Elastro is excited to welcome Cole Pulice with a trio for an October vist, with support from Chicago multi-instrumentalist Angel Bat Dawid and percussionist Bill Harris! The saxophonist/composer/improviser Pulice traffics in shimmering, otherworldly beauty. On Land’s End Eternal, their first album for Leaving Records (releasing May 9th), the Oakland-based artist expands their compositional palette beyond signal-processed saxophone to include layers of electric guitar and lush choral arrangements. The result is a prismatic collection of pastoral chamber jazz in six parts. Cole’s previous release, a 22-minute electroacoustic odyssey titled If I Don’t See You in the Future, I’ll See You In the Pasture (Longform Editions, 2023), was named ‘Best New Music’ by Pitchfork and included in the publication’s Best Songs Of The 2020s.
Angel Bat Dawid is a Black American composer, improviser, clarinetist, pianist, vocalist, educator, and DJ celebrated for her contributions to contemporary jazz and Black cultural expression. Her debut album, “The Oracle” (2019), released via Chicago’s International Anthem, received praise for its deep exploration of Black life, history, and spirituality.
Harris's unique approach to solo drumming combines acoustic and electronic elements, utilizing feedback and timbral manipulation to create a distinctive auditory experience. Harris has released three documents of this work to date: ONOMAT (2021), Blinking Glue (2022) and MACRODOSE (2024). Where Blinking Glue was a single-take, live performance which represented a snapshot of his live solo set, MACRODOSE returns to a similar format of ONOMAT, encapsulating shorter sonic spaces in a number of different tracks, and using studio techniques as part of the creative process.
This event is copresented by StretchMetal
