Deerlady + Allison Burik's 'Realm'
Schedule
Thu Sep 12 2024 at 08:00 pm to 10:30 pm
Location
35 Mill Street,#Suite D,Littleton,03561,US | Littleton, NH
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Shoegaze duo wth bite. Free improvisation, dark ambient, and folk musics. All ages, doors at 730, BYOB w 21+ IDPerforming as the shoegaze duo Deerlady, Mali Obomsawin and Magdalena Abrego are two improvising artists bonded in the language of experimentation. Their debut album Greatest Hits is a journey through songs penned by Obomsawin that explore decay and delicate moments – cradled by Abrego’s worldbuilding and evocative guitar playing. The band’s first single “There, There” premiered on the hit FX series Reservation Dogs in 2023, and the album, released the following January, has quickly won over audiences across Indian Country and the US. Described by NPR’s Lars Gotrich as a “headbang while you weep” experience, Deerlady is currently touring Greatest Hits throughout 2024.
An award winning bassist, songwriter and composer from Odanak First Nation, Mali Obomsawin' s auspicious debut Sweet Tooth (2022, Out of Your Head) received international acclaim and was named “best of the year” from GRAMMY.com to JazzTimes and NPR. Sweet Tooth’s success has brought Mali’s touring sextet to major jazz festivals across the US and Canada, and landed her a triple-feature in the hit FX series Reservation Dogs’ 2023 soundtrack. Mali’s sophomore album Greatest Hits by Deerlady, an Indigenous-gothic duo project with guitarist Magdalena Abrego, was released January 19, 2024. NPR’s Lars Gotrich calls Greatest Hits a “headbang while you weep” record. In addition to touring her various projects this year, Mali’s work scoring the critically acclaimed documentary Sugarcane (dir. by Julian Brave Noisecat and Emily Kassie) had its world premiere at Sundance International Film Festival in January 2024. The film received Sundance’s “Directors Award” and recently announced a distribution deal with Nat Geo and Disney+.
Magdalena Abrego is a guitarist, composer, and teaching artist based in Hudson, New York. Influenced by free jazz and punk, Magdalena’s approach to her instrument playfully confronts tradition and embraces queer experimentalism. Her compositions have been described as an “unpredictable musical journey” (Boston Hassle), both “blissful and beautifully erratic” (Boston Compass), and NPR Music called her guitar tone “wooden, ancient and thick with mystic fuzz.” Magdalena presently serves as a faculty member in the Contemporary Musical Arts program at the New England Conservatory. Her expertise has garnered invitations to deliver guest lectures and provide guidance to ensembles at esteemed music institutions across the United States, including Berklee College of Music and Dartmouth College.
Allison Burik‘s debut solo full-length Realm sees the multifaceted musician-composer blending a plethora of influences and approaches into an engrossing and mythologically informed whole, all inspired by women and non-binary characters throughout folktales, lore, and real-world history. Within recent years, the Tio’tia:ke/ Montréal-based artist has unquestionably emerged a key part of the city’s vibrant jazz and experimental music scenes. They’re member of groups such as Bellbird (alongside Claire Devlin, Eli Davidovici, and Mili Hong), the duo Umbrella Pine, and they’ve also played various projects fronted by acclaimed musician Mali Obomsawin including the band that was featured on her celebrated 2022 album Sweet Tooth. Atmosphere is the clear the driving force behind Realm; Burik superimposes textural phrases of alto sax and bass clarinet, threading in their limpid vocals, field recordings, subtle electronic treatments and even guitar (both from Burik themself and their Umbrella Pine collaborator Magdalena Abrego). Drawing on aspects of free improvisation, the darker end of ambient, and folk musics, it serves as a powerful yet elusive introduction to their work.
Originally from Kansas City, Allison Burik moved to Boston to pursue a Bachelor's Degree in Performance at Berklee College of Music, and Master’s degree in Contemporary Improvisation from the New England Conservatory. Following their graduation, they've maintained a steady engagement with an array of different musical forms. Brian Slattery of the New Haven Independent praised one of their live performances remarking that "Burik—who, in a band uniformly bursting with fierce talent, requires special mention for some transfixing, revelatory playing." Over the years, they have worked with notable musicians including Taylor Ho Bynum, George Garzone, Joe Morris, Tyshawn Sorey, Ingrid Laubrock, Ran Blake, Carla Kilhstedt, Anthony Coleman, Frank Tiberi, Bobby Watson, Jaleel Shaw, Kaïa Kater, Shannon LeClaire, Tia Fuller, and others. They've also been featured at festivals such as Suoni Per Il Popolo, Nancy Jazz Pulsations Festival (France), POP Montreal, Halifax Jazz Fest, Vancouver Jazz Fest, AmericanaFest (Nashville, TN), and participated in vital residency programs such as the Banff International Jazz and Creative Music Workshop, Iceland's NES Artist Residency, and the Montréal Contemporary Music Lab.
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