tilt, Kafari, and Annie Dodson

An evening of song, improvisation, and experimentation with five musicians who meld disparate elements of jazz, folk, global sounds, and the avant-garde.

tilt exists in the space between improvisation and song, elastic and flowing, their music emerges from a shared love of words and experimentation. This Brooklyn-based collective brings together the voices of Isabel Crespo Pardo, Kalia Vandever, Carmen Quill. The intimacy found in the ensemble is apparent through their evolving chemistry on stage and their symbiotic improvisational approach. tilt released their debut album, something we once knew on Dear Life Records in May 2024.

Kafari is a synth, drum machine, and rhythm bones-wielding keys player, beatmaker, composer, and educator. In his expansive compositions, he melds disparate sounds from contemporary neo-soul to romantic classical, drum&bass electronica to boom-bap hip-hop, and burning jazz to hypnotic ambient.

Annie Dodson is an electroacoustic composer, sound artist, and cellist from and living in Portland, Maine. They make music about ecology and the environment, sensitivity and reception, and queerness and intimacy. They love working with the natural world as a creative partner.Their work is often long with an emphasis on slow processes and gradual progression. They like repetition and repetition and repetition and repetition. They have a BA in Music Composition and Human Rights from Bard College, and studied with composers Sarah Hennies, Matt Sargent, Angelica Sanchez, and Kyle Gann, as well as artist Julianne Swartz. Right now, Annie is into abstract crocheting, rock climbing, and baking.