John Roseboro / Frances Chang at PhilaMOCA

Schedule

Thu Sep 19 2024 at 08:00 pm

Location

PhilaMOCA | Philadelphia, PA

Known for his buttery voice and distinct strumming, singer-songwriter and visual artist John Roseboro has been making a name for himself in the indie scene, redefining and innovating the genre from Brooklyn, NY.
Building off of the likes of João Gilberto and Antônio Carlos Jobim, Roseboro’s post-bossa style carries other similarities to the greats in that his music focuses on personal and social justice, undertaking major concepts such as human rights, love, and religion, being described as "probably the music that will heal the world... impossible to be indifferent, in voice and soul.”
John cites his upbringing, particularly his living with the Amish and years as a mortician, as informing his playing and perspective. The new artist has received praise from indie giants Field Medic, Thee Sacred Souls, Men I Trust, and Frankie Cosmos drawing comparisons to King Krule, Steve Lacy, Elliott Smith and Seu Jorge.
After independently garnering a loyal online and live show audience and self-releasing the culturally acclaimed ‘Johnny’, Roseboro has returned with “Four Cantos, moving the culture forward with no end in sight.
https://www.instagram.com/john.roseboro/
https://open.spotify.com/artist/0OTbmw4nbgWHiTyqhmz72s
Frances Chang is a musician and multimedia artist living and performing in New York. Combining use of conventional instrumentation, playful electronics, and poetry, her unique strain of experimental songwriting deals with disrupting accepted reality. Her songs are an exercise in communication, probing the tension between idiosyncratic personal experience and the drive to understand and be understood through a collective language.
Her second solo album Psychedelic Anxiety explores overwhelming, existential, vertigoic feelings, through a kind of world-building. A strain of metaphysical unease is present throughout the record’s 8 tracks, and charged by all things occultish.
Primarily home-recorded by Chang and partially produced by engineer Andrea Schiavelli, and featuring a cast of revered NYC DIY players, including her regular band members Schiavelli (Eyes of Love) on bass and Liza Winter (Birthing Hips) on drums, Psychedelic Anxiety relishes in discovery, in the electricity of improvisation, in balancing bleakness with humor when contemplating the divine.
It’s a colorful yet spartan body of work, roomy and playful, capturing a genre Chang refers to as slacker prog — offbeat, even jarring, but brimming with spiritual and emotional resonance. Around her, guitar sputters and stops. Vocals branch off like vines on the side of an old house. Songs are freaky miniatures in the way that a Broadcast song is a freaky miniature. Infusing artifacts of the mundane with an otherworldly aura, even her love songs live more in the realm of fantasy-horror than the romantic.
https://www.instagram.com/p.l.u.t.o.n.e.s.s/
https://open.spotify.com/artist/4mGbLmr9tmgnWFM4CaFJRe?si=w7Zv7N_NSpOCKb4kkdDDPw
Doors 7:30 / $15 admission / All ages

Where is it happening?

PhilaMOCA, 531 N 12th St, Philadelphia, PA 19123-3323, United States,Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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Host or Publisher PhilaMOCA

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