$15 at the door 7:00pm Show
Gates / Hirsh / Carter will celebrate the release of their avant-garde jazz album Phosphene on Mahakala Music at Berlin.
Steve Hirsh composes music on the drumset. He's been leading improvising ensembles around Minnesota's Twin Cities for 20 years. He has played with some of the world's leading practitioners of real-time group composition, including Joel Futterman, William Parker, Dave Sewelson, Matthew Shipp, Ivo Perelman, Eri Yamamoto, Steve Swell, Chad Fowler, and Matt Lavelle. He appears on multiple releases on the Mahakala Music label, and he has new albums due out in 2024 on ESP-Disk and Sound of Soul Records. More info at https://www.stevehirshdrums.com
Sally Gates is a New Zealand musician and composer based in New York. Her avant-rock trio, Titan to Tachyons, recently released their second album, Vonals, through John Zorn’s Tzadik Records. Received to excellent critical acclaim, Vonals was included in Spin’s Best Metal of September 22, and was said to “harness virtuosity...with an enticingly organic fluidity” by The Wire. A 2022 recipient of the Wellington Jazz Festival Composer Commission, Gates returned home to premiere her solo guitar piece “Thought & Terraform” at the Wellington Opera House. A versatile musician with “slinky, avant-noir guitar work,” Gates often performs in NYC with various improvisational music groups, most notably as a “secret guest” in a John Zorn ensemble. Other recent collaborators have included Trevor Dunn, Zoh Amba, Brian Chase, Greg Fox, and Sam Ospovat. Before relocating to New York, Gates released original music with the Miami progressive-metal band Orbweaver, and she toured throughout the U.S., Canada, and New Zealand with other acts such as Gigan, Success Will Write Apocalypse Across the Sky, and Relentless Attrition. Gates is endorsed by PRS Guitars, Orange Amps, and Asterope Cables.
Daniel Carter is an American experimental saxophone, flute, clarinet, and trumpet player active mainly in New York City since the early 1970s. One of the legendary masters of creative music. Born in Wilkinsburg, PA, in 1945, Carter is a prolific performer and has recorded or performed with William Parker, Federico Ughi, DJ Logic, Thurston Moore, Yo La Tengo, Sun Ra, Cecil Taylor, scientist/musician Matthew Putman, Patrick Holmes, Sabir Mateen, Cooper-Moore, Sam Rivers, David S. Ware, Yoko Ono, Medeski Martin & Wood, and Jaco Pastorius. He is a member of the cooperative free jazz groups TEST and Other Dimensions In Music.
