Nat Baldwin is a musician and writer from Maine, currently living in Western Mass. He’s released several solo and collaborative works and runs the experimental music label Tripticks Tapes.
Lala Harrison Ryan is a member of the experimental electronic band Excepter, where she programs synthesizers, plays keyboards and provides vocals. She has played piano since she was 13 and she holds a Master of Music from Boston University.
Sherae Rimpsey is an interdisciplinary artist and writer. Her work has been exhibited in the US and internationally, most notably at the Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw, Poland; the Zentral Bibliothek in Zurich, Switzerland and National Library of Buenos Aires, Argentina as a contributing artist in Luis Camnitzer’s El Ultimo Libro – The Last Book project. Her work has also been exhibited at the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, Germany, where she was awarded the prestigious Solitude Fellowship. She is the recipient of a Philadelphia Foundation Grant as a Flaherty Fellow. She has participated in residencies at Atlantic Center for the Arts and Vermont Studio Center. Along with Clifford Owens, Rimpsey is a featured artist on Kamau Amu Patton’s Second Mind/Alto Age, a limited-edition artwork and recording commissioned by the Pulitzer Arts Foundation in conjunction with their exhibition Terry Adkins: Resounding. She has published her poetry in the Oyez Review, Collected, and Homonym Journal. Her first full-length book of poetry—neon neon— was released in December, 2022 on Shinkoyo/Artist Pool.
Jason Chavez McMahon is a musician and composer. He has toured the globe as a guitarist and bassist performing music ranging from experimental synth pop to Sierra Leonean Bubu Music. Jason lives with his wife and four cats.
A livestream will be available free of charge at 8pm on the day of the performance and archived for future viewing. Watch below or on YouTube.
Formed as an artist collective while conservatory students in Ohio, before making an indelible mark on underground music culture in New York City, the artists of Shinkoyo have been quietly involved in significant ways intersecting experimental music and art.
Initially formed in 2003 to support debut releases by Skeletons (Matt Mehlan), Peter Blasser (instrument inventor and designer of Ciat-Lonbarde), and Severiano Martinez – Shinkoyo the “record label” has always been just a fraction of an expanded universe of collaboration and friendship. Shinkoyo artists have always “played on each other’s projects”: jointly originating bands like Skeletons, Sejayno, Symbol; founding DIY arts spaces like Silent Barn, Paris London West Nile (which became 285 Kent), and Oakland’s East Nile; releasing music on labels Tzadik, 12k, Crammed Discs, Ehse, Heresee, Tomlab, Ghostly International, Load, Denovali, Astral Spirits, American Dreams and others; traveling the world performing and collaborating with the likes of Tony Conrad, Konono No 1, Janka Nabay, Maryanne Amacher, Excepter, Nautical Almanac, Deerhoof, Juana Molina, Larry Clark, and Lou Reed.
Named for a nonsense word heard in a dream, the collective has always been dedicated to a kind of dream logic of newness. Founded on ideals of collaboration around music and the electronic, Shinkoyo has been directed over two decades by the creativity, labor and/or philosophical esoterics of: Matt Mehlan (who still manages the label), Peter Blasser, Severiano Martinez, Doron Sadja, Zeljko McMullen, Carson Garhart, Jason McMahon, Tony Lowe, MV Carbon, Thomas Arsenault, Johnny Mischeff, Ben Kamen, Michael Beharie – and has grown further in recent years with releases by Cyrus Pireh, Lia Kohl, Nat Baldwin, Sam Hillmer (Zs), IE, Clara Latham and Bobby Matador’s New Pope, Katherine Young and Sam Scranton’s Beautifulish, Patrick Shiroishi, Angel Deradoorian, artist and writer Sherae Rimpsey and others.
This series of concerts at Roulette brings together artists from each and every era of the imprint, celebrating the myriad threads of the past 20 years and introducing its future with Artist Pool, a non-profit initiative grounded in Shinkoyo’s collective ideals.
“The collective’s members […] have consistently created some of the most interesting and individual electronic music happening in America today” -Nate Wooley, Sound American
“There are connections in the music of Shinkoyo to a wildly diverse set of influences, from icons such as Robert Ashley, Gordon Mumma, and David Tudor, to “outsider” influences such as Al Margolis and Annea Lockwood, to genre work from left field locations such as new age and hard noise electronics.” -Database of Recorded American Music
Nat Baldwin is a musician and writer from Maine, currently living in Western Mass. He’s released several solo and collaborative works and runs the experimental music label Tripticks Tapes.
Lala Harrison Ryan is a member of the experimental electronic band Excepter, where she programs synthesizers, plays keyboards and provides vocals. She has played piano since she was 13 and she holds a Master of Music from Boston University.
Sherae Rimpsey is an interdisciplinary artist and writer. Her work has been exhibited in the US and internationally, most notably at the Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw, Poland; the Zentral Bibliothek in Zurich, Switzerland and National Library of Buenos Aires, Argentina as a contributing artist in Luis Camnitzer’s El Ultimo Libro – The Last Book project. Her work has also been exhibited at the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, Germany, where she was awarded the prestigious Solitude Fellowship. She is the recipient of a Philadelphia Foundation Grant as a Flaherty Fellow. She has participated in residencies at Atlantic Center for the Arts and Vermont Studio Center. Along with Clifford Owens, Rimpsey is a featured artist on Kamau Amu Patton’s Second Mind/Alto Age, a limited-edition artwork and recording commissioned by the Pulitzer Arts Foundation in conjunction with their exhibition Terry Adkins: Resounding. She has published her poetry in the Oyez Review, Collected, and Homonym Journal. Her first full-length book of poetry—neon neon— was released in December, 2022 on Shinkoyo/Artist Pool.
Jason Chavez McMahon is a musician and composer. He has toured the globe as a guitarist and bassist performing music ranging from experimental synth pop to Sierra Leonean Bubu Music. Jason lives with his wife and four cats.
A livestream will be available free of charge at 8pm on the day of the performance and archived for future viewing. Watch below or on YouTube.
Formed as an artist collective while conservatory students in Ohio, before making an indelible mark on underground music culture in New York City, the artists of Shinkoyo have been quietly involved in significant ways intersecting experimental music and art.
Initially formed in 2003 to support debut releases by Skeletons (Matt Mehlan), Peter Blasser (instrument inventor and designer of Ciat-Lonbarde), and Severiano Martinez – Shinkoyo the “record label” has always been just a fraction of an expanded universe of collaboration and friendship. Shinkoyo artists have always “played on each other’s projects”: jointly originating bands like Skeletons, Sejayno, Symbol; founding DIY arts spaces like Silent Barn, Paris London West Nile (which became 285 Kent), and Oakland’s East Nile; releasing music on labels Tzadik, 12k, Crammed Discs, Ehse, Heresee, Tomlab, Ghostly International, Load, Denovali, Astral Spirits, American Dreams and others; traveling the world performing and collaborating with the likes of Tony Conrad, Konono No 1, Janka Nabay, Maryanne Amacher, Excepter, Nautical Almanac, Deerhoof, Juana Molina, Larry Clark, and Lou Reed.
Named for a nonsense word heard in a dream, the collective has always been dedicated to a kind of dream logic of newness. Founded on ideals of collaboration around music and the electronic, Shinkoyo has been directed over two decades by the creativity, labor and/or philosophical esoterics of: Matt Mehlan (who still manages the label), Peter Blasser, Severiano Martinez, Doron Sadja, Zeljko McMullen, Carson Garhart, Jason McMahon, Tony Lowe, MV Carbon, Thomas Arsenault, Johnny Mischeff, Ben Kamen, Michael Beharie – and has grown further in recent years with releases by Cyrus Pireh, Lia Kohl, Nat Baldwin, Sam Hillmer (Zs), IE, Clara Latham and Bobby Matador’s New Pope, Katherine Young and Sam Scranton’s Beautifulish, Patrick Shiroishi, Angel Deradoorian, artist and writer Sherae Rimpsey and others.
This series of concerts at Roulette brings together artists from each and every era of the imprint, celebrating the myriad threads of the past 20 years and introducing its future with Artist Pool, a non-profit initiative grounded in Shinkoyo’s collective ideals.
“The collective’s members […] have consistently created some of the most interesting and individual electronic music happening in America today” -Nate Wooley, Sound American
“There are connections in the music of Shinkoyo to a wildly diverse set of influences, from icons such as Robert Ashley, Gordon Mumma, and David Tudor, to “outsider” influences such as Al Margolis and Annea Lockwood, to genre work from left field locations such as new age and hard noise electronics.” -Database of Recorded American Music
