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Irreversible EntanglementsIrreversible Entanglements (IE) is a free-jazz quintet with an experimental punk mentality, that consists of poet/vocalist Camae Ayewa (often known as Moor Mother), bassist Luke Stewart, trumpeter Aquiles Navarro, saxophonist Keir Neuringer, and drummer Tcheser Holmes.
It is a community band playing deeply improvised, rhythm music full of love and social commitment. IE came together spontaneously, organically, in April of 2015 at "Musicians Against Police Brutality," a day of protest sound and discussion in Brooklyn. All were artists and activists of varying degrees: Philadelphia-based Ayewa and Neuringer, and D.C.-based Stewart as veterans of the Mid-Atlantic noisehardcore-experimental scene, while Holmes and Navarro as recent New England Conservatory grads Each of the studio albums that followed — 2020's Who Sent You? and 2021's Open The Gates — developed this legend further.
In 2023, IE signed to the fabled Impulse! Records, and released its most accomplished work to date, Protect Your Light, on September 8, 2023, primarily recorded at New Jersey's historic Van Gelder Studios. It features eight examples of how IE's collaborative composition strategies and Ayewa's in-communion verses result in some of the most potent music being made in the third decade of the 21st century, music with communal light and love at its heart. Get to that love on time — don't force history to guide you.
Malcolm Mooney & The Eleventh Planet
Artist and musician Malcolm Mooney’s career is as daring as his wildly experimental music. For more than five decades, he has left an indelible mark on outré art with his multi-genre exploration and creative output.
Originally from New York, Mooney’s career has taken him across the globe and back. He was credited as a “linguistic space communicator” on Monster Movie, the 1969 debut album from legendary German krautrock band Can. The 20-minute album closer, “You Doo Right,” features Mooney chanting excerpts from a love letter while the band shreds, showcasing his unique style of intimate spoken-word performance.
In the biographical book All Gates Open: The Story of Can, founding member Holger Czukay says, “Can wasn’t sure which way to go musically until Malcolm Mooney jumped up to the microphone one day and pushed us into A RHYTHM.” Mooney also lent his wailed incantations to the final Can album Rite Time in 1986.
Outside of his work with Can, Mooney has recorded three albums with the San Francisco band The Tenth Planet and collaborated with artists such as Andy Votel of Twisted Nerve Records and percussion composer Sean Noonan. Now based in Calgary, he is an instructor of abstract painting at the Alberta University of the Arts, and his visual art showcases around the world.
His new project, The Eleventh Planet, has finished recording a debut album, and the impressive new lineup features Sonic Youth’s Steve Shelley (drums), Ava Mendoza of Unnatural Ways (guitar), Daniel Morano (percussion), Devin Brahja Waldman (sax), Peter Conhiem (bass/electronics), and Alexis Marcelo (piano/keyboard), with the crucial voice of Malcolm Mooney front and centre. Though it’s just the latest sonic adventure for Mooney, it looks to be both a monument to a staggering career and a glimpse at a vibrant future.
About Sled Island:
Sled Island is an annual five-day independent music and arts festival in Calgary, Alberta that brings together a community of music, comedy, film and art with over 30,000 attendees in multiple venues across the city. For more information, visit SledIsland.com.
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Everyone has the right to feel safe and included at Sled Island. All festival attendees must abide by Sled Island's safer spaces and inclusion policy and agree to the code of conduct, which can be found at SledIsland.com/SaferSpaces.
Sled Island acknowledges Calgary as the traditional territory of the Blackfoot and the people of the Treaty 7 region in Southern Alberta, which includes the Siksika, the Piikani, the Kainai, the Tsuut’ina and the Ĩyãħé Nakoda First Nations, including the Chiniki, Bearspaw and Goodstoney First Nations. Calgary is also home to Métis Nation of Alberta, Region III.
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Central United Church, 131 7 Ave SW, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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