DOORS @ 7:30 / SHOWS @ 8PM, UNLESS POSTED OTHERWISE
RSS
-
Fri20Sep2024
Erika Dohi • Allan Pray Sept 20
7:30 Door 8:00 Music $15.00 donationDescribed as “virtuosic” (NY Times) and “barrier-defying artist” (MixMag), pianist Erika Dohi is a multi-faceted artist with an eclectic musical background. From highly polished traditional classical to bold improvisation, she is a dynamic performer whose timeless style and unidiomatic technique sets her apart in contemporary NYC avant-garde circles. I, Castorpollux, Dohi’s debut album under the label 37d03d, received “The Best Ambient Albums” (Bandcamp), and was featured on The New York Times’ Playlist and WNYC’s New Sounds/Soundcheck.
Allan Pray is a composer, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and conceptual artist. His current project “King Cuicatl” is a song cycle and live presentation based on an ancient Aztec ritual wherein a foreign war prisoner was made to impersonate the Aztec God “Tezcatlipoca” for one full year before being sacrificed. Performances of “King Cuicatl” began in Oaxaca, Mexico with a large ensemble of musicians from Oaxaca’s indigenous “Mixtec” tribe, later incorporating the Oaxaca Symphony, and most recently in Mexico City with the Mexican National Symphony. After a series of particularly successful performances and positive national press, Pray and a new 5-piece ensemble began performing “King Cuicatl” throughout the US and beyond.
Pray’s music has been called “majestic” by El Sol de México, “radiant” by The Cincinnati Enquirer, and “epic” by WVXU.