A night of Total Music:: w/ EVAN PARKER & BILL NACE (UK/US) + VERA MORAIS (PT) + DIKEMAN, MOOR & BRENNAN (US/UK/CA)

tonite’s players:

EVAN PARKER & BILL NACE (UK/US)
(Legendary free jazz mon­u­ment + Body Head/Open Mouth gui­tar terrorist)

Evan Parker / soprano saxophone
Bill Nace / electric two string taishōgoto

VERA MORAIS (PT)
Vera Morais / voice

DIKEMAN, MOOR & BRENNAN (US/UK/CA)
(cactus truck // the ex // earthball)

John Dikeman / tenor saxophone
Andy Moor / guitar
John Brennan / drums, percussion

“This sound world of Bill’s two-stringed taishōgoto on this Café OTO night worked beautifully with Evan Parker’s improvisatory saxophone conceptions. The duology achieved instant lift off at ground zero only to find it’s eventual finale as if it were organically ordained. Time seemingly morphed from its ancient human construct of control, rendered inconsequential to the torrential transcendence of the room wildly activated by the magic resonance of the multi-directional pan-spatial sonance of the music as if it were some beatific blessing. It was one of those nights where art as a liberating force of spirit gifted the listeners with an offering of exaltation and joy. It was entirely mystical and mind blowing. A night of Total Music.” – Thurston Moore, London, 2025