Villagers and Vagabonds featuring We Come From Far Away, May 15, 8 PM, Green Kill Sessions
Green Kill Sessions presents Villagers and Vagabonds featuring We Come From Far Away, Thursday, May 15, 8 PM.
Green Kill Sessions presents the improvisational series, Villagers and Vagabonds, on Thursday, May 15, 2025, 8 PM. The featured performers are We Come From Far Away, Dane Johnson (Kingston, NY) and Rick Warren (Hudson, NY). Read more about We Come from Far Away below the ticket information.
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We Come From Far Away
We Come From Far Away is an improvisational duo project featuring Dane Johnson (Kingston, NY) and Rick Warren (Hudson, NY).
Rick and Dane each employ a range of electronic effects to meld, mold and shape the sounds which they evoke from their guitars into immersive soundscapes which draw you into a holographic ocean as the textures morph and weave, diverge and reconverge in an ever changing supernova of sound.
Dane Johnson on Electric Guitar and Effects
Dane Johnson (Berklee College of Music - Composition & Film Scoring) has been composing and performing since the mid-90s starting in Boston with groups like Jonathan LaMaster's Saturnalia, Prelaspe (w/John Zorn), studied Hindustani vocal music with Warren Senders and also collaborated on various sound sculpture installations in the Boston area (Cyclorama, deCordova Museum). He currently lives in Kingston, NY and is working on projects with The Fretless Brothers (Jon Catler, Hansford Rowe, Brian Chase - a microtonal fusion jazz/rock group playing FreeNote Music's just-tuned guitars), Beninghove's Hangmen (Bryan Beninghove, Rick Parker, Eyal Maoz - horn and guitar driven noir jazz noise rock fun), He also plays lead guitar in BongoSurf (instrumental surf band playing your favs by Link Wray, The Ventures and Dick Dale, etc.) and composes his own solo microtonal drone based recordings for acoustic guitar, electronics, cSound and tape media.
Rick Warren on Electric Guitar and Effects
Originally from Kingston, Hudson-based Rick Warren has been deeply involved in the improvisational and experimental music scene fostered by renowned vibraphonist Karl Berger at the Creative Music Studio in Woodstock, NY. It was Berger’s chance visit to Rick’s high school music theory class that led him to become a regular participant in twice-yearly workshops held at CMS, an international hot bed of improvisational music performance and education founded in 1971 by Berger, Ingrid Sertso and Ornette Coleman. Rick is well known for his soundscape compositions using his guitar and a variety of electronic sound sources, all totally improvised with no preconceived ideas, presented live many Sunday evenings from his Facebook page. Rick, or “Lightnin’ Rick” the name erroneously gifted to him in High School during a pizza lunch, has most recently joined the Hudson Valley Psych-Surf Rock outfit “spaceheater”, headquartered in the Woodstock/Saugerties area. Further adventures include Folk-Rock performances and recordings in the aptly named duo “Rick and Marilyn”. Rick is often called upon to perform with Gus “The Sultan of Sonic Soul” Mancini and the improvisational “Sonic Soul Awekestra”. Warren is also involved with the Woodstock-based soundpainting ensemble Audiocanvas, led by bassist St
Scott Kent, Sound Engineer
Scott Kent originally came to Woodstock in 1988 to work for Bearsville Studios. He taught guitar at Abrams Music and the Kingston Conservatory of Music before moving to San Diego in 1993. He taught Band and Orchestra for San Diego Unified School District for 18 years and returned to Mt. Tremper in 2016. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Professional Music from Berklee College of Music and a Master’s degree in Jazz Studies from San Diego State University.
