Moment 008 - Sharada & Caleb (LA), Luke Wyland (PDX), Maxx Katz (PDX)

M008 - Sharada & Caleb (LA), Luke Wyland (PDX), Maxx Katz (PDX)

Join us at Leaven Community Center for an incredibly special night of music featuring a live duo performance from Sharada & Caleb from LA and solo sets from Portland-based artists Luke Wyland, and Maxx Katz.

Sharada Shashidhar is a Los Angeles based vocalist, composer and producer. Her soulful voice takes inspiration from jazz and Indian classical music, which influences her songwriting and productions. Shashidhar’s elaborate harmonies and vocal creativity come together in a new beat-orientated spiritual jazz. Sharada has performed across the US and EU in spaces such as Le Guess Who? Festival, Badehaus Berlin, Zebulon and more. She has shared bills or collaborated with the likes of Carlos Niño, Pan Afrikan People’s Arkestra, and Zeroh among others.

https://sharadashashidhar.bandcamp.com/album/soft-echoes

https://www.instagram.com/sharadalatika/?hl=en

Luke Wyland is an interdisciplinary artist, composer, and performer based in Portland, OR (USA). Wyland has been releasing critically acclaimed records for the past 20 years in the groups AU and Methods Body, as LWW, and under his own name, working with such labels as New Amsterdam, Beacon Sound, Balmat, The Leaf Label, and Aagoo Records. His most recent solo record, Kuma Cove, was released on Balmat in November 2024. As a person who stutters, Wyland’s approach to music is informed by his idiosyncratic relationship with language. Wyland believes deeply in the cathartic power of live performance as a means for collective healing. Through an interdisciplinary art practice that focuses on improvisation, somatic embodiment, bespoke tuning systems, the cadences of dysfluent speech, and time manipulation technologies, he’s collaborated with choreographers, high-school choirs, filmmakers, sound designers, and renowned musicians such as John Niekrasz, Holland Andrews, Colin Stetson, and Abraham Gomez-Delgado. He’s also the co-creator of the It’s A Fucking Miracle dance class with Tahni Holt.

https://lukewyland.bandcamp.com/

https://instagram.com/lukewyland/?hl=en

Maxx Katz is an artist, composer, and performer based in Portland, Oregon, whose work draws on vocabulary from performance art, free improvisation, jazz, contemporary classical, and heavy metal. A classically trained flutist with an M.A. in Music from the University of Virginia, Katz uses flute, electric guitar, voice, and movement as instruments of radical transformation. They compose work for ongoing ensembles including Yelling Choir and Floom.

Katz has been commissioned to create work for the Portland Jazz Composers Ensemble and the Oregon Contemporary 2024 Artists’ Biennial, and has created work in collaboration with musicians and dancers including Tyshawn Sorey, Linda Austin, Tahni Holt and Muffie Delgado-Connelly, John Niekrasz, Julian Otis, lauren jean crow, and Eddie Bond.

https://www.maxxkatz.com/

https://www.instagram.com/maxxxkatz/

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