Solo Electric Organ Music at Halyards Monday March 20th

I'll be performing some new music written for the Yamaha YC-30 Electric Organ + electronics and drum machine this Sunday at Halyards, a cozy bar in Gowanus with a music room. I'm excited to be joined by Jason Nazary who will be presenting new music for solo drums and synthesizers at 8pm, and extra excited for the live visual art projections by Jacob McCoy which will accompany the music.

Monday March 20th at 8pm

Halyards (406 3rd Ave, Brooklyn)

8pm Jason Nazary - Drums and Synthesizer

9pm JP Schlegelmilch - YC-30 Electric Organ and Electronics

Live visual art projections by Jacob McCoy

Before the Wall: A Benefit to Support Immigrant Communities

I'm so proud to be a part of this benefit concert on Friday at Littlefield. Hearing Things will be performing with two incredible bands, Shilpa Ray and The Kominas. All ticket sales will be going to support two incredible organizations, Sapna NYC and Women for Afghan Women.

The details:

Fri, January 27, 2017
Doors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm

$12 admission
$25 admission, raffle ticket
$50 admission, raffle ticket and drink

Tickets are available here.

Hearing Things goes on at 8pm!

More info about the organizations is below. Hope to see you there!

SAPNA
sapnanyc.org

Sapna NYC transforms the lives of South Asian immigrant women by improving physical and mental health, expanding economic opportunities and building a collective voice for change.

Women for Afghan Women
http://www.womenforafghanwomen.org/

Women for Afghan Women is a grassroots, human rights organization dedicated to securing and protecting the rights of disenfranchised Afghan women and girls in Afghanistan and New York, particularly their rights to develop their individual potential, to self-determination, and to be represented in all areas of life: political, social, cultural and economic.

Kenny Warren Quartet at New Revolution Arts

Tonight! Jan 15th 2017 at Cisco Bradley's New Revolution Arts music series!! Loft jazz, baby.

Here's a note from Cisco about the night:

The first New Revolution Arts event of 2017 is going to be a transcendent night of music, poetry, and artistic vision. Please come out for music and fellowship in the community. If you are an artist who has presented your work in the series before, please take advantage of the artist special. It promises to be an exciting night!

8 pm--Bonnie Kane 5-amp solo flute
8:45 pm--Ekene Okobi and Maria Ines Toro Luna
9:15 pm--Kenny Warren Quartet with J.P. Schlegelmilch, Noah Garabedian, Satoshi Takeishi
10 pm--No Land, Daniel Carter, Devin Brahja Waldman

New Revolution Arts
7 Stanhope Street
Brooklyn (Bushwick)
J/M/L Trains
B38/B52/B54/B60/Q24 Buses

Please share to spread the word!!

$15 suggested donation
Artist special: $10 suggested donation to artists who have played the series before

https://jazzrightnow.com/new-revolution-arts-series/

New Revolution Arts is a loft series in Bushwick featuring cutting edge jazz, improvised, and creative music and visual art.

Hearing Things on tour with Nick Waterhouse!

Brooklyn, Boston, Philly and DC, look out we're coming to town!

Hearing Things

Matt Bauder - Saxophone
JP Schlegelmilch - Electric Organ
Vinnie Sperrazza - Drums
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East Coast Mini Tour
Four-night east-coast mini-tour opening for Nick Waterhouse
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October 8th, 2016 8pm
Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
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October 10th, 2016 8pm
Cambridge, MA @ Sinclaire

October 11th, 2016 8pm
Philadelphia, PA @ The Foundry
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October 12th, 2016 8pm
Washington D.C. @ Rock and Roll Hotel
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Valentine's Ball at Barbes!

Though someone once proclaimed in a song that "each day is Valentine's Day", you won't get to see a gig like this just any day, even in Brooklyn! I'm thrilled that Hearing Things will be sharing the stage with these wonderful bands tonight at Barbes. 

9pm: The Fraternal Order of the Society Blues--disciples of Blues legend Carolina Slim play soulful tuneful songs that the people understand

10pm: Hearing Things--"kind of Middle Eastern flavored surf rock with old-school R&B honking and striptease-worthy themes" (Chicago Reader)

11pm: The Sway Machinery--"unclassifiable, uplifitng" (The New Yorker)

Three Magicians: Farmers by Nature at the Stone

I made it out last night to Craig Taborn's residency at the Stone to hear the improvising group Farmers by Nature with Gerald Cleaver and William Parker. It was my first experience seeing them live, and the room was packed with free jazz musicians and aficionados. Before they started playing Gerald Cleaver remarked to the audience, "So should we pray now or later"?, perhaps in response to the hushed expectation that was beginning to electrify the room.
As they started playing the music immediately had a very physical, tactile feeling, especially watching Craig Taborn and William Parker. There was nothing "abstract" about their improvising, everything felt rooted in the body.....or in the earth? Does the name of the band imply something to this effect? "Farmers" of the primordial soil of music?
Every time I see Craig Taborn play the piano I'm struck by the way he's able to completely transform the instrument through the power of his musical imagination and staggering technique. There's always a moment where my ears stop registering the sounds as originating from the piano and the music enters a transcendent realm of pure sound.

Hearing Things at Music Hall of Williamsburg!

Very excited for this one. We had a great time touring with Will Butler in March but didn't get to do a show in New York with him. Also excited to have a comedian on the bill, Jo Firestone!

We play at 9pm, get your tickets here!

Here's a hilarious informational video about the show.