Martin Bisi Band / John and Dan

This show will be preceded by a screening of “Sound and Chaos: The Story of BC Studio,” a documentary on Martin Bisi, at 5 pm at the Community Theater. For a combo ticket to both the movie and the Avalon performance, purchase here: https://communitytheaterny.com/purchase/169216/

Martin Bisi is an original No Wave, early hip-hop, and experimental producer and engineer from NYC. The Martin Bisi Band reflects over four decades of his work across genres in underground New York City. His band plays a post-punk/No Wave hybrid.

At Bisi’s recording studio, BC Studio in Brooklyn, now in its 45th year, he has recorded Brian Eno (On Land), Sonic Youth, Swans, Herbie Hancock (Rockit), Lydia Lunch, John Zorn, Afrika Bambaataa, Unsane, The Dresden Dolls, and, recently, Genre Is Death (In The Red Records) and Voyeur.

Bisi will play songs from his new album, Dancing On The Power Lines: https://martin-bisi.bandcamp.com/album/dancing-on-the-power-lines

Music video, “Dancing On The Power Lines”: https://youtu.be/x5t1Nt1gY70?si=xOZFxqwyW4ZLTKw1

The French writer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry once wrote: “Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” That quest for the elemental led to the creation of John & Dan, a duo that sprang out of the experimental avant-rock group Barbez (Tzadik, Important Records). John & Dan features Barbez founder Dan Kaufman on guitar and the group’s longtime drummer John Bollinger on vibraphone, bass, and drums. Currently working on a debut album with producer and engineer Martin Bisi, the pair explore a vast sonic terrain that encompasses both tenderness and ferocity.