Amy Denio + Jon Pfeffer (Capillary Action) + Bill Horist + The Home of Easy Credit

The Home of Easy Credit, Bill Horist, Jon Pfeffer (Capillary Action) and Amy Denio.

Multi-instrumentalist composer and improviser Amy Denio is based in West Seattle and tours the world with various musical ensembles, including The Tiptons Sax Quartet and Bosnian gypsy-core band Kultur Shock. Denio has been operating her own Spaciouser Spoot Studios since she was a teenager. She has been guest vocalist with The Science Group (Stevan Tickmayer/Chris Cutler/Fred Frith/Bob Drake, etc), Curlew, George Cartwright. She collaborates with pan-Latin duo Correo Aereo in Ama Trio. She has produced 43 CDs; solo, and in collaboration with musicians from many corners of the world. She appears on several dozen audio compilations world-wide. She has played at festivals, churches, schools, prisons and mercury mines throughout East & West Europe and North America, as well as in Taiwan, Japan, Hong Kong, India, Brazil, and Argentina.

Best known for leading avant-pop ensemble Capillary Action, Jon is a composer/singer/guitarist currently based in Philadelphia. Jon's music variously inspires (The Wire: “musical fragments are layered one upon another, resulting as often in dense polyrhythm as they do in deliciously intertwined melodic lines”), antagonizes (Pitchfork: “…teases listeners with surprising bits of poppy melody before yanking out the rug”) and mystifies (PopMatters: “Like a perplexing film you have to (and want to) watch more than once”).
Jon's solo guitar and voice music abstracts autobiographical narratives into poignant "story-songs" that flirt openly with both thematic and harmonic dissonance. Recommended if you like Joni Mitchell, Phil Ochs, Glenn Danzig, Maurice Ohana's Si le jour parait, Baden Powell, Jeffrey Lewis, and Frank Ocean all at once. Expect anecdotes, Sphinx-worthy riddles, and probably some group therapy. Sink or swim, y'all. Bring your worst heckle.

Since moving to Seattle in 1995, Bill Horist has established himself as a noted improviser/performer along the West Coast and beyond. Bill has performed and/or recorded with Bill Frisell, Wayne Horvitz, KK Null, Trey Gunn(King Crimson), Chris Cutler, William Hooker, Eugene Chadbourne, Tatsuya Yoshida(Ruins), Climax Golden Twins, Haco, Illusion of Safety, Saadet Tuerkoez, Michael Bisio, Jack Wright, Amy Denio, Uchihashi Kazuhisa, Steve Fisk, Luigi Archetti, Michael White, Christoph Gallio, Eyvind Kang, Lesli Dalaba, Paul Hoskin, Thomas Dimuzio, Wally Shoup, Jessica Lurie, Shazaad Ismaily, Mason Jones, Jeff Grienke and Tucker Martine among others.
Bill's improvised, prepared guitar work is informed by Hans Reichel, Fred Frith, and Henry Kaiser, but shows a unique style and personality. He has received critical praise internationally from periodiacals including The Wire and Alternative Press. Bill has toured the United States twice in support of his CDs "Soylent Radio" and "Songs From The Nerve Wheel" and has appeared at numerous festivals in the States and Europe including Taktlos (Zuerich), Spring Reverb (San Diego/Tijuana), Big Sur Experimental Music Fest (Big Sur, CA), Mission Creek Music Fest (San Francisco), Seattle Improvised Music Fest, AntiMatter Fest (Vancouver BC) and Olympia Experimental Music Fest.

Queens-based The Home of Easy Credit challenges the boundaries of free-improvised music, jazz, folk, and pop music with an iconoclastic approach that defies all those who seek to classify music by genre. Two musicians who met in New York in 2008 and were married one year later, Danish multi-instrumentalist Louise Dam Eckardt Jensen and bassist Tom Blancarte have teamed up musically as The Home of Easy Credit, releasing their self-titled debut album on Northern Spy in 2012. Taking their name from a department store sign in a dilapidated section of downtown Houston, Texas which they photographed while on tour there, the duo seeks to hold up a mirror to contemporary musical tastes to create a dark, beautiful and thrilling sound world that reflects upon the decline of contemporary civilization.