Minerals with Zach Layton: Guitar, Bradford Reed: Drums
Duo with Jonathan Kane: Drums and Dave Soldier: Multi Instrumental and Composition
Jonathan Kane (February, Swans, La Monte Young) and Dave Soldier ( Soldier String Quartet, John Cale, Thai Elephant Orchestra) perform a set of Uprooted Americana. With Soldier on violin and Kane on drums and guitar, they dismantle the Blues, the Great American Songbook and R&B dance hits.
“Any self-respecting fan of downtown music could tell you that a project involving drummer Jonathan Kane and multi-instrumentalist David Soldier is bound to be both intensely eclectic and a whole lot of fun.
Time Out New York
“Somewhere between Sonic Youth and Steve Reich is the drummer Jonathan Kane – interested in the crossroads of new music iconoclasm and experimental rock. Virtuosic.”
New York Times
“One thing about having an approach as idiosyncratic as Dave Soldier’s is that once listeners know your work at all, they realize that coming to new works with any expectations about style, form or language is fruitless.”
New York Times
Zach Layton is a guitarist, composer, curator, improviser, teacher and video artist based in Brooklyn. His work investigates unconscious autonomic musical impulses via improvisation, biofeedback and indeterminacy. His music involves a combination of digital and analog processes, field recordings and electric guitar played in non-standard tunings. He has performed and exhibited at The Kitchen, ISSUE Project Room, PS1, Sculpture Center, Transmediale Berlin, Roulette and many other venues internationally and around NYC. He has collaborated with Vito Acconci, the Joshua Light Show, Andrew Lampert, Bradley Eros, Alex Waterman, Luke Dubois & Matthew Ostrowski, Tristan Perich, MV Carbon, Jessie Stead and many other artists, musicians, filmmakers and friends. His duo with Bradford Reed “Minerals” explores polyrhythmic and symphonic layers of improvised tonalities.
Bradford Reed never fails to entertain and inspire. This Brooklyn, NY based composer, performer and producer fights and tames the idiosyncrasies of the pencilina, anoriginal instrument of his own design and construction. The pencilina is an electric ten stringed collision of the hammer dulcimer, slide guitar, koto and fretless bass with six pickups of varied types. It is struck with sticks, plucked and bowed, giving Reed an incredibly wide sonic palette. Many have enjoyed Reed’s frequent street performances and club dates.
In additon to his solo work, Bradford plays the pencilina, drums and keyboards with King Missile III and produced Failure and The Psychopathology of Everyday Life. He also played the electric zither in the Blue Man Group’s band in their lauded Off-Broadway show, Tubes for 8 years. Reed has appeared with his pencilina on MTV, USA Up All Night, Fox’s Sound FX, The Tonight Show and has toured throughout the USA, Asia and Europe. Reed is also featured on Orbitones, Spoon Harps & Bellowphones, Ellipsis Arts’ second experimental instruments compilation album which includes music by Tom Waits, Aphex Twin and John Cage.
