# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Mike Reed's The Separatist Party
- **Event Start and End Date**: Fri, 09 Oct, 2026 at 08:30 pm (-05:00)
- **Event Description**: 8:30pm.


Mike Reed – drums, percussion, organ

Rob Frye – tenor saxophone, flute, percussion

Cooper Crain – guitar, synthesizer

Dan Quinlivan - synthesizer

Marvin Tate – vocals

Ben Lamar Gay – cornet, percussion


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Mike Reed's The Separatist Party announces their new album, Sing the Color Blue (out October 23rd via Thrill Jockey) and, in conjunction, release its lead single, “New Angels.” Sing the Color Blue is a recording assembled over years of sessions, rehearsals, false starts, and renewed approaches, eventually becoming a document of both persistence and transformation. Sing the Color Blue reunites Mike Reed with Rob Frye, Cooper Crain, Dan Quinlivan (all of the trio Bitchin Bajas), Marvin Tate, and Ben LaMar Gay in a set that moves between composition, reconstruction, improvisation, and song form. It follows 2023’s self-titled debut, praised by the New York Times as “ethereal, odd-metered, electrified airspaces with whiffs of Ethio-jazz.”


The unusual length and shape of Sing the Color Blue’s creation is part of what gives the album its character. Elements reach back across nearly a decade, with initial band tracking beginning in January 2022 at Constellation in Chicago and the majority of the recording completed between November 2023 and April 2024 at Electrical Audio. The project depended on a deep archive of session material that Reed recorded with poet/vocalist Marvin Tate, which he’d return to repeatedly until the final structure revealed itself.  Today’s “New Angels” grew from these sessions.


Rather than treating those sessions as fixed songs, Reed used them as a source library. He reassembled fragments of Tate’s words and performances into new lyrical structures, often changing their original meaning completely, and in some cases provided Tate with melodic lines to sing against or within that material. The result is a record where authorship feels layered rather than singular: songs emerge from live interaction, archival excavation, editing, rearrangement, and re-composition at once. This approach is something Reed refers to as  “collage recording”


The title Sing the Color Blue also reflects that spirit of transformation. Reed has said the phrase grew partly out of a friend’s critique of his nearly all-blue wardrobe and his longstanding attraction to Bauhaus aesthetics. He was also struck by a phrase from a documentary in which a historian described people being instructed to “dance the color blue.” Reed reshaped that line into Sing the Color Blue, a title that suggests synesthesia, instruction, abstraction, and also a subtle relation to the blues and to Chicago’s musical history. In that sense, the title names the album’s larger project: turning mood into form, color into sound, and fragments of lived time into music.


Listen to “New Angels” [https://mikereed1.bandcamp.com/track/new-angels]

Pre-order Sing the Color Blue [https://mikereed1.bandcamp.com/album/sing-the-color-blue]

Website [https://mikereed-music.com/] | Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/reedmicj/]
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/chicago/mike-reeds-the-separatist-party/200030684338556
- **Event Categories**: Music, Entertainment, Art, literary-art
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 0

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Chicago
- **state**: IL
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 3111 N Western Ave Chicago IL 60618
- **lat**: 41.9381
- **long**: -87.68763
- **full address**: 3111 N Western Ave Chicago IL 60618, 3111 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60618-6409, United States

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Mike Reed's The Separatist Party being held?
  - **A:** Mike Reed's The Separatist Party takes place on Fri, 09 Oct, 2026 at 08:30 pm to Fri, 09 Oct, 2026 at 08:30 pm at 3111 N Western Ave Chicago IL 60618, 3111 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60618-6409, United States.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Mike Reed's The Separatist Party?
  - **A:** Mike Reed's The Separatist Party is organized by Constellation Chicago.
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  - **A:** Mike Reed's The Separatist Party is ideal for music lovers, fans of all genres, and anyone who wants to celebrate the power of music - from intimate gigs and live sessions to festivals and cultural performances. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Chicago, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. If Mike Reed's The Separatist Party sounds like your kind of event, don't wait - spots fill up fast.

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