lucky cloud music series
4th mondays in the mills chapel
doors 730 / music 8
free admission / donations enouraged
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SOPHIE DICKINSON - harp/voice
https://sophiedickinson.bandcamp.com
Cucanandy is the first LP from New England’s favorite dream-harpist, Sophie Dickinson. Previously know for her work in the context of Boston’s Whitehaus Family, Cucanandy represents a mind-blowing excursion into the mists of the heretofore unknown universe of acorn people, detourned Scottish balladry and backseat singalong dynamism.
Sophie’s is music that lives in a hollow tree, emerging like a salvia-soaked squirrel to jibber and skip around your room in a way that will drive you crazy with deviously antic moves. There’s a delicious aroma that hovers over the session, smelling of grandmotherly pies baking in huge underground ovens, mixed with chipmunk fur washed in morning dew. There have been a lot of odd excursions into the wilds of New England before this, but there has never been one like this. Half kindergarten recreations of Wicker Man, half cannon rides into a spinning bucket of Scotch sausage, there is much here to make grown men (and women) swoon. Grab a spoon and do it.
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KAORI SUZUKI - live electronics
https://soundcloud.com/magic-echo-music
Kaori Suzuki is an instrument designer and composer of electronic music. Her work uses synthesis, acoustic recordings, and custom made machines to provide habitable and at times restless sonic environments. Her recent projects focus on bridging patch programmable analog synthesis with computer systems which serves to extend her ongoing interests in timbral events, wave phenomena, and unique systems design for composition.
Kaori frequently collaborates with musicians and visual artists, and has performed at numerous venues and festivals in the Pacific Northwest and SF Bay Area including Berkeley Art Museum, Chapel Performance Space, and Debacle Fest. She has an upcoming collaborative release on Further Records and continues development for her experimental building project, Magic Echo Music. She is currently enrolled in the Electronic Music and Recording Media MFA program at Mills College in Oakland, CA.
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ANDREW WEATHERS - guitar / voice
https://andrewweathers.bandcamp.com/
Andrew Weathers (b.1988) is a young American composer and improviser originally from Chapel Hill, NC currently based in Oakland, CA. His music exists in a space between improvisation and composition—equally influenced by the 20th century American minimalists and underground noise. He has a BM in Music Composition from the University of North Carolina—Greensboro, and is currently pursuing an MFA in Electronic Music at Mills College.
Andrew performs rigorously in a variety of contexts, both composed and improvised. In addition to solo performances, he heads up the Andrew Weathers Ensemble. He also performs and records regularly with Kirtan Choir, Weathers/Glover, Tethers, and Parties. In the past, he has performed with Acid of All Ruins, Bicameral Mind, Northern Valentine, Tatsuya Nakatani, Laurent Estoppey, and Hal McGee, among others. In addition to his busy performing schedule, Weathers helps run Full Spectrum Records.
Cost: donation encouraged