Name: Atlas Maior, Lisa Cameron
Start: 2025-10-22T20:00:00-05:00
Location: 2218 S Jefferson Ave, St. Louis, MO

Wednesday, 10/22 at 8pm, we are thrilled to host the eclectic group Atlas Maior @atlasmaior and drummer par excellence Lisa Cameron @lisaca99!!
They are joined by locals Alex Cunningham @alexcunningham.wav (violin), Damon Smith @newmusicbass (double bass), mere harrach (cello) and Madi Powers @m.aaadi (French horn), with poetry by Tess Childress @tess.docx
$10/20 suggested donation
Atlas Maior creates original music informed by Jazz, Free Improvisation, and the musical traditions of the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, and India. Band members Joshua Thomson (alto saxophone, flutes), Josh Peters (oud, lutar), Josh Flowers (upright bass), and Gray Parsons (drums) often create cinematic soundscapes that balance intimate moments of sincerity with powerful melodies and incendiary rhythmic passages. The group writes original compositions that blend maqamat (Middle Eastern modal system) with harmonic progressions found in American jazz, resulting in a distinct evocative sound. Atlas Maior composes with a variety of instrumentation, including the oud, Chinese hulusi, saxophone, and lutar. The band often improvises within conceptual frameworks, or freely without form. Atlas Maior’s approach often expands and contracts the group’s sound through a commitment to dynamics and textural accentuations.
Austin-based percussionist and multi-instrumentalist, Lisa Cameron, is well-respected in the noise and free-improv scenes, and has played with everyone from Brave Combo (Cameron was a member of the original late ‘70’s lineup) to Roky Erickson, Jandek, and members of Faust and Guru Guru, and she has opened for many others, such as Psychic TV and various incarnations of Hawkwind, plus the bands growing out of the Hawkwind diaspora. She has also been a member of such seminal groups as ST 37, Glass Eye, Three Day Stubble, and other Texas cult-acts.
Cameron’s approaches to creating noise/drone on her percussion instruments are rooted in the extremes of the original psychedelic era and influenced by Velvet Underground’s White Light White Heat (which she bought as a child in Winfield, Kansas, and says changed her life).
Flyer by Alex Cunningham