Friends of SYFFAL, Josh Sinton, Adam Hopkins & Threes Brewing present the Sound Minds Music Festival in Brooklyn NY. For details on this exciting day of booze and music check the information provided be the satchel of sensh himself, Josh Sinton.
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New York City’s vibrant musical culture is as rich and varied as it’s ever been. It’s also become uncompromisingly crowded and competitive. In a city of over eight million people (many of whom are striving artists), it’s shocking and untenable that there are only a handful of annual festivals for creative music and jazz. Brooklyn-based musicians Josh Sinton and Adam Hopkins decided to remedy this situation. This August, they are teaming up with Threes Brewing to present some of their favorite music and musicians in the first Sound Minds Music Festival.
Sinton and Hopkins have between them over fifteen years of experience of putting on shows in NYC (Sinton at the now defunct Douglass Street Music Collective and Hopkins with his Out of Your Head series). In that time they’ve heard a lot of music that’s flown under the radar of most listeners. Music made with passionate intensity, razor sharp instrumental technique and that’s deeply unclassifiable. While the sounds of these bands are informed by jazz and other improvised musics, they’re also inspired by hip hop, funk, spectralist composition, minimalism and punk among many other formats. And while many of the players received their training as jazz musicians, at this point in their careers, they’ve moved on to explore much more personal sound worlds. Whether it’s the psychedelic Appalachian music of Jason Ajemian’s Folklords, the Egyptian surf funk of Matt Bauder’s Hearing Things or the rigorous and angular music of Kate Gentile, these artists are all united in their search for a more unique sonic representation of who and where they are.
This summer, Sinton and Hopkins decided that they had to find a way to grab more listeners for this music. “It just didn’t make sense to Adam and I that more people hadn’t heard Brian Drye’s music, or Emilie Lesbros’ music or Dustin Carlson’s music,” says Sinton. “I mean, whether or not their music is called ‘jazz’ really is besides the point. It’s just excellent music. Yes, it’s primarily instrumental music and yes it has improvisation, but it’s still just as emotional, relevant and rewarding as anything you could find in the world right now.” Rather than wait to be noticed, Sinton and Hopkins asked the good people at Threes Brewing to give them a helping hand and assist them in the staging of a new music festival, The Sound Minds Music Festival.
The festival will take place at Threes Brewing at 333 Douglass Street in Brooklyn, NY. Sets will alternate between the main stage in the bar and the intimate setting of Tiny Montgomery located just behind the bar.
The doors for this concert will open at 6:00 pm. The first band will take the stage at 7 and each band will follow on the hour for the next six hours. The bands to appear at the Festival will be:
7.00pm: In Tiny Montgomery: Miss Elie Sorbsel Experiment featuring Emilie Lesbros (voice, violin, piano and guitar). For this performance, she is going to mix her Attraction Terrestre album of improvised music with her punk-jazz song writing. Her voice will float between improvisations, sounds, songs, as well as playing guitar, violin, and piano, all the while experimenting with flow, words, extended vocal technique and composition.
https://emelielesbros.bandcamp.com/releases
8.00pm: In Tiny Montgomery: Bizingas plays the Blues featuring: Brian Drye (trombone/compositions), Kirk Kniffke (cornet) and Jonathon Goldberger (guitar). With special guests Hank Roberts (cello) and Tom Rainey (drums). In this special performance Brian Drye's Bizingas will premiere a new set of "chamber folk-porch blues" pieces. No electronic synths and gadgets for this acoustic, pared-down set.
www.briandrye.com
9.00pm: In Threes Main Bar: Dustin Carlson's Air Ceremony featuring: Dustin Carlson (guitar and compositions), Mike Baggetta (guitar), Danny Gouker (trumpet), Kate Gentile (drums) and Josh Sinton (barritone sax and bass clarinet). Dustin Carlson's Air Ceremony...performing rituals of necessity, we collapse skyward the bone machine of tang squawk; jiggling time, dance rhythms. "Throw yourself, lose your balance, if you fall, that is a good thing."
https://m.soundcloud.com/dustincarlson
10.00pm: In Tiny Montgomery: The Kate Gentile Quartet featuring: Jeremy Viner (clarinet and tenor sax), Matt Mitchell (piano and laptop), Adam Hopkins (bass) & Kate Gentile (drums and compositions). Kate Gentile's music has been described as "hyper-detailed...designed to sur multi-faceted improvisation". Her quartet has been exploring a new book of often-dense compositions containing varied forms and unconventional rhythms and harmonies that demand a spectrum of improvisational creativity. This performance will feature a selection of this music as well as a brand-new long-form piece. www.katiegentile.com kategentile.bandcamp.com
11.00pm: In Threes Main Bar: FOLKLORDS featuring: Peter Hanson (saxophone), Nathaniel Morgan (saxophone), Owen Stewart-Robertson (guitar), Jason Ajemian (bass, vocals and compositions) and Jason Nazary (drums). FOLKLORDS is the sound of an outstanding group of New York City improvisors performing six conceptual, visual & sonic landscapes. Meditative Mingus ballads, imaginary conversations between Sun Ran and Thelonious Monk, poetic takes on pop culture, and an elegy for Malachi Ritscher are transmitted via Ajemian's unique notational methodology.
https://jasonajemian.bandcamp.com/track/atm
12.00am: In Tiny Montgomery: Hearing Things featuring: Matt Bauder (saxophone), JP Schlegelmilch (organ) and Vinne Sperrazza (drums). Hearing Things plays original music by Matt Bauder. They heard that sound travels through a world where geography and time are fluid. Their hobbies include surfing the Red Sea and stripping at the drive-in, but they are equally comfortable relaxing with a good book while the technocrats fistfight in the streets. Prudes, ghosts and tittyshakers; the hustlers and sweet-talkers alike, all will join hands and sway to this brand new beat. Bauder himself has been an active member of the Brooklyn music scene for the past ten years where he's always surprising listeners with his diverse projects when he's home from touring with bands like the Arcade Fire and Iron and Wine.
hearingthingsband.bandcamp.com
Tickets are $30 each. Included in the ticket-price is admittance to all 6 concerts, as well as any two ½ - pints of Threes beer. Tickets can be purchased in advance at Brown Paper Tickets.
We look forward to seeing you all at what promises to be one of the highlights of the summer of 2015!