All Strings Showcase #3

Thursday, June 12,

Creature Comforts bring the third annual All Strings Showcase.

Join us for a night of music, featuring Alexis Mahler, Joe Kye & Cosmic Tones Research Trio. Hosting is Mother Foucaults bookstore. Located on the border of Portland’s inner southeast industrial district, Mother Foucault’s specializes in used, rare, and vintage books. Mother Foucaults creates the perfect cozy space and unique listening room for strings.

Tickets - $12 online or cash / venmo at doors

Doors @ 7:30 pm

Music at 8pm sharp

Alexis Mahler- Michigan-made, and classically trained, Mahler has made a musical home for herself in Portland, Oregon. Quieting rooms with her intimate blend of classical, jazz, and folk - she has endeared herself to audiences across the Pacific Northwest and beyond. Her music contains thoughtful, elegant strings layered with memorable, and sweetly delivered vocal melodies. In her own words: “Music should be connective, accessible, expressive, expansive, often imperfect, healing - a release”.

The beauty and power that Alexis Mahler creates with her voice and cello is simply mesmerizing. With patient and confident phrasing, a soothing resonance of vulnerability and strength, Mahler has delivered a poignant and intimate EP titled Away that draws us directly into her being. Songs of heartbreak, taking space, rebuilding a life, self care, or maybe — self survival. These are pertinent emotions in a world that is pleading to wake up tomorrow more empathetic than it did today.” — Glide Magazine

Joe Kye- "Joe Kye is a musician and storyteller based in Portland, Oregon. Joe’s music is a tapestry of his many influences as a Korean American immigrant. His latest project explores his roots, melding Korean traditional sounds with everything from jazz to electronic music. Tenderhearted and peaceful, Joe’s work fosters a sense of deep internal reflection, healing, and spirituality. Joe’s recorded a Tedx Talk, been featured on NPR’s The World, and was a 2023 Oregon Arts Commission Fellow.

“You’re a different kind of doctor. A soul doctor.” - A Filipino Mom

The Cosmic Tones Research Trio- Formed by alto sax player and composer Roman Norfleet, cellist and multi-instrumentalist Harlan Silverman, and pianist Kennedy Verrett-who also plays a wide variety of wind instruments-,The Cosmic Tones Research Trio focuses on healing music. In All is Sound, delicate, profound melodies create peaceful, immersive soundscapes, which the group develops through their combined background in acoustic ecology, sound meditation, mindfulness, and active community involvement.

Portland's finest practitioners of Great Black Music offering to the planet! All is Sound could not be a more apt title for this. Through saxophone, cello, piano, and flutes The Cosmic Tones Research Trio created a truly beautiful record. All Is Sound breaks new ground. At its heart, it's healing/meditation music, but the Gospel and Blues roots are in there too...as well as hints of forward-looking Spiritual jazz. As sincere a record as you could ever hope for. Music is indeed the healing force of the universe.

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Sites:

• Mouther Foucaults
• Alexis Mahler IG: alexismahler
• Joe Kye IG: joekye
• The Cosmic Tones Research Trio IG: thecosmictonesresearchtrio

Press -

• Cosmic Tones Research Trio - The Slow Music Movement Review
• Joe Kye - Musoscribe Interview
• Alexis Mahler - Glide - "Away"