Resident DTLA Presents
Kidi Band, Elbows/Maralisa & Late Aster
Kidi Band, Elbows/Maralisa & Late Aster at Resident
Wed October 11 8:00 pm
Resident DTLA 428 South Hewitt Street - Los Angeles, CA 90013
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This event is 21+
https://www.residentdtla.com/event/695001607517/The musicians behind LA-based Kidi Band combine unlikely material to find a voice that’s at once explosive, organic, and electrified. The trio’s knack for fusing diverse sounds can be likened to their forbearers in bands like Deerhoof, Dirty Projectors, and tUnE-yArDs, but there’s no doubt that Kidi Band has taken those influences and moved in a direction totally their own.
It’s difficult to aptly describe the result of this quartet’s collaboration. The patchwork-complexity of a single Kidi Band beat, emanating from a trio of percussionists, incorporates the language of West African rhythm with equal parts reverence and ingenuity. When sounding against the buzzy acoustic guitar riffs, these beats propel us through intricate, wholehearted songs. Atop all of this is the band’s consonant anchorage—hocketed and harmonized voices that carry equal weight and power. Steven Kai van Betten, Linnea Sablosky, and Cooper Wolken lift their music up as only the closest of friends can, lending creative insight and sharing the weight from moment to moment. Although they are new to many, Kidi Band has played together for years and it shows. They play regularly in rock clubs and living rooms across LA, and will be touring in the near future.
https://www.instagram.com/kidiband/
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Situated somewhere between jazztronica, ambient electronic, and chamber pop, San Francisco-based Late Aster’s music has been described as producing “unprecedented sounds” (SF Chronicle) that “on paper [] shouldn’t work, but it does.” (Tape-Op) Their first release, an EP called “True and Toxic” (2021), articulated a kaleidoscopic theory of music grounded in the electronic processing of trumpet and French horn and supported by meticulous songwriting, instrumentation, and sound-sculpting.
Featuring Aaron Messing (vocals, keyboards, trumpet) and Anni Hochhalter (vocals, French horn, drum machine), Late Aster's live performances have the look of two electronic DJs, with training in classical and jazz music, experimenting with brass instruments and effects pedals. .
Instagram | YouTube | Bandcamp
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With vocals rooted in an upbringing of heavy jazz, blues and soul influences such as Taj Mahal, Billie Holiday, Bonnie Raitt and Amy Winehouse, Maralisa has a distinct timbre and a trained ear that she weaves seamlessly through genre, creating a world of her own. Revive Music writes, "Maralisa has a confident, developed style that makes her immediately recognizable." Bay Area raised and now Los Angeles based after nine years in NYC, Maralisa is building upon her writing, recording and performance experience both with her band Space Captain (Tru Thoughts Records) and as a featured vocalist as she works toward her first solo LP. 'Sugarbird EP,’ her first solo project released in 2015, plays with genre and vocal arrangement, featuring many close collaborators from New York. Maralisa has performed alongside BADBADNOTGOOD, Ghostface Killah, Nick Hakim, Khruangbin, The Hot 8 Brass Band, Kendra Morris and more at notable venues including Rough Trade, Pier 17, the Bryant Park Emerging Music Festival and Teragram Ballroom. Most recently, she has released two double singles with Space Captain, ‘Secret Garden / Back of My Mind’ and ‘Birthday Cards / Chester Springs’ and is featured on UK soul artist Ego Ella May’s album ‘Honey For Wounds.’ Maralisa is currently working on Space Captain’s sophomore album as well as her own release, a melding of psych-pop, folk and 60s soul exploring family history and influence, personal growth and reflection.
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Elbows AKA Max Schieble is a Bay Area-born songwriter, producer, singer, and visual artist, now based in Los Angeles. In October 2021 he released his debut album, Tales From The Old Mill, a project that explores the concept of “home” as a physical place, a memory, and a desire through a warbling concoction of psychedelic pop, jazz, hip hop, funk and electronic. Across the record Elbows chronicles his return to the Bay Area through tales of missing parents, debauchery in the upper middle class, and a fateful train trip up north. Musical styles swerve between songs, as a 70’s funk groove gives way to a leering 808-filled beat, followed by a dusty samba loop, all united by Schieble's keen pop sensibilities and a unified atmosphere across the record, simultaneously spooky and whimsical. Recording for the album began with a literal journey home, as a group of core-collaborators traveled with Elbows back to the Bay Area to record at the home studio of his childhood neighbor. For Elbows it was important that his friends and collaborators experience the physical places that inspired the songs and stories of the album.
In 2023 Elbows will release Winterlude, a self-directed short film inspired by the themes and music of Tales From The Old Mill, that premiered in February 2022 at the Snowtown Film Festival. Elbows has appeared live with Grammy Award winner Natalia Lafourcade, Nick Hakim, BENEE, L’Rain, and Madison Mcferrin, and has performed throughout North America.
Tales From The Old Mill is available now on EveryDejaVu Records.
https://www.instagram.com/heyelbows/
https://www.facebook.com/HeyElbows/
https://open.spotify.com/artist/3FWgOxvFgwpNofTTeqDkeo
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428 S Hewitt St
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