An evening of diverse improv with Paul Metzger, Elaine Evans, Amen Dunes and Ernst Karel.

Paul Metzger
A virtuoso on a myriad of stringed instruments, Minneapolis-based experimental/progressive folk artist Paul Metzger focuses much of his creative energy on his 21-string modified banjo. A student of both Eastern and Western traditional music, Metzger first appeared on a split album that featured guitarist Ben Chasny (Six Organs of Admittance) and lauded improv drummer Chris Corsano on one side and Metzger's unique improvisational guitar work on the other. He released the full-length Three Improvisations on Modified Banjo for Chairkickers Music in 2005, followed by Deliverance for the Locust label in 2007. ~ James Christopher Monger, All Music Guide

http://paulmetzger.net/
http://www.myspace.com/paulmetzger

Elaine Evans
Multi-instrumentalist Elaine Evans explores freeform improvisation with varied wind, string, and percussion instruments. Elaine’s current direction is improvisations with pocket trumpet and loop pedal, layering harmonies, dissonances, and rhythms. Elaine toured Europe with her trumpet and loop pedal in 2008. Elaine is a founding member of the International Novelty Gamelan, a group using the undeniable soul and approach of ancient Javanese musical tradition to create new, modern works of startling beauty and originality. Elaine composes for the group in addition to performing.

http://www.myspace.com/elaineevans

Amen Dunes
A lot of crazy shit can happen to a man when he goes solitary in a ramshackle Catskill Mountain home for an extended stretch of time-especially for a city kind of guy. But if Amen Dunes's 12 tracker DIA is one possible outcome of the guy alone-in-a-cabin- story, then a little tape saturated brain frying is something we should all live comfortably with because this is a batch of seriously raw & inspired loner psych grit that owes a debt to the diy soundz of the George Brigman's of the world. That was 2006. These days the lone wolf behind Amen Dunes -Damon McMahon calls a small two room apartment overlooking the Temple of Earth in North-Central Beijing home, where he watches old men fly kites and sing opera every morning. Who knows what'll come out of that.

http://www.myspace.com/amendunes
http://www.locustmusic.com/index.php?option=com_artists&task=view&cid=97&Itemid=6

Ernst Karel
Ernst Karel works with analog electronics and with location recordings, sometimes separately, sometimes in combination, to create audio pieces that move between the abstract and the documentary. His most recent albums are Electricals (another timbre, 2009) by EKG , Falter 1-5 (Cathnor, 2009) with Annette Krebs, and Heard Laboratories, composed of recordings made in scientific research environments at Harvard University, to be released later this year on and/OAR.

http://ek.klingt.org
http://ekg.klingt.org
http://anothertimbre.com
http://cathnor.com/
http://and-oar.org