Grid (NNA tapes)
Tim Dahl (Child Abuse, Lydia Lunch's Retrovirus)
Matt Nelson ( Battle Trance, tUnE-yArDs)
Nick Podgurski (Feast of the Epiphany, Extra Life)
Guitar Trio, with Liew Niyomkarn, Arvind Ganga, and Josue Amador
Grid
http://nnatapes.com/available-releases/grid/
https://nnatapes.bandcamp.com/album/grid
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/23005-grid/
https://noisey.vice.com/en_au/article/listen-to-grid-rip-the-sleeves-off-fundamental-free-jazz
http://curmudgeons.club/REVIEWS-4-7-2017.html
http://www.musicaddiction.it/recensioni/album-nuove-uscite/grid-st-nna-tapes-2017/
With an approach based in free jazz, GRID takes the plunge into darker, heavier, and more psychedelic realms of improvised music. The new trio, featuring Matt Nelson (Battle Trance) on saxophone, Tim Dahl (Child Abuse) on bass, and Nick Podgurski (New Firmament;Feast of the Epiphany) on drums, harnesses the clamorous spirit of fee jazz while venturing beyond its acousitc borders through the implementation of electronic processing and dirge-like tempos akin to Doom and Sludge. Noisey calls GRID “a three-way chat. It’s a conversation between musicians with differing musical opinions, but their debut album has become a shared dialogue that is as fluid as it is improvised”.
Matt Nelson:
Brooklyn-based saxophonist Matt Nelson defies categorization in his frequent solo work and involvement with bands and projects across the musical spectrum. Employing an array of traditional and extended techniques and a frequent use of electronics and feedback has allowed him to expand on his jazz background and forge a unique musical identity that is ever-present but adaptable to a wide range of music. Speaking to this is his work with Battle Trance, tUnE-yArDs, Elder Ones, Premature Burial, and GRID. An active member of the New York experimental music scene, he is often involved in a large number of other projects as well. Recent collaborators include Ava Mendoza, Weasel Walter, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Peter Evans, Louise Jensen, and many others.
Tim Dahl:
Tim Dahl is a professional electric and double bass player, vocalist, keyboardist, and composer living in New York City since 1998. He is best known as the bass player and co-composer of the noise-rock band Child Abuse and Lydia Lunch’s Retrovirus. He has toured extensively throughout North America, Europe and Japan with both groups. Tim has also performed with many notable musicians, composers and performers including Yusef Lateef, Archie Shepp, Eugene Chadbourne, John Zorn, Tatsuya Yoshida, Von Freeman, Stanley Jordan, Mary Halvorson, Malcolm Mooney, Marc Ribot, Brian Chase, Hamid Drake, Elliot Sharp, Weasel Walter, Marni Nixon etc. Tim is currently living in Brooklyn and is an active member in the music scene there.
Nick Podgurksi:
Nick Podgurski maintains New Firmament; an umbrella institute for programming, composition, listening, writing, and recording (among other practices). His musical work is manifest over dozens of recordings (and innumerable performances) in varying capacities with: Feast of the Epiphany, New Firmament, Extra Life, Yukon. Collaborators include: STATS, Geryon, Castevet, Sabbath Assembly, Andrew Smiley/Matt Kanelos. He performs here as drummer alongside Matt Nelson (saxophone) and Tim Dahl (bass).
Guitar Trio!
Liew Niyomkarn
Liew Niyomkarn is an artist who works with sound, sculpture and electronic circuit. Liew's work is known for its ecstatic and unpredictable events and surprise. Often expresses a sensory of flexibility and impermanence behavior of sound and objects. She has been experimenting with granular synthesis by generating sound from field recording technique to computer processing. Liew's work represent in a variety of music composition, the visual arts, installation and real-time performance. Recently, she has more interested in sound installation and sound sculpture that combine material realms and phenomena of the natural environment.
Arvind Ganga
Arvind Ganga is a guitar player from Den Haag, the Netherlands. He takes a physical approach to guitar playing, employing objects and extended techniques to explore new sonic territories. His music draws from influences as diverse as noise and drones, North Indian ragas, experimental rock, and everyday sounds. Using free improvisation he brings these together into an intense, loosely structured, chaotic mesh that is bathing in the rays of a deep red sun. Ethereal noise with a punk-improv attitude. Arvind plays solo, improvises with like-minded musicians, and is active in music/dance improvisation. His music took him to play squats, galleries, clubs and festivals from Poland to Portugal, England to Slovenia, Turkey, Chile, Perú, Thailand and Myanmar.
Josue Amador
Composer and improvising performer based in The NetherlanHis works explore the boundaries between improvised and written music within the contemporary music practice.
Either as a Composer or as a guitarist, Amador´s music has been performed in México, The Netherlands, Belgium, France, Italy, Poland, Czech Republic, England and Spain by ensembles such as Doelen Ensemble, Asko Shoenberg Ensemble, Netherlands Blazers Ensemble and Ophelia Trio among others.
He holds a Musical Theory, Criticism and Literature Degree (AMusTCL), and the Licentiate Diploma in Composition (LTCL) with honors from the Trinity College of Music of London as well as a Master Degree (MMus) in Composition from the Conservatory of Rotterdam,NL. Currently he pursues a PhD in Composition at the Academy of Music in Krakow, PL.
Josué Amador currently lives in Roterdam, NL. where he works as a freelance composer and performer.