monktail creative music concern

The Monktail Creative Music Concern is a collective of composers, musicians and artists based in Seattle, WA who thrive o­n the atypical and exigent; the real weirdo stuff.

The MCMC exists to provide, propagate, promote, produce and preserve creative/experimental/exploratory music and associated art forms in its community through public performance, public and private educational forums, broadcasts, musical and visual recordings, and any other means of documentation appropriate and/or available at any time.

The folks involved get together under different aliases contingent on their predilection within any situation that permits them to exist. Groups range from 2 to 10 players generally, and have free improvisation/spontaneous composition as their underlying principle. Curating these specialized ensembles presents the group members with the unique opportunity to improvise in many different contexts as a performance as one particular unit organically mutates into another, offering the listener the unparalleled, or at least amusing, experience of live, acoustic, sonic gymnastic hallucinations. It’s a gas.

Awards include:

• 2006 Earshot Jazz Golden Ear Award - Best Outside Group - Reptet
• 2006 Earshot Jazz Golden Ear Award - Concert of the Year - Monktail Raymond Scott Project
• 2004 Jack Straw Productions Artist Support Program - Artist Residency - John Seman/MCMC
• 2002 Tablet Magazine Pretty Good Artist Award - Best Arts Organization - MCMC
• 2002 Earshot Jazz Golden Ear Award - Emerging Artist/Group of the Year - MCMC

Articles:

2007 Deal’s Number - Mark D. Fefer

2007 MCMC Raymond Scott Project - Elaine M. Hayes [pdf]

2007 Sounds Outside - Christopher DeLaurenti

2006 MCMC Raymond Scott Project - Josie Holtzman

2006 Reptet Do This! CD Review - Dan McClenaghan

2004 Non Grata - Christopher DeLaurenti

2004 Non Grata CD Review - Jerry D’Souza

2004 Floss Unwaxed CD Review - John Kelman

2003 Monktail On The Scene - Alan Jones

2002 All About Jazz - Todd Matthews

2002 Sounds of the City - Jennifer Maerz

Founders John Seman and Mark Ostrowski

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