GREX + EVELYN DAVIS + FOREIGN/DOMESTIC

Oakland API duo Grex returns to the Ivy Room for an evening of deconstructionist, experimental music, joined by noise/improv duo Foreign/Domestic (Zachary James Watkins & John Diaz) and pianist Evelyn Davis. Learn more about the artists below: GREX

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Grex (Karl Evangelista, Rei Scampavia) is an art rock band based out of Oakland, California. In biological terms, a “grex” is an entity composed of several smaller organisms. Grex (the band) explores the meeting point between fun, delightfully strange psychedelic pop/rock and the dark outer reaches of noise and free jazz. 

FOREIGN/DOMESTIC

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The duo of Zachary James Watkins & John Diaz, augurs high vibration resonance, making transparent the phenomenon of emotion and sound. Working it out in real time it can be unclear whether your flesh just turned to goosebumps in excitement or danger but life is fun that way: fight or flee, go or stay, blow or belong. When faced with such choices, always take both. Nothing is softer than ashes.

EVELYN DAVIS

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Detroit native and general wanderer Evelyn Davis is an inside/prepared/new music pianist, improvisor, pipe organist, composer, vocalist, synthesist, teacher, songstress, and maker of /participator in oddly shaped musics with an occasional side of performance art.

Evelyn plays in Lantskap Logic trio with Fred Frith and Phillip Greenlief, and formerly fronted the art rock duo CHIROMANCER.