Sun Sep 10 9 pm $10 at the door 21+ show
Howlers, 4509 Liberty Ave., Bloomfield

avant-garde guitar improvisor from Bhutan
TASHI DORJI https://tashidorji.com
in a duo with Bloomington, IN percussionist
TYLER DAMON http://www.tylerdamon.com
(new album ‘Kudzu Weave’ on Family Vineyard Records)

with special guests Cloning https://cloning.bandcamp.com
and Diaphony https://soundcloud.com/diaphonyincarnate

TASHI DORJI:

” It is a highly personalised reconciliation of modes that negates any particular style while announcing a new talent in solo guitar improvisation” – The Wire, 2014

“You could draw comparisons to such six-string mavericks as Derek Bailey and Bill Orcutt, but the improvised solo pieces here really exist in a universe all their own. Beautiful, otherworldly stuff.” – Aquarium Drunkard

“the range of creative solutions he’s found while trying to avoid the well-worn paths of instrumental guitar music is thrilling”- Pitchfork

“It’s a bit early to say that Dorji is a new, major player. But he definitely is, in the Derek Bailey sense, a player; a man who wants to get in there and work it out, a musician motivated by making music” – Dusted Magazine

” A wonderful player, new to me and perhaps to you as well. His attack, while owing bits to everyone from Henry Kaiser to Ben Chasny, is unique and excellent” – Byron Coley, Size Matters

TYLER DAMON:

(b. 1987, Cincinnati, OH USA) is a Bloomington, Indiana based artist whose work aims to reveal obscured and untold narratives via drums/percussion & free improvisation.

In addition to solo work, Tyler is currently involved in extended duo exhibitions with guitarist Tashi Dorji, bassist Darin Gray (as Duo Oninbo) & saxophonist Dave Rempis. He is also regularly engaged with John Dawson as the shape-shifting outfit Thee Open Sex.

Other collaborators have included Mars Williams, Daniel Carter, Ken Vandermark, Kent Kessler, Jason Adasiewicz, Jason Stein, Ingebrigt Håker Flaten, Robert Beatty, Muyassar Kurdi, Mark Hosler (of Negativland), Michael Zerang, Matthew Schneider (Moon Bros), Craig Bell (of X_X, Rocket From The Tombs), Haley Fohr (Circuit Des Yeux) and others.

Tyler has toured extensively in North America and Việt Nam and is also regularly engaged with other artists, musicians and heads of various sorts across the American Midwest. From his home base of Bloomington he operates his own label, Yoke, and hosts the long-running free-form/experimental radio program Melody Unasked For on Bloomington, IN community radio station WFHB. From 2010-2015, he was a principal curator of “out” music in the Bloomington area at several now-defunct DIY venues. Tyler’s recorded output has been offered by a myriad of labels including Family Vineyard, Magnetic South, Auris Apothecary, Astral Spirits, Trost, Feeding Tube & Yoke.

“[…] his solo showcase […] shows that he can play dynamically, fading up from near nothingness to passages where his surging attack fills all available space like a deploying airbag.” – Bill Meyer, Wire Magazine #363