CLIPPING + COOLING PRONGS + BACKXWASH
CLIPPING
"On Dead Channel Sky, Clipping texture-map the twin histories of hip-hop and cyberpunk onto an alternate present where Rammellzee and Bambaataa are the superheroes of old; where Cybotron and Mantronix are the reigning legends; where Egyptian Lover and Freestyle, are debated endlessly, and Ultramag and Public Enemy are the undeniable forefathers; where the lost movements of 1980s and the 1990s are still happening: rave, trip-hop, hip-house, acid house, drum & bass, big beat—the detritus of a different timeline, the survivors of armed audio warfare. That war at thirty-three and a third, its atrocities imprinted upon yet another generation, what someone once called, “the presence of the significance of things” without a hint of ambiguity. Clipping are very story oriented. They deal in ontology and narrative as much as beats and rhymes. They’ve been approaching making music like writing science fiction since the band’s conception."
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COOLING PRONGS
"Cooling Prongs is the performance and studio project of field recording artist Christopher Fleeger, disporting a song-oriented musique concrète approach often built entirely from voice, sampled objects, and field ambience recordings. With the precision of a true audio and programming professional—and the chaos of someone perpetually debugging and simultaneously expanding their own tools—Cooling Prongs runs on hacked mallet controller hardware and custom software patches that are almost finished, almost working, and always locked to a rhythm system that breathes, stutters, and occasionally falls apart… and then apologizes for making things awkward when they really weren’t something anyone else noticed.
With the arrival of Sharon Udoh—the explosive force behind Counterfeit Madison—Cooling Prongs expands into new visceral terrain as a duo.
Counterfeit Madison is the musical manifestation of Sharon Udoh, a Nigerian-American pianist, composer, arranger, curator, and vocalist based in Chicago. Her work combines vocals that seemingly erupt from the center of the earth with a stage presence that somehow feels both dangerous and kind, abandoning genre for the expansive. Their performances have been described as a warm bowl of soup, a tornado, a jalapeño pepper, a Jackson Pollock painting, a bulldozer, and magnetic. Her collaborators have included clipping., Tune-Yards, Los Angeles Gay Men's Chorus, Ben Lamar Gay, Jamila Woods, Angel Bat Dawid, and Cooling Prongs."
https://coolingprongs.bandcamp.com/
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BACKXWASH
"These are the songs of a person who was brought back to life but is now haunted by death itself"
https://backxwash.bandcamp.com
@ Théâtre Fairmount
doors 7pm, show 8pm, all ages
https://www.universe.com/events/clipping-dead-channel-sky-tickets-BW5Z1L
