DOORS @ 7:30 / SHOWS @ 8PM, UNLESS POSTED OTHERWISE
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Thu17Oct2024
Lea Thomas • Adelyn Strei • gushes Oct 17
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
Lea Thomas’ album “Cosmos Forever” unfurls in a moment of exquisitely gentle suggestion: “Let’s go for a walk/Don’t talk.” Hers is a voice that is at peace with itself, that is trusting of its own ability to convey the truths of her experience and her personal philosophy, and to express her enduring love for the natural world. These truths, inspired by growing up on Maui, are embroidered with elegantly simple imagery. Fragments and fine details of a myriad different landscapes–a spray of leaves, a winding river, a bracing trade wind–seem to weave themselves together into a blanket of sound that is warm and wholly enveloping. Lushness without drama, honesty without sharpness–rare and fine qualities that suffuse every song. Like a friendly hand resting on the shoulder, this music encourages the listener to become more at ease with the unanswered questions they might contain within themselves. It suggests that to forgive oneself for being uncertain, to allow oneself to experience pure and simple goodness, is to feel more at home in the world, and to better feel the embrace of the all-encompassing universe itself.
gushes makes performance art-rock spanning lovesong, chamber prog, movement cycle, drone mythos, and earth body ritual, led by Jennae Santos. A tapestry of interlocking, polyrhythmic, ambient, angular, and languid guitar loops form the foundation of gushes music, from which countless performance and band arrangements emerge. This solo iteration invites tactile prayer drones for land and sea.