Jon will be performing a set with Misha Feigin and Kris Abplanalp at Maybeitsfate this Tuesday, August 12. The headliners will be Sarah Brasilio/Blood of a Poet and TSS Bradley.
Maybeitsfate
1425 Story Avenue
Louisville, KY
Born in Udon Thani, Thailand, Jon Silpayamanant is an intercultural multi-instrumentalist, composer, cellist, and music educator. He has hosted and contributed to several programs on BBC Radio 3 and the BBC World Service in recent years. His diverse performance career includes playing with Yo-Yo Ma, releasing albums on the legendary noise label RRRecords, and touring nationally with country musician Ray Price and the Cherokee Cowboys — including a performance at Willie Nelson’s club, Willie’s Place, in Carl’s Corner, Texas.
Born in Moscow, Russia, Misha Feigin moved to the United States in 1990. He has recorded with Elliott Sharp, Susan Alcorn, Steve Beresford, Dave Liebman, Eugene Chadbourne, Davey Williams, LaDonna Smith, and Hussam Al Aydi. In 2000, he won the Thomas Merton Prize for Poetry, and in 2002 he was awarded the Al Smith Fellowship for Creative Nonfiction.
His books include the novel Searching for Irina; the freestyle travelogue Tribal Diaries; The Ironist, a collection of translations of Anton Chekhov’s short stories; and five books of poetry: The Last Word in Astronomy, Abraham’s Bagel, Skippers in Training, Cloud Letters, and November Ending.
Sarah Basílio’s Blood of a Poet exists in a rare, prehistorical, nearly alchemical realm of quiet power. One may draw comparisons between Blood of a Poet and the early 70s works of Nico and Brigitte Fontaine. To be sure, there is a shared interest in the use of harmonium and voice to find a new modality, a poetry of the soul, informed by the distant past and that yet to come. However flattering, such comparisons are insufficient. Blood of a Poet is aptly named. The lifeblood, the true potency of the project is the nearly suicidal nature of it. Through the foreboding, swaying tones one finds the artist flayed, broken, and revealed. Basílio provides us a true examination and decimation of self not through intellect but in the world infinite of dreams and spirit. Terra Incognita!
-Jack Brockman
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