Upcoming at the Bohemian National Home

From the Bohemian National Home:

Friday, Sept. 21st: Jack Rose/ Glenn Jones/ Windy and Carl/Nick Schillace
Ex-Pelt guitarist and finger-picking great Jack Rose returns to Bohemian National Home, once again bringing one of his cohorts in the school of American Primitive guitar, Glenn Jones. Jones is probably best known for leading avant-rock instrumental group Cul de sac, but he also was a latter-day collaborator with the grand-daddy of the American Primitive style, John Fahey. Add our local great in the genre, Nick Schillace, and you you have a night of rootsy folk traditions colliding with open-eared experimentation. Just to break it up a bit, we also have a rare local performance by Windy and Carl, who use guitar to ambient, minimalist ends. They layered approach used to get them the “space rock” moniker, but they actually deal more in slowly evolving soundscapes. Doors at 9pm; $10.

Saturday, Sept. 22: Jack Wright, Tatsuya Nakatani, Michel Doneda
If you caught Tatsuya Nakatani’s solo percussion performance here last year, you know that he’s about the most amazing percussionist out there. It truly ranked as one of the most amazing sets at The Bohemian ever. But don’t just take my word for it- ask The Smithsonian, who recorded Nakatani for posterity! This time he’s joined by Jack Wright, one of improvised music’s leading lights and French soprano saxophonist Michel Doneda.
A member of the first generation of American free improvisers, saxophonist Wright has played with a staggering amount of musicians, including William Parker, Bhob Rainey, Bob Marsh, Andrew Drury and Katt Hernandez, to name a few. His work with younger improvisers has earned him the title of “the Johny Appleseed of Improvisation.”
Michel Doneda is a French saxophonist who has worked with Lê Quan Ninh, John Zorn, Fred Van Hove and Elliot Sharp. In 1990, Doneda created the label Sonographica with percussionist and composer Alain Joule to investigate the possibilities of mixed media such as music, painting and literature. Doors at 9 pm; $10 suggested.

Friday, Sept. 28: Nautical Almanac/ Demons
With ties to Detroit, New Orleans and Baltimore, this bill will feature the noisey, outsider experimentation you’d expect to be brewing in America’s under-dog cities. Using a variety of home-made instruments, Baltimore’s Nautical Almanac moves from abrasive walls of sound to minimalst introspection to industrial catastrophy, never pausing for too long before changing the aural enviroment. Opening the show is Demons, the duo of Nate Young (Wolf Eyes) and Steve Kenney (Pterodactyls). Demon’s sonic brew is made from a cauldron of wounded and dying circutry inside second-hand synths, drum machines and mixers, Doors at 9 pm; $5.

10/3 Magik Markers
10/6 Scavenger Quartet, Zoos of Berlin
10/8 Rempis Percussion Quartet
10/9 Damo Suzuki with Detroit Sound Carriers
10/13 Thollem McDonas with Marko Novachcoff
10/19 Trevor Watts and Jamie Harris- early show
10/26 Casey Neill, I Crime
10/27 Yellow Swans
10/29 Sic Alps, Cadaver in Drag, Mammal

11/2 Gaida Hinnawi (Arabic ensemble)

It’s looking like a mini-festival of experimental music this week:
11/5 Paul Metzger and Forgotten Works
11/6 Tatsuya Nakatani and David Stackenas
11/7 Eric Boeren/Cor Fuhler/Nate McBride/Mike Reed plus Mike Tamburo, Horseback
11/8 NEW DATE: Missi St. Pierre, Collections of Colonies of Bees
11/9 Eastern Seaboard, Faruq Z Bey/Michael Carey/Joel Peterson

12/18 Frode Gjerstad Trio

currently in the gallery: Michael Mikolowski- “New Work”
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