OOYH Records @ Artspace: Second Mondays (11/11) - Eginli / Levin (NC) // Wolf in Wool
This is our last OOYH Second Mondays of 2024 in our regular concert format, as we'll be doing the improv holiday grab bag on December 9. Very excited to welcome special guests Ipek Eginli and Daniel Levin from North Carolina, celebrating their release 'Explorers' on ears&eyes Records. Wolf In Wool is a new solo project by Richmond-based guitarist Alan Biller. This will be a great night of music, and please come show our out-of-town friends a warm welcome! Details:
OOYH Records Second Mondays @ Artspace
Monday November 11, 2024
2833-A Hathaway Rd, Richmond, VA 23225
Doors at 7:30pm, Music at 8:00pm
$10
Beer + Wine available for purchase
8:00pm Wolf In Wool
Alan Biller - guitar, effects, synths, loops
9:00pm Eginli / Levin
Ipek Eginli, electronics + voice
Daniel Levin, cello
Check out 'Explorers' on Bandcamp: https://earsandeyesrecords.bandcamp.com/album/explorers
Ipek Eginli is an experimental sound artist and improviser who describes her music making as “a process of a creation and a creation of a process”. Her ever-evolving creative process involves electroacoustic free improvisation on piano, voice, modular synthesizers, and no-input mixing boards. In her piano playing, she combines contemporary classical music influences with traditional piano techniques, skillfully transitioning from harsh percussive sounds to gentle touches on the keys. Her music also incorporates poly-modal elements with synthetic modes, intervallic relationships, and poly-stylistic collages, creating a captivating and multi-layered listening experience. Ipek holds a Doctorate of Musical Arts from the University of Georgia in piano performance with a research focus on piano pedagogy and a masters degree in piano performance from Purchase College, State University of New York. A native of Turkey, Ipek holds a Bachelor’s degree at Mimar Sinan University State Conservatory in Istanbul. She has performed solo, chamber and orchestra concerts at various venues in Turkey, Austria, the Netherlands, Germany and in many cities in the US including New York, Boston, San Francisco and Atlanta.
Cellist Daniel Levin is “one of the instrument’s most brilliant contemporary practitioners” (The Wire). He was born in Burlington, Vermont, and began playing the cello at the age of six. In 2001, he graduated with a degree in Jazz Studies from the New England Conservatory of Music and arrived on the New York City jazz scene shortly thereafter. Since then, Daniel has developed his own distinctive voice as a cellist, improviser, and composer. Ed Hazell noted upon release of Levin’s first record as a leader, “Cellist Daniel Levin is a major new voice on his instrument and in improvised music.” Elements of European classical music, American jazz, microtonal and new music, and European free improvisation all figure prominently in his unique sound. He has performed extensively throughout the USA and Europe, and has recorded more than 25 albums as a leader or co-leader, which can be found on Clean Feed, HatOLOGY, Not Two, Trost, Riti, Mahakala, Phonogram Unit, Creative Sources, and other record labels. Daniel is a REMIC Microphones and Glasser Bows Artist Endorser.
Wolf in Wool is the solo project of recovering jazz guitarist Alan Biller. Alan has lived and performed in NYC, Montreal, Washington DC, and Richmond, VA as part of their lively jazz scenes. He has performed worldwide with the Capital Focus Jazz Band, playing at the French Quarter Festival in New Orleans, the Old Sacramento Dixieland Jazz Jubilee, and the Ascona Jazz Festival in Ascona, Switzerland. He also spent several months performing on Carnival Cruise Lines and lived to tell about it. He has studied with such famous (and infamous) jazz greats as Bruce Arnold, Mordy Ferber, Ron McClure, Frank Kimbrough, and George Garzone. He received his BMus from NYU. These days, he is just trying to make his guitar sound like anything but a guitar, with varying levels of success.