Oxbow with Black Spirituals
$18 general / $12 for members of The Lab
8:00pm doors / 8:30pm music
Hailing from San Francisco, California, Oxbow is a legendary musical group known for their unique blend of noise, avant-garde jazz, musique concrete (AMG) and the Blues, creating bizarre and plangent soundscapes with overtones of paranoia, revulsion and exaltation. In a rare and unusual departure from the artful sound and fury that has earned them international renown, Oxbow presents an electricity-free evening of acoustic renditions from their songbook.
Black Spirituals, of Oakland CA, are a locally venerated duo of creative sound-makers who articulate meaning at the ecstatic intersection of tone-generating electronics & the heart-thumping, acoustic percussion technologies. Predicated upon their libidinal drive to produce the narrative of our musical expositions, Black Spirituals mediates a threefold vernacular presence, the instigation of unfurling cultural dynamics, and the relationship mediation collective logics:
(1) Simultaneous soloistic vernacular development;
(2) Employment of individual narratives in tandem; and,
(3) Combined, multi-aesthetic approaches.