“This album is a literal blast… a lysergically vivid dive into the currently confusing intersection between war and sex in the post-9/11 political age which is also quite fun to listen to.” A Jazz Noise
released January 1, 2018
Miss Foreign Affairs – Jihad For Dummies Vol.1
Owen Kilfeather – electric guitar, vocals
Luiz Rocha – bass clarinet, vocals
Carlos Ródenas – electric bass
Enric Ponsa – drums, percussion
Composed and produced by Owen Kilfeather.
Recorded by Pablo Miranda at La Isla – Barcelona – April 4th, 2017
Mix and master – Pablo Miranda
Photography – Louis Anebac
Design – Louis Anebac and Owen Kilfeather
The Jam before, the 4th, was a big crowd, difficult to organize and to listen to. But, with a few musicians, this 5th one brought down the statistics, an intimate Jam among friends.
opening trio Oriol Roca – drums
Diego Caicedo – electric guitar and amplified objects
Luiz Rocha – clarinet and bass clarinet
joined by
Ivan Edwards – soprano sax
Owen Kilfeather – voice
Guy – voice and body percussion
El Pricto – Patillas Black and piano
Ilona Schneider – voice
Carlo Mezzino – piano
Maria Pappalardi – voice
Here’s a record of the past free improvisation jams at Nocturna Discordia: the 1st, the 2nd, the 3rd and the 4th.
This was Nocturna Discordia #60 and the 4th free improvisation jam at Soda Acústic and, wow, what a big crew showed up this Wednesday, there were a total of 28 musicians including the opening trio! Was it for the flyer??
Once more the groups were formed randomly, but this time the possibilities ranged from duo to quintet, picking the performer’s names out of my pocket. That was cool but, for sure, gotta perfect the formula when there’s such a crowd willing to play…
Pablo Rega – electric guitar
Gabriel González – drums
Ariel Zutel – hang
Pablo Vazquez – electric bass
Johannes Nästesjö – cello
Sarah Claman – violin
Pau Sola – cello
El Pricto – alto sax and piano
Ilona Schneider – voice
Eitamar – electric guitar
Bernat Giribet – piano
Mariano Caramasa – piano
Cesar Sangay – piano
Fernando Carrasco – acustic guitar
Tomas Becket – piano
Teté Leguía – electric bass
Owen Kilfeather – voice and electric guitar
Hilario Rodeiro – electronics
Almudena Vega – flute
Pedro González – violin
Diego Caicedo – electric guitar
Caro Tierhs – violin
Mojca – piano
Laura “a secas” Arcalís – electric guitar
Borjas – electric bass
Here’s a record of the past free improvisation jams at Nocturna Discordia: the 1st, the 2nd and the 3rd.
Reminding future participants: this jam happens once every 5 weeks at Soda Acústic and every Wednesday there’s concert organized by the Discordian Records crew.
Welcome.
Here’s how it works:
1. pick a name out of a hat;
2. throw a four-sided dice to define if the musician is playing either solo, duo, trio or quartet;
3. back to the hat, pick the other names, if applied.
with:
Diego Caicedo – electric guitar
Pablo Galak – soprano sax
Miquel Jordá – sopranino sax
Pau Sola – cello
Sarah Claman – violin
Carlo Mezzino – piano
Ivan González – trumpet
Patxi Valera – drums
Owen Kilfeather – voice and electric guitar
Luiz Rocha – soprano and bass clarinets
The Beast Himself – chance
Clara Lai – piano
Alba Tor – voice
Fernando Carrasco – guitar
Vasco Trilla – drums
Àlex Reviriego – double bass
Almudena Vega – flute
edit:
here’s a record of the 1st and the 3rd Impro Jam at Nocturna Discordia.
Personnel:
María Teresa Lozano: soprano
Santi Caballero: flute
El Pricto: clarinet
Luiz Rocha: bass clarinet
Agustí Martínez: alto sax
Tom Chant: tenor sax
Clara Canimas: bassoon
Marc García: french horn
Andrés Acebes: trumpet
Frédéric Filiatre: trombone
Lucas Suárez: electric guitar, banjo & lapsteel
Manel Miralles: prepared guitar
Joanna Miramontes: piano
Vasco Trilla: percussion
Owen Kilfeather: percussion
Núria Andorrà: marimba/percussion
Julia Álvaro, Isaac Bachs, Adriana González,
Clara Núria Joan Marí: violins
Agnès Ruiz, Elena Martínez: violas
Laura Isbert, Marta Pons: cellos
Johannes Nästesjö: double bass
EXT. Canyon, Dom & Bob (V.O.) and The Escape composed and conducted by Javier Bayón; Ten Miles to Bisbee – Main Theme and POV: Final Judgement composed by Javier Bayón and Iván Cester, conducted by Javier Bayón;
The Ghost Goes West composed and conducted by Owen Kilfeather; Any Old Macaroni composed and conducted by El Pricto.
Cover Art and Design by Margarita Rojas
Impro Jam at Soda Acústic – Nocturna Discordia #32 – 1st July 2015
Discordian Records organizes Free Improvisation concerts every Wednesday at Soda and yesterday was the first jam session. The opening concert was a quartet composed by Ada Rave (ts), Nicolas Chientaroli (pn), Vasco Trilla (dr) and me, Luiz Rocha (cl).
Ada y Nico curate the Impro Jam in Amsterdan. Playing and sharing a house with them at a the Free Flow Festival in south Italy and joining some great jams in Portugal at MIA and Desterro made me feel the urge to see such a thing in Barcelona: a meeting place where free improvisers – with different backgrounds, concepts and experience, can share music and communicate.
Simple mechanism: for each performance we threw a 4 sided dice to define if the group was either a solo, a duo, a trio or a quartet; then we picked the names of the musicians out of a hat. The grand finale was El Pricto conducting an improvisation with all the musicians who wanted to join.
Will be repeated.
edit.
A big synchronicity… today (one day later) the pals from Sessions at Robadors are closing the season with a jam.
