Mama Buzz Cafe
2318 Telegraph Ave @23rd Oakland
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Light A Fire: Creaky Things (An Evening of Detailed Music)

1. Matt Hettich/Wake

Matthew Michael Ahern Hettich is Wake. Wake draws his influences from flamingos, pink ‘n purple, Roland Tr-808 drum machines, and late night handholding sessions on the beach. Having spent his early years in Miami, Florida, Wake is a product of suntans, booty shorts, and of a lifetime of obsessing over I.D.M., hip-hop, and 1980’s electro music. By using MOD Trackers and custom software, Wake attempts to fuse all of these elements into a complex, coherent, and unique musical style.

2. Karl Evangelista/Jordan Glenn Duo
KE: guitar
JG: drums

At times brainy, at times unremittingly intense, Evangelista/Glenn operate on the fringes of jazz and somewhere in the fertile cracks of garage-y creative music. As half of Bay Area quartet Host Family, the duo combines free improv and rock/jazz aesthetics into something dark and weird. (For this set, Evangelista/Glenn will have written a series of short things that they will combine into a big thing.)

3. Sarah Elena Palmer Solo

Lovingly disorienting vocal music, integrating processing, dark speech, and eerie intonations into a cyclical, meditative whole.




Cost: Free