monktail creative music concern

Founded September 12, 2001 in Seattle, WA, SPECIAL O.P.S. is the sonic guerilla group of the Monktail Creative Music Concern. Featuring the rhythm section of MCMC founders John Seman on contrabass and Mark Ostrowski on percussion with electric guitarist Stephen Parris, SPECIAL O.P.S. is a free improvisation commando unit replete with dark regalia, sonic hand grenades and a warped sense of humor. Their performances draw influence from contemporary chamber composition, small group jazz improvisation, electronic experimentalism, dark metal, droll wit and sonic shenanigans from the subtle to the scabrous. It’s black noise and white noise. It’s cross-genre pollination boiled in ammonia, cured in bleach, dipped in battery acid and ignited with the American flag. It’s a damn good time.

Because it is September they will play a whole lot of concerts.

Friday September 3
 Special O.P.S.
Molly Maguires 
610 NW 65th St
 Ballard
 10PM

Saturday September 11 
Special O.P.S.
 Collins Pub 
526 2nd Ave
 Seattle 
8PM

Thursday September 23
 Special O.P.S.
 Egans Ballard Jam House
 1707 NW Market St
 Ballard 
7PM

Friday September 24
 Special O.P.S.
 Mississippi Pizza
 3552 N Mississippi Ave 
Portland, OR 
9PM

Saturday September 25
 Special O.P.S.
The Jazz Station 
68 W. Broadway 
Eugene, OR 
9PM

Sunday September 26 
Special O.P.S.
The Matrix
 434 NW Prindle St
 Chehalis, WA 
8PM

Tuesday September 28 Special O.P.S. 
The Comet
 922 E Pike St
 Seattle 
9PM

Friday October 1 
Special O.P.S.
 Molly Maguires
 610 NW 65th St 
Ballard
 10PM