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ISSUE Project Room & Pioneer Works present:

Little Black Egg Big Band (Yo La Tengo & Friends) Oren Ambarchi Sunday, June 28th, 8pm, doors 7pm at Pioneer Works: 159 Pioneer St, Brooklyn, NY 11231

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Project Room returns to Red Hook for an

evening with the Little Black Egg Big Band

and Oren Ambarchi, presented in

collaboration with Pioneer Works Center

for Art and Innovation. Named for Georgia

Hubley’s rarely performed solo guitar

project Little Black Egg, the expanded

Little Black Egg Big Band features Hubley

and her Yo La Tengo compatriots Ira

Kaplan and James McNew, joined by an

array of jazz mainstays including Susie Ibarra, Daniel Carter, Taylor Ho Bynum,

and more TBA. Australian improvisor Oren

Ambarchi, known for his deft and

exploratory instrumental approaches,

performs solo.

Yo La Tengo is one of the most beloved and respected bands in America. For

nearly thirty years, Ira Kaplan, Georgia

Hubley and James McNew have enjoyed

Yo La Tengo by Carlie Armstrong DOWNLOAD

ISSUE Project Room & Pioneer Works present: Little Black Egg Big Band (Yo La Tengo & Friends) / Oren Ambarchi

Sunday, June 28th 8pm 159 Pioneer St., Brooklyn 11231

success entirely on their own terms– playing the world’s best concert halls, museums, and

dives, dominating critics’ lists, doing a Simpsons theme, playing the Velvet Underground in “I

Shot Andy Warhol,” sharing stages with some of the most important musicians of our time,

and even creating a holiday tradition onto themselves with their yearly series of Hanukkah

shows at Hoboken, New Jersey’s legendary club Maxwells, from which they’ve donated

hundreds of thousands to charity.

Daniel Carter (alto, tenor, and soprano saxophones, trumpet) is a writer and musician active since the mid 60s. A member of the cooperative free jazz groups Test, Other Dimensions In

Music, and Ghost Moth, Carter has also recorded or performed with a wide range of

collaborators including Joe Morris, Matthew Shipp, William Parker, Yoko Ono, Thurston

Moore, Sun Ra, Cecil Taylor, and Sam Rivers, among many others.

Susie Ibarra is known for her innovative style and cultural dialogue as a composer, improviser, percussionist and humanitarian. Actively practicing Philippine Indigenous music,

electronic, experimental, jazz and improvisation, she is a Yamaha, Vic Firth and Paiste Drum

Artist, has recorded over 40 recordings as a leader, collaborator and soloist. She has

performed with many artists including Wadada Leo Smith, John Zorn, Pauline Oliveros, Ikue

Mori, Trisha Brown, George Lewis, Thurston Moore, Sean Lennon, Yo La Tengo, and others.

Taylor Ho Bynum is a composer, cornet player, bandleader and interdisciplinary collaborator. Critics have called him “a singular and thrilling artist” (All About Jazz), “a major force on the

outward­bound side of the jazz continuum” (The Boston Globe). He has collaborated with

legendary figures including Anthony Braxton, Bill Dixon, Cecil Taylor, and Wadada Leo Smith,

and performs with many forward­thinking peers, and has toured throughout North and South

America, Europe, and Asia.

Oren Ambarchi's works are hesitant and tense extended songforms located in the cracks

between several schools: modern electronics and processing; laminal improvisation and

minimalism; hushed, pensive songwriting; the deceptive simplicity and temporal suspensions

of composers such as Morton Feldman and Alvin Lucier; and the physicality of rock music,

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ISSUE Project Room & Pioneer Works present: Little Black Egg Big Band (Yo La Tengo & Friends) / Oren Ambarchi

Sunday, June 28th 8pm 159 Pioneer St., Brooklyn 11231

slowed down and stripped back to its bare bones, abstracted and replaced with pure signal.

From the late 90's his experiments in guitar abstraction and extended technique have led to a

more personal and unique sound­world incorporating a broader palette of instruments and

sensibilities. On releases such as Grapes From The Estate and In The Pendulum's Embrace

Ambarchi employed glass harmonica, strings, bells, piano, drums and percussion, creating

fragile textures as light as air which tenuously coexist with the deep, wall­shaking bass tones

derived from his guitar.

Oren Ambarchi at ISSUE Project Room by Bradley Buehring, 2013. DOWNLOAD

Ambarchi has performed and recorded with a diverse array of artists such as Fennesz,

Charlemagne Palestine, Sunn 0)), Thomas Brinkmann, Keiji Haino, Alvin Lucier, John Zorn,

Merzbow, Jim O'Rourke, Keith Rowe, Akio Suzuki, Phill Niblock, John Tilbury, Richard

Pinhas, Evan Parker, crys cole, Fire! and many more. Since 2001 Ambarchi has toured

Europe, North America and Japan regularly and has performed at major festivals such as

ATP (UK), Sonar (Spain), Mutek (Canada), CTM (Germany), INA GRM (France), Roskilde

(Denmark), Etna Fest (Italy), Festival De Mexico (Mexico) and many more including a recent

live collaboration with the Icelandic Symphony Orchestra at the Tectonics festival in

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ISSUE Project Room & Pioneer Works present: Little Black Egg Big Band (Yo La Tengo & Friends) / Oren Ambarchi

Sunday, June 28th 8pm 159 Pioneer St., Brooklyn 11231

Reykjavik. His acclaimed trio with Keiji Haino and Jim O'Rourke performs in Tokyo annually

with many of their concerts documented on Ambarchi's Black Truffle label. Ambarchi has

released numerous recordings for labels such as Touch, Southern Lord, Editions Mego, Drag

City, Kranky and Tzadik. His latest release,Quixotism was listed in The Wire magazine's top

50 releases of 2014.

Founded in 2003, ISSUE Project Room is a pioneering nonprofit performance center, presenting projects by more than 200 interdisciplinary artists each year that expand the

boundaries of artistic practice and stimulate critical dialogue in the broader community. ISSUE

serves as a leading cultural incubator, facilitating the commission and premiere of more than

25 innovative new works each year.

Pioneer Works Center for Arts and Innovation is a new non­profit 501(c)3 organization dedicated to the creation, discussion and display of art and science. Its mission is

accomplished through education programs, exhibitions, interdisciplinary residencies, and

publications. Pioneer Works serves as a laboratory for diverse forms of contemporary culture.

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