Dada Strain at Winter Jazzfest, Saturday, January 11th @ Union Pool, Williamsburg

INVITE: Live sets by Kalia Vandever & Mike Haldeman, HxH, Salami Rose Joe Louis, Mike Reed's Separatist Party, BASIC: Chris Forsyth, Mikel Patrick Avery & Sue Garner + DJing by Kalle & Shara

Dada Strain is proud to host its second official Winter Jazzfest (WJF) showcase, on Saturday, January 11th, during the festival’s Brooklyn Marathon. It will be an evening filled with different types of collaborative improvisation with electronics.

Once again, Dada Strain @ WJF takes place at the great Union Pool, 484 Union Avenue, Williamsburg. Doors will open at 5:30p and live music begins at 6:15p. Appearing (in order) will be Kalia Vandever & Mike Haldeman, HxH, Salami Rose Joe Louis, Mike Reed’s Separatist Party and BASIC: Chris Forsyth, Mikel Patrick Avery, Sue Garner. DJing before and between sets will be Kale Miller & Shara Lunon.

Admission is only via a full Winter Jazzfest Brooklyn Marathon pass, which gives you access to music at Union Pool, plus eight other venues around Williamsburg. The nightly marathon pass is $85 — there are also multi-day Marathon packages for both Manhattan and Bklyn, and VIP Marathon packages Tickets at this link.

Paid Dada Strain subscribers will find a 20% discount code at the bottom of this post.

Dada Strain’s annual recommendation guide to both Winter Jazzfest marathons will appear later this week.

About the Artists at Dada Strain @ WJF:

Kalia Vandever & Mike Haldeman - Two visionary players who are part of Bklyn’s DIY improvised-music community, trombonist Vandever and guitarist Haldeman have established themselves as both solo musicians and valuable accompanists to musically expansive bandleaders like Arooj Aftab, Moses Sumney and others. Vandever and Haldeman have also incorporated electronics deep into their individual practices. They are longtime partners in musical exploration, and this set is an opportunity to perform those explorations in public.

HxH - The electronic duo project of cellist Lester St. Louis and trumpeter Chris Ryan Williams, two of the hardest working musicians in Bklyn Sounds, HxH is a world in itself. Though the instruments the pair is renowned for make regular appearances in this setting, they are deeply masked and affected by digital processing. Instead, HxH sees two incredible improvisers ask the question of what unexpected maneuvers can be achieved with machines.

Salami Rose Joe Louis - Emerging from the Bay Area’s rich experimental electronics and beat scene of the 2010s, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer Lindsey Olsen went from making bedroom tracks with jazzy chords and textures, to full-blown Brainfeeder astral-synth fantasias. Their new quartet features longtime collaborator guitarist Simon Martinez (Flanafi), along with bassist Tone Whitfield and drummer Nazir Ebo, all making ethereal groovy jazz-house folk-pop visions.

Mike Reed’s Separatist Party - Cornerstone Chicago presenter and drummer Reed’s newest band is an all-star Windy City sextet that encompasses Marvin Tate on vocals , Ben LaMar Gay on horns and the entirety of the mighty kosmiche imporvisors Bitchin Bajas (Rob Frye on saxophone and flute, Cooper Crain on guitar and synth, and Dan Quinlivan on synth). Great storytelling meets electronic outre jazz.

BASIC: Chris Forsyth, Mikel Patrick Avery, Sue Garner - A trio project initiated by Philly-based guitarist Forsyth and drummer/technologist Avery that uses the sound of Basic, a 1984 album by Robert Quine and Fred Maher, as a jump-off point: all processed guitars and drum-machines. Herein, Forsyth shreds; Avery, best known for time-keeping Joshua Abrams’ Natural Information Society, adds acoustic and programmed beats; and a rotating cast of guitarist-bassists (on this night, veteran NYC player Sue Garner) adds another beautiful layer. Futurist jam-band beauty.

Before/between the live music, Kalle Miller and Shara Lunon will create hybrid DJ-live sets. Miller DJ’d a great one on Dada Strain Radio in April; while vocalist and electronic improviser Lunon is a Bklyn Sounds regular, as a solo performer (check this dope live set she did at Dada Strain Radio in March), as a member of various ensembles, and as the curator/programmer of the great Heavy Florals series.

Full set-times and line-up:

Paid subscribers find the Winter Jazzfest discount code below.