Please enjoy the performances from the NWEMO NYC, presented on December 7th ShapeShifter+ (Plus),
the new presenting arm of ShapeShifter Lab, the ultra hip jazz/experimentalist-tinged interdisciplinary Brooklyn performance space,
co-directed by Matthew Garrison, Fortuna Sung & Ravi Coltrane. Thank you for sponsoring NWEAMO NYC.
The Featured artists were:
• SWARMIUS
• Bradford Reed & Jane LeCroy
• Geoffrey Burleson
• Trouble with Kittens
• David Linton
• Roarke Menzies
Geoffrey Burleson performs “Powerhouse Passacaglia” A Fantasy-Homage on Raymond Scott’s “Powerhouse”
Composed by Geoffrey Burleson
NWEAMO Festival NYC 2015
ShapeShifter Lab
SWARMIUS performs “Cali’ Karsilama” at ShapeShifter Lab, Brooklyn, at NWEAMO NYC. Composition by Joseph Martin Waters
SWARMIUS performs EeOoEe (Phantom Toccata)
“For Vinyl-Covered Stages” performed by
Roarke Menzies
NWEAMO Festival NYC 2015
ShapeShifter Lab
Trouble With Kittens performs “Poison Control”
Composed by Cassandra Burrows
At NWEAMO Festival NYC 201
Performers:
Cassandra Burrows – Alto Sax & Voice
Josh Katz-Rosen – Baritone Horn
Izaak Mills – Flute, Bass Clarinet
Wade Ripka – Guitar
Kenny Wollesen – Drums
Quince Marcum – Bass and Voice
Trouble With Kittens
performs “Tangle/The Tower”
Composed by Cassandra Burrows
Performers:
Cassandra Burrows – Alto Sax & Voice
Josh Katz-Rosen – Baritone Horn
Izaak Mills – Flute, Bass Clarinet
Wade Ripka – Guitar
Kenny Wollesen – Drums
Quince Marcum – Bass and Voice
At NWEAMO Festival NYC 2015
Trouble With Kittens performs “Ticks and Fleas”
Composed by Cassandra Burrows
At NWEAMO Festival NYC 2015
Performers:
Cassandra Burrows – Alto Sax & Voice
Josh Katz-Rosen – Baritone Horn
Izaak Mills – Flute, Bass Clarinet
Wade Ripka – Guitar
Kenny Wollesen – Drums
Quince Marcum – Bass and Voice
Trouble With Kittens perform “Hard Hands”
Composed by Cassandra Burrows
At NWEAMO Festival NYC 2015
Performers:
Cassandra Burrows – Alto Sax & Voice
Josh Katz-Rosen – Baritone Horn
Izaak Mills – Flute, Bass Clarinet
Wade Ripka – Guitar
Kenny Wollesen – Drums
Quince Marcum – Bass and Voice
Trouble With Kittens perform “Blue Baby”
Composed by Cassandra Burrows
At NWEAMO Festival NYC 2015
Performers:
Cassandra Burrows – Alto Sax & Voice
Josh Katz-Rosen – Baritone Horn
Izaak Mills – Flute, Bass Clarinet
Wade Ripka – Guitar
Kenny Wollesen – Drums
Quince Marcum – Bass and Voice
Trouble With Kittens
perform “Trouble With Kittens”
Composed by Cassandra Burrows
At NWEAMO Festival NYC 2015
Performers:
Cassandra Burrows – Alto Sax & Voice
Josh Katz-Rosen – Baritone Horn
Izaak Mills – Flute, Bass Clarinet
Wade Ripka – Guitar
Kenny Wollesen – Drums
Quince Marcum – Bass and Voice
David Linton 1
David Linton 2
David Linton 3
Websites:
http://www.pencilina.com/bradford.html
· List of artists:
1. SWARMIUS w guest artist Geoffrey Burleson
2. Bradford Reed & Jane LeCroy
3. Geoffrey Burleson
4. Trouble With Kittens
Contact information:
Joseph Martin Waters
619-750-7125
joseph.martin.waters@gmail.com
ShapeShifter + (plus) presents NWEAMO NYC (New West Emerging Arts and Music Organization)
NWEAMO is a San Diego-based support and service organization for artists of all disciplines, dedicated to promoting cross cultural collaboration & cultivating a central place for artists as the barometers, periscopes, harbingers and mine canaries of a healthy functioning culture. Since 1998, NWEAMO has mounted an annual festival. Under the auspices of ShapeShifter Plus, we are privileged to bring the NWEAMO Festival to Brooklyn.
This is a rare opportunity to hear San Diego-based virtuoso beyond-genre ensemble SWARMIUS. Since their 2006 debut, SWARMIUS has performed in venues ranging from concert halls to raves, fluidly blending electronics and virtuosic acoustic performance.
Comprised of SAXIMUS (Todd Rewoldt, alto sax), Schrodinger’s Sax (Michael Couper, soprano sax), Augustus Marimbus (Andrew Kreysa, Vibes) & Jozefius Rattus (Joseph Martin Waters, composer & laptop), each performer in SWARMIUS is a world class virtuoso soloist, and the multi-genre-leaping repertoire is a thrill course of gravity-defying pyrotechnics. They will be joined on a few pieces by NYC-based pianist Geoffrey Burleson.
This is post modern, post minimal populist work building on Gershwin, Copland and Bernstein, with diverse influences such as trance, hip-hop, Gypsy, Santeria, house, jazz, Kelzmer, western classical and more. Fun & fantastic.
recent review: http://www.sandiegostory.com/reflections-on-the-2015-carlsbad-music-festival/
youtube clips:
• “Pacific 565″ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jU8Z8LDPpG4
• “Dragon” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7VKN5A4uaI
• “Cali Karsilama” “https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39lC5msKyeQ
SWARMIUS Will be joined by the percussion/electronic/vocal performance artist duo Bradford Reed & Jane LeCroy. Reed is an internationally renowned percussionist, famous for creating his own musical instruments, and combining these with electronics. Jane LeCroy is a performance artist/vocalist whose witty and searching texts explore the back alleys of our current states.
• Reed/LeCroy Video: http://youtu.be/uer9IXIJgRA
• recent review: https://newyorkmusicdaily.wordpress.com/2015/09/05/jane/
Opening set by pianist extraordinaire Geoffrey Burleson.