Drekka © Illusion of Safety © Iron Like Nylon © Hali Palombo

Name: Drekka © Illusion of Safety © Iron Like Nylon © Hali Palombo
Start: 2025-09-21T13:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-09-21T15:00:00-05:00
Location: Horatio N May Chapel

Schedule

Sun Sep 21 2025 at 01:00 pm to 03:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Horatio N May Chapel | Lincolnwood, IL

Complacency Presents A Sunday mass of experimental music @ The iconic beautiful May Chapel located at the Rosehill Cemetery 3 blocks west of the entrance at 5800 N. Ravenswood. Doors at 12:30. performances from 1 to 3 PM. Vacate the grounds by 4 or be locked in.
The event is open to all ages, and requests a $15 donation but you know notaflof
DREKKA (BLOOMINGTON, IN)
Since 1996, Michael Anderson has evolved from experiments in early industrial tape culture to the production of fragile bedroom noise folk with expansive cinematic textures in his project Drekka. Having released dozens of cassettes, CDs, and LPs on his own Bluesanct label as well as numerous other labels internationally, Anderson has traveled, collaborated, and relocated, all the while collecting memories and building a very personal archive of corresponding sound. Drekka’s music is made through continually delving into this archive: digging up and repurposing old recordings, live performances, and forgotten snippets of out-of-touch friends’ voices. It is a project that experiments not only with sound, but also with memory as a subject and a process. Like Tarkovsky’s The Mirror or the more abstract works of Coil and Cindytalk, Drekka is both a sonic experiment and an assemblage of memories – at one moment dissonant and intimidating, and the next warm, hospitable, and ultimately soothing.
https://bluesanct.com/bands/drekka/
https://drekka.bandcamp.com/album/the-water-of-life
Iron Like Nylon (CHI)
is an experimental project conceptualized and fronted by the writer Meghan Lamb (author of FAILURE TO THRIVE, COWARD, and MIRROR TRANSLATION). Designed to converse with her hybrid written work, the music of Iron Like Nylon combines field recordings, white noise, ghostly vocals, and repurposed “everyday” objects to uncanny effect. In the tradition of artists such as Laurie Anderson and Meredith Monk, Iron Like Nylon also incorporates film tapestries, spoken word, and other storytelling elements into her live performances. Through this blending of creative practices, Iron Like Nylon seeks to examine the blurred lines between strength (iron) and vulnerability (nylon), the elusive, in-between spaces where one is “like” the other.

https://ironlikenylon1.bandcamp.com/track/holding-something
Hali Palombo (CHI)
is a composer, visual artist and radio host from Chicago who makes music from a wide variety of found audio, field recordings and shortwave radio samples.
Hali will be performing sound collage composed primarily from samples collected from wax cylinders from the 1890s -1910s, along with electric guitar, binaural tones, ancient Chinese percussion and field recordings taken at popular Wisconsin tourist attraction, The House on the Rock.
https://halipalombo.bandcamp.com/album/creative-exercise-sport
Illusion Of Safety (CHI)
has persisted despite the obstacles since 1983 and shows only occasional signs of stopping despite distinct pressure and now being more wafer thin than ever. As this is a Sunday afternoon I will be channeling my history of returning to Mother of Sorrows boarding school in Blue Island every Sunday after the weekend at home during 2nd & 3rd grade, a formative experience to say the least. Like seeing 2001 when i was 9, a look into the void.
https://illusionofsafety.bandcamp.com/album/internal-external-1-full-performance-soundtrack-w-shen-wei-dance-arts
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Horatio May Chapel
Horatio May born in Canada in 1839. By 1850, he was living in Belvidere, Illinois. He came to Chicago in 1856. He joined the volunteer fire department. In 1860, he was elected as a lieutenant. In the early days of his business career, he worked with John Neeley. In 1864, he was made a partner at McKinley and Ingraham grocers. In his political career, he was named a Lincoln Park Commissioner in 1886; he was elected a city of Chicago controller in 1891 He passed away in 1898 while in Germany.
His wife Anna wished to memorialize her husband by having a chapel built at Rosehill Cemetery. She bequeathed $75,000 for its construction. The architect for this project was Joseph Lyman Silsbee. He designed the May home on Astor Street in Chicago. He was also the chief architect for J.L. Cochran’s Edgewater Development Company. He held this position from 1886 to the 1890’s.
Construction on the chapel began in 1899. It was a blend of Gothic and Romanesque Styles. The exterior was made of granite. In the front, there was a carriage porch with an elaborate tile ceiling. The dimensions of the chapel are 35 X 70 feet. The floor is mosaic tile. The roof is oak with hammer beam trusses. In the rear, there is a door leading to a storage mausoleum. In the past, this was used to store bodies during the winter months when the ground was frozen and burials were not possible. It has not been used for this purpose for years.