Monday November 18 * 7pm doors, 7:30pm show * $15-25 * TICKETS
Valentina booking presents:
flo petite (DC)
Thalia Zedek w/ Karen Sarkisian (Boston)
eraser girl (NU DC band)
su dance100 (Yunnan, China / Berlin)
Thalia Zedek is probably best known for her stints as lead singer for the NYC noise rockers Live Skull in the 80's and as the lead singer/ guitarist in the Boston based Come in the 90's, but she has been releasing haunting solo records under both her own name and under the Thalia Zedek Band moniker on the Matador and Thrill Jockey labels since the early aught’s and for the last 10 years has also been 1/3 of the Boston based noise rock group E, who recently released their 5th LP on Silver Rocket.
Her most recent solo release is 2021’s critically acclaimed "Perfect Vision" LP on Thrill Jockey. Recently back from a European tour with E, Thalia will be performing both brand new and older compositions joined by steel guitarist/ TZ Band bandmate Karen Sarkisian.
https://thrilljockey.com/artists/thalia-zedek
https://www.facebook.com/ThaliaZedekBand
http://www.abandcallede.com/
https://abandcallede.bandcamp.com/
Dan Su (aka su dance110) is an avant-garde Chinese transdisciplinary artist, composer, choreographer, and founder of 3087 Records. They work with sound and movement in the contexts of performance, music, and art. Their background in quantitative methodology and dance motivates their thinking in both conceptual and bodily ways. Their performances delve into psychological, cybernetic, ontological, and personal realms with daring experiments, addressing topics such as structural violence and marginality. su dance110’s music synthesizes elements from broad genres, extreme sounds, and open narratives, aligning with the ethos of their label, known for “Acoustic Movies.”
su dance110 will present “Shang Can” [solo version], a subsequent musical work following their opera performance “Gentle Brutality” (2021), which addresses the homelessness of the marginalized. It is named after the Chinese words “殇残,” meaning the remnants of the injured. “Shang Can” expresses su dance110's personal voice. As home becomes undefinable amid questions of belonging, speaking a language that feels like home becomes a remedy for healing. It’s their fantasy language, a foreign tongue infused with poetry in music. The singing arises from memories of voices that haunted them, reminiscent of the ethnic cultures in Yunnan. The complex layering of rhythms and vocals is combined with the cross-genre motifs of IDM, hiphop, drones, noise, industrial, and folk, woven from original samples of su dance110’s experimental metal performances.