Saturday April 6 * 7pm * $25 * TICKETS
Transparent Productions presents an evening of music from two great improvising quartets: Marked For Death along with DC’s ¡FIASCO!.
Marked For Death: Walter Fancourt, sax/flute; Eric Burns, guitar; Seth Barden, bass; and Joseph Daniel Yount, drums.
¡FIASCO!: Andrew Frankhouse, sax; Nelson Dougherty, guitar; Steve Arnold, bass; and Keith Butler, Jr., drums.
Progressive jazz quartet, Marked For Death, emerged from Brooklyn, New York, in 2022 as a space for the daring group to unleash its pent-up, experimental jazz tendencies. Under the direction of saxophone/flautist, Walter Fancourt, who urged the band to “channel the feelings of a steamy alley-way, like the movie set of a 1980s thriller,” the group–rounded out by bassist Seth Barden, drummer Joseph Daniel Yount, and guitarist Eric Burns–immediately sparked, bringing flare and fury to Fancourt’s cinematic vision. Having collaborated musically for two decades through projects such as acclaimed afrofunk ensemble Super Yamba Band, the musicians leverage a telepathic chemistry that enables aggressive risk taking and rule breaking. The result is a sound that’s steeped in the realms of experimental jazz, ‘60s film noir, and prog metal; a sound that invites listeners on an immersive musical journey where boundaries are blurred and the extraordinary is the norm.
Washington DC-based ¡FIASCO! was first assembled in 2016 building a unique repertoire of sounds and materials rooted in droning folk songs, jittery hip-hop grooves, grunge, and punk rock. ¡FIASCO! was signed to Unit Records in 2023 and released their Unit debut Anger Artist in January 2024. This follows two independent releases Arson (2020) and Post-Truth (2021), which received substantial regional acclaim and secured the band performances at the DC Jazz Festival, and with acts like Messthetics and Harriet Tubman. Throughout years of club gigs, experimentation with original and re-imagined repertoire, and growing sophistication with electronics and effects, combining a jazz form with rock aesthetics and attitude, ¡FIASCO! built a following and a sound uniquely their own.