Wednesday May 7 * doors at 715, show at 730 * $12-25 * TICKETS

valentina booking presents: 

Lifted (DC & Baltimore)

Androgynous Bulge (Baltimore) 

Overlight Penchant (DC)

Lifted - The core duo of Max D and Matt Papich debut on Peak Oil following full-lengths for Future Times and PAN with a fresh suite of tactile, diffuse fusion. Half the collection emerged from a 2021 session at Tempo House rounded out by Dustin Wong, Mezey, and Jeremy Hyman, while the rest took shape in moments both collaborative and isolated, collaged together with CDJs into something more liquid and liminal than the sum of its parts. Across fractured jazz, pitch-shifted downtempo, revelatory guitar, and interstitial interplay, Lifted’s sound is one of flux, fragments, and filigree. Oblique harmonic synergies dusted in chance encounters and rogue acoustics. Diverse moods mapped with split strings and the space between notes. Music untethered by form or expectation, snaking like an ungrounded cable through a geodesic dome of deep-listening.  

Androgynous Bulge Is an electronic duo out of Baltimore made up of Hayden and J. 

Overlight Penchant - Alias of Jean Paul Pantaleon. Overlight Penchant is gleefully untethered from musical tradition, often even from basic tenants like rhythm or key.  Motifs recognizable and comforting in a different context float in and out of frame — always juxtaposed against a contrasting element, inducing an uncomfortable, but oddly familiar tension in the listener.