwise noted.
Admission by donation at door.
No reservations, come early!
All shows all ages.
No smoking, alcohol please.

GALLERY HOURS:
Gallery hours are 1-4pm Tuesday through Sunday during exhibitions or by appointment.
CONTACT: robchalfen@hotmail.com617.876.0860

WE GET PRESS!!
Outpost featured in Cambridge Chronicle, 19 June 2008:
An-Outpost-on-the-edge-of-music

John Voigt featured in Cambridge Chronicle, 14 July 2008

Nice write up on Outpost in the Glob, Sunday 27 Jan. 2008 Outpost is the 2nd item:
http://www.boston.com/ae/music/articles/2008/01/26/six_nights_out____what_youre_hear_who_youll_meet/

on Richard Sandler's Films:
http://www.bloggernews.net/113600
On our "Small Arts Group Die Off", 13 January:
Globe: http://www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/articles/2008/01/12/small_arts_groups_are_dying_to_be_heard/
Big Red & Shiny:
http://www.bigredandshiny.com/cgi-bin/retrieve.pl?issue=issue75§ion=article&article=DONT_DRINK_THE_1485440
BILL MARX/The Arts Fuse: Boston Foundation to Small Theatres - Drop Dead Please!
http://www.theartsfuse.com/2008/01/20/boston-foundation-to-small-theaters-drop-dead-please/#more-401

SEPTEMBER
Shot X Shot
Friday, 12 September @ OUTPOST - 8pm $10 or b/o
subconsciouscafe presents
from Philadelphia
"SHOT X SHOT"
Dan Scofield - alto sax / Bryan Rogers - tenor / Dan Capecchi - drums / Matt Engle - bass
opening: "The ECTOPLASMIC TRIO" (Cambridge)
John Voigt - bass / Todd Brunel - bass clarinet / Robert Rivera - cello

Shot × Shot is an improvisational acoustic quartet performing original compositions steeped in jazz tradition, but with experimental sensibilities. Formed in 2003, while the members were students at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, has quickly established itself as one of the most groundbreaking bands in one of jazz’s most important cities. On its self-titled debut, the group showcases its compositional dynamism and transcendental vibrancy creating a unique balanced sound that is often missing in improvisational jazz.

Fellow Philadelphian, jazz critic and author Francis Davis hears the band’s vitality. “Something fresh and exciting is unfolding in jazz, and these talented young Philadelphians are doing their part to speed it along,” writes Davis. “It’s been ages since I’ve heard a debut recording this adventurous and assured.”

Usually in jazz, youth is seen as a liability, but for Shot × Shot the opposite is true. Having been exposed to and performed all sorts of eclectic music, Shot × Shot infuse their music with diverse modern influences and a daring spirit, creating an experimental mix of sounds and structures.

With Dan Scofield (alto) and Bryan Rogers (tenor) on dueling saxophone ballasted by Dan Capecchi (drums) and Matt Engle (bass), the band’s multi-dimensional, layered sound relies on each musician’s unique contribution. Both Scofield and Engle are key members of Sonic Liberation Front, the African percussion-infused jazz group, whose 2004 High Two album Ashé A Go-Go, was widely praised by the Village Voice, Jazz Times, The Wire, among others. Scofield is also a member of the noise-improv band Wolf Vs. and performs, alongside Rogers, in Bobby Zankel’s large ensemble. Capecchi, a recent transplant from Minnesota, is a former member of indie rock band Triangle and the folk ensemble Jackaroo, now also plays in the Jeff Baumeister Quartet.

Shot × Shot is reminiscent of Human Feel, the band that launched the careers of Chris Speed, Jim Black, Andrew d’Angelo, and Kurt Rosenwinkel when they were music students in Boston. Similarly, Shot × Shot unites unique voices who are poised to be important musicians individually and collectively.
http://www.hightwo.com/sxs.html
http://www.aumfidelity.com/hightwo.htm
http://www.exclaim.ca/musicreviews/destinationout.aspx?csid1=122

THE ECTOPLASMIC TRIO
"The Ectoplasmic Trio" is the result of the felicitous collision of
longtime collaborators Todd Brunel and Robert Rivera (Andalusian
Dream) with Boston bass legend John Voigt at a recent Outpost event
backing improvising bard Sebastian Lockwood. This is their first
public appearance as a trio.

Todd Brunel: http://www.clarinetconspiracy.com
Robert Rivera: http://www.myspace.com/riveracellist
John Voigt: http://art-energy.org/johnmusician.html

Saturday, Sept. 13 and Sunday, Sept. 14 @ OUTPOST - 8pm, $15.
“BUSH-CHENEY: LOUNGE FORCE”

with Ian Maxwell MacKinnon and Eric Zinman

BUSH AND CHENEY INVADE CAMBRIDGE WITH NEW LOUNGE ACT

CAMBRIDGE, MA: Riding out the final year of their historic administrations, President Bush and Vice-President Cheney will unveil a new musical project in Cambridge Sept. 13-14 at Outpost 186.

“BUSH-CHENEY: LOUNGE FORCE” will be hosted by local operatives Ian Maxwell MacKinnon and Eric Zinman. The show, featuring President Bush on guitar and Mr. Cheney on keyboards, is a response to those who would criticize our leaders as “lame ducks.” The act includes Bush-Cheney compositions such as "Let Me Be Misunderstood" and "The Sunny Side of the Dark Side of the Street." John McCain gets a special tribute from fellow fighter pilot Bush (with Cheney as co-pilot) in a momentous rewrite of "Heaven in your Eyes" from the movie "Top Gun."

“The President and Vice-President have just been recharging their batteries, and the power that comes from a little R&R is what ‘Lounge Force’ is all about,” MacKinnon says. Come witness the birth of a new musical career for the leaders of the free world, due to leave office on Jan. 21. Bush and Cheney have been represented by MacKinnon and Zinman in three previous plays: “A Bush-Cheney Christmas,” “The Apotheosis of George W. Bush,” and “The Bush-Cheney ‘Top Gun’ Focus Group.”

Critics have raved: “The show was hilarious”(BOSTON HERALD). “Pick of the Week”-DNC, 2004 (BOSTON PHOENIX). “Provocative, unsettling humor”(BOSTON GLOBE). MacKinnon (Bush) won a national theater manifesto contest judged by Tony Kushner and others with an entry called “Elect Better Actors.” Zinman (Cheney) is an acclaimed jazz pianist. Their archives as Bush and Cheney are at www.thebushcheneytopgunfocusgroup.com

Friday, 19 September @ Outpost, 8pm $5/10
VORTEX series for new & improvised music presents:
"The Vortex Other Dimension Ensemble"
with
Emile Tobenfeld - video art
John Mulrooney - spoken Word
Todd Brunel - bass clarinet, electronics
with special guest:
Ara Sarkissian - piano
"Pianist and composer Ara Sarkissian keeps himself busy with various musical projects. His interests include eastern music, tuning systems, and exploring multi-stylistic aspects of music. He leads the ethno-jazz ensemble MUSANER, as well as the improvisatory PALIMPSEST ENSEMBLE".

Saturday, 20 September @ Outpost, 2-8pm Admission: your face
art opening / cookout / piano jam
outpost186 presents
“PIANORAMA!”
Come help Outpost 186 celebrate the arrival of our snazzy new piano, a Yamaha U3 full-size upright, with an all-day blow-out cook-out jam-out! The creme of the local piano aristocracy will be wrestling each other off the bench for a chance to try out the beast...other instrumentalists are invited to get off your ax & jam! we should have a kit on site. WE ALSO HAVE A SPIFFY NEW PA SYSTEM! Ain’t we fancy? A grill will be in operation on the patio to slake your non-musical hungers. Bring grillables, swillables, ice.

ART OPENING & RECEPTION
Pianorama is offered in conjunction with our first GROUP ART SHOW, featuring artists:
MITCH AHERN - fresh from a featured exhibit at the Decordova Museum in Lincoln, Mass., displaying his ANGRY DISHTOWELS, block prints on cotton fabric. http://www.electrocaster.org/
KRISTIN GOODFRIEND - paintings, photography
JESS LAWRENCE - paintings, works on paper

Production: Todd Brunel - www.clarinetconspiracy.com

Sunday, 21 September @ Outpost, 8pm $5/10
Geezeworld presents
“THE DOUBLE STOPS”
Adam simon - violin, bass, vocals / Ben Simon - vocals, guitar, piano / Isaiah Davidson-Weiss - Guitar, bass, vocals

Influences : The Raincoats, Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers, The Beatles, The Talking Heads, DE-VO, Mission Of Burma, The Real Kids, Marc Thor, The Who, The Beach Boys, Nirvana, Joy Division, Kraftwerk, Television, The Make-Up, The Velvet Underground, and YOU!

http://www.bostongroupienews.com/BGNphotos/RicheeJohn/ThorSail4.jpg

Saturday, 27 September @ OUTPOST - 8pm $15 or b/o
Dave Bryant presents:
70’s miles davis tabla star BADAL ROY with
"BADAL ROY / DAVE BRYANT / MIKE RIVARD"
Badal Roy - tablas & percussion (Miles,Ornette,Pharoah,Ono)
Dave Bryant - piano (Ornette Coleman)
Mike Rivard - bass (Club D’elf)

BADAL ROY
Roy began playing the tabla at age 10 or 11, studying with his uncle. After coming to New York, he began performing with Steve Gorn at a Manhattan restaurant called Raga, eventually attracting the attention of Miles Davis. Davis invited Roy to join his group, and he recorded on Davis's albums On the Corner (1972), Big Fun (1969-72; released 1974), and Get Up with It (1970-74). Roy subsequently performed and recorded with many leading jazz musicians, including Davis, Dave Liebman, Pharoah Sanders, John McLaughlin, Herbie Hancock, Herbie Mann, Pat Metheny, Lester Bowie, Airto Moreira, Charlie Haden, Purna Das Baul, Yoko Ono, and Ornette Coleman (playing in Coleman's electric band Prime Time). In the 1990s Roy began performing with the Brazilian guitar duo Duofel. He has also collaborated with Ken Wessel and Stomu Takeishi in a fusion trio named Alankar. They currently have one album entitled Daybreak.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badal_Roy