Great Bliss + Bad Luck
$5-$15 suggested donation
Jason McGill’s Great Bliss pieces are solo guided sound meditations for intonation-deficient Fender guitars, concentration, intermittently crackly speakers, letting go, field recordings (the most important art of all centuries), percussion things, a trick saxophone, feeling the rhythm upside down the third time around, a microphone, chance mystery, and sometimes something else. McGill has been working within this clustered milieu for decades, primarily in Providence and San Francisco, and this is his first-ever appearance in his new home of Seattle.
Bad Luck is a 10-year collaboration between Seattle drummer Chris Icasiano and saxophonist Neil Welch. With three albums under their belt, Bad Luck has created an incredibly diverse array of music — no small feat in the heavily trodden world of drum/saxophone duos. Their melodies, improvisations and compositions are constructed from the ground up and in many cases cannot be conventionally notated on a page.
Presented by the Wayward Music Series.