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09/18 Thursday

7:00 PM "The Plural Truth" features Bryan Baker on Guitar/EFX/Sounds/Textures and Austin McMahon on Drums

Lead by ground-breaking, innovative guitarist Bryan Baker, "The Plural Truth" features the kenetic improvisational freedom that lies at the heart of jazz, but with the rebelious mentality and approch to musicianship that is at the core of rock and punk. Never partial to accepted conventions or idiomatic cliches, "The Plural Truth" delivers an experiance that excites both the brain and the body.

Here is what Bill Milkowski of Jazz Times Magazine had to say about Bryan's debut solo record, "Aphotic":

"A player of jaw-dropping technique and ferocious intensity with a darkly alluring musical vision, guitarist Bryan Baker is a leading light among a new breed of six-string renegades who are tearing it up with reckless abandon while pushing stylistic boundaries with impunity. His (debut record) Aphotic is the most startlingly original debut by a guitarist since Pat Metheny's Bright Size Life." --Bill Milkowski, Jazz Times magazine

Bryan Baker's Bio:

Bryan Baker was born into a creatively fertile environment, with his grandfather being an accordionist, his father being a professional guitarist, and his mother being a designer and artist. This early immersion in the creative way of life lead Bryan to begin playing the guitar at age four, under the direction of his father.

Nine years later, at age thirteen, Bryan was awarded a full tuition scholarship to attend the Los Angeles Music Academy. Bryan spent the next four years attending the academy and enveloping himself in the musical and cultural climate of Los Angeles, as well as playing with some of the most legendary performers and musicians within the Los Angeles scene.

At age seventeen, Bryan was awarded a full tuition scholarship to attend the prestigious Berklee College of Music is Boston, Massachusetts. While at Berklee, Bryan honed his instrumental abilities to a finite point, as well as delved deeply into the art of creating and programming electronic music.

After graduating Berklee with a degree in Professional Music and Music Synthesis, Bryan moved to New York City, where he was soon hired as the guitarist in legendary jazz/rock super group, "Steps Ahead". Bryan has toured nearly every continent and numerous countries throughout the world with Steps Ahead.

"The Plural Truth" features Bryan Baker on Guitar/EFX/Sounds/Textures and Austin McMahon on Drums

10:00 PM RUSSIAN DOGS#1

1. Vic Rawlings & Jay Sullivan

Vic Rawlings (prepared amplified cello, surface electronics) is active in the Boston improvised music community. His performances focus on the metamusical potential of unstable sounds and silences. He is an instrument builder specializing in modifications of existing instruments. In addition to his extensive cello preparations, he continually develops an electronic instrument from extant analog circuitry, producing, in effect, an analog synthesizer with a highly unstable interface.

He performs regularly as a soloist and as a member of undr quartet, The BSC, and in duo and trio ensembles with Michael Bullock, Greg Kelley, Bhob Rainey, Sean Meehan, Jason Lescalleet, James Coleman, Tatsuya Nakatani, and Howard Stelzer. Collaborators have included Eddie Prevost (AMM), Donald Miller (Borbetomagus), Daniel Carter (Other Dimensions in Music), Laurence Cook, Jaap Blonk, Masashi Harada, and Stephen Drury.

Rawlings appears on the record labels Audio Dispatch, Grob, Sedimental, Emanem, Boxmedia, Chloe, Absurd, and Rykodisc. He has performed as a soloist/ composer with Nicola Hawkins Dance Company and has composed scores for films by Alla Kovgan and Jeff Silva. He has toured throughout the US and in France.

Turntablist Jay Sullivan has been a mainstay of the New England noise and experimental music scene for the past five years or so. Working with distressed vinyl, vintage record players, and a variety of electronic ephemera, he creates his richly crackling music out of dense fields of hiss and hum. In addition to his solo work, he has a longstanding duo project with cassette tape maestro, Howard Stelzer, called Skeletons Out and a newer trio called Ouest with Stelzer and sound artist Brendan Murray.

2. Paper Thin Stages with Ernie Kim & Greg Kelley

Greg Kelley has performed throughout the United States, Europe, Japan and Argentina at numerous festivals, in clubs, outdoors, in living rooms, in a bank, and at least once on a vibrating floor. He has collaborated w/ a number of musicians throughout the globe performing experimental music, free jazz and noise, releasing a number of recordings in the process. He constantly seeks to push the boundaries of the trumpet and of 'music'.
He is the Minister of Fanfares for the Kingdoms of Elgaland-Vargaland.

Paper Thin Stages base their music on improvisational checkpoints of glitchy ambiance, pitter-pat drums, and glittering guitars. Sound into musical interludes, and back again into the unknown.

www.myspace.com/paperthinstages or www.paperthinstages.com

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