Max Davies, Toni Oswald, as well as Jeff Suthers (music) and Sarah Elizabeth Schantz as the featured reader @ The Laughing Goat

Max Davies grew up fascinated by sound and music. In addition to his solo work, his music has been featured in films, at NYC Fashion week, spoken-word collaborations and dance productions. He has worked with variety of musicians, poets, freaks, weirdos and beautiful noisemakers. An eclectic guitarist, musician, songwriter and producer, he has been fortunate to work with such sonic luminaries and linguistic magicians such as Thurston Moore, Anne Waldman, Lydia Lunch, Toni Oswald, CA Conrad, John Trudell, LAPCAT, Clark Coolidge, Steven Taylor, Junior Burke, Ic Explura, Gregory Alan Isakov and many more. His last album In The Realms Of The Mercury Halo was reviewed by Guitarist Magazine as being a record that “yearns with a sorrowful gravitas and minimalist intensity”. https://maxdavies.bandcamp.com/

Toni Oswald has written and produced several albums under the moniker The Diary Of Ic Explura. She has worked and performed with John Frusicante and Josh Klighoffer of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, singer/ musician Bob Forrest of Thelonious Monster, Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth and many poets and writers. Her performances are mesmerizing and intimate experiences that defy convention and genre and explore the act of creativity and performance with a sincerity and wonder all her own.

She and her husband Max Davies often perform together as a duo or as The Diary Of Ic Explura.
Sound and Color Vibration Magazine wrote “there is a clear window of new types of energy and shapes in sound coming from Toni Oswald and Max Davies.”