New Album: Duo with Ted Byrnes (percussion)

Just recorded a really fucking weird and GOOD album with the amazing percussionist, Ted Byrnes, in Pasadena. I'll have copies soon for sale. If you're interested shoot me an email.


ASTRINGENT
-Michael Foster - tenor saxophone/clarinet, amplified objects
-Ted Byrnes - percussion, acoustic objects

UPCOMING SHOWS


***Sunday July 8th: ABC No Rio, 7pm


Michael Foster - saxophones & percussion
Eric Silberberg - bass/violin/percussion
Gene Janas - bass
Marc Edwards - drums


*** Friday July 13th: Freedom Garden, 294 Troutman St., BK.. 9pm?


Joe Merolla's Den Svarta Fanan


Michael Foster - saxophones
Joe Merolla - cello
Leila Bordreuil - cello
Weasel Walter - drums




***Monday July 30th: Zebulon, Brooklyn, 9pm?
I'll be sitting in with the collective HARMONIZE MOST HIGH which features, among others, the talents of...


Daniel Carter - saxes, clarinet, trumpet, flute
Michael Lucio Sternbach - alto sax, strings, misc
Michael Foster - reeds, tapes, percussion
Robert Ryan - strings, percussion


and others!

Michael Foster / Leila Bordreuil duo video

here's a video of myself and cellist Leila Bordreuil at SMOG, Bard College, NY.


http://vimeo.com/37859061

Thurman Barker Quartet full show video

here is a video(s) of the Thurman Barker Quartet performance at Arts for Arts from 3/19/12, featuring myself on tenor/soprano/perc, Alex Hood on trumpet/voice, Eric Silberberg bass, violin, percussion.

part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6GpmDOkqLc

part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqX3tos4qho

part 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86dsszRnQGE

part 4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiiaobZ1Yrk

video of duo with Kid Millions @ Death By Audio

special thanks to drummer-filmmaker-human-extraordinaire Marc Edwards for filming this set at Death By Audio with other drummer-human-extraordinaire Kid Millions.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_Rr_ekBm9Y&list=UU4xOZMSPNyQD41aGAJOyghA&index=1&feature=plcp

upcoming shows....

-Thurman Barker Quartet @ Soto Clemente Velez Cultural Center at 107 Suffolk, at corner of Suffolk & Rivington. Tonight, 7:30. Also, Pet Bottle Ningen & Baried Alive!

-Zombi Jazz - Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY 3/23/12 @ some big room in their student center

-Zombi Jazz - Creep Colony, Tivoli NY 3/24/12 @ corner of North Road and Pine Street.

-GALM Quartet tours EU April 8th-22nd

-Zombi Jazz - Downtown Music Gallery, NY 13 Monroe Street. June 3rd 6pm

new videos

Michael Foster / Leila Bordreuil Duo @ SMOG

http://vimeo.com/37859061

Zombi Jazz @ Party Expo

http://vimeo.com/37701033