Gerrit Hatcher is a Chicago-based tenor saxophonist, improviser, and composer. Hatcher's work typically engages with free jazz as a craft and set of practices that is as much historical as it is experimental. Gerrit has been involved in several working groups and other ensembles, based in Chicago and beyond. Without enumerating all of them, these have included collaborations with fellow Chicagoans Dave Rempis, Kent Kessler, Bill Harris, Joshua Abrams, Tyler Damon, Katie Ernst, Ben Lamar Gay, Julian Kirshner, Keefe Jackson, Peter Maunu, Paul Giallorenzo, Andrew Scott Young, Lia Kohl and Marvin Tate as well as with artists and performers based elsewhere including Jakob Warmenbol, Rob Magill, Patrick Shiroishi, Eli Namay, Erwan Keravec and Gaspar Claus. Hatcher founded his label Kettle Hole Records in 2019 and, in addition to his releases there, he has released work on Amalgam Music, Julian Kirshner’s imprint JAKI, Astral Spirits, No Index and The Bridge Sessions.
Weasel Walter (first name, last name) is a multi-instrumentalist, composer and improviser best known for leading the seminal punk-jazz/no-wave/brutal-prog band The Flying Luttenbachers on 16 full-length releases from 1992 to present. Seamlessly uniting the intensity and abstraction of improvised music with the nihilist aesthetics of extreme rock forms, Walter is committed to violent momentum, idiomatic unpredictability and rapid articulation. During '90s, Mr. Walter was a catalyst in the Chicago music underground, spearheading a new wave of improvised music activity with peers like Kevin Drumm, Ken Vandermark and Jim O'Rourke and playing in experimental rock bands centered around the Skin Graft record label such as the Flying Luttenbachers, Lake Of Dracula, and Bobby Conn. Relocating from Chicago to Oakland in 2003, Walter continued down these streams, performing and recording with musicians like Evan Parker, Roscoe Mitchell, Marshall Allen, John Butcher, Henry Kaiser, William Winant, Sandy Ewen, Peter Evans, Damon Smith, Vinny Golia, and Mary Halvorson as well as playing with bands like XBXRX, Burmese, Lair of the Minotaur, and Erase Errata. Moving to New York in 2009, he performed with Elliott Sharp, Thurston Moore, Darius Jones, Ava Mendoza, Alex Ward, Marc Edwards, Steve Swell, Eugene Chadbourne, Zeena Parkins, Tim Dahl, Forbes Graham, Steve Beresford, Mick Barr, Jaap Blonk, and Maria Faust, in addition to co-leading and/or playing in bands like Lydia Lunch Retrovirus, Cellular Chaos, Vomitatrix, Encenathrakh, Drunks With Guns, and Behold The Arctopus. After a decade-long hiatus, The Flying Luttenbachers reformed in 2017 and have released five full-length albums. He appears on more than 215 commercially released recordings. Walter currently lives in Chicago.