75 Dollar Bill & Bark Culture

2223 East Dauphin Street,Philadelphia PA 19125

05 March, 2022

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Night Two of the Fire Museum Presents 21st Anniversary Celebrations! PROOF OF VACCINATION & MASKS REQUIRED. SEATING IS LIMITED FOR PURPOSES OF DISTANCING, ADVANCED RESERVATIONS ARE STRONGLY RECOMMENDED. (Link at “Buy Tickets” button). 75 Dollar Bill: 75 Dollar Bill was formed in 2012 in New York City by percussionist Rick Brown and guitarist Che Chen. Played on a deeply resonant plywood crate, Brown’s earthy, elemental rhythms are both the foundation and foil for Chen’s ecstatic, modal guitar style. The duo’s electric, richly patterned music can shape shift from joyful dance tunes to slowly changing trance minimalism, an uncategorizable hybrid which draws on early electric blues, the modal traditions of West Africa, India and the Middle East, Sun Ra’s space chords and the minimalist and No Wave histories of their hometown. While Brown and Chen are always at the band’s core, the duo frequently expands into other configurations live and on record, from trio to 25-piece marching band. Percussionist Rick Brown has been in bands in NYC since the late 70s, including Blinding Headache, V-Effect and Run On. Guitarist Che Chen was previously in the band True Primes and has been an energetic collaborator in the American and Japanese undergrounds over the last decade. “The instrumental duo of Che Chen and Rick Brown have been blowing minds on the East Coast live circuit with little more than an electric guitar and a wooden crate rhythm section … An improvised structure that’s not afraid to lay out a hypnotic boogie.” The Wire (#16 – Releases of the Year 2016) Bark Culture: Bark Culture is a new trio out of Philadelphia led by Victor Vieira-Branco on vibraphone, John Moran on bass and Joey Sullivan on drums. The group approaches Vieira-Branco’s compositions in an episodic frenzy, leaping from idea to idea, rarely looking back and using improvisation as a means of collective momentum. Vieira-Branco is somewhat new to the Philadelphia region despite having been born there. He spent the 2010’s in Brazil where he got his footing in the expansive creative music scene in Sao Paulo, having played extensively with trio repelente, a band with Rodrigo Hara and Mauricio Takara of Sao Paulo Underground, Hurtmold, Rob Mazurek’s Black Cube SP. In the later half of the 2010’s, Vieira-Branco was active in the free improv scene, both as a performer and putting on numerous shows over the years of his stay there, having performed with Mauricio Takara, Bernardo Pacheco, Philip Somervell, Thomas Rohrer, Lorena Hollander, Romulo Alexis, Negro Leo and Rogerio Martins amongst others. Joey Sullivan and John Moran have been active in the Philadelphia scene for some time now. Moran has been a part of Maya Keren’s trio with Julian Miltenberger, Micah Graves’ group, as well as playing in bands like EAT, Guitars and Drums, and Ceiba, both of the latter alongside Joey Sullivan. Sullivan is active in both setting up some very successful free music showings as well as playing with an array of east coast improvisers. Playing drums in out music groups like Violet Salon III with James McKain and Jared Radichel as well as playing in active alt-folk groups like Florry. The background all three share as friends, drummers and their collective participation in diverse musics have this group exploring a common territory that could be easily heard in both a theater or a crusty basement. THIS PERFORMANCE IS SUPPORTED BY A GRANT FROM PENN TREATY SPECIAL SERVICES DISTRICT