End of the year!

Here's all my updates for the end of 2015:

I'm playing in a new band with guitarist Matt Hollenberg, bassist Johnny DeBlase, and drummer Kenny Grohowski that will be bringing you John Zorn's Bagatelles. Matt and I performed these as a duo back in July, now see them blown up and blown out with full force.

12/29 Tuesday
10 pm
JOHN ZORN'S BAGATELLES BY NIGHT: MATT HOLLENBERG-NICK MILLEVOI QUARTET
Matt Hollenberg (guitar) Nick Millevoi (guitar) Johnny DeBlase (bass) Kenny Grohowski (drums)
TWENTY DOLLARS

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Archer Spade - Dan Blacksberg and I - have put together a new festival for January. This time, we'll be presenting four Spectrum Ensemble concerts on each of the first four Sundays in January at 3 pm. Details are below. Keep up-to-date by joining Facebook event page.

Also, we'll be on WKDU with a small group on the evening on December 30.

FB: https://www.facebook.com/events/1525335367792783/

Archer Spade: Spectrum Ensemble
Sunday Matinee Series

Featuring 24 of Philadelphia’s Outest Musicians
including an 18-piece large ensemble, Archer Spade + Kud, Sirius Juju, Van Sutra, and so much more

Jan. 3 @ The Rotunda - 4014 Walnut St, West Philly
This free concert will kick off the series with music by an 18-piece large ensemble playing compositions by Archer Spade.  

Jan. 10 @ The Whole Shebang - 1813 S 11th St, South Philly
Returning to the scene of our July 2015 festival, we'll be featuring large and small groups culled from our 24 members.
 
Jan. 17th @ Retro City Studios - 6120 Green St, Germantown
For this concert, we collected all the pre-existing bands that exist within the membership of our group, which includes Archer Spade + Kud (Dan Blacksberg, Nick Millevoi, and Jesse Kudler), Van Sutra (Julius Masri and George Draguns), Sirius JuJu, Bender / Stein / Tini, and Press / Przybyszewski / Gottlieb-Hollis.

Jan. 24th @ House Gallery 1816 - 1816 Frankford Ave, Fishtown
Closing out our series, we'll feature improvised small ensembles at this intimate concert.
All Shows at 3 pm
$10

details and info: archerspademusic.com

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And here's a great recording of the final 2015 show from Chris Forsyth & the Solar Motel Band, brought to you by NYC Taper

http://www.nyctaper.com/2015/12/chris-forsyth-the-solar-motel-band-december-12-2015-trans-pecos/

Solar Motel shows this weekend, New Yorker coverage

I'm playing three shows this weekend with Chris Forsyth and the Solar Motel Band. We'll be playing alongside Mind Over Mirrors and Horselords.

Check out what the New Yorker had to say:

http://www.newyorker.com/goings-on-about-town/night-life/chris-forsyth-solar-motel-band

Solar Motel Covers on Aquarium Drunkard

Aquarium Drunkard invited Chris Forsyth and the Solar Motel Band to contribute some covers to their Lagniappe Sessions feature so we headed into the studio and did Richard Thompson's "Calvary Cross" and the Dream Syndicate's "When You Smile." Chris plays lead Strat, I play lead Tele on these.

Check them out here: http://www.aquariumdrunkard.com/2015/01/14/the-lagniappe-sessions-chris-forsyth-the-solar-motel-band/

End of the year post!

It's been a while since I've caught up on everything here, so I'm gonna catch up in one year end post.

This fall was great, Archer Spade played some great shows with Toshimaru Nakamura and I did my first tour with Chris Forsyth's Solar Motel Band. Both groups have tours coming up in the first couple months of 2015. Check out my upcoming dates for details on the Archer Spade Scandinavian tour and Solar Motel's January jaunt through the Southeast.

This year I released a lot of albums! You can check out some of them on my Bandcamp page here:

http://nickmillevoi.bandcamp.com

The ones that aren't there are the Haitian Rail Solarists record which is available at http://www.newatlantisrecords.com and the Form and Mess record, which is available at http://sickroomrecords.com/.

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I also have a few releases coming up! In the next few months I have three releases that I'm involved with to be released:

-Archer Spade's new record featuring compositions by Mick Barr, Dave Soldier, Gene Coleman, Johnny DeBlase and ourselves will be released on CD by Mulatta Records

-Many Arms + Toshimaru Nakamura will be released on CD by Public Eyesore

-Dead Neanderthals + Nick Millevoi Dietary Restrictions will be released in limited quantities on tape by Obsedante, recorded live in Berlin during our tour together


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Also, here's a few nice reviews:

Burning Ambulance takes on Form and Mess: http://burningambulance.com/2014/12/15/form-and-mess/

Decoder takes on Numbers on the Side, my split with Onibaba: http://www.secretdecoder.net/reviews/2014/11/18/onibabanick-millevoi-split/

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And finally, here's some documentation of what I've been up to:

Here's a duo of myself and the great Ron Stabinsky at St. Stephen's in Wilkes Barre, PA:




Here's me rocking with Solar Motel at the Spot in Lafayette, IN:



Happy new year!