Molten Plains IX brings two Southern acts from different directions and a first time psychic ritual-Butoh collaboration! From Austin comes Atlas Maior, the pan-global informed ever-mutating ensemble, in their fully improvised Palindrome formation along with Stefan Gonzalez. Hal Lambert and Mitchell Mobley are a swamp-drone-experimental-rock guitar/percussion duo from Louisiana. Rosemary Candelario and Reivin Alexandria will send the night off with promising powerful vibrations.
doors 8 pm
music 8:30 sharp
$5-20 generous sliding scale
Molten Plains is a monthly series of adventurous sounds and further music experiences.
HAL LAMBERT + MITCHELL MOBLY (Baton Rouge)
An experimental music duo from southern Louisiana. Collectively, they create pieces incorporating spacious drones and elements of rock music accentuated by Mobley’s collection of percussive instruments and Lambert’s prepared guitar. They’ve released three CDs on Lambert’s Tentative Power label including Rat Tattoo which was selected as one of Bandcamp’s best experimental music releases of September 2022.
https://tentativepower.bandcamp.com/album/rat-tattoo
ATLAS MAIOR + STEFAN GONZALEZ (Austin/Denton)
Combines elements of Progressive Jazz, Middle Eastern, Latin American, and Indian music traditions. Band members Joshua Thomson (alto saxophone, flutes) & Josh Peters (oud, lavta) create a sound that balances intimate moments of sincerity with powerful melodies and incendiary rhythmic passages, exploring maqamat (Middle Eastern modal system) and harmonic progressions found in American jazz. The group composes with a wide variety of rhythms and incorporates traditional instruments including the Indian tablas, Middle Eastern dumbek, & Chinese hulusi.
As an ensemble, Atlas Maior has released 5 studio albums, most recently RIPTIDE, voted a 2019 Top 100 Austin release by The Austin Chronicle. The group has garnered positive reviews and media placement from Public Radio International (PRI The World), Jazziz Magazine, New York Daily Music, Jazz Journal U.K., Medium, Afropop Worldwide, KUTX Austin’s NPR Affiliate, All About Jazz, Tokyo Jazz Site, Song Lines, UTNE Reader, Glide Magazine, Earmilk, Midwest Review, and more. Atlas Maior has toured internationally in France, Spain, and Turkey.
The group has opened for internationally acclaimed artists Kaki King, Vieux Farka Touré, Tal National, and have performed at music festivals including SXSW, Austin Days (Angers, FR), Pueblos Blancos (Andalusia), and Wobeonfest. Atlas Maior has collaborated with a host of talented musicians in Angers, Austin, Barcelona, Istanbul, and from around the world, including Lou Lou Ghelichkhani of Thievery Corporation, Raquy Danziger, Ali Pervez Mehdi, Fared Shafinury, Indrajit Banerjee, Alán Chehab Quartet.
https://atlasmaior.bandcamp.com/
ROSEMARY CANDELARIO + REIVIN ALEXANDRIA
Rosemary Candelario is a scholar and artist specializing in butoh, which she has studied, taught, and performed across the United States and around the world. Her books and articles on butoh and butoh-related forms have been published in English and Japanese, and she was awarded the Oscar G. Brockett Book Prize for Dance Research in 2018.
http://www.rosemarycandelario.net/
Reivin Alexandria is a multimedia artist and psychic-ritual performer. She shapes alternate realities with her voice and sound art.