ISSUE opens its 2023 season with an expansive gathering of improvising musicians with idiomatic approaches traversing guitar, percussion, voice, violin, trumpet, electronics, and more.
Thursday, June 7th, ISSUE presents an improvisation between unbound Bhutanese guitarist Tashi Dorji and Poughkeepsian creative jazz originary Joe McPhee.
Thursday, June 7th, ISSUE presents an improvisation between unbound Bhutanese guitarist Tashi Dorji and celebrated four-string guitarist Bill Orcutt.
McPhee, Dorji, and Orcutt come together for a debut trio performance -- a discourse flowing between mutually frenetic and intentionally meditative.
ISSUE presents slack-tuned, four-string wildman guitarist Bill Orcutt, unbound Bhutanese guitarist Tashi Dorji, and Poughkeepsian creative jazz originary Joe McPhee. All three are tireless improvisers & solo performers -- each possessing an enduring aesthetic that’s as independent as it is profoundly empathic.
Best known as a member of the Sun City Girls, Sir Richard Bishop is master guitarist whose improvisations effortlessly absorb sounds of India, the Middle East, North Africa and others into a highly original body of work. A Bhutanese guitarist based in Asheville, Tashi Dorji's revelatory style is unbound by tradition.