Prussian Folklore
Schedule
Sat, 15 Mar, 2025 at 07:00 pm
UTC-06:00Location
216 W Main St, Missoula, MT, United States, Montana 59802 | Missoula, MT
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Saturday, March 15 // Door at 7 PM // Show at 7:30 PM // $10 // $15-$20 Artist Supporter Prussian Folklore is Jesse Netzloff. Former guitarist for Wartime Blues, Netzloff’s debut solo album, ‘Soles’, reflects coming of age amidst the rise, fall, and sustain of a once-booming timber town under the rocky purple gaze of Ksanka Peak in northwest Montana.
Now based in Missoula, Montana, the beauty, wonder, struggle, community, mischief, and isolation (chosen or otherwise) of growing up in his hometown are expressed in the atmosphere that flows through his music.
A folk-tronica/bedroom pop album, much of ’Soles’ was written, arranged, and recorded at home. This album was elevated beyond what Netzloff initially thought possible thanks to long-time friend, Jesse Phillips (Bassist, St. Paul and the Broken Bones ).
Just as Phillips was ready to launch Heavy Meta Productions Recording Studio in Missoula, Prussian Folklore was ready to memorialize this sliver of years of songwriting in solitude, transforming it into something tangible, something to be shared.
Mostly a studio project, Prussian Folklore rarely plays live sets. Longtime Missoula musicians Bethany Joyce (Wartime Blues, Red Onion Purple) and Jamie Rogers (Les Duck, Worst Feelings) will be joining Netloff and Phillips to bring the songs of Prussian Folklore to the ZACC audience.
Modality is a Montana- and Virginia-based quartet of Charles Nichols (electric violin and computer), Clark Grant (guitars and keyboards), Ben Weiss (synths), and Jay Bruns (electronics and video synthesis). Swimming through oceans of sound, Modality conjures immersive, psychedelic, beautifully strange worlds, sonic paintings for fans of ambient, drone, krautrock, and contemporary music.
Their practice is to co-compose, harvesting material from longform improvisations, and collaboratively arranging and re-recording. Since 2013, they have worked telematically between their four studios, in Missoula and Butte, Montana, and Blacksburg, Virginia. In 2016, Modality toured Montana, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and Virginia, starting at the DAT Music Conference in Missoula and ending at the Cube Fest at Virginia Tech. In 2020, they performed telematically, streamed live to Newcastle Upon Tyne, England for the Network Music Festival, and recorded live and streamed from St. Petersburg, Russia for the Theremin Fest. In 2021, they performed telematically, streamed live to Stanford, CA for the Society for ElectroAcoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS) Virtual National Conference. In 2023, they were an ensemble in residence at Amherst College and closed the Stargazer Festival in Charlotte, NC.
Modality has released four albums – Particle City (2012), Under the Shadow of this Red Rock (2016), Megacycles (2020), and Embodiment (2024) – as well as a split with the band Lazertüth, The Moruvians (2018). These and other recordings can be found at https://modality.bandcamp.com.
Modality will be joined on stage at the ZACC by Kyle Hutchins. Kyle is a visionary experimental performance artist, composer, improviser, and educator, forging new sonic frontiers with his saxophone, voice, cutting-edge technology, and an arsenal of unconventional instruments. Hailed as “epic” (Jazz Times) and “gripping” (Star Tribune), Kyle’s music has been showcased at prestigious venues like Carnegie Hall and The Walker Art Center, and featured at festivals across five continents, including the World Saxophone Congress, Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt, and the International Computer Music Conference. His artistry has earned him accolades from DOWNBEAT, New Music USA, The American Prize, and American Protégé, as well as recognition in The Roanoker Magazine’s “40 under 40” for 2024.
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Where is it happening?
216 W Main St, Missoula, MT, United States, Montana 59802Event Location & Nearby Stays:
