Eyal Maoz : Residency at the Stone (NYC) and European Tours.

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John Zorn's renowned NYC venue THE STONE presents a weeklong residency performed and curated by mesmerizing guitarist and composer Eyal Maoz. Known as the "bad boy" of the progressive downtown jazz scene, Eyal will be presenting ten of his ensembles over the course of the residency from July 15-20, 2014. Eyal will also be touring Europe in September 2014 and April 2015 with the ensembles Edom, Elektroakustischer Kongress, 9 Volt.

Based in New York City, Israeli born, Eyal Maoz is a sought after composer, guitarist, and bandleader. He's a Tzadik, Ayler, Out Now and Piadrum Records artist and a member of John Zorn's Cobra and Abraxas ensembles. Eyal leads his own critically acclaimed bands including Edom (Tzadik Records), 9 Volt with Tim Berne, the Maoz-Sirkis Duet, and Hypercolor.

PRESS QUOTES
"Maoz's playing is just as often elegant, understated and even gorgeous...Wonderlech!
" - Guitar Player Magazine

"A cutting edge guitarist who combines the harmonic lyricism of Bill Frisell with the angst and skronk of Marc Ribot...keep your eyes and ears on this guy." - John Zorn

"NYC's guitar shredder" - Time Out New York Magazine

EUROPEAN CONCERTS
September 2014
With Elektroakustischer Kongress
Sept 14 | Synagogue Ermreuth - Erlangen, Germany
Sept 18 | Kulurforum Logenhaus Erlangen
Sept 19 | Alte Gerberei St. Johann/Austria
Sept 20 | Jazzclub 69 Berlin
Sept 21 | Saxstall

April 2015
On Tour with :
Eyal Maoz's Edom
John Zorn's Abraxas
9 Volt
Maoz - Sirkis Duet

EYAL MAOZ
Residency at the Stone (NYC)

TUE 7.15 @ 8pm | THE X - MODERN CLASSICAL WORKS
Esther Noh - violin
Melissa Tong - violin
Stephanie Griffin - viola
Jeremy Herman - cello
Brian Marsella - piano
Eyal Maoz (guitar)
The X is a unique electric guitar extravaganza with a traditional string quartet sonic. Eyal's string quartet composition Boded has won the Orchestra of Our Time Open Score Project in New York. Brian Marsella will debut two piano pieces by Maoz. One is inspired by the movie The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich; the other inspired by a circle.

TUE 7.15 @ 10pm | EYAL MAOZ'S CRAZY SLAVIC BAND
Jay Rozen (tuba)
Chris Stromquist (drums)
Eyal Maoz (guitar)
Frank London (trumpet and horn)
Rob Henke (trumpet and horn)
Briggan Krauss (saxophone)
Original music inspired by the newest contemporary Slavic composers.

WED 7.16 @ 8pm + 10pm | EYAL MAOZ DIMYON
Tanya Kalmanovich (viola)
Eyal Maoz (acoustic guitar)
Shanir Blumenkranz (acoustic bass)
Mathias Kunzli (percussion)
Satoshi Takeishi (percussion)
Wonderfully realized, Dimyon is an exciting fuse of Maoz's unique musical voice with an array of genres such as modern Jewish-Middle Eastern, classical, jazz and avant-garde music. A Jewish acoustic project, Dimyon has earned critical acclaim in Israel. If one has to define influential figures for Dimyon, John Zorn's Acoustic Masada and Frank Zappa would make the list.

THU 7.17 @ 8:00pm | THE COLLAPSE GUITAR QUARTET
Yoshie Fruchter (guitar)
Ty Citerman (guitar)
Jonathan Goldberger (guitar)
Eyal Maoz (guitars)
The Collapse Guitar Quartet offers first-rate repertoire ranging from jazz, ethnic and pop style compositions to highly imaginative contemporary works. This dynamic and wide-ranging synthesis features music arranged and composed by the CGQ members.

THU 7.17 @ 10:00pm | 9 VOLT WITH TIM BERNE
Rick Parker (trombone, effects)
Tim Berne (saxophone)
Eyal Maoz (guitar, effects)
Yoni Halevi (drums)
An avant-garde, jazz-based trio (joined by the iconic saxophonist Tim Berne who is featured as a guest in their debut album as well), 9 Volt is comprised of New York's brightest underground jazz players. 9 Volt derives its unique sound from Parker?s use of electronics with the trombone combined with Maoz?s unique approach to guitar and effects.
Their compositions are born from a synthesis of electronic experimental, rock, jazz and neoclassical minimalism. The band is held together by Israeli born drummer Yonadav Halevy who is highly regarded in both funk/hip hop as well as jazz circles. According to the New York Times, "9 Volt thrashes toward an expressive new-breed fusion, informed by a few generations of downtown experimentation."

FRI 7.18 @ 8:00pm + 10:00pm | EYAL MAOZ'S EDOM
Brian Marsella (keyboards)
Shanir Blumenkranz (bass)
Yuval Lion (drums)
Eyal Maoz (guitar)
Featuring Eyal Maoz's notorious one-of-a-kind approach to composition, and produced by the magic ears of Shanir Blumenkranz, Edom brings us into the much-too-rarely visited junction of instrumental pop, jazz and avant-garde. A unique synthesis of Jewish music, New Wave, electronic, and disco, "Maoz's fearsome foursome wallows in Middle Eastern modes and melodies...and then, just as naturally, melds into sweet melodic wistfulness and exhilarating and blood-curdling Downtown noise...Terrific." (The Buffalo News) According to John Zorn, it's "ecstatic music for a new generation."

SAT 7.19 @ 8:00pm | 1895
Kermit Driscoll - bass
Shawn Baltazor - drums
Eyal Maoz - guitar
Eyal Maoz's film project, 1895 (the year the first movie was ever projected in the world), is presenting music composed for Yoram Porath's documentary Keepers of Eden (winner of the Avignon / New York Film Festival), and music inspired by video art works by Deborah Johnson, Benton C Bainbridge, Graeme Patterson and Tracey McGuirl.

SAT 7.19 @ 10:00pm | JOHN ZORN ABRAXAS
Shanir Ezra Blumenkranz (gimbri)
Yoshie Fruchter (guitar)
Kenny Grohowski (drums)
Eyal Maoz (guitar)
Shanir Ezra Blumenkranz steps out on his own to make one of the most primal and tribal installments in the Book of Angels series. Drawing on his Sephardic roots, Shanir plays gimbri throughout, giving the music a primeval Moroccan edge. Featuring the intense guitar pyrotechnics of Eyal Maoz and Yoshie Fruchter and the atavistic drumming of Kenny Grohowski, this is Ritualistic Jewish Rock for the 21st century by a brilliant young lion from the East Village via Brooklyn/Israel!

SUN 7.20 @ 8:00pm | LMN TRIO
Shoko Nagai (keyboards)
Lukas Ligeti (drums, electronics) E
yal Maoz (guitar)
Improvised music and sounds by three of the best improvisers of the downtown scene.

SUN 7.20 @ 10:00pm | HYPERCOLOR
Lukas Ligeti (drums)
James Ilgenfritz (bass)
Eyal Maoz (guitar)
Previewing their upcoming debut CD on Tzadik (TBR 09/14), this strangely marvelous rock-spastic-jazz band features composition by all three members. NYC-based Hypercolor's ridiculous artsong craftsmanship alternately revels in complexity or brazen simplicity, favoring entropy and near-disaster over order or tidiness. Like experimental grafting surgery gone horribly awry, Hypercolor bears limbs borrowed from 80s NYC No-Wave, and early jazz/rock, and orchestral rock textures.

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