$10 at the door 7:00pm Show
A musical project born from a long-running friendship—which began during their Midwestern childhood and was followed by intermittent distance across regions, countries, and cultures—Joe Westerlund and Trever Hagen are metamorphosing from their individual solo practices into a comprovisational duo. The sound world these two inhabit pays respect to the lineage of trumpet/drum combinations found in the jazz and ambient idioms and harkens back to the pairing’s advent in ancient battle cries. On Monday night, they will perform two sets of elegant ambient improvisation on melodic themes, fragments, and noise.
Joe Westerlund has emerged as an intuitive improviser and composer during the last decade, scoring deep meditative practice over the course of three full-length solo records. Westerlund—a longtime student of Milford Graves—has now spent more than a quarter-century gleaning lessons from folk musicians and avant-garde icons, from close friends and challenging strangers alike. He served as the dynamic backbone of Megafaun, the North Carolina trio of sophisticated songwriting and winning charisma that he cofounded. As a session drummer, he has worked as the pulse beneath the plaintive Americana of Watchhouse, Daughter of Swords, and Jake Xerxes Fussell and been a textural anchor for the folk abstraction of Califone and Bon Iver. Currently, he tours and records primarily in an improvisational trio, Setting (with Jaime Fennelly and Nathan Bowles), and as a solo artist on Psychic Hotline.
Trever Hagen is an trumpet player and producer who has collaborated with a range of musicians and ensembles (Bon Iver, Mouse on Mars, Marijuana Deathsquads, CARM, Aero Flynn) and is one-third of the electronica pop trio Heavy MakeUp, which also features Edie Brickell and CJ Camerieri. Hagen's solo trumpet electronica albums have been released by the labels 37d03d, Audiotong, Music of New Reference, and No Icon.
