Tadpole #2: Rob Magill & Outside Help (Nate Waters)
Saturday, March 7, 2020
8:00PM
Bringing together two creative musical minds, this concert presents two solo sets bound to delight and surprise. Two multi-instrumentalists, two musicians who freely roam between genre and project boundaries, two artists who are vital members of their respective arts communities. Nate Waters, seen previously at Theatre 1308 for the Jazz@1308 November concert, is a familiar face across the city's musical landscape, thanks to his involvement in a wide swath of Calgary's music world. Rob Magill, coming from Southern California, will be making his Calgary debut, bringing his beautiful and vast experience in sound making to the intimate space at Theatre 1308.
Rob Magill is a Southern California based improviser, visual artist, and composer of experimental jazz and folk. Magill has a prolific recorded output, with his dozens of releases including solo offerings, duo collaborations, and his work for ensemble. He operates Weird Cry Records, releasing both his own work and representing a number of Ojai area artists, and had a 2016 Drag City vinyl LP release of "The Owl and the Pussycat." Rob is the subject of Alix Spence's short documentary "Distant Voice" that premiered at the 2019 Brooklyn Film Festival.
Outside Help is the solo project of Calgary-based saxophonist Nate Waters. This new endeavour aims to integrate three oppositional concepts: unbridled free jazz saxophone, overwrought top 40 hip-hop pastiche, and the inadvertent rhythmic nature of human speech and found sound. Nate has led straight-ahead jazz groups and released a record under his own name, but has also been involved with numerous contemporary classical acts (Friesen/Waters Duo, Nobody Say Anything, Bug Incision Players) and independent pop groups (Samantha Savage Smith, The Cable-knits, Hunter-Gatherer).
https://bleedsweatcryrecords.bandcamp.com/album/fact-contrafact-ep
About tadpole
Curated by Laura Reid, Tadpole is a genre-blurring series providing a stage for new sound creation.