For the past few weeks I’ve had the honor of returning as an artist in residence at IFCC, composing an album dedicated to N/NE Portland. Join us next week as I culminate my residency with a live recording of all new tunes. Thank you @ifccfriends for the opportunity and continued support, and thank you to the community I’ve called home for a decade now.
Hello All,
Happy Bandcamp Friday! GAMSIM is back with a new release>> link is in bio:)
Pronoia is the belief that the universe or others are conspiring to help you, acting as the opposite of paranoia. This album finds GAMSIM refining their shape-shifting language into something both more focused and expansive. Trumpeter/electronic artist Noah Simpson and guitarist/FX explorer Mike Gamble craft a fluid dialogue of textured improvisation and detailed production, where small gestures move through shimmering electronic environments.
Short-form pieces unfold like interconnected signals. Glitchy pulses. Airy horn lines. Processed guitar fragments that feel like they are slipping between structure and spontaneity. But there is a sense of cohesion that is beneath the surface, as if each moment is guided by an unseen logic. The result is a concise, immersive work that explores connection, perception, and the subtle patterns that bind disparate sounds into a living organism that is experiencing Pronoia.
1. The Sun Is Out
2. Ogling
3. Pair Of Socials
4. Flukiness
5. Self-Talk
6. Fall Connection
7. Glitchy
8. Up To You
9. The People Are Ok
Mike Gamble- electric guitar, electric bass and EFX
Noah Simpson- trumpet, electronics, sound design and EFX
Recorded live at Color Therapy Studios @centerforsoundlightandcolor
Mixed and Plastered at Studio M//G
Photo by Devin Febbroriello and Design and Artwork by Noah Simpson
As:Is Records 5.1.2026 @asisrecordings
Thanks for the support
Noah and Mike
Okay okay okay everyone! @simpsonaire and friends are BACK this weekend 🥳 wahoo! This is always such a fun night and if you haven’t made it out, now’s your chance.
Music starts at 7pm but make sure to come early to grab a seat, we get full pretty early! Can’t wait to see ya!!
7-10pm
21+
You already know 🙌
Friday night! Noah Simpson and friends at the lil garage bar. It’s really the best, we love it so much. Come early for a seat.
7pm, 21+
ITS JAZZ NIGHT BABYY.
We’re so stoked, and we hope you are, too. This is a night everyone waits for so come early, get a glass or a bottle to share and let’s listen to some fiiiine sounds!
This Saturday night, Dec. 27.
Music starts at 7pm and goes until 10. This is a free event, 21+ 🎺
At Compnay, 916 se 34th Ave!!
Today is Bandcamp Friday, when Bandcamp waives its fees so artists receive 100% of the revenue from your purchases. It’s the best day to directly support the music you love.
New from As-Is Records://
Lucid, the collaborative album from trumpeter/electronic artist Noah Simpson and guitarist/FX explorer Mike Gamble, otherwise referred to as the duo GAMSIM. This record is a vivid, shape-shifting journey through texture, rhythm, and the edges of consciousness where dream-logic collides. Blending atmospheric improvisation with intricate electronic production, the duo builds a sound world where vaporous ambience, magnetic pulses, and restless mechanical grooves coexist with moments of warmth, tension, and dreamlike suspension. Across the record’s evolving landscape, Simpson’s horn threads through Gamble’s guitar and effects in a way that feels both deeply human and slightly otherworldly. An immersive meditation on motion, perception, and the fluid space between waking and dreaming. Across fourteen tracks, the duo oscillates between fractured rhythm, and kinetic improvisation, blurring the boundaries between electronic production and raw instrumental performance.
1. Vapore
2. Magnetic Reso
3. COGS
4. Same As It Ever Was
5. Hydrus
6. Safe Harbour
7. Circadian
8. Neuro
9. Catastrophizing
10. Swift Watch
11. Hypnagogia
12. Stumbler
13. In It
14. Sink and Swim
Mike Gamble- classical/electric guitar electric bass and EFX
Noah Simpson- trumpet, electronics, sound design and EFX
Recorded live at Color Therapy Studios
Mixed and Plastered at Studio M//G
Photo and Design by Noah Simpson / Mike Gamble
As:Is Records 12.5.2025
Mark your calendars! Purchase tickets in advance, hoping to pack the house. Exciting new band that has only played once before! This is going to be so fun and a night to remember. #pdx #pdxjazz
Noah and friends are back this Friday night! It’s one of our favorite nights and we’re always honored to have em at the garage. Bring all ya friends who are home for the weekend, this is going to be a great time 🎶🎺
(Come early to get a seat!) Music starts at 7pm.
This is a free event, 21+
We are so back… 🖤🎼
… and this time, we’re coming together to celebrate one of the most influential artists that soul music has ever experienced, Michael Eugene Archer, better known as D’Angelo. 🕊️
Join us on Saturday, November 15 for the return of NuBop at @heylovepdx for FREE.
@browncharlie3 🎹
@simpsonaire - 🎺
@tbonemolitor - 🦴
@corydrums - 🥁
@canoed_sun - 🎸
@samarnoldbass - 🎸
Feat. @danidangerzone - 🎤
@delo.thirteen - 📀🎛️🎚️📀
+ special guests
this event is brought to you with support from Basil Hayden 🥃 See You There!
This Friday is October 3rd and Noah Simpson Jazz Trio is back! This is always such a treat and we’re so excited to have ‘em back. If you haven’t been, you don’t want to miss the cozy vibes that’ll be happenin’ here this Friday. 😍
Music starts at 7pm (come early to grab a seat!)
On indigenous peoples day 2025, October 13, Holocene and the Creative Music Guild co-host the first night of the Improvisation Summit Of Portland, featuring Ches Smith’s Clone Row, Cosmos Dark, and Noah Simpson.
Noah Simpson opens the evening, blending trumpet improvisation with electronic beats. His performance weaves melody and groove into radiant, with forward-leaning sonic textures, creating grooves that are at once playful, intricate, and immersive.
Next, Cosmos Dark (Vaughn Kimmons) takes the stage, weaving electronic atmospheres with voice and experimental textures. Her set moves between intimate, soulful passages and expansive, otherworldly soundscapes, guiding the audience through a journey of transformation and abstraction.
Closing the night is Ches Smith’s Clone Row, featuring Mary Halvorson and Liberty Ellman on guitars, Nick Dunston on bass, and Ches Smith on drums, vibraphone, and electronics. The ensemble thrives on tension and interplay, combining intricate compositions with spontaneous improvisation. Halvorson and Ellman’s guitar interplay is particularly noteworthy, offering a dynamic range from dissonant textures to melodic harmonies. Critics have praised the ensemble’s innovative approach, with one reviewer noting, “The delightful and gifted weirdness of Mary Halvorson’s playing is counterpointed, contrasted, unisoned with, played off, juxtaposed… with Liberty Ellman’s equally amazing sound palette, chops, and imagination.” Jazztrail.net
Ticket are available at Holocene.org
Poster design by @devin_._jane_._
Last night @instagambz and I got into more 3rio shenanigans w/ @simpsonaire in the first live show after our debut album, "GamSim2uo" (have you checked it out yet?)
Grateful to share the stage w/ @badpandapdx and for @albertastreetpub for hosting such adventurous music on a Tuesday night ✨
Here's a few minutes of free improvisation from GamSim2uo. 🥷🏻🥷🏾🥷🏿
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