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Wednesday, May 30
Admission: $4, $10 minimum
Doortimes: 8pm
reservations
are recommended
A night of electronic & ecstatic music from the next school
of
avant-pop. Curated by Daniel Givens (Aesthetics) and Mark DeNardo
(8bit Operators), they present a cross section of one man bands
that
defy categories and warp genres, with Mikey "IQ" Jones,
and from
Chicago, Brenmar Someday.
Daniel
Marcellus Givens
Voted one of Urb Magazine's Next 100, Givens' current album, "Dayclear
& First Dark" has been called "an unclassifable
masterpiece" by The Advocate. Givens constructs new roads
& spaceways in the world of electronica, blending voice, laptop,
effects, synths, drum machines, melodica, and percussion into
a dark & sensual cosmic brew-incorporating elements of jazz,
dub, IDM, post-punk, hip-hop, soul, and sound poetry. He's toured
internationally sharing the stage with a variety of artist: Herbert,
Tortoise, Gil Scott Heron, Cooper Moore, Tricky, Daedelus, Mike
Ladd, Anti-Pop Consortium, Mark Stewart,The Eternals, Efterklang
and Scanner. His sounds, words, and visuals have been utilized
in theater productions and with choreographer, Baraka Du Soleil,
performing at The Ontological Theater, Luna Stage, BAX, BRIC,
and Joyce Soho. He is currently working on his first soundtrack
for a documentary about Brazil. Originally from Chicago, now NYC
native, his third full length, Egress, will be released in the
fall of 2007 on the label, Aesthetics.
Mark
DeNardo was born an Italian/Puerto-Rican Catholic boy
in Bethlehem, PA, hometown of John Coltrane, the same birth day
as Jacques Cousteau. He studied violin as boy; bass guitar as
a youth and guitar as a man. The most recent instrument he has
studied is the Game Boy. Discovering Little Sound DJ, a program
designed to work with the 1989 Nintendo videogame system sound
card, DeNardo began weaving his 8-bit blues and folktronic tales
of robots, heroes and days. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
“This twenty-something Puerto Rican artist…is the
Velvet Underground of the 21st century, the next step in the evolution
of rock and roll.” Malcolm McClaren, Wired Magazine, November
2003
Brenmar
Someday
Brenmar constructs tunes out of old dusty records, digital and
analogue synthesizers, microphones, samplers and found sounds.
In 2005, he released two EPs – his solo project, A 16-Bit
Theatre, and a collaboration, Disaster for Breakfast, with singer/songwriter,
Elissa P. In early 2006 he released a limited edition colored
7inch which garnered some great reviews and slightly larger distribution,
he also released a very limited e.p. called A Husk of Hares on
the Terry Plumbing label. A developed musician who is just as
comfortable onstage as he is in his studio, Brenmar utilizes a
mix of big drums, found instruments, improvisation, noise and
more in his live show. He's performed with Dosh (Anticon), Styrofoam
(Morr Music), Indian Jewlery (Monitor), Casiotone For The Painfully
Alone (Tomlab), Clipd Beaks (Tigerbeat 6), Skeletons and The Girl-Faced
Boys (Ghostly), and Our Brother The Native (FatCat) among others.
Mikey
IQ Jones
NYC-based vocalist/percussionist/one-man bomb squad Mikey IQ Jones
presents a frankensteined collusion of mutant soul theatrics,
doo-wop harmonies, avant-beatbox & extended vocal technique,
kitchen-sink live sampling aesthetics, and onomatopoeic wordplay
in a collection of songs and improvisations sourced from his forthcoming
album "IQ Percussions (How I Learned to Love the Drum)"
created exclusively with the sounds of IQ's voice and a small
handful of household objects.
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