Thollem/Escobar
Thollem/Wimberly/Parker/Cline

This album includes both sets at El Barrio Art Space in NY that was organized to celebrate 2 albums of mine in varieties of contexts with these amazing musicians. The first set was a duo with Carmina Escobar for the release of Estamos Trio (unfortunately Milo Tamez was not able to join us for this mini-tour). The album Dire Warning, released by Relative Pitch Records, is the 4th album from the Estamos Project which is a cross-border effort for cultural exchange that I started in 2009. It has involved over 25 musicians to date with activities in both Mexico and the U.S. The 2nd set commemorated two albums on ESP_disk, a trio with Nels and Michael and a trio with Nels and William. These are the 4th and 5th trio albums that Nels and I published together with a revolving 3rd member. The 3rd album in this series was with Pauline Oliveros on Roaratorio Records.
www.thollem.com/estamostrio
www.thollem.com/thollemclinetrio

Carmina Escobar is an extreme and experimental vocalist, improviser, sound and intermedia artist from Mexico City. Her practice focuses on sound, the voice, the body, and their interrelations with physical, social, present and memory spaces. In her work, the Voice is the phenomenon and concept that unites analogous/digital materials to generate an experience that sets in motion the audience perception. She has presented her work at diverse spaces such as: PST: LA / LA 2018, Cuban Art Factory (HAV), Borealis Festival (NOR) CTM Festival (Bln), World Dada Fair 2016, Current LA Water 2016, RedCat, Machine Project, MexiCali Biennial, MACO Oaxaca, The Wende Museum, I-Park Environmental Art Biennial, New Music Festival 2016 (CZ), MATA 2018. Artist in residence in Montalvo (SF), STEIM (AMS), Binaural (PT), OMI (NY), Academy of Music ElectroacousticMusicStudio (PL), Guapamacataro (MX), FONOTECA NACIONAL (MX), and The MacDowell Residency. Carmina has received the Endowment of the Arts in Mexico on three occasions, the USArtist International Award with the project Estamos Ensemble, the Master Scholarship of NALAC foundation for latin artists, and the 2020 FCA Grants. She is co-founder of the experimental and contemporary music ensemble from Mexico LIMINAR, and the radical, experimental pedagogical voice hub HOWL SPACE.
www.carminaescobar.monster

The members of the quartet are well known to most anyone interested in improvised music throughout the world. For anyone who is not familiar here are their respective web-sites:
www.nelscline.com
www.williamparker.net
www.bennington.edu/academics/faculty/michael-wimberly

Thanks to Relative Pitch, ESP_disk and Downtown Music Gallery
In memory of Eric J. Stern