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ASAC presents:
FLANDREW FLEISENBERG/JESSE KENAS-COLLINS DUO
PAPER BALLS
PARASHI
Monday June 29th at UPSTATE ARTISTS GUILD (247 Lark Street)
8 PM
$5 donation suggested for traveling musicians!
From Philadephia!
 Jesse Kenas-Collis - cornet
 Flandrew Fleisenberg - percussion
 http://lifeoffleisenberg.blogspot.com/2013/12/kenas-flollins-duo-at-ww-72nd-bday.html?q=kenas
 
 From DC!
 PAPER BALLS
 a new improvising trio featuring Jeff Barsky (Insect Factory, DC), 
Lucio Menegon (Guitar from CA/ NYC) and David Grollman (percussionist 
and provocateur, NYC). All three are active in improvised and composed 
music scenes in NYC and Washington DC with groups such as Insect 
Factory, Blister, Plums, Prehistoric Horse and numerous spontaneous 
collaborations. From wall of sound to mellow deep headspace, this 
particular twin guitar, snare drum with mild theatrics and special 
surprise guests adventure will satisfy most abstract desires.
 
 From here!
 PARASHI
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJXVlOTdrxE
 
 
 
            
        
          
        
          
        

 
Come join us yet again at the Upstate Artists Guild as
 we welcome WILL GUTHRIE to Albany.  Opening the show will be local 
quartet MENSHEVIKS.
 
 Tuesday June 16 @ 8:00 pm    
 Upstate Artists Guild
 247 Lark Street 
 Albany, NY 
 
 $5 suggested donation for the traveling musician.
 
 Will Guthrie is an Australian drummer / percussionist living in France.
 He works in many different settings of music: live performance, 
improvisation and studio composition using various combinations of 
drums, percussion, objects, junk, amplification and electronics..
 He
 plays solo and in various projects such as THE AMES ROOM, ELWOOD & 
GUTHRIE & THE SOMMES ENSEMBLE. His music has been released on labels
 such as Gaffer Records, Erstwhile, Clean Feed, 23five, Editions Mego, Ipecac, iDEAL and his own label Antboy Music.
 
 While studying jazz and improvised music(s) at the Victorian College of
 the Arts in Melbourne, alongside Ren Walters he started the weekly 
concert series 'Improvised Tuesdays', now known as the Make It Up Club 
and is Australia's longest running performance space dedicated to 
experimental and improvised musics. In Nantes, France he is part of the 
collective CABLE# which also organizes regular concerts and an annual 
festival. He also runs the experimental improvised CD label and 
mail-order service; ANTBOY MUSIC.
 
 He plays solo using different
 combinations of drums, percussion, amplification and electronics, in 
minimalist/maximalist free jazz trio THE AMES ROOM (with Jean-Luc 
Guionnet & Clayton Thomas), in appalachian mutant folk duo ELWOOD 
& GUTHRIE (with Scott Stroud), as well as the improvised/composed 
ensemble THE SOMMES ENSEMBLE (with Pierre-Antoine Badaroux, Julien 
Desperez & Maxime Petit).
 
 Regular collaborators past and 
present include Jérôme Noetinger, David Maranha, Keith Rowe, Anthony 
Pateras, Toma Gouband, Erell Latimier, Ava Mendoza, Adam Sussmann, Matt 
Earle, Ren Walters, Jean-Philippe Gross, Greg Kingston, Helmut Schafer, 
David Ades, Mark Simmonds ...
MENSHEVIKS is an Albany-based improvisational quartet with
a heavy emphasis on electronics.  Although the four members also perform
solo and with multiple other groups, Mensheviks is a wholly unique endeavor
with an approach all its own.  Matt Weston, Ray Hare, Mike Griffin, and
Eric Hardiman are the crew.  
 
 
 
 
Matt "MV" Valentine
Wovoka
Fossils From the Sun
Sunday May 31 
8 PM at The Low Beat
335 Central Ave Albany NY
 
 Vermont's MATT VALENTINE (MV) is a cosmic sojourner of the highest 
order. Whether in his regular gig with Erika Elder or flowing on his 
own, MV's brand of rural psychedelia is unmistakable--his deep 
songwriting skills are matched by adventurous sonics and deft 
guitarwork. He's playing a few solo shows soon before his double LP 
"Midden Mound' drops this summer on the UK's mighty Golden Lab Records. 
Come see him at Albany's Low Beat on May 31!
 
 If string theory 
is correct, this is approximately the thirteenth album Matt Valentine 
has released that definitely shouldn’t be filed under a group name (MV 
& EE, Tower Recordings, Bummer Road, Golden Road, etc.). On the other
 hand, if string theory is correct, this might also be his 11,000th 
album. The truth, one suspects, is somewhere in between. It’s actually 
his 2nd record of “songs”. Since bedding down in southern Vermont at the
 dawn of the century, MV has been as cussedly prolific as anyone but the
 general approach here is as naked-and-loaded as the soul of Icepick 
Slim.
 
 As usual, MV’s tunes and procedures beggar easy 
generification. El- ements of deep forest psychedelia brush against 
Crazy Horse guitar / vocal flourishes that explode to reveal volk-based 
form mayhem at its hickiest. This guy has the magic touch.
 - BYRON COLEY
 
 “The MV half of MV&EE creates tense, cosmic music with very little.
 His meandering voice and sparkling guitar sound lonely, weird, and 
oddly comforting. A good match, actually, for some of Philip K. Dick’s 
obsessions: identity, authen- ticity and transformation.”
 
 “the 
hypnotic effect is like sitting in a car in the desert, turning the 
radio dial, and stumbling upon ancient transmissions returning from deep
 space.”
 
 “more effusive guitar effects and an occasional bend 
into a warped doo-wop or rural blues sensibility. The only problem with 
this strange addition to the ever- expanding body of work inspired by 
PKD is that it is not a whole album”
 - BRAINWASHED
 
 LINKS:
 mvandee.blogspot.com
 mv-ee.com
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_%26_EE
 twitter: https://twitter.com/MVEEGoldenRoad
 facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mattMVvalentine
 facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/MV-EE/162854533776883
 
 Joining MV on the bill will be Fossils from the Sun and Wovoka. Ray 
Hare plays in Century Plants and Burnt Hills, and his Fossils from the 
Sun project is an unpredictable one, as likely to utilize guitar as drum
 machine and synthesizer. One constant is Ray's voice, bent and mutated 
under layers of delay and distortion. John Lynch also plays in Burnt 
Hills, and his Wovoka project specializes in a hazy, homegrown 
back-porch psych vibe. Wovoka's released an LP on Time-Lag, while 
Ffrthesun has a number of releases on labels like Digitalis, Tape Drift,
 and Skell.
 
 Don't miss this one! It's presented by Albany Sonic Arts Collective.
 
 
 
Albany Sonic Arts Collective is very proud to present this fantastic show.  Please come join us for:
 
 TOUGH DAY TUBING: 
 Al Margolis - violin, clarinet, contact mics
 Steve Norton - reeds, electronics
 Crank Sturgeon - vocals, guitar, violin, contact mics
 Walter Wright - drums
 
 and 
 
 BLACKLIGHT LIGHTHOUSE
 Elizabeth Karp
 Laura Frare
Thursday May 28 @ 8PM
Upstate Artists Guild
247 Lark St.
Albany!!