BIG EARS 2022: Zorn, Shabaka, Low, Arooj Aftab, Annette Peacock, Dawn Richard, Nubya Garcia, L'Rain, Damon Locks, Lido Pimienta, more more more!

Apparently there’s something a little buggy with the app right now. I’d go with website/printed schedule for the moment.

Lol apparently the app is the wrong time zone. Being worked on!

Big Ears relocated to Greenwich, UK

They completely nuked the app XD

It was good while it lasted. Glad I screenshotted that shit.

“Good: After a brief technical kerfuffle our app & schedule is back up & running. Bad: all saved personal schedules were lost. Good: You can now devise a fresh new path through the festival.”

at least it happened while i’m killing time at the bistro

Hutchings doing Copeland was great, glad he made it back from the rusted root concert on time

Wish I were there

Ppl talking during low: why.

Breakin up my trance and whatnot.

Anyway. Long live low.

The smoking at the Mill and Mine is a bummer. Prob my least favorite venue.

Low was great, it was good to end the day with noise. My kid, who's a big Shabaka fan but not a classical music guy, loved his Copland performance. (Me too.)

Thursday setlist

Kronos Quartet
Sō Percussion
75 Dollar Bill
Preservation Hall Brass & East Tennessee Bluegrass Association
Dan Weiss’ Starebaby
Sparks
mssv

Thursday:

Kronos Quartet
So Percussion
Tomeka Reid and Nikkey Finney
Film: Quarry
Sparks
Low

Saw IG clips of We Were Here Before jazz noise trio at the Pilot Light. Group has Luke Stewart , Mark Cisneros, and Nik Francis. Cisneros plays guitar in Kid Congo’s band but is on sax in this band

Luke Stewart is the shit.

Bass player Stewart is gigging everywhere it seems , plus releasing lots of music on small labels

God, wish I’d seen the whole L’rain set

I ended up skipping both Patti Smith and Kim Gordon because of the huge crowds / long lines. There are so many people here!!

More room for me at Meredith Monk at 8 then. And now I’m at the secret Fennesz show!

Capping off my evening with Lido Pimienta and Mdou Moctar. It’s been a good day. Anyone else see Arooj Aftab? I thought she was phenomenal.

Yeah, Arooj was lovely.

Would not have bet on the loudest show for me so far to be L’Rain.

I ended up skipping both Patti Smith and Kim Gordon because of the huge crowds / long lines. There are so many people here!!

Jeff Parker sold out too.

I liked Arooj too. The violinist was pretty amazing.

Fennesz was great, you could feel it in your organs. We left it a little early to catch the Frisell-led tribute to Ron Miles, where I am now. This is the most straight ahead thing I’ve seen but also maybe the best thing we’ve seen so far.

(at capacity I mean – this Ron Miles tribute is as well)

Friday setlist:

James McVinnie & Tristan Perich
Arooj Aftab
79ers
Sporty’s Brass Band
Lakou Mizik
Kris Davis’ Diatom Ribbons
Patti Smith Band
Pedrito Martinez Group
Fennesz
Mdou Moctar

Should we do an ILM meetup?

(I’m here with Save the Robot)

thursday:
-shabaka hutchings + the knoxville symphony orchestra
-fennesz

friday:
-james mcvinnie + tristan perich
-harriet tubman
-caroline shaw + sō percussion (i got bored and left early)
-andrew cyrille + ambrose akinmusire
-sons of kemet
-mind maintenance (joshua abrams + chad taylor)
-mdou moctar

sons of kemet were so good

Friday

Craig Taborn
Harriet Tubman
Caroline Shaw and so percussion
Last 15 minutes of L’rain
Meredith Monk and John Hollenbeck
Fennesz

Would like to have seen Mdou Moctar but too tired

I appreciate Knoxvillians and UT students’ commitment to pretending they are not cold

I can only imagine it’s a point of local pride. Meanwhile my clothes are progressively less cute and more tactical.

Holy fuck, that Annette Peacock performance was WILD.

Yep!

Saturday setlist:
John Zorn: Meditations on the Tarot
Ches Smith’s We All Break
Ensemble Dal Niente: Alvin Lucier et al
Ensemble Dal Niente: James Tenney
John Zorn: Simulacrum
Andrew Cyrille & Mark Ribot
Jason Moran
Kronos Quartet
John Zorn: The Hermetic Organ
Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society

Saturday

Myra Melford Snowy Egret
Nikki Giovanni book signing
Caroline Shaw and Atacca Quartet
Meredith Monk and Bang on a Can
Sarah Davachi
Natalie Joachim and Spektral Quartet
Annette Peacock

My brother saw Moses Sumney and was ecstatic should have seen that

sarah davachi was transcendent

Seeing her again at noon

Honestly, as excited as I was to see it, I def. didn’t find it transcendent. But I’m contemplating the noon show as well or the Alabaster Deplume. Then Theo Bleckmann and the Frisell Trio.

I’ll be in a maroon hooded coat if anyone wants to say hi.

I’m first in line for the noon show 😜

I caught about a half hour of it. I liked it more for sure. But I love the sound of a Mellotron.

Snuck out to meet Save The Robot at Alabaster DePlume backed by Jamie Branch’s Fly or Die band (which we caught a little if last night). This is a trip.

Saw Branch at a coffee shop just now

waiting for chaos magick to begin. i’m wearing a georgia tech hoodie if any ilxors want to say what up to u mans

I saw Branch and Fly or Die last night, then again with Alabaster DePlume this morning — and then Branch sat right in front of me at the Lonnie Holley show this afternoon (with DePlume sitting in as part of Holley’s band). I love all those kinds of connections and overlaps.

i did not like terry riley's song about weed that bang on a can played. we know you smoke weed dude!!!

Not interested in Riley past Rainbow in Curved Air

Holy shit Electric Masada

So jealous

Sunday playlist

Zorn
Zorn
Evan Ziporyn
Zorn
Zorn
Zorn