Nao Nishihara & Aki Onda @ ISSUE Project Room

Nao Nishihara & Aki Onda at ISSUE Project Room, 11/10/2016 from ISSUE Project Room on Vimeo.

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Two of the most exciting innovators of the trumpet, Nate Wooley and Mazen Kerbaj perform solo and duo at a performance produced by ISSUE Project Room in September 2012 at Our Lady Of Lebanon Cathedral in Brooklyn Heights.

Malcolm Goldstein, solo violin from ISSUE Project Room on Vimeo.

Malcolm Goldstein improvising on violin with tape, recorded live at ISSUE Project Room in October 2014 as part of a two-night festival highlighting Graham Lambkin's Kye imprint.

The full recording of this set is released as "Full Circle Sounding" (KYE #34, 2015).

http://issueprojectroom.org/event/kye-showcase-malcolm-goldstein-graham-lambkin-henning-christiansen

Circuit des Yeux from ISSUE Project Room on Vimeo.

A combination of folk chanteuse and noise maven, Chicago-based Circuit des Yeux’s sound vacillates seamlessly between lo-fi and effortless-sounding songwriting sophistication. She appears tonight in support of her most recent solo LP "Overdue."

http://issueprojectroom.org/event/circuit-des-yeux-tsembla-kuupuu

Paal Nilssen-Love - Live at Unsound NY 2014 from ISSUE Project Room on Vimeo.

Paal Nilssen-Love solo, recorded live at ISSUE Project Room, Brooklyn, April 6, 2014, as part of Unsound Festival New York.

More info: http://issueprojectroom.org/event/unsound-bocian-showcase

ISSUE presents Nilssen-Love's 11-piece big band Large Unit at Brooklyn's First Unitarian Church on June 13th, 2015.

Norwegian drummer Paal Nilssen-Love has established himself on the international scene as a powerful drummer with high energy and creativity. In 2002 he was "Artist in Residence" at Molde International Jazz Festival, a title Chick Corea and Pat Metheny held in previous years. After 7 days and 9 concerts at the festival, Down Beat stated, "His week at Molde proved a revelation: Nilssen-Love is one of the most innovative, dynamic and versatile drummers in jazz." Among many groups and ensembles Nilssen-Love performs with Mats Gustafsson and Ingebrigt Håker Flaten in the trio The Thing, with the Scandinavian free jazz supergroup Atomic, and with Peter Brötzmann’s Chicago Tentet.

Michael Snow / Alan Licht / Aki Onda Trio from ISSUE Project Room on Vimeo.

The trio of Michael Snow, Alan Licht and Aki Onda perform at ISSUE Project Room in February 2014

http://issueprojectroom.org/event/michael-snow-alan-licht-aki-onda-trio

Gozo Yoshimasu • Tamio Shiraishi • Cammisa Buerhaus

Live: Gozo Yoshimasu, Tamio Shiraishi and Cammisa Buerhaus performance from The Wire Magazine on Vimeo.

In 2012, the musician Aki Onda shot a video of the Japanese poet and artist Gozo Yoshimasu performing with Tamio Shiraishi and Cammisa Buerhaus at New York City's Abrons Arts Center.

Active since the 60s, Onda describes Yoshimasu as a "poet/performer/photographer/filmmaker", saying "He is currently the most well known poet in Japan and has received national prizes. Yet he is the most provocative enfant terrible in the field and keeps producing a large body of work in different media. The Wire's readers might know him because of his long term relationship with Masayuki Takayanagi and some other free jazz legends, which he discussed in an interview that I did with him. But, other than that, his work is still largely unknown in the music field."

Gozo Yoshimasu will be showing his films at Cafe Oto on 27 March, and opening an exhibition, As Though Tatooing On My Mind, at Daiwa Foundation from 1 April.

Video shot by Aki Onda and edited by Fields Harrington.