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THESE ARE POWERS:
These Are Powers is an experimental music group from Brooklyn, New York
and Chicago, Illinois. The band mixes polyrhythm with samples and other
electronic sounds and noise rock. After the short lived n0 things, ex
Liars bass player, Pat Noecker formed These Are Powers with Anna Barie
(vocals/guitar) (ex Knife Skills & Fxxxing Lion) and Ted McGrath
(drums) in 2006. The latter was replaced by electroacoustic
drummer/percussionist Bill Salas. Noecker plays a prepared bass guitar
with a wooden dowel put under the strings which functions as an
additional 3rd bridge and shortens the string length causing an altered
musical scale with the fret positions. Salas is also active as a
producer and solo artist under the name Brenmar. The band is on Dead
Oceans Records in the U.S. and has a vinyl release with the Swedish
label Deleted Art. These Are Powers also appears in live improvised
performances and collaborations as These Our Powers.
LEMONADE:
Lemonade played their first show with roughly 2 weeks of preparation in
late 2005. The idea formed a month or so earlier when Alex Pasternak
and Callan Clendenin were in Barcelona enjoying their time listening to
Rai and Khaliji CDs they had bought at the Raval record shop “Nasifon”,
laying on the beach drinking sodas, and going to squat raves until well
after the sun came up. Collaborating with Ben Steidel upon their
return, they mingled together crude technologies, battered percussion,
live instruments, and limitless disparate influence, including: grime,
early house and techno, samba, dancehall, island musics, and scary
psychedelic noise. The show was mostly improvised, and ultimately a
success with throngs of dancers mesmerized by their pulsing beats and
clamorous crescendos.
MNDR open the show.
Doors open at 9pm
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