August 31, 2020 at 8pm CT
Option presents: Molly Jones + Angel Bat Dawid, Interview with Andrew Clinkman
“Molly Jones and Angel Bat Dawid. These two extraordinary musicians , both connected toChicago’s thriving improvised music scene, will converge on the Option Quarantine stage for an evening of duo performances. Having hosted both Angel and Molly on the Option series in the recent past, I am beyond excited to hear what these great talents will create in the duo formation. Don’t miss this one!” Tim Daisy/Option curator
Molly Jones’ compositions range from through-composed chamber works to graphic scoresto electroacoustic environments for improvisation, incorporating video, movement, and words.She has performed with musicians including Saul Williams, Nicole Mitchell, Tyshawn Sorey,Robert Ashley, Jaribu Shahid, Ed Sarath, Kei Akagi, Alex Harding, Paul de Jong, WadadaLeo Smith, Andrew Bishop, Douglas Ewart, Joo Won Park, Elliott Sharp, Cheick HamalaDiabate, Marion Hayden, Matt Kiroff, Angel Bat Dawid, and many friends in the US andCanada. She has been commissioned by organizations including ThreeForm, the DetroitComposers’ Project, and Detroit Fringe theater festival; her video installations have beenpresented at Rooms To Let Cleveland, FireFish Festival, and Detroit Contemporary; andher poetry can be found in Saul Williams’ Chorus: A Literary Mixtape, Matchbox Magazine,and her zine Moon Jar. She premiered her opera-ballet Acting On Air in October 2019.
Composer, clarinetist, singer & spiritual jazz soothsayer Angel Bat Dawid descended onChicago’s jazz & improvised music scene just a few years ago. In very short time, the potency, prowess, spirit & charisma of her cosmic musical proselytizing has taken her from relatively unknown improviser to borderline ubiquitous performer in Chicago’s avant-garde. On any given night you can find Angel adding aura to ensembles led by Ben LaMar Gay, or Damon Locks, orJaimie Branch, or Matthew Lux, or even, on a Summer night in 2018, onstage doing a woodwind duo with Roscoe Mitchell. For her recorded debut on International Anthem, The Oracle, we’ve chosen to release a batch of tracks that Angel created entirely alone – performing, overdubbing& mixing all instruments & voices by her self – recorded using only her cell phone in various locations, from London UK to Cape Town RSA, but primarily from her residency in the attic of the historic Radcliffe Hunter mansion in Bronzeville, Southside, Chicago.