In collaboration with Mythscience, Deluge returns to 2220 Arts + Archives with a special performance by improvised jazz trio Nailah Hunter, Max Jaffe, and Gavin Gamboa on Saturday, April 19, 2025.

Very special guest to be announced.

Nailah Hunter / Max Jaffe / Gavin Gamboa
inner-vation • in-nerv-ation

These three seasoned improvisers gather in the debut of their trio ensemble for DELUGE. Delving into a blend of acoustic and digital palettes, the performance “…will take the omega point as the field, the liquidation of dwelling the center of gravity, and the mathematics of the temporal turned inside out. Departing from genre while maintaining it in its rearview glance (as does the Angelus Novus) … jazz, mystical folk, and the avant-garde dissolve into each other, innervating an architecture of dronology and cosmic transport.”

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ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Nailah Hunter
The LA-based multi-instrumentalist and composer Nailah Hunter has been recording mystical folk and ambient-inspired music since 2019, releasing a series of singles and two EPs: Spells, Quietude, and most recently Lovegaze (Fat Possum). As the daughter of a Belizean pastor, Hunter began her musical journey in the church where she played drums, guitar and sang in the choir. She continued on to study music at CalArts, where she studied vocal performance and was given her first harp lesson. Associating the instrument with fantasy, psychedelia, and dream worlds, Hunter became an immediate devotee, locking herself in a room for six hours a day to practice the instrument. To make Lovegaze, Hunter decamped to a small coastal city along the English Channel where she began recording demos with a borrowed celtic harp, and returned to England a year later to further develop the songs. The resulting collection is a bewitching testament to the resiliency of the natural world, and an enthralling album that draws listeners into her enchanting cosmology.

Max Jaffe
Max Jaffe expands the boundaries of possibility for composition and collaboration through the drum set. His music draws from many different genres and seeks to break down the boundaries between them. He is part of a cutting edge of drummers that have embraced SUNHOUSE and their Sensory Percussion technology that has shifted the paradigm of the instrument. His powerful solo performances exploit the physicality of the drums to create narrative through movement, defying visual expectations and logic for what a “drum solo” can express.
As a collaborator, he is a longtime member of experimental rock collective JOBS and was a founding member of Amirtha Kidambi’s Elder Ones, Leverage Models, and several other groups. He has toured with EDEN, Chrome Sparks, Steph Richards, Peter Evans, Rubblebucket, Delicate Steve, Cass McCombs, Oberhofer, Ava Mendoza, and many others. He has performed at a diverse range of festivals including Moers Festival, Big Ears, Panorama NYC, Berlin Jazz Festival, Movement Detroit, Vision Fest, and more.

Gavin Gamboa
Gavin Gamboa is a multimedia practitioner and information designer whose work fuses premeditated music composition, free improvisation and esoteric software to form a multifaceted stylistic praxis. Born in Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico he composes for a variety of ensembles and performs internationally as a pianist with programs which include new works and those of the classical repertory. He has performed in Los Angeles, Seattle, Cincinnati, Mérida, Berlin, and has accompanied Erykah Badu with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and tenor León de Castillo in Vienna. His work has been featured at Transart Festival (Bolzano IT), Międzynarodowe Spotkania Teatrów Tańca (Lublin PL), Cultura Mazatlán (Mazatlán MX), Pacific Standard Time LA/LA (Los Angeles US), and his opera with filmmaker E. Elias Merhige ‘Polia & Blastema’ featuring Micaela Tobin & Sharon Chohi Kim was premiered at Opera Philadelphia’s Festival O22, with successive screenings at Offscreen Film Festival (Brussels BE) and E’trange Festival (Paris FR). Additional works for film made in collaboration with the conceptual artist David Lamelas have screened at The Getty (Los Angeles US), Gene Siskel Film Center (Chicago US), and Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (Buenos Aires AR). He is a frequent collaborator with the visual artist Strangeloop, having worked together on various projects for the stage and screen, the two of them also founding members of the arts collective The Teaching Machine. He is currently based in Los Angeles.

ABOUT DELUGE
Deluge is a music performance series that seeks to explore the depths and outer reaches of ambient,
experimental and avant-garde sound. The series aims to create environments for deep listening and
discourse around boundary-pushing work by BIPOC artists, building upon the rich landscape of
ambient and experimental music performance with a socially and critically engaged approach.