porous sonorous: Sleeping Beast / Trio Glossía

An evening of exploratory jazz and collective improvisation brings together two Texas trios working across generations and geographies of the music: Sleeping Beast, the Houston–Austin free jazz supergroup of Danny Kamins, Thomas Helton, and Lisa Cameron, and Trio Glossía, a North Texas unit whose approach moves across post-bop, free improvisation, and beyond, with Stefan Gonzalez, Joshua Cañate, and Matthew Frerck.

Doors 7:00 pm
Music 7:30 pm
$10 presale

SLEEPING BEAST
Danny Kamins, an improvising saxophonist based out of Houston, Tx. His current musical endeavors include playing in the groups Relative Dissonance, El Mantis, and Firelife Trio as well as directing the jazz program at Rice University. Musicians he has performed/recorded with include Tatsuya Nakatani, Alvin Fielder, Ra Kalam Bob Moses, Vinny Golia, Garrett Wingfield, Jeb Bishop, Sandy Ewen, Damon Smith, Luke Stewart.
Houston bassist and composer Thomas Helton is a multifaceted improviser and skilled interpreter of contemporary bass repertoire. Equally adept at playing jazz, classical, experimental and avant-garde music, Helton continues to push and redefine the possibilities of his instrument by embracing extended performance techniques and new compositional forms.
Lisa Cameron is from Austin, Tx. She has improvised with Jandek, Eugene Chadbourne, Ingebrigt Haker-Flaten, Mike Watt, Jaap Blonk, Faust, Ernesto Diaz-Infante, claire rousay, Alex Cunningham, Jessica Ackerley, Eli Wallace,Tom Carter, Nathan Bowles, Thor Harris, Jonathan Horne, and others.
TRIO GLOSSIA
Consisting of Matthew Frerck on stand up bass, Joshua Cañate on drums, percussion, and tenor saxophone, and Stefan González on vibraphone and drums. Originally starting as an improvisational unit in 2022, they have since started incorporating their own original compositions with improvisational explorations, covering a lot of ground from heart wrenching ballads to angular swing to textural meditations, with a healthy emphasis on the harmolodic history of the Dallas/Ft. Worth metroplex. Their eponymous debut album was released in 2024 by the Norway based label, Sonic Transmissions.

porous sonorous is an artist-run concert series for other musics and further sounds, flowing sporadically and itinerantly across North Texas. It is shaped by a long-standing involvement with The Wild Detectives, forged from half the ashes of Molten Plains, and woven through shifting currents of past and present collaborations with fellow artists, organizers, and venues of different kinds.

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