Horse Lords, Jules Reidy, Silk Fence

This fall 2026, Horse Lords bring their Demand To Be Taken To Heaven Alive! tour to Pioneer Works. Formed in Baltimore in 2010, the quartet—Sam Haberman, Owen Gardner, Max Eilbacher, and Andrew Bernstein—is known for their tightly interlocking rhythms and adventurous approach to composition.

Demand To Be Taken To Heaven Alive! marks a shift in the group’s practice, opening up the band’s precise, pattern-based structures to a wider set of influences and references. Its title nods to a line by Russian Futurist poet Vladimir Mayakovsky, while its sonic and conceptual world draws on sources as varied as Anni Albers’ textile practice, Islamic geometric patterning, Fluxus-era experimentation, and the work of composers like Tom Johnson and Catherine Christer Hennix.

About the artist

Horse Lords

Horse Lords is a Baltimore-founded experimental quartet formed in 2010, emerging from the city’s noise and leftfield rock scene. Known for their rhythmically intricate, genre-spanning approach, the group—Sam Haberman, Owen Gardner, Max Eilbacher, and Andrew Bernstein—has released numerous albums and collaborated widely, including with composer Arnold Dreyblatt. Now split between the U.S. and Germany, they continue to expand their sound and ensemble. Their latest album, Demand To Be Taken To Heaven Alive!, extends their exploratory practice through new instrumentation and a wide-ranging set of musical and conceptual influences.

Jules Reidy

Working across song cycles and electro-acoustic composition for solo performance, ensembles, and site-responsive contexts, Jules Reidy creates music that explores devotional love, transcendence, and dissolution. Their practice evokes states of uncanniness, dissociation, imagination, and the void.

Silk Fence

Silk Fence is a New York–based instrumental electro-acoustic trio between three longtime friends and collaborators—Arian Shafiee (Guerilla Toss, etc.) on electric guitar, Booker Stardrum (SML, etc.) on drums and percussion, and Justin Frye (PC Worship, etc.) on double bass and tapes. The group stretches the sonic possibilities of their instruments while exploring long-form, texture-driven minimalism and time-based improvisation.

With traditional forms always in the rearview, the music carries a sense of ease that feels equally inviting and quietly engrossing, creating an expansive musical space that lands somewhere between ESP and ECM with a subtle nod to experimental American folk.