Recording: Foisy/Furlong/Ng/Bennett

Artist: Raphaël Foisy/Andrew Furlong/Karen Ng/Ben Bennett

Song: [excerpt, in two parts]

Recorded at The Tranzac's Living Room (f u zZ f es t 2.0), December 12, 2024.

Raphaël Foisy/Andrew Furlong/Karen Ng/Ben Bennett - [excerpt, part 1]

Raphaël Foisy/Andrew Furlong/Karen Ng/Ben Bennett - [excerpt, part 2]

A one-off touring-friends-meet-the-locals ensemble, this set featured Montréal's Raphaël Foisy (guitar) and Philadelphia's Ben Bennett (musical saw, floor percussion) joined by Karen Ng (alto sax) and Andrew Furlong (double bass) for some scratchy, crunchy freakouts and rumbly textures.

You can check out the full set over on youtube:

Recording: Weinberg/Welcome/Bennett

Artist: Sam Weinberg/Chris Welcome/Ben Bennett

Song: [excerpt]

Recorded at Array Space (Music Gallery's Departures Series), April 16, 2017.

Sam Weinberg/Chris Welcome/Ben Bennett - [excerpt]

There was plenty home-spun inventiveness in this Brooklyn-meets-Philly collaborative set between Ben Bennett (percussion), Chris Welcome (synth) and Sam Weinberg (sax). Welcome's littleBits-style science-fair synth modules mixed with Bennett's percussive bricabrac (trowel, cutting board, breath jackhammer, membranes, cut-out drumhead for bowing), which was inventive enough that locals Germaine Liu and Brandon Valdivia were right up watching him work. The sax sputters doubled up with the electronic sputters as the membrane drone doubled up with the sax drone. Very tasty sounds (that you can check out on a tape the the trio put out for this tour).

[The Music Gallery's Departures Series closes out its season on Thursday, June 15th at Burdock, with a night featuring DKV (Hamid Drake, Kent Kessler and Ken Vandermark), Icepick (a new trio of Nate Wooley, Ingebrigt Haker-Flaten and Chris Corsano), plus locals Invisible Out (Xuan Ye and Jason Doell). This show is also part of the TONE series' excellent ain't-a-jazz-festival programming.]