Alan Licht (NYC), Bill Nace (Philly), Jeff Barsky (MD)
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Lost Origins Gallery is excited to host an evening of experimental music with…
Alan Licht is a musician, writer, and curator based in New York City. Appearing on nearly one hundred recordings, he is known for his guitar work in the underground rock bands Run On and Love Child and with such legendary figures as Yoko Ono, Tom Verlaine, Michael Snow. His newest release is Havens, a double album of solo electric and acoustic guitar tracks, released by VDSQ in September. Licht is the author of Common Tones: Selected Interviews with Artists and Musicians 1995–2020 (Blank Forms, 2021); Sound Art Revisited (Bloomsbury, 2019), and the editor of Will Oldham on Bonnie “Prince” Billy (2012, Faber & Faber/W. W. Norton).
Bill Nace is an artist and musician based in Philadelphia, PA. Some collaborators include Michael Morley, Graham Lambkin, Matt Krefting, Twig Harper, Jooklo Duo, chik white, John Truscinski, Thurston Moore, Jake Meginsky, Jessica Rylan, Paul Flaherty, Wally Shoup, Aaron Dilloway, and Kim Gordon, with whom he regularly plays as one half of the duo Body/Head. In 2020 Nace released the critically acclaimed solo record “BOTH” on Drag City. A collaboration with Gordon and Dilloway — “Body/Dilloway/Head” — is out now on Three Lobed Records and his newest solo LP Through a Room was released last November on Drag City.He has been a featured musician in festivals such as ATP (curated by Jim Jarmusch and held in Monticello, NY), Colour Out of Space(Brighton, UK), Supersonic Festival (Birmingham, UK), International Festival Musique Actuelle (Victoriaville, QC), and Homegrown (Boston, MA). He has performed in a wide variety of venues, running the gamut from the Musee d’Art Contemporain (Strasbourg, France) to The Stone (NYC) to Bennington College (Vermont). Nace’s range has been described as “veering from sculptural, almost Remko-Scha-esque chime to Loren Connors-style elegance in only a few short moves.” (Mimaroglu Music, 2010).
Jeff Barsky, of DC bands Bed Maker and Shadow Riot, among countless other collaborations, moonlights as a meditative guitar improvisor.
“…densely layered loops, planes of static standing tall like a gigantic back-scratcher of audio, improvised melodies clamoring over drones like they’re peaks in a mountain range…monolithic, moving, fluid and entirely lovely.” – Tiny Mix Tapes
