Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society

Name: Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society
Start: 2016-10-02T19:00:00-04:00
End: 2016-10-02T20:30:00-04:00
Location: National Sawdust

Sunday, October 2nd @ 7pm

Tickets

Food and drink will be available

About the Show

Brooklyn-based composer Darcy James Argue and his 18-piece ensemble Secret Society celebrate the release of their much-anticipated third album, Real Enemies. Composed by Argue, Real Enemies is a 13-chapter exploration of America’s fascination with conspiracy theories; narratives behind the Red Scare, the Illuminati, Edward Snowden, and alien sightings are meticulously examined and interrogated through Argue’s dazzling score.

Nate Chinen of The New York Times praised Real Enemies as “wildly discursive, twitchily allusive, but taut in its adherence to a larger theme, it’s a work of furious ambition that feels deeply in tune with our present moment” and named it “one of the top 10 live music events of 2015.”

Real Enemies is out September 30 on New Amsterdam Records.

Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society

For a wholly original take on big band’s past, present and future, look to Darcy James Argue” — so says Newsweek’s Seth Colter Walls. The Vancouver-born, Brooklyn-based composer and bandleader has toured nationally and internationally with his 18-piece ensemble, Secret Society, garnering countless awards and nominations and reimagining what a 21st-century big band can sound like. “It’s maximalist music of impressive complexity and immense entertainment value, in your face and then in your head” writes Richard Gehr in the Village Voice. Stereophile’s Fred Kaplan adds “Argue is tying together the disparate strands of music that have shaped his life and his rambling era. Learn more at secretsocietymusic.org.

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Real Enemies

Real Enemies is the long-awaited third Secret Society album — this is a project that’s been years in the making and I’m thrilled to be celebrating its release at National Sawdust. The music dives deep into conspiracy theories, the politics of paranoia, and the reasons why we believe what we believe — issues that have come to the front of our daily politics in unexpected ways. My co-conspirators and I look forward to presenting this music in a beautiful and, dare I say, uniquely sinister listening environment.