OPTION: BCMC

Recorded in the ESS garden on August 17, 2025. BCMC are evolving as a band, currently writing new material, preparing their next recording, and discovering new ways of presenting work which is both composed and improvisational. This concert will visit where they’ve been and where they’re going. About BCMC BCMC, featuring Cooper Crain and Bill MacKay, unite to create provocative epilogues, warm avant-garde noir, and fiery over-driven jams to recall life’s sunnier and stranger days. Crain’s organ and synths mix with MacKay’s guitars as they draw songs from elegiac themes and spontaneous statements that are equal parts east-west, deep space, avant-rock, raga, fugue, field recording, blues and beyond. The OPTION series is curated by Andrew Clinkman, Lily Finnegan, and Dorothy Carlos.