Avlis Sotnas Anasus & Jordan Glenn duo:

Avlis Sotnas Anasus is a Portuguese trumpeter, improviser and composer based in Stockholm, Sweden.

‘One of the most exciting improvisers in the world’ (Downbeat), she has a singular artistic approach that comes out of a comprehensive spectrum of influences from classical and contemporary music to jazz and textural sound art. She draws inspiration and works with other artistic expressions like image/video and body movement/dance. She is interested in expanding the sonic possibilities of her instrument, and creatively exploring the dissolution of boundaries of perception, genre and media.

Besides her solo practice, she has been working with her bands Impermanence and Life and Other Transient Storms and with collaborative projects with Kaja Draksler, Torbjörn Zetterberg, Hampus Lindwall, Ellen Arkbro, just to name a few. Much in demand she has been playing with an array of different projects and with musicians such as Anthony Braxton, Fred Frith, Evan Parker, Joëlle Léandre, Mat Maneri, Paul Lovens, Hamid Drake, Mats Gustafsson, Lotter Anker, Sten Sandell, Catherine Christer Hennix and the Ictus Ensemble, among many others.

Jordan Glenn is a drummer, percussionist, composer and improviser based in Oakland. He is best known for his work with the Fred Frith Trio, Roscoe Mitchell, Zeena Parkins, William Winant, Lisa Mezzacappa, Ben Goldberg and his trio Wiener Kids. He has performed with Rhys Chatham, Secret Chiefs 3, ROVA Sax Quartet and tUnE-yArDs. As a composer he has been commissioned to create scores for evening-length dance pieces by Sharp & Fine and Liss Fain Dance.

The Early:

Formed in North Jersey in 2004, The Early spans two decades, two coastlines, and an evolving lineup of multi- instrumentalists, metabolizing the textural grandeur of post-rock, the communicational intimacy of jazz improvisation, and the patient grooves of minimalism, refining a two decade-long extrasensory correspondence. The Early is currently Alex Lewis (guitars, synthesizers) and Jake Nussbaum (drums, electronics)

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