SIGE Records and Mutual Aid

SIGE RECORDS BANDCAMP

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Today we have new releases from: Marshall Trammell & William Fowler Collins, Zachary James Watkins, DOOLHOF (MC Dälek, A. Turner and Dennis Tyfus), Raven Chacon, Old Man Gloom, Tashi Dorji, NORDRA, Mamiffer, Alex Barnett, Daniel Menche and Aaron Turner.⠀
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Proceeds will benefit: ⠀
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National Bail Out ⠀
Navajo Nation COVID-19 Fund ⠀
Communities United Against Police Brutality ⠀
NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund ⠀
Black Visions Collective ⠀
Reclaim the Block ⠀
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Due to the Minn. Freedom Fund being maxed out proceeds will go instead to:⠀
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The Louisville Community Bail Fund⠀
Justice for Breonna Taylor Fund⠀
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Thank you so much to all the artists that contributed and all supporters! ⠀
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Link in comments.
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Much love!!

Zachary James Watkins William Fowler Collins Mamiffer Will BrooksTashi Dorji Raven Chacon Old Man Gloom Daniel Menche Aaron B Turner Monika khot Alex Barnett

BLACK LIVES MATTER

Black Spirituals video premiere!

Here is the new Black Spirituals(Zachary James Watkins and Marshall Trammell) video premiere for "Treatment" (Video by Faith Coloccia and Daniel Menche. 

Video is here: Echoes and Dust website

Marshall Trammell: "What Faith Coloccia, with the support of Daniel Menche, have done is create a double, intertextual fold. Strobed and iterative, they have remapped the narrative of fugitivity as simultaneous multi-dimensionality, adapted from Dr. Willie Anku; performed by Black Spirituals, as an origami of emancipated soul. This is the flesh and blood of Black Spirituals. This is the flesh and blood of the present wave of magic and unapologetic liberation."

 

Zachary James Watkins shows

 

 

Sept 16

with Tashi Dorji on Sunday

https://www.facebook.com/events/449747642183561/?ti=as

Sept 19

Duo with William Winant opening for Thurston Moore/ David Toop duo

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10156067893624912&id=623064911

BLACK SPIRITUALS PRESS

Here is the recent press for Black Spirituals' new record "Black Access/Black Axes" .

"Like the resonant African-American traditions that long precede them, the Black Spirituals are equal parts choreographed and improvisational, containing simultaneously measuredly deliberate and frenetically urgent sonicities. True to name, the Black Spirituals evoke and produce a Black spirituality in the sonorous tradition of Black flight calling us to follow the North Star and any and all other pathways to freedom. It’s the choreographed and synergistic spontaneity and improvisation with clear inspirations drawn from jazz traditions, indigenous African drumming, and anti/de-colonial musico-theological and ritualistic traditions across the Afro diaspora; and it’s an expression that constitutes the kind of musical fugitivity most organically and innately produced by Black Americans in our “post-emancipation” captive state. It’s a music for music’s sake, and it’s a feverish cathartic expression of freedom dreams with true liberatory capacity.

The Black Spirituals, like their musical forebears, are fugitive planners enacting, per Harney & Moten, “ruptural and enraptured” soundscapes and offering a space of refuge within which enlightenment can be understood and, thus, enacted.

But this is not music alone. The Black Spirituals are a transdisciplinary and genre transcendent epistemic framework that exists both in itself and in complement with other artists. Black Access Black Axes is a project expressing Black vernacularity as a solo-duetting avant-garde musical technology driven by clear need to contain and articulate both the world in which we live and the dire need to flee and imagine and create another. The album’s core are the drone-like meditative frequencies recalling an ever-present sounding alarm: a state of emergency, an alarm signaling the need for and actualization of Black escape, a Black articulation of futurity only accessible through distortions and conversing-dueling guitar and drum.

Though this is the last joint project with which Zachary James Watkins & Marshall Trammell will bless us, the beauty in their music is their dynamism together as well as apart. So/but before we continue to be blessed with their respective solo workings (made evident in this and all the group’s work), this is an invitation to revel in this deeply affective creation born out of their wellspring of love for Black people and our deservingness of freedom.

From my head to my DNA, I felt this. I hope you will, too." -Zoé Samudzi

WIRE magazine stream:
https://www.thewire.co.uk/audio/tracks/black-spirituals-premiere-their-new-album

Interview:
Downbeat Magazine

Reviews:
Brainwashed
Music OMH

Info:
The WIRE

Upcoming shows:

Marshall Trammell of BlackSpirituals:  Music Research Strategies' “Convergence: Emergent Strategies Against the Gentrified City,” featuring GREX July 16 7PM Uptown Arts Bar 3611 Broadway St, Kansas City, Missouri 64111

 

Listen to Black Spirituals new song at Brainwashed!

The first track from Black Spirituals forthcoming album "Black Access/Black Axes" is up now via Brainwashed. Check it out via the link below. Thank you.
http://brainwashed.com/index.php…

Coming soon! New SIGE releases

 Black Spirituals (Zachary James Watkins and Marshall Trammell) "Black Access/Black Axes" 2xLP

NORDRA (Monika Khot) "Pylon 2" LP



























 NORDRA (Monika Khot) "I Was Meant to Live in a Garden" CS




























William Fowler Collins "Field Music" LP



























Barnett + Coloccia "VLF" LP

Coming later: 

Faith Coloccia "Ravine Time Map" LP
Mamiffer "The Brilliant Tabernacle" LP
Mára "Silver Disk" CS


 

SIGE artist shows

MESA RITUAL (William Fowler Collins and Raven Chacon)

May 12 at 8 PM - 10 PM UTC+02
info: https://www.facebook.com/events/167793487260279/

Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst
Am Sudhaus 3, 12053 Berlin, Germany

Black Spirituals (Marshall Trammell and Zachary James Watkins)

June 29
Info: http://www.jazzwisemagazine.com/breaking-news/14926-black-spirituals-let-axe-fall-for-swansong

NORDRA (Monika Khot)
 

05.16 - Seattle, WA @ Sunset Tavern 

05.17 - Bellingham, WA @ The Alternative Library 

05.18 - Olympia, WA @ Unknown venue 

05.19 - Portland, OR @ Beacon Sound 

05.20 - Eugene, OR @ Sam Bond's Garage 

05.21 - Berkeley, CA @ Dildo Factory 

05.22 - Berkeley, CA @ Cnmat 

05.23 - Sacramento, CA @ Blue Lamp 

05.24 - Los Angeles, CA @ Rec Center 

05.25 - Los Angeles, CA @ Monty Bar

SIGE artist shows tonight! Plus new SIGE cassette for NORDRA

 Zachary James Watkins and Raven Chacon: 


3/31/18 Oakland, CA

https://www.facebook.com/events/1278469602252679/

$7-15 sliding scale for artists.
7pm
Pro Arts
150 Frank H Ogawa Plaza

Learn more here! https://proartsgallery.org/event/affirmative-action/

Foregrounding concepts of transparency, radical diversity and inclusion, Zachary Watkins, Raven Chacon, Sharmi Basu, Morgan Craft, Ava Mendoza, and The Living Earth Show present AFFIRMATIVE ACTION: an evening­-length collaborative production.

AFFIRMATIVE ACTION was conceived with Zachary James Watkins to interrogate the manner in which chamber music is created and consumed. Composed by five artists of color and performed by the two white cis men of The Living Earth Show, AFFIRMATIVE ACTION highlights the “lens of whiteness” through which the work of artists of color have to necessarily present their work. The project is built to activate the tradition of classical chamber music in order to craft a new, collaborative musical language.

Just as importantly, the collaborators view AFFIRMATIVE ACTION as a vehicle for bringing artists and audience together, reveling and relishing in “inclusion” as the production’s creative foundation. Though they have all engaged in decades of collaborative musicmaking, several of the composers will be writing their first “commissioned” piece of chamber music in this project. By presenting these composers’ work alongside the work of composers more familiar with the traditional chamber music ecosystem, AFFIRMATIVE ACTION provides a platform for artists of color to use chamber music (and the specific collaborative language of the medium) as a canvas to create vital artistic statements.

For the community at large, AFFIRMATIVE ACTION is designed to welcome audience members who have traditionally felt excluded from classical music spaces, providing a multimedia production integrating improvisation, electronic music, ambient music, rock music, theater, and performance art to present an inclusive artistic experience.


NORDRA (Monika Khot)
 

03.31 - Seattle, WA @ Kame House
05.12 - Seattle, WA @ Woodland Theater
05.16 - Seattle, WA @ The Crocodile
05.17 - Bellingham, WA @ The Alternative Library
05.19 - Portland, OR @ Beacon Sound
05.20 - Eugene, OR @ Sam Bond's Garage
05.24 - Los Angeles, CA @ Rec Center
05.25 - Los Angeles, CA @ Monty Bar

She will have these new cassettes for sale: I was Meant to Live in a Garden (live)

SIGE063

 

 

SIGE artists on tour

Marshall Trammell:

Sept 19: Rhizome, Washington DC
http://www.rhizomedc.org/new-events/2016/9/6/black-fighting-formations-simultaneous-multidimensionality-a-talk-by-marshall-trammell

Sept 20: Rhizome, Washington DC
http://www.rhizomedc.org/new-events/2016/9/6/three-legged-race-simultaneous-multidimensionality

Black Spirituals:

Sept 15-18 Baltimore, MD 
High Zero Festival (Zachary and Marshall as soloists)

Sept 23-25: Austin TX

http://www.sonictransmissions.com

Oct 13-15 Riga, Latvia
http://www.skanumezs.lv/en/

Oct 18th Copenhagen Denmark
Jazz House w/ Jean-Louis Huhta

Oct 20th Stockholm Sweden
 Ronnells Antikvariat  w/ Jean-Louis Huhta


Oct 23: London England Cafe Oto:
https://cafeoto.co.uk/events/black-spirituals-dead-neanderthals-sten-ove-toft/

William Fowler Collins:

10/4: Richmond, VA, * 
10/5: Brooklyn, NY, *
10/6: Wash., DC, *
10/7: Durham, NC,* 
10/8: Louisville, KY, *
10/9: Chicago, IL *

*With James Toth

SIGE Artists on tour

Zachary Watkins Texa Tour w/ Aram Shelton:

10 / 1 Denton (https://www.facebook.com/events/1009663959066182/)
10 / 2 Houston (https://www.facebook.com/events/755969681195666/)
10 / 3 San Antonio 
10 / 4 Austin 
10 / 5 Dallas 

*photo by Michael Zelner

Jon Mueller: A Magnetic Center

More info:

http://rhythmplex.com/events/

Monday October 5th

8PM
Carnegie Mellon University

Pittsburgh, PA

Tuesday October 6th

8PM
Alphaville
140 Wilson Ave.

Brooklyn, NY

Thursday October 8th

8PM
Northern Routes
The Brick House Community Resource Center
24 Third Street
Turner’s Falls, MA

Saturday October 10th

Casa Del Popolo

Montreal, QC

Sunday October 11th

8PM
Sacred Root
139 W. State Street
Ithaca, NY

Monday October 12th

8PM
Bop Stop
11125 Magnolia Drive

Cleveland, OH

Tuesday October 13th

8PM
Trinosophes
1464 Gratiot Avenue

Detroit, MI

Friday November 6th

Witching Hour Festival

11/6-11/7
Iowa City, IA

Thursday November 19th

INOVA

7PM
INOVA: Institute of Visual Arts
2155 N. Prospect Avenue
Milwaukee, WI 53202