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Thursday May 12 | Copal + NotWavingButDrowning + Joro Boro | ||
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  “Beguiling” (First Coast News) and “artistically beautiful yet darkly tantalizing” (Maximum Ink), Copal sets an evocative tone; lavish voices of violin and cello flicker against a twilight scape of electronic swells and textures, impelled by a driving rhythmic sense, and original melodies steeped in global musical traditions. NYC-based, Copal is lead by violinist/composer Hannah Thiem, with collaborators Isabel Castellvi (cello), Rob Chamberlain (drums), Lorenzo Wolff (bass), and Tripp Dudley (percussion). The band’s sound is a steampunk melding of styles set on a world stage. Nordic melodies ride Middle-Eastern rhythms into the halls of a remembered past, Hungarian riffs blush hotly against Spanish-cadence, opulent harmonies from far-gone depths. Copal’s 2010 aptly named ‘Into the Shadow Garden’, is a moody arabesque of cultural influences and sonic tapestries. The music here is darkly intimate, compelling on multiple levels. Like lucid dreams, the sounds of Copal will take you away. Not Waving But Drowning makes a joyful noise with banjos, violas, whiskey bottles, trumpets, and pots and pans, all while spinning together shipwrecked shanties, homespun Appalachian reels, whiskey-drenched bordello blues, and gleeful indie rock. Born in a squalid Brooklyn cabaret and shanghaied by a dilapidated freighter bound for uncharted waters, NWBD sings tales of mystery, adventure, and poisoned love in distinctive three-part harmony and impeccable attire. Their toe-tapping rag and bone style will charm you into dancing the Madison while artfully palming your pocket watch. "...pops & rattles with an old world urgency." - Sepiachord "At this hoedown Peter the Great would show you his baby skeletons in his cabinet of curiosities; you’d see less teeth, more fishnet, more velvet." - 3hive "It was a rollicking steampunk hoedown... We left in a daze." - New York Magazine Joro Boro plays and promotes etnoteck, glitch-folk and post-national bass - the dirty local side of globalization force-fed back into a party without borders detonating the conglomerated mono-culture. Joro-Boro is a monthly host of MoGlo (Modern Global) on Radio New York 91.5FM, has toured with Balkan Beat Box, and has performed with artists ranging from Bassnectar to Tinariwen. He established himself over seven years as the resident DJ in the Bulgarian Bar (Mehanata) in New York City. In 2007 he left his residency there and developed the charlatan/artist alter ego Joro De Boro. Joro-Boro is not an artist/charlatan/mythologist. Joro De Boro could be just the opposite.
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