Foods and Music: Numyn, Michael Beharie + Jesse Karch, Chef Nicky
'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
With their classic take on nu-modal anarcho-crustpop, NUMYN plays with melody and genres of being in the world to make music that's pretty groovy and kind of unsettling. Their new Alternative record, Real Fucking Commitment, finds the sound moving through aspects of electrocrass, post-honk, grief-groove, and doug techno. The latest live set pushes for something else entirely.
Michael Beharie's incredibly affective songwriting is elevated past the rafters with uncanny sonics and ace instrumentalizing. This guy is the real deal. His last record, Promise, is gorgeous. Everyone hopes there's a new one soon.
Jesse Karch returns to LSD to cook up some more of the best food in NYC. Chef Nicky will join in. These folks have been cooking together in Greenpoint since the old days at Eat. You'll be fed very well.
Jan 17, 8pm