Ava Mendoza (us)
Ava Mendoza is a guitar player/composer who plays in a wide range of settings– heavy rock/free jazz/modern classical/blues and country. In any context, her music finds a wobbly path between expressive melod! icism, atonality and sonic abstraction. She has performed/recorded with Marco Eneidi, Nels Cline (Wilco, Nels Cline Singers), Henry Kaiser, Ben Goldberg, Kenny Wollesen (Sex Mob), Mike Watt (Minutemen), Scott Amendola, members of ROVA saxophone quartet, Gino Robair, Weasel Walter (The Flying Luttenbachers) and contemporary classical ensemble SF Sound. Mute Socialite, her no wave/free jazz band (co-founded with drummer Moe! Staiano of Sleepytime Gorilla Museum) busily toured the U.S. and released albums 2006-2009. Mendoza has also toured the U.S. and Europe extensively with Carla Bozulich (The Geraldine Fibbers, Evangelista), Butch Morris’ Nublu Orchestra, members of Caroliner, and Theatre of Yugen. Her solo record, Shadow Stories, was released on Resipiscent in spring 2010.Here’s what she h! as to say about her solo work:
“My solo work draws a lot from early country and blues tunes, reworked (mangled?) in my own way. In any music context I tend to tread a wobbly line between melodicism, atonality and sonic abstraction. Solo guitar writing and arrangement started out for me as a kind love letter to some classic songs that were near and dear to me. It has turned into more of a love letter to the endless adaptability of songs, to all the different ways they can be personalized–whether through subtle arrangement idiosyncrasies, or through melodic and sonic forraying to the point of waywardness, unrecognizability, and transformation.”PRESS:
“Mendoza plays ! these songs. She makes them sing. Her technique is impeccable, but her playing is astonishingly expressive. She doesn’t just bend blue notes; she wads them up into a ball and throws them up against a wall… Mendoza knows what she does well, which is tell stories with her guitar. Check that. Mendoza knows what she does better than almost anyone else on the planet, which is tell stories with her guitar.” –Aiding and Abettingwww.avamendozamusic.com

Sporay & MSHR (us)
Portland / Us wird mehr und mehr zum Hafen der spannenden experimentellen Klängen. Man denke auch an das kürzlich unglaubliche Konzert der Emeralds kürzlich in der Postgarage (oder einem Jahr davor am Elevate Festival), ergänzend an die Klängen eines Mark McGuire, Bands wie The Slaves oder The Greys. SPORAY heisst die neueste Entdeckung, die neue Band rund um die Noiserin EVA AGUILA. Bisher ist sie unter dem Namen Kevin Shields aufgetreten, spielte in Gang Wizard und veröffentlichte bisher auf den Kultkrachlabels wie Ecstatic Peace, Load Records oder Deathbomb Arc, u.a. eine Split mit Sonic Youth’ Thurston Moore. An diesem aussergewöhnlichen Konzertabend präsentiert sie auch ihr neuestes Release auf dem Grazer Label Dilemma Records. Die zweitePerson in SPORAY: Brock Fansler, ganz bescheiden “just a creator of collage and noise”. MSHR ist das Solo Projekt von Brenna Murphy von Birch Cooper der neuen Band des KünstlerInnen Kollektives Oregon Painting Society’s. Improvisiert abstrakt mit selbstgebauten Instrumenten und Programmen. Gemeinsam werden die drei an diesem Abend auftreten und uns definitv mit dem neuem Sound aus Portland einwickeln!
Versprochen!

sporayband.com
mshr.info
www.bmruernpnhay.com
www.dilemmarecords.com>

Toba (it)
Das italienische Trio Toba macht Popmusik. Experimentelle Popmusik. Irgendwo in der Umgebung von Björk oder Tujiko Noriko. Die Sängerin Patrizia Oliva war solo schon beim Interpenetration Festival zu hören und mit dem grossartigen Trio Gravida schon mehrmals zu Gast in Graz. Für Toba hat sie sich mit dem Bassisten Tommaso Rolando und dem Gitarristen Marco Ravera zusammengetan. Ihre neue Platte wird sie in Graz im Duo mit Tommaso Rolando präsentieren.

www.myspace.com/madamepi
www.toneum.blogspot.com
soundcloud.com/patrizia-oliva