Steve Marquette is a guitarist, improviser and organizer based out of Chicago. He has since become an integral part of the city's storied and vibrant improvised music community touring the United States and Europe in ensembles of his own The Few (with Macie Stewart and Charlie Kirchen) Kobra Quartet (with Anton Hatwich, Aurora Nealand and Paul Thibodeaux), Ibises (with Dan Bitney and Nick Macri), Liminal Rites (with Alison Chesley), the Instigation Orchestra and formerly as a member of Ken Vandermark's Marker. 

Marquette has had the opportunity to perform with a litany of the leading figures in improvised and creative music including Nels Cline, Chris Corsano, Tim Daisy, Melissa Guion (MJ Guider), Mats Gustafsson’s Fire! Orchestra, Jon Irabagon, Lia Kohl, Joe McPhee, Dave Rempis and Mars Williams.

Frelonia brings together Núria Andorrà (percussion), Lotte Anker (saxophone), and Fred Frith (electric guitar) in a powerful new trio. Fred and Lotte previously released the exhilarating and inspiring Edge of the Light, while Dancing Like Dust captured the mesmerizing inventiveness of Fred and Núria. Now, the three unite: a meeting of minds and sounds where sparks are bound to fly…


Fred Frith is a pioneer of the extended electric guitar. He learned to compose in Henry Cow, developed his song-writing skills in Art Bears, explored his multi-instrumentalism in Skeleton Crew, rocked the house with Massacre and is still doing all of those things, having been in one band or another continuously since 1964! Meanwhile his work has been performed by string quartets, orchestras, big bands and a whole range of groups and artists in the ever-expanding field of semi-popular music. Film music credits include the acclaimed documentaries Rivers and Tides, Leaning into the Wind, and Tracing Light directed by Thomas Riedelsheimer, The Tango Lesson, Yes and The Party by Sally Potter, Werner Penzel’s Zen for Nothing, Peter Mettler’s Gods, Gambling and LSD, and the award-winning (and Oscar-nominated) Last Day of Freedom, by Nomi Talisman and Dee Hibbert-Jones. Fred’s passion for improvising has increasingly led him to work with artists who don’t necessarily define themselves uniquely as improvisers. He is the subject of Step Across the Border, cited by Cahiers du Cinéma as one of the hundred most influential films of the 20^th century

 Lotte Anker is an award-winning Copenhagen-based saxophonist/composer working in the hybrid and fluid field between improvisation, experimental jazz and contemporary composed music. As a performer/composer, she is particularly interested in the dynamics between 'free' improvisation and
 compositional practices, with an emphasis on exploring qualities and possibilities in sound material, silence and space. Recent collaborations include Anker/Taborn/Cleaver (w/ Craig Taborn and Gerald
 Cleaver), Wassermann/Anker/Parkins (w/ Ute Wassermann & Andrea Parkins), Lotte Anker & Fred Frith, and larger groups such as What River Ensemble, Electric Habitat and Sub Habitat. Other past and present collaborators include Magda Mayas, Tony Buck, Joëlle Léandre, Christof Kurzmann, Okkyung Lee, Sylvie Courvoiser, Ikue Mori, Evan Parker, Paul Lovens, Johannes Bauer, Sofia Jernberg, Satoko Fuji, Natsuki Tamura, John Edwards, Nate Wooley, Susana Santos Silva, Chris Corsano and countless others. Lotte has performed and led workshops at numerous venues in Europe, USA, Canada, Russia, Asia, Africa and the Middle East.
 
Percussionist, improviser and composer of new creations, Núria Andorrà trained in classical and contemporary music but has always drawn from other sources of inspiration. She proposes a universe where images, sound and the body come together to create and transmit emotions from an
 interdisciplinary perspective. She has played with Fred Frith, Lê Quan Ninh, Joëlle Léandre, Agustí Fernández, Michel Doneda, Frances-Marie Uitti, Susana Santos Silva, Christiane Bopp, Nuno Rebelo and Alessandra Rombolá as well as collaborating with dancers Federica Porello, Julyen Hamilton,
 Almudena Pardo and Sònia Sánchez among many others. She has also worked on interdisciplinary shows with Carles Santos, Hèctor Parra, Raül Refree, Matmos, and Mariona Naudin. Núria taught improvisation at the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya and currently teaches percussion at the Reus Conservatory and the Liceu Conservatory in Barcelona.