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Tyler Damon

TYLER DAMON (b. 1987, Cincinnati, OH USA) is a Midwestern American artist whose work aims to reveal obscured, mercurial narratives via drums/percussion & free improvisation.

In addition to solo work, Tyler is involved in extended duo exhibitions with guitarist Tashi Dorji and saxophonist Dave Rempis. Building upon the foundation of these pairings, the three formed the dedicated working trio Kuzu in 2017. Other recent outfits also include a Chicago triad featuring Gerrit Hatcher & Joshua Abrams, the Mars Williams-led quartet, Exit Plan, alongside Brian Sandstrom & Steve Marquette, and a startling trio with NYC improvisers Sam Weinberg & Henry Fraser. Tyler is also often found drumming with Chicago-via-Houston guitarist Eli Winter and has been recognized for his work with the chameleonic Circuit Des Yeux.

Tyler has toured extensively in North America, Europe, Vietnam, & Colombia and is also regularly engaged with other artists, musicians and heads of various sorts across the American Midwest. His recorded output has been offered by a myriad of labels including Family Vineyard, Astral Spirits, Aerophonic, Trost, Magnetic South, Feeding Tube, Drag City, Matador, Auris Apothecary, Sophomore Lounge, Amalgam, Medium Sound, Long Gone Sound System, Let’s Pretend, Park 70 & his own Yoke (currently on a temporary hiatus).

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Album Review

KUZU: All Your Ghosts In One Corner

Read "All Your Ghosts In One Corner" reviewed by Mark Corroto


The edge in which the trio Kuzu lays down the five live tracks on All Your Ghosts In One Corner is sharpened by an impending sense of foreboding that accompanied (and still accompanies) the COVID-19 pandemic. Recorded at the end of a tour in March 2020, on the eve of our social isolation with clubs and concert venues soon shuttered, the trio delivers a truly Herculean set of music. Formed in 2017, Chicago saxophonist Dave Rempis invited the ...

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Kuzu: Purple Dark Opal

Read "Purple Dark Opal" reviewed by John Sharpe


Hard as it is to believe, the wonderful Hiljaisuus (Aerophonic, 2019) documented the first encounter between Chicago reedman Dave Rempis, North Carolina-based Bhutanese guitarist Tashi Dorji and drummer Tyler Damon, under the banner Kuzu. On the basis of that triumph, the musicians put together a twenty-date US tour. For their follow up release, Purple Dark Opal, they selected a blistering set-long piece from the fifteenth stop on that road trip in Milwaukee. As it's just shy of an hour,so best ...

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Kuzu: Purple Dark Opal

Read "Purple Dark Opal" reviewed by Mark Corroto


Thank your lucky stars that Kuzu's previous disc Hiljaisuus (Aerophonic/Astral Spirits, 2019) was not a one-off meeting. That recording, their first concert together in 2017, inspired the trio to tour and explore their brand of free jazz. Purple Dark Opal, recorded live in Milwaukee in October 2018, found the trio in the midst of an extended concert tour. Documented here is proof they were indeed firing on all cylinders. “To The Quick" is a single, nearly hour-long track, ...

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Jazz This Week: Jon Wirtz and Nuskool, Darin Gray with Mars Williams and Tyler Damon, Dave Dickey Big Band, and More

Jazz This Week: Jon Wirtz and Nuskool, Darin Gray with Mars Williams and Tyler Damon, Dave Dickey Big Band, and More

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman

Along with the return of something resembling more typical St. Louis weather for this time of year, this late-summer weekend offers an eclectic selection of live jazz and creative music in and around St. Louis. Let's go to the highlights... Tonight, the Denver based pianist Jon Wirtz and his trio Nuskool will be in town to perform at Robbie's House of Jazz. Wirtz (pictured) is doing some Midwest dates in support of his recently released album Tourist, which covers territory ...

“Damon is the tenacious force that keeps the band boiling with his everywhere-at-once presence and impressive stamina. He also has a way of injecting a tight swing or quick-witted groove in the middle of a firestorm that leaves listeners tapping their toes or shaking their heads like, ‘how did he do that?'” – Taylor McDowell, The Free Jazz Collective

“…his blending of scrape disciplines, stream-of-conscious phrasings and subtle tribal rolls is beatifically disorienting and hypnotic and evocative of animal rutting and fighting and writhing…” – Jacob An Kittenplan, Cassette Gods

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Music

Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

All Your Ghosts In...

Aerophonic Records
2021

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Purple Dark Opal

Aerophonic Records
2020

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