I wanna thank everyone who performed, volunteered, and came out to the last Sonic Transmissions Presents event this season! It was an incredible inspiring night of diverse music that underlined exactly what this festival is all about!! Gordon Grdina, Anagram, Jonathan F Horne Quintet, Shit and Shine, Matt Lux Communication Arts Quartet and Moor Mother all delivered amazing performances!!!!!!

Super humbled by the commitment from all the artists and the positive energy and support from the audience I continue to trust and believe we’re building something important for the Austin music community. Next year is already under planning so stay put for more on that soon. A special thanks goes out to Nathan Cross, Danae Silva, Richard Lynn, Self Sabotage Records, Astral Spirits, Epistrophy Arts and City of Austin Cultural Arts Division!!!!!

The Young Mothers embark upon our tour of Texas starting next week. This will be an epic four days.

– Austin-Tuesday September 18th at Beerland w/ Little Mazarn & Food Group
– Dallas- Wednesday September 19th at Club Dada w/ Starfruit & Tornup
– Ft. Worth- Thursday September 20th at Lola’s w/ Wire Nest Quintet & Stumptone
– Houston- Friday September 21st at Rockefeller’s w/ Konk Pack & Morning Scales the Mountain

One year ago, Pedro Moreno and I invited the amazing Carmelo Torres y sus Toscos from Colombia to play my festival Sonic Transmissions in Austin. They played for elementary school kids, and college students and gave us an amazing concert. It was one of the most challenging and difficult things to put on (bureaucracy,etc.) but it was also one of the most rewarding experiences in years of presenting music in Austin. I am so happy to that I got to know these musicians and to connect with the wonderful creative community in Bogota. Thanks to Pedro for the experience! and to Maestro Carmelo Torres, Santiago Botero, Juan David Castaño, Pedro Ojeda, Enrique Mendoza, Mario Galeano Toro for the music and friendship! Que viva la Cumbia Sabanera!!!

Tonite is the night! It’s the last installment of the Sonic Transmissions Presents series this year and I’m incredible stoked about this one! Hope to see a lot of people come out to Barracuda Austin to support a fantastic bill from a bunch of local and international amazing folks!!!

8:30-Gordon Grdina-Anagram (w/Sarah Ann Phillips, Tarik Aossey, Henna Chou, Carl Smith) –Jonathan F Horne Quintet (w/Jason Jackson, Carl Smith, Jeffrey Olson and yours truly)

10 Shit and Shine
10:45 Matt Lux’s Communication Arts Quartet (w/Mateo Luce, Mikel Patrick Avery, Ben Lamar Gay and JayVe Montgomery)
11:45 Moor Mother

Thanks to Self Sabotage Records, Astral Spirits and City of Austin Cultural Arts Division for making this possible!!!!!

Thanks for the kind words from Austin Chronicle and Michael Toland for the last album MOROSE by The Young Mothers!

“On paper, it all sounds too eclectic for its own good, but the musicians’ deep understanding and virtuosity pull fierce focus on Morose.”

We will be touring Texas in two weeks, come see us fresh off of two rocking European festival gigs!!

www.theyoungmothers.com

Off to Belgium and Holland for a next dose of rehearsals, concerts and recording with Teun Verbruggen’s Bureau Of Atomic Tourism (BOAT) together with Jozef Dumoulin, Jon Irabagon, Magnus Broo and Julien Desprez. We will be working on some new music by Jozef. What a band!!!!

Playing at Jazzfest Willisau with the one and only James Blood Ulmer tonite!!

The Young Mothers will be going back to Europe next week to play the amazing WiIlisau Jazzfest and Sant’ Anna Jazzfest in Sardinia. You can get the album in EU through Trost Records!!

Will be debuting “SOTOL” a new duo together with great Chicago pianist/keyboardist and improviser Paul Giallorenzo at The Volstead in Austin this coming Monday!!

Heading back to Austin after a month on the road that ended with 5 amazing days in Marfa, Texas! Huge thanks to Britt and Rob Mazurek for putting together an amazing festival and for taking so good care of us!!! It was an absolute blast to play with the Desert Encrypt quartet together with Rob, Kris Davis and Chad Taylor, and to get the chance to really dig deep into Rob’s amazing musical (and visual) universe!!! And Marfa is nothing less than magical! Music and art all around 24/7. Thank you everyone for making this days so very very special!!

Wonderful week of rehearsals and shows with the Desert Encrypts here in Marfa. Proud to be part of this new quartet led by Rob Mazurek and backed up by the amazing Kris Davis  and Chad Taylor! What a beautiful weekend at the  Crowley Theater in Marfa Texas!!!!!!

En route to Mexico City for a string of concerts;

July 25th – with Filip Lewin and Woppe at Foro del Tejedor

July 27th – with Tavo Nanda, Remi Alvarez and Misha Marks at Bucareli 69

July 28th – with Gibrán Andrade and German Bringas at Jazzorca

July 30th – with Chris Cogburn and Jacob Wick at Vórtice Art Studio

July 31st – with Todd Clouser and Jorge Servin at Departamento

Aug 1st – with Zazil Collins, Tania Carrera, Gibrana Cervantes, Todd Clouser, Mabe Fratti, Julia Piastro and Javier Taboada – Sesión de improvisación de free jazz y poesía at Fray Servando 316

Looking very much forward to all of this and thanks to Time Out México for the writeup for the first show with Filipe Deckers and Woppe at Foro del Tejador on July 25th!!