Fri 6/5 @ 8PM
Water Is the Sun is the duo of Mkl Anderson and Adam Parks, who use old tape machines, keyboards, field and found recordings, and “materials and instruments with capabilities and limitations which keep Water Is The Sun’s offering grounded in the physicality of playing music that is rooted in a celebratory world of sound.”
Their recording Ritual Fever, released in March, is described as “a dual reference to an ecstatic state connected with nature, and an anxious lack in the context of modern-day alienation.” It’s the duo’s first co-written /co-produced recording which they perform in its entirely in performance. Describing the music, they call it “an alchemical amalgam of their primary projects, resulting in cinematic/landscape textures that give slow birth to psyche-pastorals and intoned ritual songs; a music as informed by the devotional chants of West Coast cults and Appalachian hymns as it is by the dark new age and ambient resonance of the experimental scene that has embraced and supported both musicians for many years.”
They’ll headline the next concert presented by Cleveland Uncommon Sound Project, which is dedicated to sponsoring concerts by artists who use sound in creative, boundary-pushing ways.
Cleveland duo Liberation Technology (RA Washington and Messiah In Glytch) opens with their blend of rap, noise and electronic music whuch they call “a hybrid nod to free improvisation and ecstatic Jazz traditions.”
The concert takes place at the former Convivium 33 in AsiaTown. It’s a $15 suggested donation at the door, but no one will be turned away for lack of money. Learn more here.