Brandon Lopez @ Summer Bummer Festival 2025
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“Lopez plays every inch of the bass, slapping, scraping, hitting and wiping it as if it’s a large drum. He plucks, strums, bows and attacks the massive instrument with flurries of gesticulation,” writes Bryon Hayes. https://dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/782898458171523072/brandon-lopez-nada-sagrada-relative-pitch #music #brandonlopez #jazz

#nowplaying Brandon López vilevilevilevilevilevilevilevilevile upon first listen drawn waaaaaay into BL’s interiority like a trapdoor (fucking) exit, calls to mind solo bass self-portraits like William Parker’s Testimony and Peter Kowald’s Wa Da Ist, not just a technical exercise but an idiomatic and brazen ceremony of extended technique and broken elemental gunk that bursts with musicality. Darkness begets light. #jazz #jazztodon #bass #brandonlopez #musodon

at shift in #williamsburg, transfixing conversations between #MartaWerelis's piano (prepared & unleaded) & #ChrisCorsano's extended drum textures/flurries/microflitters, from a whisper to a torrent, often couldn't tell which was which. joined for the 2nd half by bassist #BrandonLopez & leaning further into the fire. my favorite kind of corsano set, playing with a new-to-me musician/palette & finding new colors. #jazz?

at roulette in #brooklyn, tribute to avant-guitarist #DerekBailey with #JohnZorn cheerleading rotating all-star #improv #jazz crew through duos/trios improvising in 5 minute miniatures, often tumbling from extended technique flutters into little wondrous non-forms. always ear-opening to hear #BillFrisell get out/weird, as in deep guitar trio with #MaryHalvorson & #WendyEisenberg, telepathic duo with bassist #BrandonLopez, trio with vibraphonist #PatriciaBrennan & saxophonist #MatanaRoberts.

night 1 of #catalyticsound at shift in williamsburg, 2 sets of duos/trios/quartets & one gracefully clattering nontet finale (too big to fit in one shot), highlighted for me in 1st half by building & elemental #sylviecourvoisier, #natewooley, #brandonlopez trio, & in 2nd half by hyperkinetic #chriscorsano & #ikuemori duo, a surrealist montage of birds, bells, drums. same gang is back tomorrow, shuffling through different configurations. #jazz #nyc #livemusic