Big Bend

Premiere DateSep 17, 2019
Series Page Download Sponsor: Nikon
Categories Indie Live Music Music
00:00 Big Bend
00:28 Floating
03:58 Interview Big Bend
09:25 Before
13:17 Interview Big Bend
14:29 1000 Ways
18:29 Interview Big Bend
21:14 12' 15'
23:39 Interview Big Bend
24:41 Can’t Get Around
29:34 Interview Big Bend
32:28 Outro
32:43 Finish

Big Bend is the experimental musical project of Ohio-born, NYC-based composer Nathan Phillps. With a focus on collaboration and clever use of improvised electronics as a base for his songwriting, Phillips weaves intricate, otherworldly sounds together beautifully. Joined here by Craig Schenker on saxophone and with an overhead projector on-hand for some appropriate visual aids, Big Bend brings their expansive, amorphous sound to Serious Business Music in Brooklyn. 

Radish by Big Bend is available now.

HOST Maia
Maia is a songwriter, artist, producer, and radio host based in New York City. She's also a singer, multi-instrumentalist and frequent tinkerer, who has spent time in Haiti and Colombia studying folkloric music…

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