In collaboration with Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios, we are stoked to host a pre-festival/warm-up concert for the very special and first-of-its-kind Molten Plains Fest.
During this exceptional and intimate night, Bill Nace, who is currently based in Philadelphia, will play at the shop for the third time! Maybe you were able to catch him at any of our prior events, or you have listened to his solo or collaborative records where he pushes the limits of what a guitar can do. It’s also possible that you know him as half of Body/Head, his duo with ex-Sonic Youth’s Kim Gordon. You will also have the opportunity to listen to Luke Stewart (Washington/NYC) for the first time in North Texas. Stewart is a super active bass player in many jazz and fire music scenes. He is part of Irreversible Entanglements, the intense quintet that revolves around Moor Mother’s vital and militant spoken word. This will also be Stewart’s first time collaborating in a powerful duo with our own Oak Cliff native Aaron Gonzalez.
Molten Plains Fest is a two-day festival fostering the spirit of adventurous music and further sounds. 22 artists from 14 cities, a convergence of inestimable musical nourishment from a wide scope of what may be considered experimental, electronic, jazz, or contemporary composition. It will take place in Denton on December 9 & 10.
For further information about the festival:
https://moltenplains.com/
TICKETS: $10
***This event is free for Molten Plains Fest ticket holders***
BILL NACE
An artist and musician based in Philadelphia, PA. He has collaborated with an extraordinary range of musicians, including Michael Morley, Graham Lambkin, Matt Krefting, Chris Corsano, Thurston Moore, Jake Meginsky, Jessica Rylan, Paul Flaherty, Aaron Dilloway, and Kim Gordon, with whom he regularly plays as one half of the duo Body/Head. In 2020 Nace released the critically acclaimed solo record “BOTH” on Drag City. A collaboration with Gordon and Dilloway — “Body/Dilloway/Head” — is out now on Three Lobed Records and his newest solo LP Through a Room will be out in November on Drag City.
He has been a featured musician in festivals such as ATP (curated by Jim Jarmusch and held in Monticello, NY), Colour Out of Space(Brighton, UK), Supersonic Festival (Birmingham, UK), International Festival Musique Actuelle (Victoriaville, QC), and Homegrown (Boston, MA). He has performed in a wide variety of venues, running the gamut from the Musee d’Art Contemporain (Strasbourg, France) to The Stone (NYC) to Bennington College (Vermont). Nace’s range has been described as “veering from sculptural, almost Remko-Scha-esque chime to Loren Connors-style elegance in only a few short moves.” (Mimaroglu Music, 2010).
LUKE STEWART
A DC/NYC-based musician and organizer of important musical presentations, and has a strong presence in the national and international Improvised Music community. He is noted in Downbeat Magazine in 2020 as one of “25 most influential jazz artists” of his generation. In New York City, Luke collaborated with Arts for Art in hosting the first ever “Free Jazz Convention” to share resources and strategies among the community. He has also performed in a myriad of collaborations and performances in venues such as the Kitchen, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Pioneer Works, Roulette, and Issue Project Room.
His regular ensembles include Irreversible Entanglements, Heroes are Gang Leaders, and Ancestral Duo, Six Six featuring guitarist Anthony Pirog, and experimental rock duo Blacks’ Myths. As a solo artist, he has been compiling a series of improvisational sound structures for Upright Bass and Amplifier, utilizing the resonant qualities of the instrument to explore real-time harmonic and melodic possibilities.
As a scholar/performer, he has performed and lectured at Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University, Medgar Evers College, George Mason University, Wayne State University, University of Montana, New Mexico State University, and the University of South Carolina.
AARON GONZALEZ
An Oak Cliff native, Aaron plays all kinds of bass. He is a composer, a musical teacher, and a performance artist. Elder son of Dennis Gonzalez and older brother of Stefan. Together, the three of them, they are Yeels At Eels (beautiful melodies, explosive rhythm fluxes, and bursts of dynamics that border and passes through countless possibilities in contemporary jazz), with just Stefan they are both Akkolyte (an intense experimental grindcore duo) and both of them plus Gregg Prickett are Unconcious Collective, an avant fusion maximum-power trio. Also with Stefan but adding the extraordinary Portuguese guitarist Luis Lopes and saxophonist Rodrigo Amado they have been Humanization Qtet.
Lately, he has been developing the intense vocal performance solo Deflowered Electric Flesh Bride and, along with Wyatt Rosser, Sarah Ruth Alexander and Stefan sometimes become Asukubus, a haunting, cold-blooded and blunt affair.
TICKETS: $10
***This event is free for Molten Plains Fest ticket holders***
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