What I am doing tomorrow night:
Euphonic Productions
presents
Mary Halvorson & Jessica Pavone
plus special guests
GFE
9pm, Wed, Jan 11
$7 at the door
Eyedrum
290 MLK Jr. Drive, Suite 8
404-522-0655
www.eyedrum.org
Mary Halvorson & Jessica Pavone have been collaborating for over three
years to create a unique body of duo music. The pair combines lush
melodies with textural improvisation to create concise, enigmatic
songs. Their collaboration utilizes amplification and electronic
effects as well as acoustic presentation. This tour celebrates the
release of their first album, Prairies, on the Lucky Kitchen label.
Jessica Pavone is a string instrumentalist, composer, and teacher based
in Brooklyn, NY. She studied improvisation with Leroy Jenkins, viola
with Victoria Chiang and Midhat Serbagi, and is currently pursuing her
Masters in Music Composition at Brooklyn College. Currently, she tours
the US and Europe with diverse groups such as the Anthony Braxton
Sextet and Dave Longstreth’s Dirty Projectors, and improvises with
Imaginary Folk and the Taylor Ho Bynum Sextet. She also plays electric
bass in Jason Cady’s Artificials and Mix Tape, a soul and country cover
band. Since 2000, she has documented her music via her self-run label
Peacock Recordings.
Mary Halvorson, a guitarist and composer, studied Jazz at Wesleyan
University and the New School. She resides in Brooklyn where she
performs with her band People, a collaboration with drummer Kevin Shea,
as well as Sugriwa, featuring Yeah Yeah Yeahs drummer Brian Chase. She
has toured extensively with Trevor Dunn’s Trio-Convulsant opening for
the Melvins and Fantomas, and with the Anthony Braxton Quintet. She
also plays in ensembles led by Taylor Ho Bynum, Ted Reichman, Tatsuya
Nakatani and Matthew Welch.
“Pavone’s compositions are full of pith and lead you to a mesmerizing
place where the usual mad scramble to express something ‘weighty’ or
‘important’ doesn’t count for very much; her deliberately paced
mobile-like forms infatuate the brain while calming the pulse.”
– Philip Clark, The Wire
“Halvorson is cherished for playing in all kinds of experimental
ensembles. She’s known as the bearer of burning, spiky Morris- and
Cline-inspired jazz-rock fury on her hollow-body electric guitar that
drives Trevor Dunn’s Trio-Convulsant to its ecstatic peaks of post-rock
poetry.”
– Michael Anton Parker, Downtown Music Gallery
Mary and Jess on My Space
Jessica Capavone
Mary Halvorson
GFE:
Jeff Bradley – double bass
Scott Burland – pedal steel, keyboards, theremin, bass, electronics
Rob Cheatham – saxophones, keyboards, theremin
Milton Jones – percussion, etc.
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