Week 27: Unrelated Points in Space

Live at Easy Tiger Beer Garden – Winston-Salem, NC

This session began as a trio—bass, drums, and keys—three independent trajectories moving through the same room. With no predetermined destination, the music unfolded the way it often does when you let go: fragments aligning, drifting apart, re-aligning again. Hence the name—Unrelated Points in Space.

The first set leaned into open forms and patient listening, with Jonathan Greene and Melchi Kpade shaping grooves that felt elastic and suspended, always in motion but never rushed. In the second set, the constellation expanded. Nishah Dimeo joined us on vocals, bringing an astonishing blend of power, sensitivity, and fearless improvisation. ps edikot stepped up as well, delivering improvised verses that cut through the music with clarity and intention—rhythmic, poetic, and fully present.

As a counterpoint to the human energy of the night, this release also includes a bonus track: Small Tropical Plant Setbreak Freestyle. During the break, a small plant living at the venue was connected to MainStage and routed through five different synth and sampler instruments. The result is a 22-minute, slow-moving soundscape—dark, textural, and reflective. The sounds were shaped on a cold, snowy night, and that atmosphere is embedded in the music: patient, distant, and quietly alive.

Unrelated Points in Space is a document of convergence without control—voices entering and exiting, ideas overlapping briefly before continuing on their own paths. A reminder that not everything has to resolve to be meaningful.

Thank you for listening, and for supporting improvised music in the moment it’s created.

Credits

Melchi Kpade // Keyboards

Jonathan Greene // drums

John Daniel Ray // bass, computer, effects

Small Tropical Plant // Synthesizers, Human designed computer sounds

Nishah Dimeo // vocals

ps edikot // vocals

Produced by John Daniel Ray

Mr. Haircut Studios