Medusa | Matthew Daher (Detroit) | LIP TALK w/ nico

Doors 8 PM
Music 8:30 PM
$10 advance
$12 at the door

Medusa
To make music like Medusa’s, you need three things: thick beats, visceral melodies, and an axe to grind. A storyteller at heart, the self-proclaimed “revenge-pop” musician aims to transform tales of queer joy, desperation, and agony into gratifying music “by any means necessary.” And they make good on the promise; their signature production style — described by Soundriv as “a breakthrough collection of LGBTQ hymns,” and by Bucketlist as “the most inventive [expletive] music we’ve heard in a long time” — features unconventional samples like wolf howls and cheerleading chants as often as distorted basslines. By stacking intricate layers of sound design over aggressive beats, Medusa builds formidable symphonies that feel larger than life. The result is a unique blend of synth pop, hip-hop, EDM, and post-hardcore with a cinematic edge.
Matthew Daher
https://matthewdahermusic.bandcamp.com/
The Wisdom to Know the Difference is Matthew Daher’s electroacoustic solo project exploring the limits and possibilities of control and surrender on both a sonic and spiritual level. Using Ableton Live, contact mic drum triggers, and samplers, Daher processes acoustic drums and vocals, blends them with lush textures, and triggers other sonic events from the drumkit at varying degrees of randomness, generating emergent, song-structured webs of intended and unintended sonic consequences. This performance is part of Daher's album release tour for the project's debut full length The Wisdom to Know the Difference Volume I.
LIPTALK w/ nico
https://liptalk.bandcamp.com/music
LIP TALK is an experimental pop producer, multi-instrumentalist + songwriter, based in Brooklyn, NY.

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