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RAWL is a free-playing quartet consisting of Jack Wright (saxophones), Evan Lipson (double bass), Zach Darrup (guitar), and Ben Bennett (percussion). These four constitute a Philadelphia-centered collective that for the past several years has been touring across North America and Europe in various configurations and monikers: Wrest (Wright/Lipson/Bennett), Roughhousing (Wright/Lipson/Darrup), Never (Wright/Darrup/Bennett), Virtual Balboa (Darrup/Lipson/Bennett), Durian Brow (Darrup/Bennett). They are drawn together by an approach to playing characterized by a twisted flux of bizarre sounds and morphing relationships, where exuberance, terror, gravity and comedy collide in a bewildering manifold of perspectives. 

Typified by a relentless pursuit of enervating and enlightening novel sound-forms, Unguent represents over a decade of independent research, recording, and performance of experimental synthesis by Lance Howard Simmons. Current work focuses on the detail, flexibility, and precision of the digital synthesis me

Royer and Mottel create avant-vaude sonic chaos and tell jokes that land squarely in the void