MANTIS
Audio for the Arts 7 S. Blair St., Madison, Wisconsin 53703
Jolynne Roorda
The three members of MANTIS looking down from above.
Mantis (from left): Brad Townsend, Nick Zielinski and Anders Svanoe.
MANTIS is an experimental jazz trio built around the compositions and baritone sax playing of Anders Svanoe. As displayed on their self-titled 2022 album, Svanoe’s music for the band includes plenty of room for bassist Brad Townsend and drummer Nick Zielinski (both also members of ARP of the Covenant) to shine. MANTIS is free and swinging and will take the listener places you didn’t expect to go. They’re visiting Audio for the Arts studio as part of the Acoustic Moose concert series, and the evening also doubles as a live concert recording session.
media release: Join us in person or virtually for another edition of Acoustic Moose! Our esteemed guests on March 14 will be Mantis! $10 suggested donation at the door.
Mutated in the radioactive pressure cooker of covid-era late-stage capitalism, MANTIS uses its triangular head, bulging compound eyes and elongated forelegs to sow precious seeds of doubt in the musical status quo. Unhinging its gigantic mandibles to latch on to its prey, it sprays the acid of anarchy to dissolve oppressive manmade order and allow space for nature to reform order in her own image.
MANTIS is-
Anders Svanoe-baritone saxophone/keyboards
Brad Townsend-bass/electronics
Nick Zielinski-drums/electronics
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