Wendy Eisenberg / Kee Avil (solo sets)
Monday, February 8, 2021 | 8:15pm CST
Online (New Music Circle YouTube Channel)
Solo performances by:
Wendy Eisenberg – acoustic guitar
Kee Avil – electric guitar, voice, electronics
This event will be free to view, however your donations will help support this event and other NMC events to come
Wendy Eisenberg
Wendy Eisenberg is an improvising guitarist, banjo-player, vocalist and poet. Using the languages of free jazz, new music, metal and art song, their music challenges the representational and technical demands placed on a guitar and a banjo in contemporary music.
They have two solo careers: improviser/composer, and songwriter. Wendy’s debut record as an improviser, “Its Shape Is Your Touch,” came out in October 2018. Her trio, “The Machinic Unconscious,” with Ches Smith and Trevor Dunn, released their debut album on Tzadik that same month. Both records made Billboard’s Critic’s Choice Top Ten Jazz Records year end list, and received features and attention from NPR and National Sawdust. Their album of quiet art-pop songs, Time Machine was remastered and re-released on Feeding Tube records on September 7th, 2018.
Kee Avil
Kee Avil is a solo song project of Vicky Mettler, based in Montreal, QC, which combines guitar, voice and electronics into song forms that stagger between structure and improvisation. The project evolved from playing the guitar with broken drumsticks into creating strange beats glued together by samples of screws dropped into crystal bowls, and soon evolved into a more experimental approach to melodic song-compositions. With several recent tours and releases, Mettler’s project has gained notice of audiences and critics alike.
