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Michael Columbia

A multi-instrumentalist trio of veteran genre benders, David McDonnell, Christopher Kalis, and Dylan Ryan first played together over a decade ago in the Chicago/Philadelphia-based post-rock collective, Icy Demons. Since then they have all consistently moved forward with their own respective musical identities, releasing records and performing with dozens of artists in the free jazz, indie, and electronic scenes in Chicago as well as on both coasts. Equally comfortable in an extended instrumental solo as in a committed motorik moment, the group drifts effortlessly between the Soft Machine-style soprano saxophone leads, the interlocking riffs of Discipline-era King Crimson, and the psychedelic-hypno-funk rhythms of Can. Their new recording, Mirrors, Shapes, Objects comes out July 31 via Cuneiform Records.

@michaelcolumbia_

https://michaelcolumbia.bandcamp.com/

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Null Mutants 

Null Mutants is the Chicago-based duo of Todd Irwin and Nick Butcher. Accomplished graphic artists, the project finds the pair mixing deep reverence and acute    experimentation in a medium adjacent to their trade. Syncing Feel, their first release, warbles and pops with nods to reggae, dub, and musique concrète. Across six tracks, they layer crystalline syncopation and rough hewn signal processing, expressing a languid anxiety fitting for this particular moment on planet Earth.  

https://nullmutants.bandcamp.com/album/syncing-feel