Ches Smith’s June 2025 release on Otherly Love Records, Clone Row, debuts an adventurous new quartet featuring guitarists Mary Halvorson and Liberty Ellman, and bassist Nick Dunston. Smith finds endless possibilities in this seemingly limited instrumentation, weaving together varied threads from his divergent earlier projects in ways that sound not quite like any of them.
“This definitely ain’t your father’s guitar band,” writes Marc Ribot, who penned the album’s liner notes. “It’s as if I’m hearing a Jim Hall concert in which one of us did a lot of mushrooms, or… some post-punk post-Dave Brubeck post-trip-hop experiment with classical form.”
This concert invites you to listen to the amazing chemistry between Smith, Halvorson, Ellman, and Dunston, created by their mutual appreciation and enduring friendships. The show plans to feature individualistic guitarists swirling and echoing, squaring off with a bass and drums team that anchors and unhinges through doubling sounds. It’s going to be drum machines and acoustic drums, low-end analog synth and acoustic bass, digital samples and repeated fragments performed in real time.
Tickets are currently on sale for $35, so be sure to scoop yours up now so you don’t miss this amazingly unique performance.
EVENT DETAILS:
📅 Date: October 10, 2025
📍 Location: Revue Stage
🎟️ Tickets & More Info: Ches Smith’s Clone Row
