We're so excited to announce that our friend Billy Martin is returning to Revival Drum Shop for another amazing clinic! Seating will be limited, so email us at revivaldrumshop@gmail.com or call 503.719.6533 to reserve your space!

Outset Series:

UNICO & ISP Preview

Dance/musician pairings curated by Danielle Ross, Ryan Stuewe (sampler) with dancer Keyon Gaskin, Catherine Lee (oboe) & Matt Hannafin (percussion) duo with dancer Tere Mathern

Revival Drum Shop 1465 NE Prescott

Wednesday, May 15, 8 pm (ends by 10)

Sliding Scale $5-$15 All ages.
Children accompanied by adult are free.

Performer Bios:

UNICO is Jennifer Knipling, oboist and co-founder of the 'Choir of Awe'. Jennifer warps and twists her classical background with the oboe into an experimental menagerie of sound. This evenings performance will include folk song mash-ups performed by a choir and loop-based electronic pop songs.

Improvising Dancers:

Tere Mathern is a contemporary dance performer, choreographer, and educator of over 20 years and currently the director of Conduit Dance. Gather, her work with Battle Hymns and Gardens, will be performed at the Seattle Int'l Dance Festival on June 14.

Keyon Gaskin keyon keyon bo beyon banana fana fo feyon me my mo meyon keeeyon! (now do your name)

Improvising Musicians:

Ryan Stuewe: Ryan Stuewe's last name is pronounced "Stevie," like "Stevie Wonder." His earliest memory is of drumming on pots and pans on a kitchen floor in Kansas. He continues to be preoccupied by both food and sound.

Catherine Lee: A diverse musician, Dr. Catherine Lee has performed extensively as a solo, chamber, and orchestral musician on oboe, oboe d'amore and English horn in a wide range of artistic settings, including classical, contemporary, and free improvisation. As an interdisciplinary artist, Catherine collaborated in the creation of reeds, a site-specific work composed by Emily Doolittle (Sound Symposium, 2010); with POV dance (Ten Tiny Dances, 2008); and with Tracy Broyles (Risk/Reward Festival, 2012). Catherine has performed in the oboe sections of many ensembles, including Oregon Symphony, Oregon Ballet Theatre, Portland Opera, Portland Cello Project, and Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de MontrÉal, and was a tenured member of Orchestre symphonique de Longueuil from 2003 to 2008.

Matt Hannafin is a New York–born, Portland-based percussionist active in both Iranian classical and traditional music and contemporary free improvisation. He studied Iranian tombak with master Kavous Shirzadian; frame drums with Jamey Haddad, Glen Velez, and Layne Redmond; African and Afro-Caribbean percussion with John Amira and Magette Fall; and voice with composer La Monte Young and the legendary Pandit Pran Nath. He's performed with a wide range of collaborators in both traditional and avant settings, from Persian, Turkish, and Japanese masters to jazz legends, classical virtuosi, Ukrainian and Sephardic folk ensembles, electronic musicians, noise guitarists, DJs, country singers, butoh dancers, and Zen flower arrangers. He has appeared at venues and festivals around the United States, from the United Nations and the New England Conservatory to the late, lamented CBGB’s, and has released more than twenty recordings, including "Eight Songs Between Morning and Dark" (2013) a suite of duo improvisations with shakuhachi master Jeffrey Lependorf. More info at www.matthannafin.com/Music.html.

Abusive Consumer
Rich Halley 

Revival Drum Shop 1465 NE Prescott
Wednesday, May 1, 8 pm (ends by 10)
Sliding Scale $5-$15 All ages.


Performer Bios:

Rich Halley
Rich Halley is a saxophonist and composer who has released fifteen critically acclaimed recordings. He frequently performs with the Rich Halley 4 whose recent CD, "Back From Beyond", received 4 Stars in DownBeat. Jazz Times described him as” “A free rider from the Left Coast, tenor saxophonist-composer Rich Halley is a powerful player…In New York he’d be a star on the avant-garde scene; but for now, you have to fly to Portland to hear this tenor titan perform”. All About Jazz said "No saxophonist out there is playing with more fire, muscle, sheer guts or wild abandon than Halley". Rich has played with Tony Malaby, Julius Hemphill, Vinny Golia, Bobby Bradford, Nels Cline, Michael Bisio, Andrew Hill and Oliver Lake.

Abusive Consumer is one of the musical projects of J Morales - painter, musician and sound installation artist. Influenced by the evolution of electronic music - from its early musique concrete days to the present stylistic multiverse - he enjoys modeling the sounds of nature and machinery. An adventurer in chaos through the use of feedback systems, looping, synthesis, and chance operations he has played in numerous groups and ad-hoc ensembles across the western US for the past 20 years his music runs the musical gamut from prog
rock, free jazz, noise, ambient, glitch, digital hardcore,
minimalism, dub, industrial, drone, techno, microsound and electro- acoustic composition. Currently residing in Portland, OR.

Lots of love this week for Revival. Han Bennink says, "best drum shop he's ever been to", and now Johnny Marr thinks we're "great". Sweet!

Marisa Anderson & Lori Goldston
John Savage (CD Release!)

Revival Drum Shop 1465 NE Prescott
Wednesday, April 17, 8 pm (ends by 10)
Sliding Scale $5-$15 All ages.

Lori Goldston

Classically trained and rigorously de-trained, possessor of a restless, semi-feral spirit, Lori Goldston is a cellist, composer, improvisor, producer, writer and teacher based in Seattle. Her voice as a cellist, amplified or acoustic is full, textured, committed and original. A perpetual inquirer, she wanders recklessly across borders that separate genre, discipline, time and geography, performing in clubs, cafes, galleries, arenas, concert halls, sheds, ceremonies, barbecues, and sanctuaries; she toured with Nirvana and appeared with them in "Unplugged in New York".

Current and former collaborators, co-conspirators and bosses include Earth, Mirah, David Byrne, Nirvana, Jherek Bischoff, Malcom Goldstein, Matana Roberts, Cat Power, Ellen Fullman, John Doe, the Wedding Present, Laura Veirs, Secret Chiefs 3, Portland Cello Project, Angelo Spencer et les Hauts Sommets, Marisa Anderson, Your Heart Breaks, Trey Gunn, Ô Paon, Tara Jane O'Neil, Natacha Atlas, LeRoy Bell, Threnody Ensemble, Cynthia Hopkins, 33 Fainting Spells, Vanessa Renwick and Lynn Shelton. She is co-founder of the Black Cat Orchestra, and has toured the U.S. and Europe with Earth, and recorded Angels of Darkness Demons of Light, Parts 1 & 2; in 2010 she opened as a soloist on tour with Earth and Wolves in the Throne Room.

Her work has been commissioned by and/or performed at the Kennedy Center, TBA, WNYC, Northwest Film Forum, On the Boards, Frye Art Museum, Seattle International Film Festival, Bumbershoot, Museum of Fine Arts, Joe's Pub, the Stone, Wayward Music Series, Oregon State University, University of Chicago Film Studies Center and One Reel Film Festival. She has received awards from Meet the Composer, Artist Trust, 4 Culture and Seattle Arts Commission, and has taught at the University of Washington, EMP, Idyllwild Arts Academy, the Vera Project and the Bush School.

Marisa Anderson

Channeling the history of the guitar and stretching the boundaries of traditional genres, Portland based guitarist, composer and improviser Marisa Anderson possesses a unique and distinctive musical voice. Her playing is fluid, emotional, dexterous and original. Anderson’s second solo record, The Golden Hour (Mississippi Records 2011), features twelve improvisations inspired by Delta blues, West African guitar, vintage country and western, gospel, noise, rhythms, cycles, mortality, and praise. Her next record, Mercury, is due out June 2013 on Mississippi Records.

“Her approach to playing her instrument hovers somewhere between extreme confidence and a kind of poetic tentativeness, coupled with an eager sense of the microtonal exploits you can uncover when a slide meets six strings. Her melodic sense is rustic, earthen, and deep, as though she has been playing these tunes for the better part of her life…” Jon Dale (Signal to Noise)

Anderson’s current and past projects include the Evolutionary Jass Band and the Dolly Ranchers. She has collaborated with musicians including Beth Ditto, Mirah, Tara Jane O’Neil, Lori Goldston, Rachel Blumberg, and many others. She has toured throughout Europe and the US and has opened for Sharon Van Etten, Mt Eerie, The Devil Makes 3, and Thao & Mirah. Recent festival appearances include Le Guess Who, Creative Music Guild Improvisation Summit, Portland Experimental Film Festival, Sound & Music Festival, NOFest, Electrogals, Festival of Endless Gratitude, Pickathon, and PICA’s TBA Festival.

Anderson’s music has been featured on soundtracks including ‘Smokin’ Fish’, ‘For the Love of Dolly’, ‘Girls Rock’, and ‘Gift To Winter’. Her writings on music and activism have appeared in Bitch Magazine, Leaf Litter, and in Rock ‘n’ Roll Camp for Girls, the book. In 2012 Anderson was one of six artists selected for Signal Fire’s Afloat Residency. Anderson’s debut solo recording ‘Holiday Motel’ was a 2006 Outmusic nominee for Best Female Debut Recording.

John C Savage 
Flutist, saxophonist, and composer John C. Savage has been compared to Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Jean-Pierre Rampal, Herbie Mann, Noah Howard, and Ian Anderson. Known equally as “a thoughtful and rigorous improviser,” and “a badass, knock-down-drag-out force to be reckoned with” (The Willamette Week), Savage lived in New York City for almost a decade performing with, among others, The Savage 3, Billy Fox, (The Uncle Wiggly Suite) the electroacoustic duo Cartridge, The Brooklyn Qawwali Party (eponymous release), and the Andrew Hill Big Band (A Beautiful Day). Savage continues to be a sought-after soloist and collaborator on both coasts working with a wide variety of artists, including the NYC-based Kitsune Ensemble (The Kaidan Suite and Amanogawa) and Portland’s Demolition Duo. Savage holds a Ph.D. from New York University in music performance and teaches flute at Western Oregon University. www.johncsavage.com

This show will mark the release of John's solo CD, A Moment in Mythica.

The Creative Music Guild Presents the Outset Series with
The Tenses and MSHR
Revival Drum Shop 1465 NE Prescott
Wednesday, April 3, 8 pm (ends by 10)
Sliding Scale $5-$15 All ages.

Performer Biographies:

The Tenses -is a Title of a story in the book "The Dream World of
Dion McGregor" from 1964. It is a unique book in that the stories are
not "Written", but Transcribed from stories told while asleep!

In 2008 we began a new Live Act using Musical Concepts developed with
Smegma. The Tenses are a more intimate " Live " experiment ,that is
GREATLY INFLUENCED by the room/audience "feel". Moving Images that
reflect our influences and creative patterns are projected on or
behind us. Our creative intent is only one aspect. We Attempt to
collaborate in" The Moment ".

The Tenses have performed successfully in Portland, Los Angeles, New
York City, Chicago, Cork, London, Brighton, Helsinki, Brussels, Paris
, Geneva and others , so far.

Ju Suk Reet Meate- Founding Smegma and core LAFMS member since 1973 .
Lap Steel Guitar, Pocket Trumpet , Electronics, Toys, ect.

Oblivia (Rock and Roll Jackie) Smegma Member Since 1981. Record
Player, Electronics, Toys, ect.

MSHR is an audiovisual project by Brenna Murphy and Birch Cooper of
Oregon Painting Society. -
http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CreativeMusicGuild%2F70ba523e32%2FTEST%2Fe63e220df4
http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CreativeMusicGuild%2F70ba523e32%2FTEST%2F636dacb9a8 From a recent interview at Muse magazine (Italy) by Maurizio Cattelan
(http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CreativeMusicGuild%2F70ba523e32%2FTEST%2F050cb5fa25

Outset Series:

Desert of Hiatus
Like a Villain

Revival Drum Shop, 1465 NE Prescott
Wednesday, March 20, 8 pm (ends by 10)
Sliding Scale $5-$15 All ages.

Desert of Hiatus is a the solo drone project of Kevin Gwozdz.
http://desertofhiatus.bandcamp.com/

Like a Villain is Holland Andrews'' (AU) solo project involving clarinet, glockenspiel, vocals and loops. 

http://likeavillain.bandcamp.com/