This week the Trepanation series comes to fidget!
Trepanation Presents began in the fall of 2022 as a seasonal concert series at Century Bar in Philadelphia’s Grays Ferry. For 3 years now founders David McDonnell and Matt Engle have been steadily showcasing everything from experimental free jazz and electronica to forward thinking indie-rock. Trepanation is excited at this new collaboration with fidget space and looks forward to bringing the best of Philadelphia’s progressive tendencies to the band stand.
Toshi Makihara
Toshi Makihara pursues non-idiomatic free improvised music using percussion and found objects / sound sites. Makihara studied drums and improvisation with Sabu Toyozumi and Butoh with the master Kazuo Ohno in Tokyo. His approach to free improvisation is founded on the process of “Becoming the Sound” without seeking any particular accomplishment.
Nick Millevoi
Nick Millevoi is a guitarist and composer whose personal sound reflects the full history of electric guitar music, from early rock & roll and surf music through noise and the avant-garde. With his band, Desertion Trio, Nick has released four full-length albums on the Cuneiform, Long Song, and Shhpuma/Clean Feed labels, which have been called “potently surreal” (Rolling Stone), “a nonstop instrumental thrill-ride” (Aquarium Drunkard), and “supremely weird desert noir” (Noisey). His most recent releases are Digital Reaction, featuring guests that include Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Lushlife, and Jason Nazary, and The Sounds of Grassy Sound with Ron Stabinsky, featuring a guest performance by the Meat Puppets.
“When Nick Millevoi plays the guitar, it's like a rocket darting skyward between clouds.” —NPR Music
David McDonnell
Philadelphia resident David McDonnell got his start in Chicago’s thriving rock and jazz underground. Cutting his teeth with Elephant 6 adjacent groups like bablicon and Icy Demons, McDonnell went on to form the avant/synth-rock group Michael Columbia. Dave McDonnell’s 5th World is a project which combines woodwinds, computer music and modular synthesizers to create ambient textures, riffs and basslines which are synced with electronic drums and live percussion. 5th World released the album Mammals in 2023 on Astrolabe Recordings. One of the goals with this project is to place algorithm-based electronic music into the broader cultural and stylistic contexts of free jazz, electronic dance and world music.
Saturday December 6th, doors 7:30 music 8:00. $10-20 suggested
