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24 October 2026 – Bill Nace and Mike Polizze Release Live at Pageant and Prove That Experimental Rock Can Survive an iPhone Recording
By Editorial Team - October 24, 2026
Summary
American experimental guitarists Bill Nace and Mike Polizze release Live at Pageant: Soloveev on Sea Note, capturing raw iPhone-recorded improvisations.
Key Facts
- Bill Nace and Mike Polizze release collaborative improvised album 'Live at Pageant: Soloveev' on Sea Note.
- Captured live on an iPhone during a May 2025 concert at Philadelphia's Pageant Soloveev gallery.
- Features abrasive taishogoto and distorted electric guitar exchanges.
- Entities: Bill Nace, Mike Polizze, Body/Head, Purling Hiss, Sea Note, Drag City, Pageant Soloveev, Roger Clark Miller, Mission of Burma, Philadelphia
- Tags: bill-nace, mike-polizze, live-at-pageant, sea-note, drag-city, body-head, purling-hiss, taishogoto, experimental-rock
American experimental stalwarts Bill Nace and Mike Polizze have released Live at Pageant: Soloveev through Sea Note (an imprint of Drag City), documenting their thrilling debut collaborative performance. The twenty-three-minute live document captures an unvarnished improvised set staged on May 10, 2025, at Philadelphia's Pageant Soloveev gallery space.
Nace, renowned for his partnership with Kim Gordon in Body/Head, performs on the taishogoto (a Japanese keyed zither), while Purling Hiss frontman Polizze unleashes fractured electric guitar feedback and distorted harmonics. Remarkably, the recording was captured directly onto Polizze's iPhone, giving the vinyl and digital release a visceral, room-shaking authenticity.
Presented by Open Mouth Records on a bill that included Roger Clark Miller of Mission of Burma and Jacy Webster, the performance launched an ongoing artistic alliance between the two musicians. The low-fidelity capture celebrates the spontaneous energy of underground gatherings over sterile studio gloss.
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