Fire Over Heaven's March installment welcomes Charmaine Lee & Zach Rowden, Brian Chase's Drums & Drones, and Leyna Marika Papach. Charmaine Lee has quickly developed a reputation as an arresting vocalist and performer since hitting town a few years ago. With a highly physical vocabulary that runs the gamut from heady, multi-phonic squalls to guttural rumblings that originate below the belt, she sings with her whole body. Her foil in this ongoing duo is Zach Rowden, a New Haven based contrabassist who has cut his teeth doing close collaborations with spectral composers Iancu Dumitrescu and Ana-Maria Avram, and who shares her affinity for noise music and getting deep inside of sounds...Brian Chase is perhaps best know as the drummer of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, but over the past decade he has been steadily developing a just intonation approach to percussion instruments via his Drums & Drones project. Using the harmonic information contained in sounds we typically think of as "unpitched" (snare hits, cymbal washes, etc), Chase is able to sculpt hypnotic overtone etudes out of little more than a drum hit...While you may have seen Leyna Marika Papach supporting masterful Hindustani singer, Dada Tapan Baidya last season at FOH, we are very pleased to have her back playing solo. Papach is a consummate violinist whose practice also draws on the languages of dance, theater and images.

Outpost Artists Resources
1665 Norman st. Ridgewood, NY (Queens)
$10 advanced tickets / $10-15 suggested donation at door.
All proceeds go to performers.

Schedule:
07:30pm - Doors
08:00pm - Leyna Marika Papach
09:00pm - Drums & Drones
10:00pm - Charmaine Lee & Zach Rowden

Charmaine Lee & Zach Rowden
Charmaine Lee is a New York based vocalist. Her music is predominantly improvised, favoring a uniquely personal approach concerned with spontaneity, playfulness, and risk-taking. Beyond extended vocal technique, Charmaine uses amplification and microphones to augment and distort the human voice. She has performed with leading improvisers Nate Wooley, id m theft able, and Joe Morris, and maintains ongoing collaborations with contemporaries Conrad Tao, Zach Rowden, Lester St. Louis, Leila Bordreuil, and Ben Bennett. She has performed at venues such as ISSUE Project Room, the Lincoln Center, Roulette, The Kitchen, and the Stone. As a composer, she has been commissioned by the Wet Ink Ensemble (2018) and Spektral Quartet (2018). Her music has been released on Anticausal Systems.
https://charmaineleemusic.com/

Zach Rowden makes music via the double bass/electric bass, fiddle, electronics and drags them through areas such as spectralism, drone, American folk traditions and harsh noise. Currently based in New Haven, Connecticut. Current projects/collaborators include Iancu Dumitrescu and the late Ana-Maria Avram’s Hyperion Ensemble as a member & soloist, Tongue Depressor with Henry Birdsey, The Ghost with Michael Foster, Derek Baron, Leila Bordreuil, Tyshawn Sorey, Robert Black, Charmaine Lee, Paul Flaherty, Chris Cretella, Matt Sargent and Wendy Eisenberg.
zachrowden.bandcamp.com
video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PiZ5ktNBvw

Drums and Drones is the solo project of Brian Chase, drummer for Yeah Yeah Yeahs and NYC’s experimental music scene. Inspired initially by La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela’s legendary Dream House installation, the Drums and Drones project aims to evoke meditative qualities through the use of resonant tones and sonic subtleties derived from drums and percussion. Drums and Drones: Decade, a retrospective triple album with 144 page book, was released in 2018 on Chaikin Records.
www.chaikinrecords.com

"Spread across the three CDs are luscious laboratory experiments in listening to stretched skins, wooden vessels and metallic surfaces. . . . Continually, he is immersed in his methods, gauging subtle inflections in frequency, density and transmission. The accompanying hardback book contains a wealth of procedural information\\\[,\\\] personal thoughts and video stills, making Drums & Drones an indispensable statement on how drummers hear sound." - Phillip Brophy, The Wire

Leyna Marika Papach is a composer, director, and interdisciplinary artist from Japan and the United States. Her compositions house the languages of dance, theater, sound, and image. Leyna’s performative work has been presented internationally in Europe, Japan, and the US. She has written and directed four evening-length dance-theater pieces alongside her work as a composer and violinist. As a composer and violinist, she has worked with a wide range of artists, both as a collaborator and instrumentalist ( Taylor Mac, J.G.Thirwell, Geraldine Fibbers/Nels Cline/Carla Bozulich, Dada Tapan Kanti Baidya, DownTown Ensemble/Daniel Goode and many others), performing in venues/festivals such as; Unlimited Festival (Austria), HAU (Berlin), International House (Japan), Dance Afrique Dance (Paris/Tunisia) All Tomorrow's Parties (US) and New York venues such as BAM, MoMA, St.Marks Church, UNESCO, Beacon Theater, St.Anne’s Warehouse, The Stone and many others. Her research in music has been supported by residencies and grant programs such as HARP (HERE Arts Center), Arts International, and Frank Huntington Beebe Fund (music+dance research in the Czech Republic and West Africa), Japan/US Friendship Commission, amongst others. Leyna holds an MFA in interdisciplinary studies from Bard College, MA in Theater and Dance Studies from DasArts (now DAS Theater), Amsterdam. She studied dance with Germaine Acogny at L'ecole des Sables, Senegal, and violin at the Prague Academy of Music.

http://www.leynamarikapapach.com/