Waver CD Release Party this Sunday April 13th!!

Performances this week at Korzo and Shapshifter Lab

Tonight, April 8th, Old Time Musketry will be playing the at the venerable Konceptions music series curated by James Carney. This series has been going strong for several years now, and is something of a cultural institution for the Brooklyn jazz and improv scene. We play at 10:30pm. At 9pm is Andrew D'Angelo, Aaron Parks, and Dan Weiss. I don't have to tell you that THAT's gonna be interesting.

Korzo
667 Fifth Avenue, Brooklyn
$10 donation (all goes to musicians)

10:30pm Old Time Musketry

JP Schlegelmilch - Accordion and piano
Adam Schneit - Saxophone and Clarinet
Phil Rowan - Bass
Max Goldman - Drums and Melodica

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APRIL 13TH AT SHAPESHIFTER LAB IS WAVER'S CD RELEASE PARTY!!

Waver is a project for piano and laptop with electronic sound artist Michael Clemow. We've been playing together on and off for a few years now and did a recording in 2012 which is finally seeing the light of day! The music, which is completely improvised, has developed a lot through consistent rehearsal and we're excited to finally do another show.

Shapeshifter Lab
18 Whitwell Pl, Brooklyn
$8 cover, $12 with CD

8:00pm Waver

JP Schlegelmilch - piano
Michael Clemow - Laptop

9:30pm Live Footage

Mike Thies - Drums and Keyboards
Topu Lyo - 5-string electric cello + electronics

Hello blog my old friend, I've come to write on you again.

Denizens of the interweb, witness my triumphant return to the blog-o-sphere!

So what's been going on since my last post in.....September 2013???

First and most importantly: I GOT MARRIED!

Secondly: I MOVED! Alas, the sweetheart deal I had on my Greenpoint apartment couldn't last forever, especially with the neighborhood becoming more and more Williamsburg-ized. We're now living happily in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn. So many musicians in this hood! Adam and Phil from Old Time Musketry live blocks away, Jesse Stacken lives down the street, and I bump into more people on a daily basis all the time.

But some musical activity has also been percolating! I have a recording coming out soon with a new project called Waver, a collaboration with sound artist Michael Clemow. We've been working on an improvisational project for piano and live-sampling electronics on and off for a year or so. Mike samples what I play in real time and manipulates the sound through his computer and sonic adventures ensue. The music ranges from cinematic ambient soundscapes to intense bursts of fractured electronic sound. Stay tuned for news about a CD release show!

Old Time Musketry went into the studio in November to record our second album, the long awaited follow up to our critically acclaimed first album, Different Times.

I'm also planning to start doing some solo piano shows again, and for the first time ever I'm going to include some classical pieces!