#ava mendoza

[jgthirlwell]

04.30.24 Bill Orcutt Guitar Quartet at Le Poisson Rouge. Bill Orcutt, Wendy Eisenberg, Ava Mendoza and Shane Parish.

[jt1674]

[burlveneer-music]

Ava Mendoza - The Circular Train - a true solo album, electric guitar only (and a touch of vocals)

Ava Mendoza has never made an album quite as personal as her third solo full-length, The Circular Train. Through her decades of collaborations with Nels Cline, Carla Bozulich, William Parker, Fred Frith, Matana Roberts, and Mick Barr — plus years leading her power trio Unnatural Ways and playing in Bill Orcutt’s quartet — the guitarist’s name has become synonymous with virtuoso technique, raw passion, and visceral resonance, a player pushing the edges of the guitar’s possibilities. Along the way, from 2007 to 2023, Mendoza was writing these slow-burning, incandescent songs. The Circular Train is comprised solely of her single-tracked guitar playing and, on two songs, her corporeal singing. Her first solo LP of original material since relocating from California to New York City a decade ago, much of The Circular Train was honed amid pandemic years that clarified the virtues of slowing down. This expressive avant-rock is a definitive introduction to one of the most uncompromising and inquisitive visions in creative music. Mendoza’s thrilling melange of free jazz, blues, noise, classical training, and blazing experimental rock’n’roll all coheres with ecstatic feedback, with picking and solos that crest with shimmer. Sometimes she sounds like a one-woman Sonic Youth with guttural and poised vocals that equally evoke Patti Smith and blues greats like Jessie Mae Hemphill. Conceptually, The Circular Train is presented as a psychogeographical train ride through certain of Mendoza’s musical homelands. The songs draw on ancestral and recent familial memories, notably of her parents’ roots in mining towns — in her father’s home country of Bolivia and mother’s hometown of Butte, Montana, each country with its own history of colonialism, racism, forced labor, the eradication of culture and the subsequent excavation of it. (more...) — JENN PELLY Ava Mendoza- guitar, vox Compositions: 1-5 by Ava Mendoza (BMI) 6 by Gussie L. Davis, recorded/popularized by Huddie “Leadbelly” Ledbetter

[doomandgloomfromthetomb]

Bill Orcutt Guitar Quartet - Roulette, Brooklyn, New York, March 27, 2023 / Tiny Desk Concert

Here's what I wrote about Bill Orcutt's Music for Four Guitars for Aquarium Drunkard's year-end roundup: "A multitracked electric guitar masterpiece, [it] offers a richly layered trip. As with everything Orcutt does, there’s a wild intensity at work, but the interlinked compositions here could also work as meditation soundtracks. Orcutt continues to surprise." 

Most surprising, perhaps, is that Orcutt managed to take Four Guitars on the road this year. He brought with him some serious underground ringers to bring this stuff to life: Shane Parish, Ava Mendoza and Wendy Eisenberg. Thanks to Parish's notations, the quartet hews closely to the original compositions, but in a live setting, things open up and flow, creating a truly heady listening (and viewing) experience. Knotty, gnarly, totally beautiful. The musicians also seem to be having a blast playing together, which is always a plus in my book.

And hey, the Bill Orcutt Guitar Quartet is playing in Los Angeles TONIGHT. I'd go if I were you.

[donospl]

Europe Jazz Media Chart - Grudzień 2024

Wybór nowości muzycznych, dokonany przez grupę czołowych europejskich magazynów i witryn jazzowych. A selection of the hot new music surfacing across the continent by the top European jazz magazines and websites. Mikołaj Trzaska Eternity For A While (Instant Classic) Krzysztof Komorek, Donos kulturalny, Polska Unleashed Cooperation Trust (Multikulti Project) Victor Benusan, jazzdergisi.com,…

[onryou-onryou]

Bill Orcutt Guitar Quartet: Tiny Desk Concert

[gwm247]

Angela Yeo, Helle Trevino, Andrea Shaw, Kristina Nicole Mendoza, Ava Melillo, Hunter Henderson

[murcielagatito]

so embarrassing to have a favorite character honestly. like yes that's my specialest girl 🙄 yes i have 200 photos of her saved 😑 if i don't look at her or hear her talk every 2 minutes i'll start killing the hostages 😕 i think about her every day. because she's my favorite. whatever

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A few more of my fav panels from UCA from various episodes! If I can maybe I'll post a whole sequence animatic!! Still really happy with a lot of the work I did on this show!!!

[jgthirlwell]

04.02.24 Darius Jones and Tomas Fujiwara at Ava Mendoza's curated series at Union Pool in Brooklyn

[unicorn-academy-brainrot]

Another post to celebrate the 1 year anniversary of unicorn academy! Got the whole gang together this time. this show has genuinely helped me overcome a years-long artblock, I was lucky to produce 2-3 drawings a YEAR since around 2019, and now I've been drawing more than ever. Thank you so much to everyone on here who has made it so enjoyable, I'm forever appreciative of the little fandom community for this show and I can't wait to see more of these unicorn riding losers (affectionate)!!!

[burlveneer-music]

Mendoza Hoff Revels - Echolocation - a blast of instrumental skronk rock

Ava Mendoza: electric guitar, compositions Devin Hoff: electric bass, compositions James Brandon Lewis: tenor saxophone Ches Smith: drums 'Echolocation' is the astonishing debut album from Mendoza Hoff Revels, a formidable new unit led by Ava Mendoza & Devin Hoff and featuring James Brandon Lewis & Ches Smith. While Mendoza and Hoff have floated around each other's musical orbits for decades, and have been friends for some time, this is their first work together on record. It is an electric & holy harmonic fusion of highly estimable musical forces; wholly rendered. The original impetus of this group was Mendoza’s, based on the love she and Hoff shared for aggressive and polyglot electric avant-garde ensembles – artists like mid-80's Black Flag (w/ Roessler & Stevenson) and Ornette Coleman's Prime Time bands revolutionized the way they heard music. As stated in their liner notes, "we shared the writing of these pieces, though without the sizable stamps of both James and Ches, they would sound nothing like they do here.” The result – 21st Century progressive rock played by punk rockers with serious improv skills and a deep jazz feel. And vitally – non-stop wicked catchy tunes, riffs & grooves. Strong sonic references on our initial hearing at AUM Fidelity were The Stooges’ Funhouse, rendered by an entire band readily adept at rapidly swinging rhythmic & harmonic shifts (plus tenor sax on every track!) -&- minutemen, both their entire body of music & their fundamental egalitarian punk ethos. A higher combo accolade to any "rock-adjacent" band playing with electricity we at AUM cannot bestow. Art & Design by William Mazza Studio

[beef-unknwn]

A simple guide to how i characterize the sapphires

[donospl]

Co w jazzie piszczy [sezon 1 odcinek 28]

premierowa emisja 22 listopada 2023 – 18:00 Graliśmy: Sanne Rambags, Vincent Courtois, Julian Sartorius   “Between the Bliss” z albumu  “Twigs” – BMC Records   Hugues Mayot  L’Arbre Rouge  “Apparation” z albumu “Invocations” – BMC Records   Leila Martial – Valentin Ceccaldi  “Mon frere” z albumu “Le Jardin des délices”  – BMC Records   Oliver Lake, Matthias Landeus, Kresten Osgood” “Is It…

[eyeseechan]

unicorn academy was the first project i worked on and it's been such a blast seeing these kiddos on screen so here they are in some completely headcanon halloween outfits ^^

[youruinedmylifebynotbeingreal]

I made them hold hands