Exciting guitar playing by Ava Mendoza, former student of Nels Cline and Fred Frith. Her band from Brooklyn moves between avant-jazz, rock and noise.

Guitar talent Ava Mendoza and her band Unnatural Ways are making name everywhere with flaming performances. Their style is described as ‘complex heavy rock, avant-jazz and warped, noisy blues’, with lots of room for improvisation. Ava Mendoza has mastered many guitar styles, from classical to blues and the adventurous experiments of her former teachers Nels Cline (Wilco) and Fred Frith. Her guitar playing balances between melody and atonality, between beauty and raw abstraction. She has collaborated with countless international musicians, but her main project is Unnatural Ways from Brooklyn, New York. Their first album will appear in February 2015.

‘Imagine Dick Dale shredding with Derek Bailey, then forget everything you know about either – that’s Ava Mendoza’ (NPR).

‘What obscure, overlooked master playing in some slashing, raw-yet-virtuosic manner is this?’ (Nels Cline on Ava Mendoza).

Click here for a background article about Ava Mendoza by jazz journalist Vera Vingerhoeds.

The Bimhuis restaurant is open prior to the concert from 6.30 til 8.30PM (reservations via 020-7882158). After the concert, the Bimhuis Café is open (free entrance).

Ava Mendoza gitaar/vocals, Tim Dahl bas, Max Jaffe drums/percussie