UPCOMING MOCA MIX SEASON
Our new season begins Friday, January 25 with the Public Opening of two new exhibitions - Sam Taylor Wood(her first solo US museum show!) and Craig Lucas, whose new paintings are truly great works.(well i think so at least, but have your say through our comments page right here on this blog.)
I'm really excited about this seasons music programming,and i hope you will make it out to all of these wonderful shows! nuff said, below are video clips of all the great music MOCA is presenting. let us know through our comments page what your thoughts are.
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MADAME P
Saturday, January 26th
(see events calendar for performance times, and opening acts)
What RA says about Madame P
About two years ago i received this suite of cdr's in the mail from Italy, after a few weeks i popped them in and fell in love with the musics straight away. as luck would have it(since there never alot of money for arts) Patrizia was going to be touring the States. we booked her to plan the now defunct Church space in Tremont. only twenty people came, but it was an amazing show. you will be quite amazed.
Madame P is on myspacehttp://www.myspace.com/madamepi
What MADAME P says about herself
"Madame P is the latest musical incarnation of Patrizia Oliva." In the past I was a co-founder and member of the seminal all-female band Allun. I was also a member of the Rosas Y Tulipanes duo along with Luca Pagani, guitarist of the alternative rock back Viclarsen.
In 2004 I started collaborating with Luca Sigurta' in the highly experimental project Macaya, and with Tommaso Rolando and Marco Ravera - guitarist and double bass player of the acclaimed jazz/fusion band Calomito - in the impro/jazzy ensemble called Toba.
Some of my self-produced EPs and a long serie of concerts rapidly brought me among the few italian women dealing with experimental music. My official debut album was released in Germany by Cold Coffeine Addict in November 2005. A noisy collaboration with The Afeman, a.k.a. Andrea Marutti, was released in April 2006 on Afe Records.
My live sets are focused on the wide range of my vocal techniques: I experiment with my voice sampling it in real time and feeding the result through various effect units. I also use contact microphones and other minimal electronic devices. I never used a laptop and I don't own a computer at all. I also play bass, guitar, mandolin and keyboards.
"Spellbound", an album recorded live during a performance in Rome, was released in the U.K. by Curor Recordings last Autumn.
In May 2007 I gave life to a new duo called Camusi along with the great italian drummer and musician Stefano Giust; he also run a label called Setola di Maiale. Our first self-titled album was released just a few months ago, it was recorded at "Lab12", my old house/artspace in Italy.
During Spring 2007, I composed a soundtrack for the old silent movie "Madame DuBarry", it was premiered live last May in Milan, Italy.
Madame P also has an alter ego called Mad Amp, I use to play noise and more electronic-oriented music under this guise.
I have been touring through U.S.A., U.K., Scotland, The Netherlands, France, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Switzerland, Slovenja.
I improvised with: Andrea Marutti, Luca Sigurtà , Luca Pagani, Roberto Bellatalla, Tommaso Rolando, Marco Ravera, Stefano Giust, Dominik Gawara, Herb Diamante, Jacopo Andreini, Metuo, Stefania Pedretti, Katia Zinichino, A034, Bruno Dorella, Virgilio Villoresi, Blanche, Tommy Greenwood, Paul Baran, Radikal Satan, UR, Alessandro Calbucci, Xabier Iriondo, Sektor 304, Claudio Gavina, Bjerga, Iversen, Serraglia, Stefano Migliosi, Marino Josè Malagnino, Rinus Van Alabeek, Francesco Calandrino, Jeff Gburek, Mat Pogo, Zazie, Alessandro Buzzi, Roberta JD Meatball, Walter Belloni, Viclarsen, Bugo, Nora Keyes, Claudio Parodi, Harshcore, Jeremy Stone, and more.
Thursday, February 7
Guillermo E. Brown
with jazz great William Parker
about Guillermo E. Brown
GUILLERMO E. BROWN is a musician (drums, electronics, voice), multidisciplinary performer (text, video, theatre) and producer. He was awarded a 2001 Artist-in-Residence and 2003 Van Lier Fellowship from Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center. Featured on over 25 recordings, he has performed or recorded with David S. Ware, William Parker, Matthew Shipp, Marlies Yearby, Rob Reddy, Roy Campbell Quartet, Spring Heel Jack, Anti-Pop Consortium, Anthony Braxton, DJ Spooky, El-P, Carl Hancock Rux, Vernon Reid/DJ Logic's Yohimbe Brothers, Mike Ladd, George Lewis, and Vijay Iyer, among others. His albums include Soul at the Hands of the Machine, The Beat Kids' Open Rhythm System, Black Dreams 1.0, and Handeheld. His one-man theatre piece, Robeson In Space, premiered at Luna Stage in Montclair, NJ October 2005. He is currently at work on a new solo record "Shuffle Mode" premiering with a live performance at The Apollo in '08, The Beat Kids' recording Sound Magazine, a large group performance piece Bacchanale, and his ensemble Cut Up Quintet. A graduate of Wesleyan University (BA) and Bard College (MFA), he is an Adjunct Professor at NYU's Clive Davis School of Recorded Music and Gallatin School of Independent Study.
Guillermo E. Brown is on myspacehttp://www.myspace.com/guillermoebrown
Friday, February 15
Shooting Spires AKA BJ Warsaw from Parts and Labor
what does RA say about Bj
i think shooting spires give BJ a place to write songs faster than in his band, where he must collaborate, the songs end up being more personal, and slightly more melodic. i'm excited to see the set live, the last time i was on tour we stayed at BJ and Cleveland legends jeff o and erick's loft. as so as the kid gets home he go in his cubby hole and starts working!
Shooting Spires is on myspace http://www.myspace.com/shootingspires
Friday, February 28
BEANS
What RA has to say about BEANS
the guy is so creative, and so driven lyrically i cannot think of a better mc to collab with any genre. this is going to be fun!
About BEANS
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the wonderful world of BEANS, aka Mr. Ballbeam. Hip-hop rebel. Wordsmith extraordinaire. Sonic architect. Fashion renegade. Published poet. Culture star. Raised in White Plains, NY and first picked up on in the mid-90's as part of the mythic Soup / Boom Poetic collective, the word began to spread. Having achieved his widest acclaim as one-third of the legendary NYC progressive rap crew, Anti Pop Consortium, BEANS continues his grand experiments in music and life with releases on Warp and Thirsty Ear. With lyrical virtuosity, vanguard production that straight bangers, and one of the most unique and remarkable live performances around, BEANS harkens back to the glory days when all it seemed to take was real talent, real passion and the desire to actually be real and simply shine. Having shared stages and toured with everyone from Radiohead to Vernon Reid, Prefuse 73, Ratatat, Dabrye, Bill Laswell, The Rapture to Tortoise, The Locust, Battles to DJ Krush, Kool Kieth, Pharoahe Monch to Aesop Rock, DJ Shadow to Cannibal Ox, Attica Blues to Terranova, plus Coachella and DJ gigs at The Guggenheim and with Missy Elliott. BEANS has displayed his multitudinous skills and the response has been astounding. Having first made a solo imprint with "Nude Paper", his 12-inch release on Mo'wax in 2000, BEANS gave us a taste of things to come. All this seems destined to redefine the word "fresh". The latest arsenal in his assault on the senses is BEANS new album entitled, THORNS. This record was written during a tumultuous 2 year period between his last release, SHOCK CITY MAVERICK and ONLY. THORNS is more straightforward and emotional in content yet more textured and dense in production.
BEANS is on myspace http://www.myspace.com/mrballbeamakabeans
Sunday, March 9
Samara Lubelski
link to Clifford Allen's interview with Samara Lubelskihttp://www.bagatellen.com/archives/features/000922.html
Samara is on myspace http://www.myspace.com/samaralubelski
Friday, March 21
PARTS and LABOR
PTERODACTYL
PAIK
NATIONAL SUICIDE DAY
What RA has to say about this bill
This is a dream bill, i still can't believe it came together. if you like new music of a louder ilk you cannot find four dynamic bands like these.
Parts and Labor
Pterodactyl
Friday, April 11
Baby Dayliner
Baby Dayliner is on myspacehttp://www.myspace.com/babydayliner
About Baby Dayliner
"A crooner for our times..."-Wallpaper
"Literate and limber...a twilit bridge between sincerity and tounge-in-chic."-XLR8R
"A retro romo romp through a New York ghost world that is neither the drainpipe-and-denim sweat pile of CBGBs nor the mirrorball glitz of Studio 54 but somewhere in between."-Uncut
Baby Dayliner (AKA Ethan Marunas) was born and raised in New York City, and went to LaGuardia High School of Music and Art, and the Performing Arts, also known as the "FAME" high school. His undergraduate study was done at St. John's College in Annapolis, MD. After varying roles in various bands, Marunas decided to take the stage as a solo act. He became deft at synths, samplers, and recording, and began crafting songs that would come to life as the Baby Dayliner stage show.
INFLUENCES: Marunas' first big sonic influence was classical music that his parents and private teachers fed him as a child violinist (age 7-17). Later came jazz and hip-hop records. Strangely enough, his first pop music love was Hall and Oates, which he listened to alongside Kabuki theater music and other diverse sounds.
RIYL: Serge Gainsbourg, Frank Sinatra, James Brown, New Order, David Bowie, Daft Punk, The Smiths, Stephin Merritt.
THE MOVEMENT
(inspired by The Tris McCall Report www.trismccall.net)
Baby Dayliner is a performer
The crowds at his shows are filled with a variety of night dwellers: curiosity-seekers and punk rockers, the creative and the created, musicians and artists, pop fetishists and thugs. They've watched the previous few acts with their arms crossed in the familiar stand-offish way, but now bodies are in motion. It's involuntary, they're swept away--these are the very last people you'd ever see cutting loose at a show, but here they are not afraid to show they love it. Supremely in tune with his audience, head back, singing with passion, fury, and ruthless intelligence, crossstepping, smiling wide, and squeezing every drop of meaning out of each syllable. All arms in the air now! Shouts and whistles. The crowd is dancing in a frenzy of recognition and pure excitement, and Baby Dayliner is whipping them to do more. He turns, he shakes, he croons and shouts over thunderous beats and bass. One man, one machine in supreme synchronicity. And now everyone is in thrall to the delirium of the moment. Is this the encore? Nah, friend, the show's just started, and it's the closest thing the jaded New York scene will ever have to a homegrown Beatle-mania. Baby Dayliner has arrived.
Baby Dayliner is a writer
His songs are supremely literate--drawing from a formidable lexicon and an enormous repository of storytelling strategies. His intelligence is never on display for its own sake; instead, it's a tool for communicating sophisticated narratives. Some of the songs are missives, many are descriptive, and almost all contain indelible, inspiring and unforgettable language. He juxtaposes rap hyperbole and the sarcasm of the noveau bohemians with the language common to the New York nightlife--all of it sung to the delight and identification of the local crowd.
Baby Dayliner is a producer
He understands his machines and knows how to coax out of them maximum excitement. He's a pop song fabricator of discarded parts and pieces, which make his songs continually surprising in their melodicism and composition. There are elements of mid-80s synthpop, European post-punk, 70s disco, top 40 radio, and underground rap. There are hypnotic synth pulses, rafter-rattling choruses, new romantic moods and often a unique, polished style of hip-hop and dance production that could easily earn him rotation on commercial radio.
Baby Dayliner is a revelation
He plays maximum rock'n'roll hangouts in front of punk crowds, hip-hop crowds, folk crowds, hardcore crowds. He regularly follows bands with formidable wattage (Scissor Sisters, The National, Trans Am). Yet when he opens his mysterious suitcase, turns on his gear, and walks to center stage, he inevitably proceeds to move the crowd, open eyes, and blow minds. He broadcasts tropes and language from rap and disco in settings where neither rap nor disco are typically heard, but he sells it every time, without condescending to either form. He is bravely building bridges, doing profound theoretical work, all the while getting busy and never forgetting to entertain. Fundamentally he is a communicator, one who makes sure you hear every syllable he sings-and his ever-growing audience hangs on every syllable. Baby Dayliner is by no means the only one-person act to come on the music scene of late, but he is by far the most intelligent, the most multi-faceted, the most syncretic and single-minded. By relentlessly challenging his audience, by taking the lead and daring the crowd to follow, he makes a profound impact on every room he plays. But now I've said too much. This act is brilliant, and it encapsulates all the best New York City music has to offer...
Come see for yourself.
NAMEDROPPING
Baby Dayliner is a favorite of some of NYC's best artists. Aesop Rock, The National, Blockhead, and The Giraffes are frequently in the audience at his shows. The Giraffes' guitarist, Damien Paris, appears on several tracks. Actor and musician Adrian Grenier (Entourage; The Honey Brothers) drums on the song "Silent Places."
"Critics Pass Away is the first disc in a long time I can listen to front to back with no complaints and no fast-forwarding. No really, this is the kind of record I wanna plagiarize. I have yet to find someone who doesn't love it."-Aesop Rock
"Baby Dayliner is a rare fearless original. This brainy record is jammed full of heart and moxie. It's a dance party for sexy intellects."-Matt Berninger, singer, The National
