Heaven Gallery

A night packed to the brim with a diverse grouping of top-rate avant-garde acts from Chicago and beyond!

JIM BAKER AND KEEFE JACKSON, electronics, piano and reeds

OS

PATRICK NEAL BOWMAN

BRUCE LAMONT AND MICHAEL ZERANG

Bruce Lamont / Michael Zerang Duo

Bruce Lamont joined yakuza in feb of 2000 and since the group has recorded 4 full lengths including their latest release "transmutations". He collaborates in various other projects with, e.g., dave rempis, fred lonberg-holm, kevin sharp, jeff parker, frank rosaly. Bruce has recorded wth the japanese black metal turned space-prog band sigh, east west blast test (on ipecac), ken vandermark for one of the next dalek records, jai-alai savant ( out now on GSL),cephalic carnage (relapse), minsk(relapse), Nachtmystium,and others. in july of 2006 he made is debut solo perfomance using a looper pedal and effects along with saxophones, guitar, voice, harp, and percussion. he has performed along side scott kelly (neurosis), battles, toby driver(kayo dot),OM, Daniel Higgs (lungfish), Lichens and appeared at the Relapse and Furniture record showcases @ the sxsw music festival.he has also jammed with stooges sax man steve mackay, the akron family,midnight snake, eugene robinson(oxbow),borbetomagus (recording out there somewhere), and teamed up with mark solotroff (bloodyminded, recording also out there somewhere) .in june 2007 he made his first offical solo debut (recorded by sanford parker) entitled "Feral Songs".
myspace.com/brucelamont

Michael Zerang has over sixty titles in his discography and has toured nationally and internationally since 1981 with and ever-widening pool of collaborators. He was the artistic director of the Link's Hall Performance Series from 1985-1989 where he produced over 300 concerts of jazz, traditional ethnic folk music, electronic music, and other forms of forward thinking music. He continued to produce concerts at Cafe Urbus Orbis from 1994-1996, and at his own space, The Candlestick Maker in Chicago's Albany Park neighborhood, from 2001 - 2005. He has taught as a guest artist at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in performance technique, sound design, and sound/music as it relates to puppetry; rhythmic analysis for dancers at The Dance Center of Columbia College, Northwestern University, and MoMing Dance and Arts Center; courses in Composer - Choreographer Collaborations at Northwestern University; music to children at The Jane Adams Hull House. He has held workshops in improvisational music and percussion technique and teaches private lessons in rhythmic analysis, music composition, and percussion technique.
myspace.com/michaelzerang

Os

Bloomington, Indiana's dark side always sneaks in under the radar, ever present and ever fruitful... producing a few bands (and subsequent recordings) that blow a handful of minds and keep Bloomington pertinent to the underground as other bands continue to promote the city overground. OS produces a glorious muffled molasses sludge of sound. I am not so familiar with the 'doom' genre or whatever, but OS is one of the best of that sound I've heard, as well as seeping (slowly) into other genres I know full well about. And if you can't take the pace, play it at 45rpm. -drekka
myspace.com/lonsesomevalleyalchemist

Patrick Neal Bowman

Bowman's distinctly American experimentalism falls neatly alongside the traditions now explored so thoroughly by the likes of the Table of the Elements catalogue. Part electroacoustic improvisation, part cinematic eeriness, part Americana, Bowman's music rambles along and blooms slowly, like a dying walk in the desert.
myspace.com/patricknealbowman

Keefe Jackson/Jim Baker

Keefe Jackson is a saxophonist/clarinettist/composer. He arrived in Chicago in 2001 from his native Fayetteville, Arkansas. He has performed with many musicians, including Tim Daisy, Dave Rempis, Jeb Bishop, Jason Roebke, Guillermo Gregorio, Jim Baker, Brian Dibblee, Jason Adasiewicz, Mike Reed, Todd Munnik, James Falzone, Ernst Karel, Jason Stein, Nori Tanaka, Matt Schneider, Jason Ajemian, Tatsuya Nakatani, Josh Berman, Aram Shelton, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Anton Hatwich, Frank Rosaly, Nick Broste, Paul Hartsaw, Karl Seigfried, Kevin Davis, and Swiss musicians Marc Untern”hrer, Thomas Mejer, and many others. Ongoing groups include the Lucky 7s (Farragut, Lakeside Digital), the 774th Street Quartet (A Rare Thing, Bloody Murder Records), the Chicago Luzern Exchange (Several Lights, Delmark Records), and the Festival Quartet (Festival Quartet, Aspidistra Records). He also leads the large group Keefe Jackson's Project Project.

Jim Baker has been playing in and around Chicago as a pianist, keyboardist, and synthesist for more than two decades, mostly in improvisational contexts. He initially studied piano with Thomas Scott, of Glen Ellyn, Illinois, and studied composition with Morgan Powell and Herbert Brun at the University of Illinois at Urbana.
Jim can be seen and heard all over town, performing most regularly with Mars Williams, Brian Sandstrom, and Steve Hunt, at Hotti Biscotti each Tuesday night.

This (e)special(ly) BIG show starts at 9pm!
1550 N. Milwaukee Ave. 2nd Fl.
Chicago
(Blue Line to Damen)
$5-10 suggested donation