CAROLINE DAVIS’ ALULA
(Booking in North America)
LINEUPS:
Caroline Davis’ Alula ft. Chris Tordini + Kate Gentile
Lineup: Caroline Davis (saxophone / effects), Chris Tordini (bass), Kate Gentile (drums)
Caroline Davis’ Alula ft. Chris Tordini + Savannah Harris
Lineup: Caroline Davis (saxophone / effects), Chris Tordini (bass), Savannah Harris (drums)
Caroline Davis’ Alula ft. Matt Mitchell + Greg Saunier
Lineup: Caroline Davis (saxophone / effects), Matt Mitchell (synthesizers), Greg Saunier (drums)
Caroline Davis’ Alula
Lineup: Caroline Davis (saxophone and effects), Val Jeanty (turntable / sampling), Chris Tordini (bass), Tyshawn Sorey (drums)
TOUR:
Jun 26, 2023: Ottawa, ON @ Ottawa Jazz Festival
Jun 27, 2023: Brooklyn, NY @ Lunatico
Jun 28, 2023: Philadelphia, PA @ Solar Myth
Jul 02, 2023: Vancouver, BC @ Vancouver Jazz Festival
Oct 24, 2023: Brooklyn, NY @ Roulette (Album Release)
Mar 01-10, 2023: WEST COAST (NOW BOOKING)
2024 - Available upon request
2025 - Available upon request
NEW ABLUM:
CAROLINE’S FIRST SOCIAL JUSTICE ALBUM, ALULA: CAPTIVITY (OCTOBER 2023, ROPEADOPE RECORDS), SITUATES HER ELECTRO-FREE COMPOSITIONS ALONGSIDE THE LIVES OF EIGHT HEROES WHO KEPT HOPE ALIVE THROUGH INCARCERATION.
PREVIOUS ALBUM:
ALULA RELEASED IN 2019 (NEW AMSTERDAM)
BIO:
Caroline Davis created the band, Alula, to seek out electronic components in her performances and compositions. On their first album, released in 2019 on New Amsterdam Records, the trio included synthesizer contributions from Matt Mitchell (Linda Oh, Dave Douglas, Tim Berne, Fiction) and the drum and percussion voice of Greg Saunier (Deerhoof, Dal Niente, Mystical Weapons). Davis’ first compositions arose after a stimulating read of The Sibley Guide to Birds, where she learned about “...this magical structure on bird wings that appeared during moments of take off, flight, and landing” was immediately drawn to it. Of her first release, The New York Times remarked, "you can hear Ms. Davis's talent for deriving long, dizzying motifs from smaller melodic cells." A forthcoming album will present a similar balance of improvised and composed material amongst electronic samples from freedom fighters held in captivity for wrongful convictions.
VIDEOS:
PRESS:
“The latest project from Davis…is Alula, her most formally innovative group yet.” (NEW YORK TIMES)
“Like all her prior works, you don’t have to be a book nerd to appreciate her music, and that holds true even more than ever with Alula, which might very well be her most ambitious project yet even as it’s also structurally her most spare.” (SOMETHING ELSE!)