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CATALYTIC SOUND FESTIVAL 2025 - DC EDITION
Silt Remembrance Ensemble + Angelica Sanchez
Victor Vieira-Branco’s Bark Culture
Tashi Dorji
Alex Hamburger
Presented by Catalytic Sound, Transparent Productions, DC Jazz Festival, and Rhizome DC.
Catalytic Sound is a music-based co-operative designed to help create economic sustainability for its artists through patron support.
Silt Remembrance Ensemble + Angelica Sanchez
Daniel Carter – alto saxophone, trumpet
Brian Settles – tenor saxophone
Jamal Moore – alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, woodwinds, percussion
Luke Stewart – bass, poetry
Chad Taylor – drums, percussion
Angelica Sanchez – piano
Bassist Luke Stewart isn’t afraid of blurring boundaries and blending bands, with astonishing results. An essential creative force in the fertile jazz and improvised music scenes of the East Coast and beyond for nearly two decades, he seized a promising moment to combine musicians from two volatile working combos.
As the name suggests, his new album credited to Silt Remembrance Ensemble, brings together two players from his Remembrance Quintet (introduced on an eponymous 2023 album)– Jamal Moore on reeds and percussion and veteran master Daniel Carter on alto sax and flute–and Silt Trio, featuring powerhouse tenor saxophonist Brian Settles and drum maestro Chad Taylor.
Stewart resides at the center of a tangled skein of relationships running between the four other players. Themes of ancestral recall, the flow of time and water, and the preciousness of shared moments run through the session. Together, these players share a depth of knowledge and spirit of adventure that makes The Order a milestone collaboration that excavates and honors the past while embracing the unknown.
Pianist/Composer/Educator Angelica Sanchez moved to New York from Arizona in 1994. Since moving to the East Coast Sanchez has collaborated with such notable artists as Wadada Leo Smith, Paul Motian, Richard Davis, Jamaladeen Tacuma, Nicole Mitchell, Rob Mazurek, Tim Berne, Mario Pavone, Ben Monder amongst others. Sanchez leads numerous groups, the most recent being her Trio which features Michael Formanek and Billy Hart.
Bark Culture is a trio led by vibraphonist Victor Vieira-Branco featuring drummer Joey Sullivan and bassist John Moran. With over four years of immersive collaboration, the trio is known for their strong ensemble identity, high-energy live performances and extensive touring.
Their record “Warm Wisdom” was cited as the Debut Release of 2024 by New York Times Jazz Critic Hank Shteamer, and listed as Best Jazz on Bandcamp September 2024. More recently, the trio was enlisted by Rob Mazurek to perform on the soundtrack of Kelly Reichardt’s new film The Mastermind which premiered in competition at the Cannes Film Festival.
For the groups upcoming release, the trio is joined by pianist and composer Sam Yulsman , scheduled for early 2026.
Listed as Best Jazz of Bandcamp September 2024.
Tashi Dorji is a Bhutanese guitarist and improvisational musician known for his avant-garde and experimental (read: deeply gnarly, finely arty) approach to music. Tashi’s idiosyncratic take on the instrument, one defined by movement and profound openness to technique, adds up to a post-colonial disembowlment of guitar traditions that stands Tashi next de- and re-constructionist giants as various as Derek Bailey, John Fahey and Bill Orcutt.
For the last decade, flutist, vocalist and composer Alex Hamburger has been creating her own musical direction. Her debut And She Spoke gave voice to female poets and composers while her acclaimed sophomore album What If? blended acoustic and electric textures to explore transformation and perception, praised by All About Jazz, Jazzthing, and Bandcamp. She has since toured across the U.S., Europe, and South America, and most recently co-produced Brazilian pianist José Luiz Martins’ Odyssey Mixtape, winner of the 2025 DCJazzPrix.
Alex remains deeply connected to the DC music community as a member of Recording Academy DC chapter and 2022 Strathmore Artist in Residence class as well as founder/producer of My Body, My Festival; a fundraiser for the DC Abortion Fund and managing director of CapitalBop, a nonprofit dedicated to promoting, preserving and presenting Jazz in DC.
