Thursday, January 29, 20268:00 pm
$25 advance$30 doors$20 Student/Senior (w/ ID, Senior 65+)doors 7pm
A double bill with a set from guitarist and improviser Tashi Dorji, followed by electroacoustic improvising trio Kertenkele featuring special guest Darius Jones.
Kertenkele
Nick Dunston bass, banjo, feedback
Cenk Ergün electronics
Joan Sue voice, electronics, clarinet
Darius Jones alto saxophone
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.
With an array of instruments including home-made and circuit-bent electronics, processed radios, synthesizers, a banjo, a double bass, and voice, Kertenkele creates music which welcomes any and all forms of sound into a performance practice informed by improvisation, composition, and herpetology. At any given moment Kertenkele could switch from a walking bass line to a distorted banjo tune with lyrics by Christian Bök, before settling on a time-stretched remix of a Turkish folk requiem. The trio features multi-instrumentalists Nick Dunston, Joan Sue, and Cenk Ergün.
Darius Jones has created a recognizable voice as a critically acclaimed saxophonist and composer by embracing individuality and innovation in the tradition of Black music. Jones has been awarded the Van Lier Fellowship, Jerome Foundation Artist-in-Residence and commission, Western Front residency and commission, French-American Jazz Exchange Award, Robert D. Bielecki Foundation Award, and Fromm Music Foundation commission from Harvard University. Jones has received acclaim for not only his studio albums featuring music and images evocative of Black Futurism, but also for his commissioned work as a composer throughout the United States and Canada.
Tashi Dorji is a Bhutanese-born, Asheville-based experimental guitarist whose fiercely intuitive improvisations have carved out a unique space in the contemporary avant-garde. His expansive discography includes deeply felt solo works like Stateless (2020) and We Will Be Wherever the Fires Are Lit (2024), and his forthcoming electric album Low Clouds Hang, This Land Is on Fire (2026) on Drag City. Dorji is one half of Manas, the dynamic duo with drummer Thom Nguyen, and a founding member of the free jazz trio KUZU, alongside saxophonist Dave Rempis and drummer Tyler Damon. His collaborators span a wide spectrum: from Mette Rasmussen, Susie Ibarra, Efrim Manuel Menuck, Alex Zhang Hungtai, John Dieterich, Audrey Chen and Joe McPhee to more recent partnerships with Tony Buck, Terrie Ex, Andy Moor, bassist John Edwards, and drummer Steve Noble. Across his solo and group projects, Dorji’s playing, rooted in alternate tunings, prepared guitar, and spontaneous gesture, articulates an aesthetic of resistance, deep listening, and collective transformation.
