Back in 2015, we presented Nik Turner with Flame Tree in a performance that combined one of the elder statesmen of space rock with an ensemble of Seattle musicians billed as Flame Tree. But Flame Tree still exists to this day, in a different form.
Drummer Jack Gold-Molina leads this improvising group of intrepid musical explorers towards the free frontiers of rock.
Hound Dog Taylor’s Hand is an improvising trio that’s been sowing chaos on the Seattle music scene since 2010, when Jeffrey Taylor (guitar) got together with John Semen (double bass) and Mark Ostrowski (drums).
They’ve released more than a dozen items on Bandcamp, and have also collaborated with others. Hound Dog Taylor’s Hand has performed around the Pacific Northwest with Eugene Chadbourne, feedtime, Acid Mothers Temple, Jooklo Duo, Lori Goldston, Sir Richard Bishop, Lee Ranaldo, Kinski, Chris Corsano, and James Brandon Lewis & the Messthetics. In 2025 HDTH released Albumen, a collaboration with Greg Kelley and Mike Watt, and in 2026 The Structure and Dynamics of Disordered Systems with Joe Paradiso.