"Amen, Anito!" Screening
'vienna', a new release on Small Forms Records w FIM Basel Concert March 2023 Hypersurface is a NYC-based trio consisting of Drew Wesely (guitar/objects), Lester St. Louis (cello), and Carlo Costa (percussion). Hypersurface explores timbral, durational, and formal aspects of improvisation with lenses focused on their instruments' acoustic particularities alongside employing tiles, railroad spikes, ceramic plates and other objects to expand them further. In coming together Carlo, Drew and Lester wanted to create a music that puts emphasis on the erasure of sonic boundaries, embracing the liminal spaces between their instruments, their sounds and the greater sonic environment. Timbre, gesture, duration, particles, layers… a real time tapestry of its own. The trio has given performances throughout the United States and Europe in a diversity of concert settings from clubs to large halls and galleries; with each utilizing the acoustics to follow potent musical pathways. Kamau Amu Patton is an interdisciplinary artist and educator whose work examines history and culture through engagement with archives, documents, stories, and sites. Patton’s projects are dialogic and take form as expanded field conversations. http://kamaupatton.com
On April 5th, Anito Soul invites you to enter a portal to the Philippine jungle in this immersive listening experience and screening of “Amen, Anito!”, the debut visual album by NYC-based Filipino-American artist Anito Soul. The night will include meditative DJ sets by fellow Filipino artists Florence Cecile and P41DZ spinning their takes on Filipino sounds, a talkback and Q&A following the screening focused on Malaya Movement NY’s Defend Migrants campaign, and Filipino food to enjoy.
“Amen, Anito!” is a meditation on land relations, spirituality, and what it means to be a balikbayan, a term referring to both shipping boxes and Filipinos returning home after spending time abroad. The visual album is shot fully on digicam with an electronic music soundtrack featuring field recordings, cultural samples, and elements of jungle, ambient, trip-hop, footwork, techno, club, and budots.
7-8pm Florence Cecile
8-9pm Screening
9-9:30pm Q&A and Talkback with Malaya Movement NY
9:30-11pm P41DZ
Bios
Anito Soul is a Filipino-American artist based in NYC. They are a co-organizer of the creative collective planetqueer and have supported acts such as Sherelle, Maya Jane Coles, I. JORDAN, BAMBII, and UNiiQU3. Their radio show, tripreport, airs monthly on 8 Ball Community Radio. They have played across NYC venues such as MoMA PS1, Elsewhere, the Lot Radio, Mood Ring, and Bossa Nova Civic Club. They have also performed across the U.S. and internationally at Apotheka in Manila, Philippines.
Florence Cecile is a Filipina-American DJ and doula who upholds the power of music as medicine. Leaning into mixes with heavy grooves, soulful vocals, and tropical soundscapes reminiscent of her motherland, her sound uplifts the dancefloor as a place for warmth, meditation, and movement. Born & raised in Chicago, Florence Cecile currently resides in Brooklyn where she has performed at venues such as Red Pavilion, Jupiter Disco, Mood Ring, and has hosted radio shows at Newtown Radio and Hi-Note.
P41DZ is a Kuya to some, a Tito to most. A mover, shapeshifter, from coast to coast. Bronx based creative & DJ by way of OlyWA + Oahu + Manila. Serving soundtracks and sharing space with our Queer AAPI pamilya and BIPOC LGBTQIA+ community.
- Musical Stylings: Club : House : Future Electronica.
- Founding member : BUBBLE_T
- Founder : ContinuousPlay.world
- Currently obsessed with Lechon in Sinigang…I KNOW RIGHT?? SARAP!
Malaya Movement is a broad grassroots and people-powered movement of individuals, organizations, and various formations united under our objectives to defend human rights, democracy, and national sovereignty in the Philippines. https://www.malayamovement.com/