Sept 7--Nobu Stowe Duo with Alan Munshower & special guests + Bicameral Mind (Chapel Hill, NC) + more TBA

Nobu Stowe Duo with Alan Munshower and special guest s--Baltimore-based dynamic duo of pianist Stowe and drummer Munshower power through Keith Jarrett's "total-improvisation"* concept with aggressive flair and sensitive lyrical interplay. Stowe has been recording like crazy as a leader, with discs on Konnex and Soul Note, joined by Perry Robinson, and on his latest disc "An Die Music" (Soul Note) by Badal Roy, tabla player who worked with Miles Davis (among others). The duo will be joined by DC musicians Ted Zook on bass-cello and electronics and Daniel Barbiero on bass.

*Total-improvisation is a genre of fully improvised music pioneered by Keith Jarrett, using methods reminiscent of J.S. Bach. The style requires the performer to experiment with atonal/arhythmic "sound textures" but also spontaneously incorporate tonality and rhythm, and song-like melodies. It is essentiall an instant composition in the purest form.

Bicameral Mind--Chapel Hill, NC duo of Bryce Eiman and Shaun Sandor, formed in 2007. Eiman has explored tape treatments, electro-acoustics, ambient and noise music for 20 years in various projects. Sandor has been performing ambient and electronic music as Promute since 2006 using field recordings, homemade junk and gadgets, and simple signal processors. Together, they enact Jaynes' idea of the left-brain and right-brain working together to form a single output.