Melvin Gibbs will be doing a live remix of his latest album, Amasia: Anaminia Sessions 2, which Pitchfork described as a "dynamic amalgam of avant-club music, post-vaporwave prog, and electrifying jazz fusion.” Before and after Gibbs’s set, expect to hear a DJ set of deep jazz and soul cuts, future-forward R&B, and experimental ambience from Yonci.

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Melvin Gibbs is a Grammy-nominated composer, musician, and writer born and raised in Brooklyn, NY. Time Out New York once wrote that he was "the greatest bassist in the world,” and JazzTimes rated him No. 1 Electric Bassist in its 2019 Critics Poll. His first book, How Black Music Took Over The World, will be published by Basic Books in April 2026.

Gibbs’s latest album, Amasia: Anamibia Sessions 2—released in October 2025 on Hausu Mountain Records—was called “a triumph” by Pitchfork. They described the record as “a dynamic amalgam of avant-club music, post-vaporware prog, and electrifying prog,” in contrast to his 2022 record The Wave: Anamibia Sessions 1, which they described as “abstract low-end rumblings somewhere between Thomas Koner’s 1990s gong experiments and Sunn O))) at their most subterranean.”

Gibbs’s diverse musical background includes mentorship by Ornette Coleman and Gil Evans; stints in Defunkt and the Rollins Band; collaborations in ensembles including Power Tools alongside Bill Frisell and Ronald Shannon Jackson, the cooperative Harriet Tubman, and the band Body Meπa; as well as work with Arto Lindsay, dead prez, Caetano Veloso, DJ Logic, David Byrne, Eddie Palmieri, and Sonny Sharrock. In the past few years, Gibbs has released solo works on Hausu Mountain Records, Editions Mego, and Northern Spy Records; performed in collaboration with Wadada Leo Smith, Moor Mother, and Marshall Allen; and maintained an ongoing musical collaboration with theoretical physicist Stephon Alexander called God Particle.

For a deeper dive on Gibbs’s work, check out this podcast interview by Essential Tremors, shared via Big Ears.

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Yonci is a DJ, curator, and musician recently appointed music director of Jazz88 (KBEM). Their practice oscillates between written and broadcast media, performance, archival research, and synthesis.