Grex, Foreign/Domestic, and Evelyn Davis

7pm Doors/8pm Music

Oakland experimental band Grex returns to the Ivy Room for a fiery night of Bay Area music, joined by noise/improv duo Foreign/Domestic (Zachary James Watkins & John Diaz) and pianist Evelyn Davis.

GREX
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Grex (Karl Evangelista, Rei Scampavia) is an experimental music duo 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.

FOREIGN/DOMESTIC
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The duo of Zachary James Watkins & John Diaz, augurs high vibration resonance, making transparent the phenomenon of emotion and sound. Working it out in real time it can be unclear whether your flesh just turned to goosebumps in excitement or danger but life is fun that way: fight or flee, go or stay, blow or belong. When faced with such choices, always take both. Nothing is softer than ashes.

EVELYN DAVIS
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Detroit native and general wanderer Evelyn Davis is an inside/prepared/new music pianist, improvisor, pipe organist, composer, vocalist, synthesist, teacher, songstress, and maker of /participator in oddly shaped musics with an occasional side of performance art.
Evelyn plays in Lantskap Logic trio with Fred Frith and Phillip Greenlief, and formerly fronted the art rock duo CHIROMANCER.