In Situ: Exo-Tech
Doors at 9pm
Photo credit: Nathan West
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About this performance
After a hypnotic secret debut show last month sent waves of excitement through New York, multi-headed musical supergroup EXO-TECH re-emerge to weave more outsider rhythms and improvised industrial jams for your sonic pleasure. Traversing fields somewhere between Liquid Liquid, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Plastic Ono Band and Talking Heads, EXO-TECH is a new age improvising ensemble featuring a revolving cast of some of New York and beyond’s most talented music luminaries. Brought together by exo-banshee Kimbra, the sophomore EXO-TECH features Miho Hatori (Cibo Matto), Stuart Bogie (Antibalas, TV On The Radio), Yuka Honda (Cibo Matto), Mauro Refosco (Atoms for Peace), Danny Meyer (Chairlift, Julia Holter), Doug Wieselman (Antony and the Johnsons, Laurie Anderson), Jeremy Gustin (Delicate Steve, Star Rover), Spencer Zahn (Twin Shadow, Empress Of), Benjamin Lazar Davis (Cuddle Magic), Jared Samuel (Invisible Familiars, Plastic Ono Band), Cleek Schrey, Cole Kamen-Green (People’s Champs) and more special guests for a night of improvised industrial exotique in-the-round.
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