Robert Stillman / RJ Miller / Adam Chilenski Trio & Jake Meginsky Solo at Washington Baths – Portland, ME

Robert Stillman is an American is a multi-instrumentalist composer-improviser based in Margate, UK. Stillman’s music takes the form of performance, studio recordings , multi-media installations, and experimental radio broadcasts. He has performed at festivals and venues internationally, most recently on tour as the support act and live member of the Smile (Radiohead’s Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, and Tom Skinner). He has also collaborated live and in recording with Dave Okumu, Grizzly Bear, Thom Yorke, Hiss Golden Messenger, and Luke Temple (Here We Go Magic).

Robert will be joined by drummer RJ Miller and bass player Adam Chilenski.

RJ Miller is a North-American drummer, composer and educator whose technical competencies in jazz are complemented by an interest in the exploration of electronic and ambient music. He’s collaborated with musicians Bill McHenry, Meshell Ndegeocello, Ben Street, Thomas Morgan, Jorge Rossy and Jakob Bro throughout Europe and New York City, most notably at the Village Vanguard with Aaron Parks.

Bass player Adam Chilenski performs with a variety of the talented musicians who abound in New York (Groove Collective, Kolumbo, Will Bernard Trio, Jonah Smith and others). His recorded work includes performances, production, and writing with Infinity Song, Luke Temple (Here We Go Magic), Mikael Jorgensen (Wilco), Emilie Simon, and others.

Composer/filmmaker Jake Meginsky, a New Music USA award winner and Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellow in both music and film, has collaborated and performed with an extraordinary range of musicians including Milford Graves, Alvin Lucier, Joan La Barbara, Kim Gordon, Vic Rawlings, Greg Kelley, Bhob Rainey, Joe McPhee, Thurston Moore, William Parker, Daniel Carter, Paul Flaherty, John Truscinski, Arthur Brooks, and Bill Nace.

Meginsky has been reviewed extensively in leading contemporary music, art and culture publications worldwide. In 2018 Artforum Magazine wrote, “On recent releases, Meginsky juggles off-kilter patterns of undulating bass, prickly sine pulses, and shards of white noise to build rhythmic worlds of dizzying density, depth, and textural variety.” Art In America Magazine says, “Meginsky’s digital concrète takes percussion to outer extremes.” David Keenan called Meginsky’s 2014 solo record, L’appel Du Vide, “a hallucinatory electro percussion masterpiece”. Meginsky’s debut solo album, L’appel Du Vide, was included in the WIRE Magazine’s Top 10 Records of the Year for Outer Limits and his third release, Seven Psychotropic Sinewave Palindromes, was listed in FACT Magazine’s Top 50 Albums of 2016.