Wednesday December 10 * 7pm * $10-20 * TICKETS

Church Car is the duo project of Ian Douglas-Moore and Big Daddy Mugglestone, blending minimalist psychedelic trance-rock, spoken texts mediated by machine algorithms, and tunings that alter the listener’s auditory perception. Their guitar and drum interactions move between polyrhythmic goatherd meditations and field recordings, creating an imagined folk tradition glimpsed through a screen of urban life.

While living in Berlin, Ian Douglas-Moore developed a minimal approach to the guitar, creating psychoacoustic experiences with feedback and resonant long tones. After moving to New York City in 2016, he studied just intonation with composer David First, later joining his ensemble. He has played bass guitar in rock bands Gold Dime and Bushwick Cowboys, organizes experimental music concerts with guitarist/bagpiper David Watson, and performs with people like Patrick Holmes, Jeff Tobias, and Dominic Coles.

Big Daddy Mugglestone (Aaron Snyder) is a Colorado-born musician and composer. After studying Ethnomusicology at Indiana University and doing field work in Africa, Asia and Central America, he landed in Berlin in 2005. Since then he has worked in many different projects and bands, from stage and dance sound design to Country/Americana and experimental improv.

Drawn - DC/Philly - memories from an unreliable narrator. Nenet on vocals, Nate Scheible on drums, Layne Garrett on guitar.

Alex Strama / Lucia Shuyu Li / Miki present "Trilateral Communication"

Alex Strama (born April 9th 1977) is an American musician raised in the Baltimore Md area. He is a multi-instrumentalist who has played Guitar, Bass, and Drums in dozens of bands since 1997. Strama has also recorded and released 19 solo albums under the names Newagehillbilly and $2 Romance since 2002 fusing various forms of experimental music, noise, electronic, ambient, acid folk and psyche rock. He also owned and operated MT6 Records (1998-2014) which focused mainly on Baltimore based bands, musicians, and artists.

Lucia Shuyu Li is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans installation, performance, painting, and sound. Drawing on both her Chinese heritage and her current base in the United States, her work interrogates systems of power, cultural identity, and the fragile boundaries between perception and reality. She received her MFA in Multidisciplinary Arts from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) and has exhibited across the U.S. and internationally. Her projects often merge philosophy and material experimentation, engaging audiences in encounters that question the ways bodies, cultures, and institutions intersect. Beyond her individual practice, Li has contributed as an educator and curator, expanding dialogues within communities and building platforms for collaborative exploration.

Miki - Former musician from 1997-2016 now acting as a Performance artist / reactionary improviser mixing sound, lighting, and visual arts. Current Works is on natural, minimalism, and industrial settings and stage designs.