New Media Contemporary Presents: New Music Series

Trio Glossia:

Trio Glossia is a Dallas/Denton based jazz project consisting of Matthew Frerck on stand up bass, Joshua Miller on drums, percussion, and tenor saxophone, and Stefan Gonzalez on vibraphone and drums.  Originally starting as an improvisational unit in 2022, they have since started incorporating their own original compositions with improvisational explorations.  All three musicians share a mutual love of all things pertaining to the history and development of free jazz and the avant garde.  Trio Glossia covers a lot of ground from heart wrenching ballads to angular swing to textural meditations, with a healthy emphasis on the harmolodic history of the Dallas/Ft. Worth metroplex.

El Mantis:

Formed in 2021 in Houston Texas by Drummer and Vocalist Angel Garcia ,Saxophonist Danny Kamins and Multi Instrumentalist Andrew Martinez, El Mantis is a trio that takes Jazz and mixes it with genres like Flamenco, Latin Jazz, Progressive Rock, and the Avant Garde, with Influences like John Coltrane, Albert Ayler, Ornette Coleman, Magma(France) and Enrique Morente.  El Mantis does music with intensity and passion.  Their self titled cd was released in 2022(now sold out but available on digital platforms) and in 2024 they released their second album through CIA Records (Houston) on vinyl.