Angel City Arts returns to REDCAT for its annual Jazz Refractions Festival with a dynamic double bill featuring Fred Frith’s Fremakajo + DoYeon Kim’s Quartet.

Fred Frith’s newest quartet, Fremakajo, unites adventurous musicians from the Bay Area to create a music that lies somewhere between jazz improvisation and dance music for dark times. Frith, playing bass and viola, is joined by curious and playful drummer Jordan Glenn, experimental saxophonist Kasey Knudsen, and stylistically globetrotting accordionist Marié Abe. Fremakajo—an amalgamation of band members’ names—is the latest in a long line of Frith’s bands that explore and explode the song form. Together they will be playing new compositions and, in the grand Frith tradition, improvising.