$15-$30 Door, 21+, 7PM Doors/8PM Music
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OZKAT OZKAT
https://okzat-ozkat.bandcamp.com
https://www.instagram.com/or.similar.records/
Okzat-Ozkat is a new collaborative project from Andre Burgos (Brown Calculus, Be Present Art Group), Chris Frank (Frank Irwin Quintet), Alex Meltzer (Korgy and Bass), Jessie Smith (Jessie Smith Big Band, Frank Irwin Quintet), Alexander Thomas (Frank Irwin Quintet, Isabeau Waia'u Walker), and Reed Wallsmith (Blue Cranes, Battle Hymns and Gardens).
The driving force behind Okzat-Ozkat is conversation -- finding common ground through listening. It is about empathizing and being open to changing your point of view. It is about rhythmic, melodic, and textural diversity. It’s tension and release. It’s music to write or sketch to. Music to nod your head to. Okzat-Ozkat’s improvised pieces are for the creative and curious listener.
Reed Wallsmith is a composer/saxophonist living and working in Portland. He is the founder and leader of Blue Cranes. He performs and composes with Battle Hymns & Gardens and Luke Wyland, and has collaborated with Wayne Horvitz, Laura Gibson, Like A Villain, Ethan Rose, Eyvind Kang, John Gross, Tere Mathern Dance, Northwest Dance Project, AU and Cataldo, among others.
https://www.instagram.com/reedwallsmith/
Jessika Smith is an award-winning jazz composer, saxophonist, and music educator. She teaches at Parkrose Middle School and High School in Portland, and she directs the Jessika Smith Big Band. She plays frequently with jazz groups throughout Oregon, including Torrey Newhart's Obsidian Animals, The Portland Jazz Composer's Ensemble, and the Frank Irwin Sextet.
https://www.instagram.com/jessikasmith88/
MLTZR is a beatmaker, producer, and bassist known for his background straddling jazz and creative electronic music. His transition from jazz to electronic production began in college after discovering the SP-404 sampler. He takes the improvisational and collaborative aspects of jazz to his electronic performances, which range from beat cyphers to movie live scores at Portland’s historic theaters. He is the Creative Coordinator for the Portland’s Ext.606 recording studio.
https://www.instagram.com/almeltzerfaceoff/
Born in Philly into a family of musicians and artists, keyboardist/producer Andre Raiah was steeped in an eccentric mix of sounds from a young age. Arriving Portland from Puerto Rico in 2009, he has engaged in an unending study of piano, production, performance, recording, sound-seeking, DJing, and listening; mapping out a unique approach to music and a sound that is all his own. Unconventional rhythmic structures, elements of improvisation, jazz harmony, Rhodes-soaked psychedelic soundscapes are woven together with samples, synths, and found sounds to make up Raiah's sound.
https://www.instagram.com/brown_calvin/
Alexander Thomas is a man made of meat who sometimes hits plastic wrapped cylinders with wooden sticks. He is a budding stand-up comedian, friend to dogs, and all around fantastic human. He plays drums for a number of Portland groups, including Isabeau Waia'u Walker, Frank Irwin Sextet, and Colin Jenkins.
Chris Frank is a bassist and composer based in Portland, OR. Since 2018 he has led the Frank Irwin Quintet, an instrumental group that strives to bring positivity and levity into the lives of its audience members through provocative compositions and an uplifting sound. He currently plays in the double bass section of the Willamette Falls Symphony. Frank has anchored the groups Inky Shadows and The Pariahs, and has played bass for Fritzwa, Joe Kye, and Jessika Smith Big Band.
Duolant & Chris Rorrer
https://www.chrisrorrermusic.com/duolant-chris-rorrer
Duolant is the electronic music project of Portland-based producer, Jeff Mettlewsky. Introduced to the synthesizer at an early age, and eventually leading to years of taking piano lessons, the instrument remains a fixture and unifying element in both his composition and recordings. As an artist, Mettlewsky takes inspiration from the natural surroundings found in the Pacific Northwest, following an impulse that drives creativity and curiosity with sound and his music-making in its entirety. His works often explore the combination of traditional instruments with the more experimental elements of the studio. He has designed his own hardware effects that he regularly employs in his music. In 2023, Duolant released a pair of albums on two niche-paving English labels: Waxing Crescent and Woodford Halse.
https://www.instagram.com/duolant_jeff/
Cellist Chris Rorrer is a session musician and educator, dividing his time between Southern California and Oregon. When asked to collaborate with other musicians in unfamiliar contexts, he is excited to offer a diverse skill set that complements any musical project in a very immediate way. Chris transitioned from violin to cello at age ten, being fascinated by its characteristic resonance and versatility. His work features an unmistakable attention to nuance that can be heard through unique phrasing and melodic choices. Rorrer seeks to build community, promote peace, and foster healing through his performances and recordings, contributing music that tells a shared human experience to a diverse audience. Chris earned his Master's degree in cello performance from the Bob Cole Conservatory of Music at California State University, Long Beach, in 2020.
https://linktr.ee/chrisrorrermusic
https://www.instagram.com/chrisrorrermusic/
Electric Palace Ensemble
Avant Swampy Honk
Heavy Musical Mysticism
Composed as Prayer, played with Hell Fire
https://vimeo.com/779423065/7392aef7a1
In 2020, the historic Skyline Tavern closed its doors to the public and quietly re-opened them to nature & improvisation. Amid wildfires and racial justice protests, Skyline Tavern Project obscured the western saloon facade of the Tavern by covering it in black fabric and forming The Electric ⚡️Palace Ensemble. (E⚡️P E)
Inspired by the spiritual music of John Coltrane’s 1965 “A Love Supreme”, the Electric ⚡️Palace Ensemble composed their 4-part “Transfiguration Suite” in tender response to Coltrane’s original prayer; crafted with love, played with hellfire.
In 2022, E⚡️PE filmed their first performance of the Suite during sunset to a rapt audience of Northern Red Legged Frogs, Great Horned Owls & Lichen.
Today that performance is projected onto the exterior windows of the Skyline Tavern Project every Wednesday evening for the public. And the forest.