Saturday, April 26

7:30PM DOORS, 8:30PM SHOW

Irreversible Entanglements 

with special guests QUINTRON, CASSIE WATSON FRANCILLON, AND BENNI

Irreversible Entanglements has a fiery sound that forges jazz with an experimental punk mentality. It is music that pulses, overflows, and abounds with kinetic energy and authenticity. The free-jazz quintet is poet/vocalist Camae Ayewa (often known as Moor Mother), bassist Luke Stewart, trumpeter Aquiles Navarro, saxophonist Keir Neuringer, and drummer Tcheser Holmes.

It is a community band playing deeply improvised, rhythm music full of love and social commitment. IE came together spontaneously, organically, in April of 2015 at “Musicians Against Police Brutality,” a day of protest sound and discussion in Brooklyn. All were artists and activists of varying degrees: Philadelphia-based Ayewa and Neuringer, and D.C.-based Stewart as veterans of the Mid-Atlantic noise-hardcore-experimental scene, while Holmes and Navarro as recent New England Conservatory grads.

In 2023, IE signed to the fabled Impulse! Records, and released its most accomplished work to date, Protect Your Light, on September 8, 2023 primarily recorded at New Jersey’s historic Van Gelder Studios. It features eight examples of how IE’s collaborative composition strategies and Ayewa’s in-communion verses result in some of the most potent music being made in the third decade of the 21st century, music with communal light and love at its heart. Get to that love on time — don’t force history to guide you.

Irreversible Entanglements are making their New Orleans & Music Box Village debut thanks to support from the National Endowment for the Arts, They are Airlift's 5th Resonant Residents and will be in residency the week leading up to their performance.

Food vendor TBA