May 16th is this season's penultimate installment and it's a real burner. Trumpeter about town Nate Wooley maintains an astonishing level of activity, leading his own groups (w/ Mary Halvorson, Susan Alcorn and Ryan Sawyer, for example) and working in ensembles led by the likes of Anthony Braxton and John Zorn, all while somehow running an ambitious program of commissioned works (FOR/WITH) and the experimental music journal Sound American in between. Here he'll be paired with special-soon-to-be-announced guest but rest assured it will be a combination that is sure to move some air...Drummer Sean Meehan's decades long practice is as deep as it is understated, encompassing zen-like contributions to countless improvised settings and collaborations with Ellen Fullman and Tamio Shiraishi. He'll be departing from the cymbals, snare drum and friction rod tones for which he's best known for this evening's concert and assuming a different axe, the cowbell...Since 2006, Portuguese polymath duo !CALHAU! have been waging a multi-pronged insurgence that encompasses music, text, images, home made electronics and performance. They appear here as part of their two month American sojourn...Hope you'll join us.

C.C.

7:30pm doors
8:00pm !CALHAU!
9:00pm Sean Meehan
10:00pm Nate Wooley & Mette Rasmussen

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NATE WOOLEY & METTE RASMUSSEN

Mette Rasmussen
Defining a unique balance of uproar and beauty, Mette Rasmussen's ability to move between the often strict confines of genres and explore the elements is on full display throughout. In solo affairs as well as in collaborations, she has encapsulated her own personal vision of the role of the saxophone, often turning it into a complete physical experience. Embracing her audience with sonic altitude and prolific melody lines, rocketing a more prosaic stem. Her performances ties together audience and artist, and embodies the energy between the two. In recent year she has been touring with among others Godspeed You! Black Emperor throughout France, Australia and USA, Chris Corsano troughout Europe and Japan, Sofia Jernberg throughout Australia, her own band cosisting of Torbjörn Zetterberg, Johan Berthling, Raymond Strid, Paul Lytton, and been doing an extensively amount of solo shows all over the world. And been in projects and doing collaborations with among others, MoE, Craig Taborn, Barry Guy and Zeena Parkins. Newly releases on American Feeding Tube Records with Bhutanese guitarist Tashi Dorji, and on French Dark Tree Records with French guitarist Julien Desprez.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3Cl_fWxMpA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kNmxRXvX3k

Nate Wooley was born in 1974 in Clatskanie, Oregon; a town of 2,000 people in the timber country of the Pacific Northwest. He began playing trumpet professionally with his father, a big band saxophonist, at the age of 13. Nate moved to New York in 2001 after periods of study in Oregon and Colorado, and has since become one of the most in-demand trumpet players in the burgeoning Brooklyn jazz, improv, noise, and new music scenes. He has performed regularly with such icons as John Zorn, Anthony Braxton, Ken Vandermark, Fred Frith, Zeena Parkins and Evan Parker.

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SEAN MEEHAN
Drummer Sean Meehan began performing in the late 1980s at the Amica Bunker series for improvised music, located at the Anarchist’s Switchboard and later ABC No Rio in New York City. His work has been presented at some of the most prestigious venues for new music including the Instal Festival (Glasgow), The Whitney Museum's Biennial (New York), Lincoln Center (New York), and Goethe-Institut (Hanoi), but he primarily performs at small, informal spaces and artist-run festivals. For nearly twenty years he and Tamio Shiraishi presented their summer concert series, always in different playful and devious locations throughout New York City. Three of these concerts have been documented on LP on the Fusetron and GD Stereo labels. Meehan's most recent project was a highly abridged audio book of Hermann von Helmholtz’s seminal text from 1863, On the Sensations of Tone, and he is featured on the soon forthcoming cassette of music for percussion titled Qué Horror!/...qué alivio...At this edition of Fire Over Heaven he will perform a cowbell solo.
Mee-han.com

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!CALHAU!
Born 2006. Portugal. !CALHAU! is the name that conceals all artwork done in communion by Marta ngela and João Alves. They have been working together in the fields of visual art, text, performance and music. They have shown their work across Portugal and Europe in venues such as Serralves Museum, Culturgest, The Glasgow School of Art, Cafe Oto, MAAT, Palais de Tokyo, among others.
Bandcamp: https://voncalhau.bandcamp.com
Website: http://www.einsteinvoncalhau.com