FÖR (Shakoor Hakeem/Isak Ingvarsson) & Church Car

Name: FÖR (Shakoor Hakeem/Isak Ingvarsson) & Church Car
Start: 2025-12-12T20:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-12-12T22:00:00-05:00
Location: The Perch Music & Arts Community

Schedule

Fri Dec 12 2025 at 08:00 pm to 10:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

The Perch Music & Arts Community | Philadelphia, PA

FÖR is a new collaboration between percussionists Shakoor Hakeem and Swedish saxophonist Isak Ingvarsson. Rooted in the spirit of Don Cherry’s arrival in Sweden in the mid-1960s, the project bridges Swedish folk traditions with the rhythmic folklore of the Afro-Diaspora—fusing into a deep sonic eruption of energy and expression.
Isak Ingvarsson – Saxophone, Clarinet, Flute A rising voice in the European jazz scene, Ingvarsson has performed with Per “Texas” Johansson, Kresten Osgood, Fredrik Ljungkvist, and others. A graduate of Jazz Institut Berlin and currently pursuing a Master’s at City College of New York under Tim Berne and Vincent Herring, his sound blends avant-garde jazz, Scandinavian minimalism, and raw emotional depth.
Shakoor Hakeem – Percussion A fearless, deeply expressive improviser rooted in Afro-diasporic mysticism and ritualistic tradition. Hakeem has worked with Graham Haynes, Maria Grand, Joel Ross, and Wallace Roney, among others, and is known for his powerful yet restrained presence on stage.
Church Car:
Church Car is the duo project of Ian Douglas-Moore and Big Daddy Mugglestone, blending minimalist psychedelic trance-rock, spoken texts mediated by machine algorithms, and tunings that alter the listener’s auditory perception. Their guitar and drum interactions move between polyrhythmic goatherd meditations and field recordings, creating an imagined folk tradition glimpsed through a screen of urban life.
As an improviser, Ian Douglas-Moore developed a minimal approach to the guitar, creating psychoacoustic experiences with feedback and resonant long tones. After moving to New York City in 2016, he studied just intonation with composer David First, later joining his ensemble. He has played bass guitar in rock bands Gold Dime and Bushwick Cowboys, organizes experimental music concerts with guitarist/bagpiper David Watson, and performs with people like Patrick Holmes, Jeff Tobias, and Dominic Coles.
Big Daddy Mugglestone (Aaron Snyder) is a Colorado-born musician and composer. After studying Ethnomusicology at Indiana University and doing field work in Africa, Asia and Central America, he landed in Berlin in 2005. Since then he has worked in many different projects and bands, from stage and dance sound design to Country/Americana and experimental improv.
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