Glenn Jones, Thalia Zedek w/Karen Sarkisian Damon & Naomi

Glenn Jones began playing guitar when he was 14 (after discovering Jimi Hendrix’s Axis: Bold as Love) and is today one the leading proponents of American Primitive Guitar, a style invented in the late 1950s by his friend and mentor, John Fahey. Glenn turned away from the guitar’s standard E A D G B E tuning some 40 years ago and began creating his own tunings (he estimates he’s invented more than a hundred). These and his use of custom-crafted two-, three- and four-string partial capos are Jones’ way of escaping the known, thus allowing for the creation of new pieces of music, each of which requires its own chord shapes, fingerings, scales—and unique challenges: they are his way of navigating new and unfamiliar landscapes. “It’s my hope,” he says, “that what listeners hear is not all the technical stuff that goes into the creation of my pieces – the weird tunings and partial capos and all that—but the music, the feeling within these pieces.”

To date, Jones has issued seven highly lauded full-length albums, many of which have made critics’ year-end “best of” lists (in such places as MOJO, Uncut, The Wire and many others). His most recent albums are The Giant Who Ate Himself (2018), Waterworks (2017) and An Idea in Everything (2017), the latter a collaboration with drummer Chris Corsano and monologist David Greenberger.

Thalia Zedek is probably best known for her stints as lead singer for the NYC noise rockers Live Skull in the 80’s and as the lead singer/guitarist in the Boston based Come in the 90’s, but she has been releasing haunting solo records under both her own name and under the Thalia Zedek Band moniker on the Matador and Thrill Jockey labels since the early aught’s and for the last 10 years has also been 1/3 of the Boston based noise rock group E, who recently released their 5th LP on Silver Rocket.Her most recent solo release is 2021’s critically acclaimed “Perfect Vision” LP on Thrill Jockey. Recently back from a European tour with E, Thalia will be performing both brand new and older compositions joined by pedal steel guitarist/ TZ Band bandmate Karen Sarkisian.

https://thrilljockey.com/artists/thalia-zedek

https://www.facebook.com/ThaliaZedekBand

http://www.abandcallede.com/

https://abandcallede.bandcamp.com/

Damon Krukowski and Naomi Yang began playing music together as the rhythm section, co-songwriters, and sometime singers in Galaxie 500. The band’s three influential albums were genre-defying landmarks of atmospheric post-punk, inspiring many who followed in their wake. Since the demise of Galaxie 500, Damon & Naomi have worked as a duo, exploring folk music, psychedelia, and collaborations with like-minded musicians. After a series of recordings for Sub Pop, they established their own label 20/20/20. Their latest, A Sky Record, was released in August 2021.

Praise for Damon & Naomi’s A Sky Record:

“A beautiful album, one of the duo’s most beguiling… a calming and tender reflection on appreciating what you have in uncertain times. – Pitchfork

“Damon & Naomi are back to make all your folk-pop dreams melt into the sunset. – Rolling Stone

This is one of Damon & Naomi’s most purely gorgeous sounding records — and considering the glories of what’s come before, that’s a real accomplishment. – Aquarium Drunkard

It’s untethered and free. – Stereogum

The album is beautiful — an ambient dreamscape set to poetry. – WBUR