Come celebrate Mike’s Birthday at this month’s banger of a show!
Brenner | Perkins Duo – Garden Parties
Tuesday October 17, 2023 8 PM
Color Club
4146 N Elston Avenue Chicago
$10 at the door.
Harry James Brenner Jr is an American composer based in the south side of Chicago. His self recorded songs include acoustic piano & percussion, recorded using analog tools & techniques. His process is serious & deliberate reflected in his output both sonically & structurally. “A crate diggers dream” Harry’s works invoke a time seemingly gone,but yet to be experienced.
Since the late 90s pianist/composer Michael Perkins has been regularly performing and recording in the punk, electronic, and jazz scenes in and around Chicago. He’s worked as a session musician on many recordings for bands like Atari Star, Das Kapital, and The Lavellas as well recording with his own groups such as Sig Transit Gloria, Written in the Sand, Far Rad, and Mr 666. Michael has been continuing to play jazz and blues on a regular basis in addition to the occasional free improvised electronic music set.
Garden Parties is an experimental trio comprised of Ben MacDonald on guitar, Jeff Kimmel on clarinet and electronics, and MT Coast on electronics. The trio uses musical improvisation as a meditative exploration of the healing faculties of love, kindness, and friendship in regard to the psychopathologies of hyper-consumption… really… Garden Parties just wants to sit a minute, and then maybe take a walk with you.