Midwife & Amulets
Schedule
Fri Oct 22 2021 at 09:00 pm to 11:00 pm
Location
Trumpet Blossom Cafe | Iowa City, IA
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MidwifeAmulets
Friday October 22nd 9pm doors
Trumpet Blossom Cafe $15 / $10 students
Limited capacity of 50 seated audience
Must be vaxxed & masked
MIDWIFE:
Midwife is the moniker of multi-instrumentalist Madeline Johnston. She lives and works in San Miguel, New Mexico by way of Denver, Colorado, where she spent the better half of the past decade developing her experimental pop project. As a self taught guitarist and recording engineer, Midwife explores dark subject matter in her anthemic, soft-gaze hits. Self-described as “Heaven Metal,” or emotive music about devastation - catharsis.
Midwife navigates themes of incarceration, locus of control, clarity, self harm, confinement, agency, and truth-seeking, all erupting in a bioluminescent Rothko color-field of blue.
AMULETS:
The prolific, Portland-based Randall Taylor is an audio/visual artist best known for his musical project, Amulets. Taylor’s work uses analog tape and its imperfections to explore themes like degradation and nostalgia and their relationship to technology and to the self. By constructing and modifying tape loops and repurposing antiquated cassette players, Taylor creates dense, never-ending, looping soundscapes for both his live performances and sculptural sound art installations.
Taylor's new album, Blooming, was fully written and recorded in quarantine in his home studio in early 2020. Taylor would go on solo daily walks to clear his head and was struck by all of the blooming flowers surrounding him during springtime in Portland. Within that beauty came his realization that nothing lasts forever and that everything is cyclical — ultimately resulting in themes of growth, decay, melancholy and beauty inherent throughout Blooming. Taylor says that the songs on the record became a part of his processing and journey, blossoming into a new life and outlook. "It was a very moving and cathartic experience to genuinely express and record all of my emotions during such a weird time, while also reflecting the anxiety and isolation the world was also feeling,” he comments.
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Where is it happening?
Trumpet Blossom Cafe, 310 E Prentiss St, Iowa City, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
Tickets
USD 11.49 to USD 16.49
