XIX is the first Molten Plains of 2024 and it’s filled with returning friends!
Tom Carter and Rachel Orosco are coming back with their guitar’n’projections duo performance, psych-jazz trio El Mantis (Danny Kamins, Angel Garcia and Andrew Martinez) came through when they released their first recording and they’ll play here again on the heels of their second. Kory Reeder’s “if the thought evaporates” tape just came out on Full Spectrum Records and this will be the release concert!
Kory performed the first set of Molten Plains I, Tom and Rachel came for II, El Mantis played at III. Most of them have come back to the series in different iterations, Tom played duo with Susan Alcorn in the 2022 Molten Plains Fest, Kory has been part of both editions of the festival.
Wednesday January 31
doors 8pm
music 8:30 sharp
$5-20 generous sliding scale
Molten Plains is a monthly series of adventurous sounds and further music experiences.
EL MANTIS (Houston)
A heavy psychedelic jazz trio formed in early 2021 by musicians Danny Kamins (Etched In The Eye) Andrew Martinez (Ak’Chamel) and Angel Garcia (Laktating Yak). Their second album is coming out in mid-February on Houston label CIA Records.
TOM CARTER + RACHEL OROSCO (Houston)
Tom is an improvising musician whose electric guitar work weaves strands of melody, drone, fuzz, and charged silence into intricately detailed instant compositions. Best known for his continuing work with iconoclastic acid-folk improvisers Charalambides. Rachel is a multimedia artist, DJ and musician. As a visual artist, Orosco uses mirrors and light projections to expand perception beyond architectural boundaries, creating illusory realms without borders inside of confined spaces.
KORY REEDER
“If the thought evaporates” Tape Release
An improvisational piece for instruments and electronics, the backbone of which is a MAX patch containing six instances of intelligent oscillators. These ghosts in the machine listen to the performers and one another, making real-time decisions on frequency, duration, amplitude, and even deploying subtle effects based on received information from the performance itself.
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