James Paul Nadien James Paul Nadien is a percussionist, improviser, composer, and organizer based in Brooklyn, NY. He has worked with the likes of Joe Morris, Tony Malaby, Ravi Coltrane, Darius Jones, the Flying Luttenbachers, and noise rock trio Toadal Package.
Grex Grex (Karl Evangelista, Rei Scampvia, and Robert Lopez) is an experimental music trio based out of Oakland, California. In biological terms, a "grex" is an entity composed of several smaller organisms. Grex (the band) explores the meeting point between surreal songcraft and the dark outer reaches of free jazz, industrial hip-hop, and art rock. The group has been called an "otherworldly experience" (Eugene Weekly) and "true genre warping music" (KFJC), recalling at turns the ecstatic energy of John Coltrane, the electronic squall of Death Grips, and the lilting songwriting of Mitski.
Vernal Spring Vernal Spring is an improvised guitar duo based out of Boston, MA, emerging out of free improv collective Fable Grazer. Their music grows through cause-and-effect, accident and power struggle.