OOYH Records @ Artspace: Second Mondays - October 9
Thanks so much for the continued support of OOYH Second Mondays @ Artspace. The scene is growing with every show, and we're so happy to have our home base at Artspace. The next one is Monday October 9, and will feature Clark/Singh + Avilion Shore. Info below, and please come support so we can keep this series alive!
Doors at 7:30pm, Music at 8:00pm
8:00pm: Clark/Singh
9:00pm: Avilion Shore
$10 suggested donation
Beer + Wine available for purchase
Clark/Singh:
Scott Clark - drums
Laura Ann Singh - vocals
Avilion Shore:
Matt Dixon - Trumpet/Flugelhorn
JC Kuhl - special guesting on tenor saxophone
Tonito Walls - tenor saxophone
Randall Mailand - piano/synthesizer
Bea Kelly - bass
Stephan LaRue - drums
Clark/Singh is a minimalist duet of voice and drums. Their first project is a study of a song cycle written by Brazilian composer Dorival Caymmi, Canções Praierias. Stripping songs down to their most essential form, the duo employs sweeping melodies, rhythmic interplay and changing timbre as the tools to explore spaces typically lled with harmonic movement. Their performances are educational, powerful and engaging, connecting listeners to the visceral and essential experience of music across time and culture.
Freshly arrived from their voyage for beauty is the vibey, existential and ephemeral, Avilion Shore. (Spoiler alert: they found it) Transporting listeners to their own personal paradise where your wildest dreams come true, by way of the band's interpretations of this new and expressive music - perhaps even a little magic... This RVA based quintet had been chomping at the bit working on its refreshing forthcoming debut album, "Externality of Reality" due out this Autumn.
More on Canções Praieras:
“Laura Ann Singh’s performance of ‘Canções Praieras’, a poetic set of compositions by bossa nova originator Dorival Caymmi, accompanied only by the seaside murmur and crash of Scott Clark’s drums, was as lovely and surprising as anything in this or any year”
- Peter McElhinney, Style Weekly
Dorival Caymmi composed and recorded his rst full album, Canções Praieiras in 1954 at the age of 40. An avid writer, composer, musician and painter, Tom Jobim said of Dorival, he “picked up a guitar and orchestrated the world.” In Canções Praieiras, Caymmi crafts vivid scenes depicting life by the sea as shermen and villagers go to work, fall in love, celebrate, and face death. All this activity happens around the main character of this song cycle: the sea. The sea is rst beautiful, enticing and mesmerizing, but also awesomely powerful, demanding. Sweet, even when it exacts sacrice, placating yet unforgiving, constant but everchanging. It serves as both a metaphor for the complexities of the human heart as well as an acknowledgement of something indomitable and beyond comprehension. The communities by the sea face these dichotomies of life and death, beauty and destruction, tenderness and passion, daily. Caymmi makes these far away characters accessible and even familiar in the simple sophistication of his music and lyrics.