015. Brandon Lopez and Gerald Cleaver

Brandon Lopez is a bassist/improviser/composer who works at the intersection of jazz, free improvisation, noise and new music. He has been an artist-in-residence at Roulette and Issue Project Room, performed as a soloist with the NYPhilharmonic and in ensembles with Fred Moten, Okkyung Lee, Ingrid Laubrock, Tyshawn Sorey and Gerald Cleaver, who is his guest for this episode. TAK commissioned and performed Empty Church of Plenty with Brandon in the fall of 2019 at St. Mary’s Church in Harlem and on the 2020 New Ear Festival. Gerald Cleaver, a drummer/improviser/composer who’s worked with Henry Threadgill, Roscoe Mitchell, Muhal Richard Abrams, and William Parker. He’s the bandleader of Violet Hour, Black Host and he recently released an album of electronic music titled Signs. Gerald Cleaver's Signs: https://577records.bandcamp.com/album/signs Black Host: https://geraldcleaversblackhost.bandcamp.com/releases Brandon Lopez's bandcamp: https://nevernotagravedigger.bandcamp.com/ website: https://www.brandonlopez.nyc/ to learn more about TAK, go to http://takensemble.com