THE HANDOVER (EG) + ERICA DAWN LYLE (US) + TASHI DORJI, ANDY MOOR & SUN-MI HONG (BU/UK/KOR)

free music | guitar improv | sublime frequencies

20:30 ERICA DAWN LYLE (US)
21:25 THE HANDOVER (EG)
22:35 TASHI DORJI, ANDY MOOR & SUN-MI HONG (BU/UK/KOR)

Erica Dawn Lyle is a writer, curator, experimental musician, and cultural instigator who lives in New York City and Florida. The former touring guitar player for BIKINI KILL, as a solo performer, Lyle has released musical collaborations with Kim Gordon, The Raincoats, Bernadette Mayer, Kathleen Hanna, Brontez Purcell, and many more, and she performs in the improv free jazz activist duo, MYKAWARA, with drummer, Marshall Trammell. Lyle is the author of Streetopia (Booklyn, 2015) and On The Lower Frequencies: A Secret History of The City (Soft Skull, 2008) and has written for Artforum, Art in America, Frieze, and NPR’s This American Life. Her most recent book is The Knight of Cups (Belladonna Press, 2023).

THE HANDOVER (EG, Sublime Frequencies)

Aly Eissa (EG) – Oud
Ayman Asfour (EG) – violin
Jonas Cambien (BE/NO) – Keyboards

The Handover are a critically acclaimed trio that plays hypnotic, trance-inducing music, inspired by the ritual rhythms of the Egyptian countryside. The trio masterfully combines the delicacy of classical Arabic music with the raw expressiveness of Egypt’s rural and shaabi music, peppered with a good dose of psychedelic improvisation, kraut riffs and experimental sounds. Their eponymous record put out by the American cult label Sublime Frequencies has been dubbed one of the beste releases on the label.

”ferocious and forceful” – the Wire

TASHI DORJI, ANDY MOOR & SUN-MI HONG (BU/UK/KOR)

Tashi Dorji – e-guitar
Andy Moor – bariton-guitar
Sun-Mi Hong – drums

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.

Andy Moor born in London in 1962, lives in Amsterdam is a founding member of Dog Faced Hermans 1986-1995 and continues to be a full time member of The Ex since 1990. Guitarist, photographer, composer of music for film scores and involved in duo collaborations with sound poet Anne-James Chaton, DJ and author DJ/Rupture, saxophonist John Butcher and composer and electronic musician Yannis Kyriakides. He also is a member of Lean Left with Terrie Ex , Ken Vandermark and Paal Nilssen Love and Thermal with John Butcher and Thomas Lehn and has duos with Christine Abdelnour, Genevieve Murphy and Marta Warelis. And recently joined Frank Rosalys band RuidoOscuro.

Sun-Mi Hong, a South Korean drummer based in Amsterdam, has emerged as a rising star in the vibrant jazz scene of the Dutch capital. Renowned for her boundless creativity and infectious energy, Sun-Mi has established herself as a force to be reckoned with. Her accolades include winning the SENA Dutch Jazz Competition in 2018 and receiving the prestigious Edison Award in the National category for her critically acclaimed album ‘A Self-Strewn Portrait’ released by ZenneZ Records.

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