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Sun14Apr2024
Levon Sings • Yasmine Seale • Derek Weaving April 14
7:00 Door 7:30 Show $12.00 suggested donationLevon sings for feeling disembodied across instruments. Levon sings for music having language and language having music, the voice as the bridge, in embodied relativity. Levon sings to join other voices, as one’s attention is a line the voice alone can reproduce. Levon sings because memory is interpretative, and that too is creative practice. Levon sings because everything is collaborative, ownership is isolating, and nothing is original. Levon sings because they always have.Yasmine Seale is a poet, critic, artist, and translator. Among her books are Agitated Air: Poems After Ibn Arabi, written with Robin Moger, and The Annotated Arabian Nights, described by the New Yorker as “an electric new translation”. She is currently a fellow of the Cullman Center at the New York Public Library.Songs about love written by bassist/multi-instrumentalist Derek Weaving, brought to life by a trio featuring long time friends and collaborators Alena Spanger and Ivy Meissner.