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Shows

Wednesday, April 23
Skylab (57 E. Gay St. Columbus, Ohio)
Ryan Jewell & Greg Kelley duo, Life Partners, Rage Against the Cage, Super Desserts

Saturday, April 26
Oberlin University (50 w. lorain st, Oberlin, Ohio)
Electro-acoustic duo set w/ Larry Marotta and solo acoustic snare set

Sunday, April 27
Casbah (corner of King St. and Queen St. Hamilton, Ontario)
Noise night @ the Bah
Solo. Plus collab w/ Fossils

Monday, April 28th
House @ 193 Dowling Ave. Toronto, Ontario
Og Horwood, Ryan Jewell, Roman Pilates (Crump of Disguises/ Wintage Records’ solo act)

Saturday, May 3
Bela Dubby (13321 madison, just west of 117th, Lakewood, Ohio)
w/ Giants of Gender, Larry Marotta, Flux Monkey

Sunday, May 4
Grog Shop (2785 Euclid Heights Blvd. Cleveland, Ohio)
PIZZA NIGHT @ THE GROG: SUNDAY MAY 4th- FREE TACOS (no pizza) The Night Shift (Oakland Space Jam Ensemble) Ryan Jewell, Tanked (wyatt aka skin graft / david russel of jerk / free drums and noise assault borders on rock at times but never really rocks) Rot Ton Bone ( heavy tape manipulation and/or psychedelic clarinet, ben from tusco terror) dj thursday club should be weird!

Thursday, May 8
Skylab (57 E. Gay St. Columbus, Ohio) The Epicurians (David Gross), Larry Marotta / Ryan Jewell / Ben Bennett, Mose Giganticus, Emotron

Tuesday, May 13
Legion of Doom (1579 Indianola Ave. Columbus, Ohio)
Eyes and Arms of Smoke, Mike Shiflet/ Larry Marotta guitar duo, Ryan Jewell

Thursday, May 29th
Skylab (57 E. Gay St. Columbus, Ohio)
Pod Blotz, Bill Nace, Ryan Jewell, Sam Goldberg

Friday, May 30th/ Saturday May 31st
Bohemian National Home (Detroit, Michigan)
The Third Annual Festival of Jazz and Improvised Music
Day 1: Friday, May 30th
Matthew Shipp Trio with Joe Morris/Whit Dickey, The Raw Truth, Tatsuya Nakatani, Joe Morris/Ben Hall/Hans Buetow
Day 2: Saturday, May 31st
Jack Wright/ Andrew Drury/ Ryan Jewell, Fred Anderson/Skeeter Shelton/Hakim Jami, Hasan Abdur Razzaq/ Ryan Jewell, Sabir Mateen Ensemble,Andrew Lamb Trio, Ellery Eskelin/Sylvie Courvoisier, Saris (Sara Schoenbecck, Harris Eisenstadt), EDGE, The Vizitors
Also appearing: members of New Music Detroit .
Friday, June 13th
FRIDAY THE 13th!!!
Lambsden (3645 bunty station rd )
Vodka Soap (Spencer from Skaters solo), Lambsbread, Ryan Jewell, Mike Shiflet, Derwent/ Jalso, Ben Bennett

Saturday, June 14th
DUO-LOGISTICS @ Cafe Le Spritz (backyard)
594 E. Rich St. (take Lester from E.Town St. to Rich)
8 pm - 12 pm
Marina Peterson/ Ryan Jewell, Stop By Fear, Hasan Razzaq with Hasan Razzaq, 594 Chinese Fire Drill

Saturday, June 28th
Skylab (54 E Gay St. Columbus, OH)
playing with Swamp Leather,
La Otracina, Bored Teen War Team will also play

July 4th through July 26th
East coast solo/ collab tour

Friday, July 4th
Starvation Army DIY Fest (Torpedo Factory 3143 W. 33rd st. Cleveland, OH)
Tons of bands. Go to www.myspace.com/starvationarmyzine for details.

Saturday, July 5th
Tower 2012 (9521 MADISON avenue, Cleveland, OH)
Eagle-Ager, Ryan Jewell, Fluxmonkey

Sunday, July 6th
Rochester, NY
Americanomicon, Ryan Jewell, Stone Baby, Colonel Parmisan

Monday, July 7th
No Radio Records (Ithaca, NY)
Ryan Jewell, Lambsbread

Wednesday, July 9th
Northampton, MA Greg Kelley/ Vic Rawlings/ Ryan Jewell

Thursday, July 10th
Mobius (725 Harrison Ave. Boston,MA)
Greg Kelley/ Ryan Jewell/ Vic Rawlings/ Bhob Rainey

Friday, July 11th
Tuxedo Ave. (Providence, RI)
tuxedo junction, kumonokumo (cybele blue shift/ sakiko mori/ scott reber), Ryan Jewell

Sunday, July 13th
venue tba Baltimore, MD

Monday, July 14th
Alexandria, VA
house show

Tuesday, July 15th
Velvet Lounge (Washington D.C.)
Vialka, Ryan Jewell, Kahoutek Gashin Gassoudan

Wednesday, July 16th
Issue Project Room (NYC)
Ryan Jewell/ Nate Wooley/ Jesse Kudler

Thursday, July 17th
WFMU in studio performance. (Jersey City, NJ)

Sunday, July 20th
Venue TBA (Williamsport, PA)

Monday, July 21st
Contemporary Arts Center (Cincinnati, OH)
C. Spencer Yeh/ Jon Lorenz/ Ryan Jewell
Thursday, July 24th
Venue TBA (Athens, OH)

Friday, July 25th
106 Grosvenor St. (Athens, OH)
Marina Peterson/ Ryan Jewell

Tuesday, July 29th
Belvedere's Polish Tavern (4016 Butler St. Pittsburgh, PA)
Hair Police, Ryan Jewell, Cock Scene Investigator

Monday, August 4th
Velvet Lounge (Chicago, IL)
playing with Hasan Abdur-Razzaq

Friday, August 22nd
Frantasia Festival (Public Library Auditorium, 56 Main Street, Livermore Falls, ME)

Monday, August 25th
Art Damage Lodge (Cincinnati, OH)
C. Spencer Yeh/ Jon Lorenz/ Ryan Jewell,
Frode Gjerstad/Paal Nilssen-Love

Tuesday, August 26th
Cafe Le Spritz (594 E. Rich St. Columbus, OH)
C. Spencer Yeh/ Jon Lorenz/ Ryan Jewell,
Frode Gjerstad/Paal Nilssen-Love

Friday, October 10th
Wexner Center for the Arts (Columbus, OH)
playing with Jandek

New Releases

Abbs/ Brown/ Hardy/ Jewell- "Live @ Marquise Dance Hall" cdr on Small Doses
Free jazz set recorded in '07 @ Marquise in Brooklyn. Featuring Tom Abbs (contrabass), Mike Brown (contrabass), Lathan Hardy (tenor sax), and Ryan Jewell (drums).

"homemadepigeon" Split c2 tape with Autoerotic Asphyxiation on Delayed Fallout (canada). Quick and to the point. Wrapped in feathers. ed. of 25.

Mike Shiflet / Ryan Jewell - split C40 $6 Mike Shiflet/Ryan Jewell - "Study In Choreography"/"The Trees R Just Passing Through" split C40 tape on Teen Action Records (ohio) "Deep minimalist head shit from these Kill-Bus wizards. Both sides possess a stark, solitary quality. While Shiflet bathes in shimmering sheets of digi-bliss Jewell drills deep into the subconcious. A personal favorite for late nights and still mornings."

Ryan Jewell - "Autodidact Starfruit Motherfucker" CDr choc.170 on Chocolate Monk (uk) Dylan Nyoukis sayz: "Ohios percussion/improv whippersnapper deals you a hand of potent one man gruel. two tracks: a real heavy scraper with snare, floor tom, cymbal and contact mic. Plus a white light excursion on a wheel. No overdubs, just mind rubs."

"I Have No Idea How Brilliant You Are" cassette recorded live @ Freddy's, Brooklyn with Mike Brown, Seth Meicht, and Aaron Meicht on Teenage Whore Tapes (virginia)

Alban Bailly/Ben Bennett // Mike Khoury/Ryan Jewell - Split CDR on Milmin Punts! One studio track each from the duos of Bailly/ Bennett, and Khoury/ Jewell. Plus a few extra live tracks from K/J recorded outdoors at a live show by the Olentangy River (feel those crickets!).

Out now:

SOLD OUT "Rooms" cdr. Two live sets from two different rooms earlier this year. One solo and one with Wasteland Jazz Unit. Super limited.

MJC144~ HAMMER LIVE 6 tape. I'm on it. It's a cassette recording of an entire evening in Hamilton, ON on October, 28 2007. Straw Dogs, Soundnambulist, Rob Michalchuk, Thousand Year Frog, and Dead Embers also jammed. ed. of 17 MJC 144 [email protected]

"2 Improvisations" recorded with Jon Lorenz in the emptiness of Skull Lab were released by the Net Label My Formica Table. FREE DOWNLOAD

JEWELL.RADDING.WOOLEY "Rift" On Smeraldina-Rima (belgium). Deep, creeking, minimal impov with Nate Wooley (trumpet), and Reuben Radding (double bass). cdr in 7" sleeve. Limited edition of 100.

New solo 3" cdr on Lost Treasures of The Underworld as part of their new "Mystery" series. No titles, no info, just heart tangling noise! Mine is the one with the black disc. You can get one from me, from the LTOTUW website, or through the distros like this .

Bennett/ Jewell "Squid Line" cdr on Milmin Punts. Duo acoustic improv with Ben Bennett on percussion and homemade wind instruments! I'm all out, but you can get them directly from the label.

Starlight Fleecing - (with David Reed, Larry Marotta and myself) on snip-snip records: I just sold my last copy, but I think you can still order it from snip-snip .

Ryan Jewell - two blind men crossing a log bridge : 3" CDR on Teen Action is now SOLD OUT, sorry

SOLD OUT Ryan Jewell/ Ed Chang "Wood Box" on Lost Treasures of The Underworld is now available. 3 discs/ 3 live shows in NY with a different lineup for each performance. Hand painted boxes/ CDRs http://www.losttreasuresoftheunderworld.com/

Coming Soon!

Ryan Jewell/ C. Spencer Yeh/ Wateland Jazz Unit collab cdr DS003 - "Ohio Ghastly Soil" on Dreamsheep Records (italy)
"of keeping everything from happening at" cdr on Blackest Rainbow (uk)
"Live under Toronto" cassette on Wintage Records And tapes on Epicene/ESR (ohio), Night People (iowa) and Total Vermin (uk)

Online:

Matt Milton. David Thomas. Ryan Jewell. Patrick Farmer
Recorded at Middlesex University, London, on the 4th March 2008.
Download from the Compost and Height label.

Duo with Christine Sehnaoui @ Instants Chavirés in Paris.

Audio from live solo set from the Sowieso 1 fest in Paris on September 21st, 2007 thanks to Radio WNE

There's a live track from an improvised solo set for snare and oscillator that I did at WDR in Lexington on June 20th.

I have a field recording track on the Milmin Punts site.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 10/3/2006
Band Members: Just me if Im playing solo, but I have also had the honor to play with Larry Marotta, C. Spencer Yeh, Mike Shiflet, Greg Kelley, Jack Wright, Nate Wooley, Reuben Radding, Mike Khoury, Ben Hall/ Hans Buetow (Graveyards), Christine Sehnaoui, Chris Cogburn, Hasan Abdur-Razzaq, David Boykin, Douglas Ewart (AACM), Andres Arregui, Joe Morris, Ben Bennett, Tatsuya Nakatani, Patrick Farmer, Matt Milton, David Thomas, Wasteland Jazz Unit, Mike Brown, Lathan Hardy, Jesse Kudler, Chris Riggs, Ed Chang, David Papapostolou, Seth Meicht, Tom Abbs, Tom Derwent, Swamp Leather, Dustin Hurt, Jon Barrios, Janet Feder, Terribly Empty Pockets, Jordan O Jordan, Pink Reason, Psychedelic Horseshit, Layne Garrett, Black Swans, Necropolis, Jay DeMarcus (of Rascal Flatts... seriously), David Reed (Luasa Raelon/ Envenomist), birds and wind at Goodale Park, space heater in my attic bed room, tunnel reverberations in Worthington, memories, perceptions of the sense organs and alot of other individuals, animals, objects and phenomena.
Influences: and Iannis Xenakis, Jack Wright, Tony Conrad, Mike Shiflet, Greg Kelley, Derek Bailey, Sachiko M, Susie Ibarra, Hair Police, Ben Hall/ Graveyards/ Melee, Bhob Rainey, Polly Shang Kuan Band, Keith Rowe, Aaron Dilloway, Patrick Farmer, Axel Doerner, Fernando Grillo, Sean Meehan, Mazen Kerbaj, Christine Sehnaoui, Dylan Nyoukis, Arnold Dreyblatt, Sixes, Gerritt, Ami Yoshida, Jason Zeh, Yamatsuka Eye, Han Bennink, Audrey Chen, Sword Heaven, Andrew Drury, Albert Ayler, John Wiese, Don B, Kawabata Makoto, Ben Bennett, Tatsuya Nakatani, Philip Gayle, Charles Gayle, Birgit Ulher, Luasa Raelon, Lee Ranaldo, C. Spencer Yeh, Alvin Lucier, Nate Wooley, Tetuzi Akiyama, David Tudor, John Cage, Ustad Akram Khan, Milford Graves, Al Jackson Jr, Z'ev, Pauline Oliveros, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Chris Corsano, Eitetsu Hayashi, Hasten And, Jad Fair, Helen Wiggin, the Ohio River valley, and you.
Sounds Like: Juice...
Record Label: Teen Action.Chocolate Monk.Lost Treasures.snipsnip
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

THIRD ANNUAL FESTIVAL OF JAZZ AND IMPROVISED MUSIC IN DETROIT

I'm playing twice on Saturday, once in a full on free jazz duo with Hasan Abdur-Razzaq and then later in a more reduced setting with Jack Wright, Ben Wright, and Andrew Drury. Some of my friends are p...
Posted by ryan jewell on Fri, 30 May 2008 08:32:00 PST

3 shows this weekend. w/ Ed Luna, C. Spencer Yeh, Storm of Corpses

Two events today. One tomorrow.I'll be performing minimal acoustic sound for snare and room resonance in collaboration with Ed Luna.Ed Luna (movement) + Ryan Jewell (sound)Saturday April 194:30 pm @ J...
Posted by ryan jewell on Sat, 19 Apr 2008 07:25:00 PST

Mike Shiflet/ Ryan Jewell split tape out now.

Mike Shiflet/Ryan Jewell - "Study In Choreography"/"The Trees R Just Passing Through" split tape on Teen Action Records NOW AVAILABLE!TAR014 - Mike Shiflet / Ryan Jewell - split C40 $6================...
Posted by ryan jewell on Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:49:00 PST