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Austin Cultural Exchange, in collaboration with Meno Mosso Records and fields, proudly presents the Texas premiere of Joe Adamik & his debut solo album SUPER LOW as well as a one-day art show of work by local artists & musicians. Providing musical support — Moonsicles, Adam Busch (w/ Joe Adamik & Stephen Patterson) and Sheffield/Rippie.

Monday, 19 September at The Museum of Human Achievement 6:30-10:30 PM free; all ages

*** Joseph "Joe" Adamik, musician & composer, has been a long-time member of both Califone and Iron & Wine as well as collaborating with a wide variety of artists including Rebecca Gates, Freakwater, Manashevitz and long list of jazz outfits. Joe's tour de force, SUPER LOW, is the culmination of his education, his experience and his love of music; out on Meno Mosso, it is an impressive impressionistic sonic collage as unique as the individual behind it. http://www.joeadamik.com/

Moonsicles is the instrumental post-rock quartet of Carolyn Cunningham on drums/percussion (Pillow Queens; Woven Bones), Aaron Russell on guitar (Weird Weeds), Sheila Scoville on synths/electronics (Ichi Ni San Shi; x-Suspirians, No Mas Bodas) and Lindsey Verrill on bass (Weird Weeds; Little Mazarn; War Elephant). With nods to krautrock, prog rock and rural psychedelia, Moonsicles are aural cinema, as demonstrated on their 2016 album BAY OF SEETHING, out on Feeding Tube Records. http://moonsicl.es/

Adam Busch, the musician, not the actor, has been playing music for about twenty years, solo and leading various bands including The Curious Digit, Manishevitz and Sonoi. Austin resident by way of Chicago, he runs Meno Mosso Records and released an album last year, RIVER OF BRICKS, a sophisticated collection of songs that boasts such collaborators as Joe Adamik, Michael Krassner (Boxhead Ensemble), Wil Hendricks (Boxhead Ensemble) and composer/bandleader extraordinaire Fred Lonberg-Holm.

Sheffield/Rippie is Colin Andrew Sheffield and James Eck Rippie, an improvisational duo interested in the intersection of deconstruction & assemblage. Sheffield is a sound artist focused on the recontextualization of commercial recordings with material out on the labels Invisible Birds, Mystery Sea and Quiet World; he is also, since 1998, the founder of the recording label Elevator Bath, home to many experimental artists including Merzbow, Tony Conrad, Rick Reed and Francisco López. Rippie is a turntablist & multi-instrumentalist with a penchant for abstract sound; he has work out on Elevator Bath and Cronica Electronica and has collaborated with various sound artists including Simon Whetham, Paulo Raposo and erikM.

artists: Joe Adamik + Diana Guerrero-Macía Kelsey Jenkinson Emily O'Leary Sheila Scoville Jaime Zuverza

Meno Mosso Records: http://www.menomossorecords.com/

fields: http://www.fieldsmagazine.com/

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Austin Cultural Exchange, in collaboration with the local record labels Meno Mosso Records and Astral Spirits, proudly presents the documentary film Feather and Pine with a live soundtrack by Boxhead Ensemble and the album release of Boxhead Ensemble's ANCIENT MUSIC (via Meno Mosso).

Sunday, 14 August at The Museum of Human Achievement 6:30-10 PM free; all ages

*** Boxhead Ensemble is the namesake for Michael Krassner's many-faced collective which has included such musicians as Edith Frost, David Grubbs, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Will Oldham, Jim O'Rourke, Frank Rosaly and Ken Vandermark. Originally formed as ad hoc soundtrack project, the collective has continued to record soundtracks & albums over the years in-between Krassner's many other collaborations with such acts as Califone, Dirty Three, Gastr Del Sol and others. Krassner was also a member of alt-country/slowcore band The Lofty Pillars. The Boxhead Ensemble will be performing a live soundtrack for the film FEATHER AND PINE followed by a second set for the release of their newest album, ANCIENT MUSIC, out on Meno Mosso Records. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxhead_Ensemble https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Krassner

FEATHER AND PINE is a documentary about the struggles & triumphs of two small logging & mining towns in the Californian Sierra Nevadas and the first feature-length film by Michael James Beck & Star Rosencrans. Both directors will be present for the viewing and be available for a short Q&A afterwards. http://featherandpine.org/

Meno Mosso Records: http://www.menomossorecords.com/

Astral Spirits: http://monofonuspress.com/astral-spirits

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More Eaze + Black Dolphin at The Museum of Human Achievement (Austin TX) on 14 July 2016 - part two

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More Eaze + Black Dolphin at The Museum of Human Achievement (Austin TX) on 14 July 2016 - part one

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Black Dolphin at The Museum of Human Achievement (Austin TX) on 14 July 2016

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More Eaze at The Museum of Human Achievement (Austin TX) on 14 July 2016

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Austin Cultural Exchange is proud to present a collaboration between Austin's More Eaze and the Denton-based project Black Dolphin.

Thursday, 14 July at The Museum of Human Achievement 7-10 PM free; all ages; BYOB

*** Highlighting one of the main tenets of ACE — collaboration — this edition of our monthly series features the music of pop de(con)structionist More Eaze and North Texas chillwave outfit Black Dolphin. Both artists are active in the worlds of internet music & cassette culture and create work that stylistically exists in a liminal space. Elements of electronica, pop, contemporary composition, new age and various sub-genres deeply inform both artists' music though the results are often radically different from one another. At this show More Eaze & Black Dolphin will perform their respective solo sets, illustrating the way that these projects say the same things in different ways, then they will team up to present a new collaborative composition.

More Eaze http://moreeaze.bandcamp.com

Black Dolphin http://blakdolfin.bandcamp.com http://soundcloud.com/blakdolfin

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Austin Cultural Exchange celebrates Bloomsday with music & storytelling of Sean Orr and Thomas "Doc" Grauzer, Irish Harp Music as well as a brief reading by Ismael Ricardo Archbold from James Joyce's poetry collection CHAMBER MUSIC.

Thursday, 16 June at The Museum of Human Achievement 7-10 PM free; all ages; BYOB

*** Join us for Bloomsday when we will celebrate the life & work of James Joyce and the particular state of being that is Irishness. We will enjoy the music, history-giving & storytelling of the country bard Sean Orr & Friends and the harpist Thomas "Doc" Grauzer.

Sean Orr learned to sing and play the fiddle in the honky tonks & dance-halls across the state of Texas. Later on, he extensively toured from Arizona to North Carolina as both a front-man and a side-man in countless country bands. In recent years he has played festivals in Canada & Europe and has had the privilege of representing Texas — singing & playing Texas-style fiddle at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. Presently he fronts Texas Gold, a band known for their unapologetic, high-energy Texas Swing, Honky Tonk and Cajun offerings. He also fronts The Imaginary Band, a mainstay of Celtic music in the Central Texas-area, as well as being an in-demand studio musician & guest fiddler for numerous bands across the state of Texas. http://www.seanorr.com

Thomas "Doc" Grauzer is a harper & storyteller of the Irish tradition. Fascinated with the traditional harp music of Ireland, Scotland & Wales, he often inclues the folklore or some weird story between the tunes because it's important to know the story of the music as well as the music itself. From the moment he first touched an Irish harp in a South Austin pawn shop 23 years ago, he knew that this is what he is here to do. In this 21st century, he is a link in a chain of musical & cultural tradition that goes back a thousand years plus.

Ismael Ricardo Archbold is the host of Austin Cultural Exchange. A graduate of University of Chicago and the Bennington Writing Seminars, Ish works for Super Secret Records and runs its experimental imprint, Self Sabotage Records. He is or has been a member of a number of Austin bands including Coma in Algiers, Art Acevedo, Bloody Knives and Charles Potts Magic Windmill Band. He is a former editor of fields magazine and is host of the reading/lecture series Reading Glasses.

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Austin Cultural Exchange is proud to present the 10th-year anniversary show of Coma In Algiers. Also playing are Daniel Francis Doyle, Skeleton and MexMode.

Thursday, 19 May at The Musueum of Human Achievement 7-10 PM free; all ages; BYOB

*** Ten years ago Coma in Algiers played their first show in a warehouse space on E 5th St and Tillery in Austin TX. it was a very warm, humid May evening with art & poetry on the walls, Follow That Bird! & Night Viking on the bill and a wide cross-section of the city's varied music scenes. It was a terrible set, at least one of them puked immediately upon finishing, bad jokes were told.

Come relive some of the experience, the Coma experience: dry mouth, dizziness, fatigue, euphoria, bleeding, abnormal behavior, a hunger for Frito pie, glossolalia, enhanced sense of foreboding.

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door opens at 7 PM we waste little to no time 7:15 PM — Skeleton 8:00 PM — Daniel Francis Doyle (solo acoustic) 8:45 PM — MexMode 9:30 PM — Coma In Algiers

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“In writing like this, especially the poetry, one is often trying to obliterate the self …“ Chris D writes in the introduction to his collection of writings “A Minute To Pray, A Second To Die”.

Chris D’s written work is such a fitful transmutation of earthly pain and disorientation, that you can hear the voice of a werewolf becoming human and shamefully surveying the damage. In his early poetry there is an underground sensibility and a lineage that connects sources like Huysmans, Baudelaire, and Poe, to modern California eccentrics Forrest Ackerman and Philip K Dick. In 70’s Los Angeles, these were certainly lonely and dark roads to explore. They were no less lonely when he set words to music with the Flesh Eaters, reaching a creative apex in the also titled “A Minute To Pray, A Second To Die”. The collision of African rhythms, Dr John, Bo Diddley with Catholic and Haitian mystic imagery was as combustible as anything in Jack Parson’s garage. Reading the lyric sheet is deceptive, it almost seems as if writing of this depth and devotion couldn’t cohabitate with music, but listen to the record. It remains an unapproachable gutted banshee wail from hell.

He’s researched and written obsessively about International genre film -Yakuza, Westerns, Film Noir, Horror, et al - and these discarded expressions of the cultural id have been subsumed in his distinctly American work. Its a broad, ongoing career of film, research, music, poetry, and fiction that is without peer, and fearless.

“All of you who have related to the chaotic spiritual turmoil that is the core of this book already know that anything can happen anywhere to anyone at any time. To those of you who have also experienced repeated heartbreak, fury at the cruel gaze of a cold, pitiless Universe, the egocentric stupidity and selfishness of one’s own personality - as well as the selfless joy of unconditional love and compassion- and the raw sensitivity that threatens to tear you open every time you peel away your protective armor, do not give in. Fight on with unconditional love - it is the hardest fighting to do, but it is ultimately the only kind of struggle that will flush the poison from your system.”

This is a rare opportunity to see Chris D read his work.

Chris D. became involved in the Los Angeles punk scene as a writer for Slash magazine in late 1977. He was an A&R rep and in-house producer at Slash Records/Ruby Records from 1980-1984. He is also known as the singer/songwriter of the bands The Flesh Eaters, Divine Horsemen and Stone by Stone. He saw release of his first feature film as director, I PASS FOR HUMAN, in 2004 (and its DVD release in 2006), and worked as a programmer at The American Cinematheque in Hollywood CA from 1999-2009. His anthology A MINUTE TO PRAY, A SECOND TO DIE, a 500-page collection of all of his poetry and song lyrics, plus scores of dream journal entries was published in December, 2009 by New Texture Books. Between 2010-2013, Chris D. published 5 novels and a short story collection, and April 2013 saw the release of his 800-page non-fiction GUN AND SWORD: An Encyclopedia of Japanese Gangster Films 1955-1980, all from Poison Fang Books. He is also the author of a chapter (“Punk as a Young Adult”) in the UNDER THE BIG BLACK SUN book by John Doe & Tom DeSavia from April 2016, published by De Capo Press.

Renowned pedal steel guitarist Bob Hoffnar relocated to Austin from NYC seven years ago and has since become a major contributor to Austin’s cultural landscape. Originally from Silver Springs MD, Hoffnar graduated from Purchase Conservatory of Music in 1998 with a BFA in composition that included private studies with Richard Cameron Wolf. Further private studies included time with such musical luminaries as Lamonte Young, Pandit Pran Nath and Ernest Tubb’s steel player Buddy Charelton. Hoffnar has recorded widely on prestigious and underground labels around the world including: John Zorn’s Tzadik Records, EMI (UK), Capital Records and Netwerk (Canada). Known internationally for his voracious creative appetite, Hoffnar has recorded, toured and performed around the world with an unfathomable array of artists spanning generation and genre including: Nora Jones, Ryan Adams, John Zorn, Cyndi Lauper, Boston Pops Orchestra, Iggy Pop and Hasil Atkins. Hoffnar currently holds down a weekly residency at Stay Gold with his post-experimental lounge band Mood Illusion.

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1st ACE event — collaboration with Self Sabotage Records (http://selfsabotagerecords.bandcamp.com)

adult coloring poster design by Kelsey Jenkinson (http://www.kelseyjenkinson.com)

printed by Kong Screen Printing (http://kongscreenprinting.com)