ISSUE & WFMU: Brian Turner + Cooper-Moore + Ryan Jewell & Greg Kelley Duo + Heathen Shame

Sat 20 Sep, 2008, 8pm
Old American Can Factory

ISSUE PROJECT ROOM AND WFMU PRESENT A MONTH OF COLLABORATIVE CONCERTS

featuring:
WFMU music director/DJ: Brian Turner (www.wfmu.org/playlists/BT)
Cooper-Moore
Ryan Jewell
& Greg Kelley Duo
Heathern Shame

Cooper-Moore performs Music: Old and New Paths on his handcrafted instruments. Old and New Paths is a mix, a gumbo, a stew of gospel, bop, avant and blues based music which is used to accompany stories about people that he’s known, and to accompany stories that he heard as a child living in the Piedmont area of Virginia.
http://www.jazz.com/encyclopedia/cooper-moore-gene-y-ashton

Ryan Jewell is an experimental percussionist and composer from Columbus, Ohio, who’s collaborated with the likes of C. Spencer Yeh, Tatsuya Nakatani, and has been a frequent member of the band Psychedelic Horseshit. http://myspace.com/ryanxing

Greg Kelley has performed throughout the United States, Europe and Japan at numerous festivals {No Fun/NYC, Musique Action/France, Superfici Sonore/Italy}, in clubs {Bowery Ballroom/NYC, Choppin Block/Boston, Instantes Chavires/Paris}, outdoors {Baltimore, Big Sur, Mhere}, in living rooms & basements, in a bank {Argentina}, and at least once on a vibrating floor {MIT}. He has collaborated w/ a number of musicians throughout the globe {Keiji Haino, Kevin Drumm, Jandek} performing experimental music, free jazz and noise, releasing a number of recordings in the process {RRR, Twisted Village, Freedom From}. 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.http://www.geocities.com/greyelkgel/

Heathen Shame
Unbridled twin guitar destruction courtesy of Wayne Rogers and Kate Village (Major Stars, Twisted Village label/store and more) accompanied by trumpeter Greg Kelley.
www.twistedvillage.co