Christian Molenaar

Tag: solo

  • FML

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    I finally made the move to the Bay last month. Read more

  • Harmonie du soir

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    Nina Danino asked if I’d be interested in contributing music to her new film Venice. That collaboration took a hundred twists and turns from blues rock to EDM, and now one possible version is available for you to hear. Read more

  • Hotfoot @ Open Gate 5/3/25

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    Hotfoot finally put out our album in January but I’d swear we had this show booked before it was even written. Nathan’s 50th birthday is in a couple weeks which means the end of his 12 Records Towards 50 project is nearly upon us. I should have gotten him a cake, but I guess a… Read more

  • 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

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“I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.”

Susan Sontag

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