FMP: ZOH AMBA/TOSHI MAKIHARA DUO & SPECTRAL FORCES
Sat, Aug 24
|Philadelphia
Spectral Forces (featuring Supply member Pete Dennis) opens for a spectacular duo of star tenor saxophonist Zoh Ahmba and wily percussionist Toshi Makihara. The proceeds from this concert go to our great friends at Fire Museum Presents.
Time & Location
Aug 24, 2024, 7:30 PM – 10:00 PM
Philadelphia, 1049 Sarah St, Philadelphia, PA 19125, USA
About the event
A fundraiser for Fire Museum Presents! Help them to continue bringing eclectic & diverse sounds to Philadelphia!
Sliding Scale
$15 to Infinity
Zoh Amba & Toshi Makihara duo:
Zoh Amba is a composer, saxophonist, and flutist from Tennessee. Her music blends avant-garde, noise, and devotional hymns. Before studying music at the San Francisco Conservatory Of Music, New England Conservatory and studying with David Murray in New York, she spent most of her time writing and practicing saxophone in the forest near her home. Today, her powerfully unique avant-garde music is full of folk melodies, mesmerizing refrains, and repeated incantations. Amba released two records in 2022, her debut record O, Sun which was produced by John Zorn and released on the prestigious label Tzadik. Zoh Amba’s second record, Bhakti features Micah Thomas, Tyshawn Sorey, and Matt Hollenberg. She has collaborated with a variety of high profile musicians such as Jim White (Dirty Three), legendary jazz bassist William Parker, Brian Chase (Yeah Yeah Yeahs) and many more.
Toshi Makihara’s performance utilizes traditional percussion with a variety of discovered sound media, everyday objects and toys. Through a rigorous, systematic, and practiced process of experimentation, Makihara seeks out sounds that have never been heard before, experimenting with touch, force, and speed, and always remaining aware of sound’s relationship to the body. Makihara studied drums and percussion with Sabu Toyozumi, a renouned improvising percussionist in Tokyo. He has also studied butoh with dance master Kazuo Ohno and others.
Alex Smith is your guide enmeshed in the parallel universes of Philadelphia. In The Light of The Universe is in Who worlds are brought to life and death by the rhythm section of Julius Masri and Pete Dennis. Each song, a different aspect of reality, brought close to the ear. Histories- personal, aspirational, erotic, and revolutionary- are rotated for the enjoyment of its prismatic refractions.
venue is wheelchair accessible, please contact us in advance for assistance.