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Table of the Elements: Free/Not Free

Rhys Chatham's Guitar Trio sparked an electric guitar revolution with three guitars and a single chord. The 2008 Table of the Elements release Guitar Trio is My Life! is celebrated here with a much larger ensemble, the Lords of Tinnitus, anchored by drummer Jonathan Kane and accompanied by images by artist Robert Longo. The ensemble includes Ernie Brooks, Robert Longo, Jonathan Kane, Robert Poss, Bill Brovold, Zach Layton, Adam Wills, and Colin Langenus.

Text of Light (William Hooker, Alan Licht & Nels Cline) was initially formed to perform with American avant-garde filmmaker Stan Brakhage's film The Text of Light. The group takes on various permutations, and at ISSUE will feature William Hooker, Alan Licht, and Nels Cline. The group has headlined both film and music festivals, and has toured European and USA club and cinema venues.

Jon Mueller has been an active drummer and percussionist over the past 25 years. His recordings have been featured in a variety of contexts, from cassette tape to MTV, and he has performed concerts throughout the U.S., Japan, and Europe. He has worked with members of the groups Swans, Wilco, Bon Iver, and Rhys Chatham's Guitar Trio, as well as been a longtime member of the groups Pele, Collections of Colonies of Bees, and more recently, Volcano Choir. He has collaborated with artists such as James Plotkin, Marcus Schmickler, Bhob Rainey, Dan Burke, Asmus Tietchens, Lionel Marchetti, Z'EV, Jason Kahn, Jack Wright, and many others. His recordings have been released by record labels as disparate as Table of the Elements, Polyvinyl Records, Type Recordings, Jagjaguwar, and many others.

New York-based singer-songwriter Peg Simone employs the slide to bone-chilling effect, fracturing raucous rock choruses and sepia-toned ballads into ghost images with its off-tuned eeriness & pure blues tones stuttering across hectic post-punk rhythms. Her recent release is Secrets From The Storm (Table of the Elements, 2010).