Tinder Hearth is so excited to host dear friend and frequent collaborator Ryan Blotnick for an evening of original compositions and improvisations with his quartet.
Guitarist and composer Ryan Blotnick has long balanced a searching intelligence with a natural lyricism, whether navigating open improvisation, writing for film, or sculpting finely wrought original tunes. His quartet-featuring Tyler Wood on keyboards, Adam Chilenski on bass, and Otto Hauser on drums-extends that sensibility into a collective conversation that's as fluid as it is grounded. Their music, spacious yet deeply rooted, thrives on close listening and collective interplay.
Blotnick first emerged in New York's modern jazz scene, praised by Jazz Times as "one of the bright lights" of his generation, and has since built a career that bridges jazz, world music traditions, and cinematic soundscapes. His playing—at once lyrical and daring-has graced stages from Copenhagen to New York and found its way into award-winning films at Sundance, SXSW, and DOC NYC. Now based in Maine, he continues to compose and perform widely, exploring new sonic terrain with his quartet and local groups such as SOULBENDERS, Katherine Perkins and Danny Fisher-Lochhead's Large Ensemble.
Wood, originally from Presque Isle, Maine, has carved out a multifaceted career as a musician, producer, and recording engineer. After early forays into piano, trumpet, and drums, he landed in Brooklyn, where he toured and recorded with artists such as Luke Temple, Glass Ghost, Chester French, and Joan As Police Woman. A co-founder of the indie-soul project Oh My Goodness, Wood also works internationally as an audio engineer, capturing folkloric traditions around the globe with Remix <-> Culture.
Chilenski brings a deep groove and inventive sensibility honed in New York's vibrant scene, where he has performed with the exotica band Kolumbo, Groove Collective, and songwriters such as Jonah Smith, Luke Temple (Here We Go Magic) and Mikael Jorgensen (Wilco).
Hauser, a versatile and sought-after drummer, has worked with an extraordinary range of-from folk icons Vashti Bunyan and Michael Hurley to rock luminaries like Jeff Tweedy and The War on Drugs. With over a hundred albums to his credit, his drumming is celebrated forTogether, the quartet creates music that is nuanced, melodic and spontaneous-drawing from jazz, folk, rock, and improvised traditions.
