02.22.25 - TBA - NEB V2 - New Haven, CT 02.21.25 - Duo w. Brandon Lopez - FIM @ Record Shop - Red Hook, NYC 02.16.25 - Quartet w. James McKain, Kelly Bray, Teté Leguía + James Paul Nadien - NEB V2 - New Haven, CT 02.08.25 - Quartet w. Dan O'Brien, Caleb Duval + Kevin Murray - NEB V2 - New Haven, CT 02.01.25 - Duo w. Caleb Duval - NEB V2 - New Haven, CT 01.25.25 - Duo w. Michael Larocca - NEB V2 - New Haven, CT 01.19.25 - Solo - NEB V2 - New Haven, CT 01.18.25 - Solo - Arts Letters & Numbers - Averill Park, NY 01.17.25 - Trio w. Mackenzie Kourie + Caleb Duval - NEB V2 - New Haven, CT 01.12.25 - Duo w. Evan Palmer - NEB V2 - New Haven, CT 01.01.25 - Trio w. Mackenzie Kourie + Caleb Duval - Noise Brunch at Firehouse - Worcester, MA 12.28.24 - Bookers quartet w. Diane Buettner - NEB V2 - New Haven, CT 12.06.24 - Duo w. Jon Elbaz - NEB V2 - New Haven, CT 12.01.24 - Bookers quartet w. Andrea Pensado
AND Bookers quartet w. Teté Leguía
AND Bookers quartet w. Kaelen Ghandhi - NEB V2 - New Haven, CT 11.30.24 - Bookers quartet w. Adam Matlock
AND Bookers quartet w. Kelly Bray
AND Bookers quartet w. Forbes Graham - NEB V2 - New Haven, CT 11.29.24 - Bookers quartet w. Stephen Gauci
AND Bookers quartet w. Jon Elbaz
AND Bookers quartet w. Ben Eidson - NEB V2 - New Haven, CT< 11.14.24 - Solo - Hampshire College - Amherst, MA 11.09.24 - Solo - Willimantic Records - Willimantic, CT 10.27.24 - Quartet with Weeks + Duval + Murray - NEB V2 - New Haven, CT 10.26.24 - Trio w. Teté Leguía + James Paul Nadien - NEB V2 - New Haven, CT 09.28.24 - Bookers - Fall River Noise Fest II - Fall River, MA 09.27.24 - Duo w. Andrew Smiley - NEB V2 - New Haven, CT 09.21.24 - Quartet w. Forbes Graham + Bookers - NEB V2 - New Haven, CT 09.18.24 - Trio w. Kaelen Ghandhi + Nick Neuburg - Freddy's - Brooklyn, NY 09.27.24 - Solo - La Foi Salon - Providence, RI 09.15.24 - Quartet w. Jon Elbaz + Bookers - NEB V2 - New Haven, CT 09.06.24 - Inconcinnity - NEB V2 - New Haven, CT 08.31.24 - Duo w. Tom Weeks - NEB V2 - New Haven, CT 08.18.24 - Quartet w. Jamison Williams + Bookers - NEB V2 - New Haven, CT 08.12.24 - Quartet with Lemuel Marc + Bookers - Black Lace - Providence, RI 08.11.24 - Trio w. Ayako Kanda + James Paul Nadien - NEB V2 - New Haven, CT 08.09.24 - Quartet w. Jacobs + Duval + Vincent - The Shop - Hamden, CT 08.03.24 - Trio w. Kelly Bray + Caleb Duval - Verbatim 2024 - Round Tree, NY 07.27.24 - Trio w. Tom Weeks + Noa Jacques - NEB V2 - New Haven, CT 07.25.24 - Trio w. Kevin Murray + Caleb Duval - Record Shop - Brooklyn, NY 07.21.24 - Quartet w. Manuel J Perez III + Bookers - NEB V2 - New Haven, CT 07.20.24 - Quartet w. Jack Wright - The Shop - Hamden, CT 07.19.24 - Duo. w. Jack Wright
AND Trio w. Caleb Duval - NEB V2 - New Haven, CT 07.13.24 - Quartet w. Ipek Eginli + Bookers - NEB V2 - New Haven, CT 07.12.24 - Bookers - Black Lace - Providence, RI 06.30.24 - Quartet w. Kaelen Ghandhi + Bookers - Freddy's - Brooklyn, NY 06.29.24 - Quartet w. Kaelen Ghandhi + Bookers - NEB V2 - New Haven, CT 06.16.24 - Quartet w. Forbes Graham + Bookers - NEB V2 - New Haven, CT 06.15.24 - Quartet w. Dan O'Brien + Bookers - The Shop - Hamden, CT 05.26.24 - Duo w. Caleb Duval - Freddy's Bar and Backroom - Brooklyn, NY 05.25.24 - Quartet w. Lemuel Marc + Bookers - NEB V2 - New Haven, CT 05.14.24 - Bookers - Holyoke Media Center - Holyoke, MA 05.11.24 - Trio w. Ayako Kanda + James Paul Nadien - Record Shop - Brooklyn, NY 05.10.24 - Quartet w. Hans Young Binter + Bookers - NEB V2 - New Haven 05.03.24 - Trio w. Patrick Crossland + Caleb Duval - Red Room - Baltimore, ME 04.28.24 - Trio w. Julian Seney + Nat Baldwin - NEB V2 - New Haven, CT 04.27.24 - Quartet w. Lao Dan + Bookers - Willi Records - Willimantic, CT 04.26.24 - Quartet w. Lao Dan + Caleb Duval + JP Nadien - NEB V2 - New Haven, CT 04.25.24 - Quartet w. Mackenzie Kourie + Bookers - Red Ink - Providence, RI 04.12.24 - Bookers - NEB V2 - New Haven, CT 04.02.24 - Stalwart - Mardi Spaghetti at Casa Del Popolo - Montreal, QC 04.01.24 - Stalwart - Troy Speakeasy - Troy, NY 03.31.24 - Stalwart - Record Shop - Brooklyn, NY 03.30.24 - Stalwart - NEB V2 - New Haven, CT 03.24.24 - Duo w. Caleb Duval - Notice Rec. at The Tavern - Stone Ridge, NY 03.23.24 - Duo w. Caleb Duval - Headstone Gallery - Kingston, NY 03.22.24 - Quartet w. Tom Weeks + Bookers - Redscroll Records - Wallingford, CT 03.21.24 - Quartet w. Tom Weeks + Bookers Two Sets - Lilypad - Cambridge, MA 03.17.24 - Quintet w. Jack Wright/Patrick Crossland/Bookers
AND Bookers trio - Willimantic Records - Willimantic, CT 02.24.24 - Quartet w. Sam Newsome + Bookers - NEB V2 - New Haven, CT 02.23.24 - Quartet w. Stephen Gauci + Bookers - NEB V2 - New Haven, CT 02.18.24 - Trio w. Caleb Duval + Myles Vincent - NEB V2 - New Haven, CT 01.26.24 - Duo w. Teté Leguía - NEB V2 - New Haven, CT 01.18.24 - Duo w. Julian Seney
AND Quartet w. Caleb Duval + Mackenzie Kourie - NEB V2 - New Haven, CT 01.10.24 - Trio w. Nick Neuburg + Caleb Duval - Main Drag - Brooklyn, NY 12.30.24 - Trio w. Sean Fennessy + Mackenzie Kourie
AND Dan O'Brien + Noa Jacques - NEB V2 - New Haven, CT 12.29.24 - Bookers - NEB V2 - New Haven, CT
ABOUT
Luke Rovinsky is an improvising electric guitarist based in New Haven, Connecticut.
Since April 2022, he has co-organized FIM Improvisation's Radical Music series with bassist Caleb Duval, independently presenting over 70 concerts featuring themselves and a community of New England-based musicians performing with and alongside improvisers from NYC, Chicago, Berlin, Tokyo, and Mexico City. In 2024, they established FIM Records.
With Duval, Rovinsky performs in the groups Bookers with Michael Larocca, Stalwart with Ben Eidson and James Paul Nadien, Inconcinnity with Alina Jacobs and Mackenzie Kourie, Beasts with Kaelen Ghandhi, Ben Eidson, and Jeff Dragan, and eeeeeel with Noah Jacques and Crescent Malavet.
He has performed with Joe Morris, Tatsuya Nakatani, Jack Wright, Sam Newsome, Andrea Pensado, Lao Dan, Stephen Gauci, Nat Baldwin, Patrick Crossland, Ted Moore, Forbes Graham, Jamison Williams, Ayako Kanda, James McKain, Tom Weeks, Teté Leguía, Adam Matlock, and Carl Testa. His work has been featured in The New Haven Independent and Bandcamp Daily, on BBC Radio 3's Freeness and at the 2022 Catalytic Sound Festival.
DISCOGRAPHY
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"The music was beautiful...continuous state logics! Multiple logics! Reverse logics! Everyone's listening! It was alive and positive! Hooray for the Creator of the universe, that's what I would say."
- Anthony Braxton, on "Beasts II"
"Stalwart’s heavy yet lively interplay very much belongs to a thriving new school of improvised music that transcends state (and national) borders, distilling both the silliest and most serious aspects of the wider tradition’s six-plus decades of existence into an exhilarating, ever-diverse tincture...a common talking point in free improvisation “theory” is knowing when not to play. These four are well past that—they always know when not to not play."
- Jack Davidson, on Stalwart's "Blessed" Noise Not Music
"Rovinsky’s guitar playing in particular is exploratory and responsive, and Duval and Kourie match him well...my favorite parts of Beautiful Pigs remain the jump cuts and the hard tonal shifts, the spots that only these three at this specific time could’ve come up with."
- Marc Masters, on "Beautiful Pigs" Bandcamp Daily
"...musical ideas like tiny explosions, perhaps of live ammunition, perhaps of rubber balls or confetti, that then bounce and flutter around the room at high velocity...there is a keen sense of music from various sources being taken apart and scrambled, and of new music being built before our very ears, sometimes with the air of a furrowed brow, sometimes with the flavor of cartoon characters creating Rube Goldberg music that they already know will fail to catch their mouse, and they don’t care."
- Brian Slattery, on Bookers "HI-FI LO-IQ"
The New Haven Independent
"...the recently founded (this year) F.I.M. Records is forging a distinctive regional style around aggressive contours & timbral blending…the fact that this is music coming out of the US bears mentioning as well (especially as national creativity seems to be waning...)...Dignity presents the core duo here in a series of intense & substantial interactions...close correspondences between the instruments, but with an edge as well...these duos already seem to take a real step forward (particularly via their tightness & directness...), so I wanted to note them now, even as I'm expecting more from F.I.M....”
- Todd M. McComb, on "Dignity"
Jazz Thoughts
"Strings get plucked, attacked, bent & bowed...scurrying fields of notes & timbres. Some patterns are held for a few moments, then it’s on to the next creation à la carte. And the listener doesn’t have a menu. It’s that exciting. The textures and sounds they create here are phenomenal with an ease that reveals their mastery of their respective instruments."
- Mark Daelmans-Sikkel, on "Dignity"
Vital Weekly
"...a Gargantuan tour de force of avant-garde noise rock...an absurdist reconstruction of rock, or music in general."
- Dave Tremblay on eeeeeel's "Piano-Polished..."
Can This Even Be Called Music?