ConstelNation [TB#2.12] | November 2025, Chicago & Midwest | return journey
Angel Bat Dawid — clarinets, vocals, keyboards
Magic Malik — flute, vocals
Richard Comte — electric guitar
Nick Macri — double bass
Toma Gouband — percussion
Among the oldest musical instruments in the world are the flute and the lithophone, not to mention the human voice in all its forms. Among the most “classical” musical instruments in the world are the clarinet and the guitar, yet they are also the instruments of so much popular music across the globe. They are all there, these instruments, as they are and above all transformed, and also the immense shadow of the double bass, in this quintet or this pentacle of resistance fighters, of mavericks of sounds and exclamations and interstitial silences. Of deconstructors and reconstructors.
10/30 | Constellation, Chicago
10/31 | BlueStem / North Street Cabaret, Madison
11/1 | Alternative Current Live Series @ Woodland Pattern, Milwaukee
11/2 | AlArts, Chicago — 8:30pm
* Magic Malik, Richard Comte & Toma Gouband + Tatsu Aoki, Kioto Aoki & Fred Jackson Jr.
11/3 | Alliance Française, Chicago
11/4 | The Whistler, Chicago
* Magic Malik, Richard Comte + guests
11/5 | Improvised Music Series @ Elastic Arts, Chicago
11/6 | Theatre Y, Chicago
+ Trempo trainees
11/7 | Intuit, Chicago
* Magic Malik & Toma Gouband + Lia Kohl & Macie Stewart
ProMusica, Chicago
* ConstelNation 4tet + Sharon Udoh & Jeb Bischop
11/8 | Magnifico Coffee Roasters, Chicago
* Magic Malik & Nick Macri
11/10 | Experimental Sound Studio, Chicago
* Angel Bat Dawid & Magic Malik
11/11 | Old Town School of Folk Music, Chicago
11/13 | Spurlock Museum, Urbana
* ConstelNation 4tet + Jeb Bishop
11/15 | Logan Center for the Arts, Chicago
* ConstelNation 4tet + Sharon Udoh & Jeb Bishop
Hungry Brain
at the moment
- the broadcast of the ConstelNation concert [TB#2.12] at the Jazz à la Villette festival on August 31, 2025
- a review of Morphose’s “Before You Have Understood”, by Guillaume Malvoisin, on Pointbreak
- the release of Morphose’s album [TB#2.4] “Before You Have Understood” [The Bridge Sessions #19] to be listened to on Bandcamp
- the release of “Cancel Rescue Mission” [The Bridge Sessions #18], to be listened to on Bandcamp
- an article about the Cloud Hidden [TB#2.7] concert at the Pannonica (Nantes) in Jazz Magazine
- a radio program on Jet FM (Nantes) about Cloud Hidden [TB#2.7] and Jaimie Branch
- the release of “Stembells” [The Bridge Sessions #17], to be listened to on Bandcamp
- a review of “Temple of Enthousiasm” [The Bridge Sessions #15] to be read on The Free Jazz Collective
- the release of “PANG! [The Bridge Sessions #16] listen on Bandcamp
next tour
The Bridge #2.11
January February 2027, France | return journey
Greg Ward — alto saxophone
Nicolas Peoc’h — alto saxophone
Hélène Labarrière — double bass
Isaiah Spencer — drums