Christian Molenaar

Tag: solo

  • Musaceae Equinox

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    My new album Musaceae Equinox is finally here. Read more

  • Further into the Corner

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    Beginning with last year’s Translation Has Failed album No Duality, Nathan Hubbard’s been on a tear releasing one album per month in the lead-up to his fiftieth birthday in May, ranging from free jazz to doom metal to music for large percussion ensemble, all reflective of “an overflowing archive and dreams of legacy,” as Hubbard Read more

  • 2025

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    I started the year with no greater plans than a set at the Brown Building alongside Amy Cimini and Sean Jones playing my songs for voice and cello. Somehow that turned into a full twelve months of gigging and recording, the busiest year I’ve had post-lockdown. Below, the highlights (and lowlights): Read more

  • Hotfoot @ Vernacular New Music 11/18/25

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    Back in June, Nathan Hubbard assembled Dan Clucas and myself to record nine tracks of obnoxious avant-jazz a la Naked City or Universal Congress Of. You’ll hear that album eventually, but if you had made it out to Sun Space in north LA last night you could have heard it all twice. Read more

  • Void of Horn

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    …and not to steal my own thunder, but my piece “Void of Horn” for flute, concertina and organ is available on the excellent new compilation Antihistamine 2025 from Vermont’s Histamine Tapes. Read more

  • Folies Meurtrières

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    My new album Folies Meurtrières is out today. Read more

  • The Food Shed 10/8/2025

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    Shadow Ticket finally dropped today and you know I was always going to be a day one buyer. Read more

  • The Witches Tower 3/5/25

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    Ryan asked me to play this show and the very next day had to back out upon realizing he’d double-booked himself to sit in with Swing Kids in LA the same night. Obviously I wasn’t going to begrudge him taking the bigger gig, but it did leave the question: how the hell do you play Read more

  • The Brown Building 1/17/2025

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    I loved the concept for this show: the Brown Building’s proprietor and Make Believe DIY head Matty asked me to open for LA-based violinist Lina Tullgren; Amy Cimini on viola and I on cello would round out a sort of deconstructed string trio. Read more

  • 2024

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    Pandemonium of New Year’s Eve: chaos of snow and mud churned up by a thousand carriages glittering with toys and bonbons, swarming with cupidity and despair; official frenzy of a big city designed to trouble the mind of the most impervious solitary. Read more

Thought:

“People can cry much easier than they can change.”

James Baldwin

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