Milla/Cajado/Takara · Cossio/Myburgh

Vinicius Cajado is a musician with no borders between styles , the bassist’s work and style has been dedicated over the years to defy musical categorization with strong improvisational/compositional ethos. Raised in São Paulo ,Brasil, his unique approach to the bass led him to win a jazz performance award with additional honors of most creative and unique playing at the International Society of Bassists competition, and in addition, his debut solo record for double bass “Monu” was nominated as “Best of the year 2021” by “The New York City Jazz Record”. Vinicius has performed in many festivals and renowned venues including Saalfelden Jazz Festival, Lincoln Center NYC, Musikverein Vienna, The Kitchen NYC, Budapest House of Music, Via Funchal Sao Paulo. Jazz and the City Festival Salzburg , 20 Years of Curva Minore Palermo, Vienna Art week, and also Theater week Porgy & Bess Vienna, has been artist in residence in Leopold Museum Vienna and part of Kunstforum’s (Seven Rounds with Warhol/Basquiat) exhibition and etc…. And also to perform with artists such as Joelle Leandre (FR), Barre Phillips (US), Mark Dresser (US), Nicole Glover (US), Lukas Koenig (AT), Kenji Herbert (JP), Susanna Gartmayr (AT) Maria Portugal (BRA), John Edwards (UK), Golnar Shahyar and Mahan Mirarab (IRAN), Lucio Balduini (ARG), Kenneth Ishak (NOR), among many others from all over the world.
www.viniciuscajado.com

 

Mauricio Takara has been involved with music production in Brazil since the mid-90s, from playing drums with local hardcore bands and writing music for films, to experimenting with tape recorders, synthesizers and making music by himself. He currently plays drums with the instrumental rock sextet HURTMOLD, with SÃO PAULO UNDERGROUND (along Chicago ́s Rob Mazurek) and with the trio RAKTA, besides recording under „m.takara“ and performing solo sets around the world in which he explores the possibilities of the drum kit being assembled with electronics and other instruments, creating a more melodic and textural approach to rhythmic compositions and improvisations. In the past 15 years he ́s played with a wide range of artists from different styles and nationalities such as Joe Lally (Fugazi), Nana Vasconcelos, Damo Suzuki (Can), Yusef Lateef, Prefuse 73, Makoto Kawabata, Jeff Parker (Tortoise), Matana Roberts, Marcelo Camelo (Los Hermanos), Pharoah Sanders, Archie Shepp, Mia Doi Todd, etc..

Eduardo Cossio (amplified zithers, harmonica & electronics) & Josten Myburgh (alto saxophone & electronics) form an improvised duo based in Boorloo (Perth, Western Australia). Two of the most active improvisers and organisers in the local scene, they make striking music which explores the superimposition of multiple tuning systems in timbrally complex settings, and the dynamic between drone and pointillist textures. Their music is grounded in melody and harmony with incidental and emergent logics and a high level of textural detail and layering. In 2023 they will release and tour their first album on Boorloo label Tone List.

Eduardo Cossio is a Peruvian-Australian composer and improviser.
He works with prepared zithers, electronics, and amplified objects in an improvised musical context. His work foregrounds spontaneity, collaboration, and the development of a musical language whereby instruments are treated as malleable objects open to new configurations.
Eduardo maintains collaborations with leading West Australian improvisers including Ross Bolleter, Josten Myburgh, Dan O’Connor, Michael Terren, and Sage Pbbbt. He has also collaborated with Australian and international artists such as Jim Denley [NSW], Gabriella Smart [SA] Julia Drouhin [TAS], Laura Altman [NSW], and Annette Krebs [GER].
He is the founder and organiser of Outcome Unknown an experimental music series and is program coordinator of Difficult Listening on RTRFM 92.1. Eduardo has received the Western Australian Music Industry Award for experimental music on several occasions, and was nominated Industry Representative of the Year in 2018.
eduardocossio.com/ 

Josten Myburgh is a musician based on Whadjuk Noongar boodja in Boorloo. One of the most active musicians and organisers in the Western Australian experimental music scene, Josten works with saxophone, electro-acoustic materials, field recordings, and techniques from experimental composition and free improvisation in his solo and collaborative practice. Josten is co-director of Tone List, a Perth-based record label for exploratory music, and since 2017 has curated their acclaimed annual Audible Edge festival. Tone List has been described as „the go-to organisation for experimental music in Perth“, and the Audible Edge Festival received a 5-star review in Limelight Magazine in 2022. Josten has also curated programs for the Unhallowed Arts Festival (SymbioticA), Totally Huge New Music Festival (Tura New Music), Mandurah Arts Festival, the State Library of WA, and Liquid Architecture.
He has performed solo and collaboratively in concert series and festivals including FILEC Festival (Cuernavaca), Volta (Mexico City), Museo QRO (Queretaro), Perth International Jazz Festival, Fremantle Biennale, Supersense Festival of the Ecstatic (Melbourne), Festival Cable#8 (Nantes), Sacred Realism (Berlin), the NOW now (Sydney) and Inland Concert Series (Melbourne & Perth). He has released work on Another Timbre, Edition Wandelweiser and Flaming Pines. He has exhibited installation- based work or been included in group exhibitions at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid), Ellenbrook Arts, and Cool Change Contemporary (Perth). Interdisciplinary projects presented at Carriageworks, the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art and Perth Festival. Collaborators include Emilio Gordoa, Adam Pultz-Melbye, Aviva Endean, Jim Denley, Michael Pisaro-Liu, Jameson Feakes, Sage Pbbbt, Eduardo Cossio and Annette Krebs. In 2019 he was awarded the Schenberg Fellowship in Music.
jostenmyburgh.com/
jostenmyburgh.bandcamp.com/