Josh Johnson (LP release), Jeremiah Chiu
Schedule
Sat Apr 20 2024 at 08:00 pm to 11:00 pm
Location
2220 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90057, USA | Los Angeles, CA
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Join us for a record release celebration of Josh Johnson's *Unusual Object*, out on Northern Spy on April 5. Josh will be joined on the night by Jeremiah Chiu, with both performing solo, while DJ Rocio Wyldeflower Contreras spins between sets.~
Josh Johnson is a saxophonist, composer, multi-instrumentalist, and Grammy Award-winning producer. Josh’s latest solo record, *Unusual Object*, is a world of sound. Johnson’s fantastically processed saxophone and subtle samples and grooves give this work a sort of cyberpunk ambient jazz feel that occasionally crosses into realms akin to classic Warp Records and Jon Hassell’s dreamworld tonalities. But however fantastical and dreamlike *Unusal Object* may be, these qualities only serve to bring the listener closer to Johnson, to his breath, his sense of song. What, after all, could be more intimate than sitting inside someone’s fantasies and dreams?
Johnson executes this all with an indelible elegance, establishing him as a worthy contemporary of fellow modern avant-garde composers like Lea Bertucci, Ian William Craig, and Kelly Moran. Like the latter’s carefully considered prepared piano compositions, Unusual Object is stately, personal, and patently modern.
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