Thurs., 10/1/26
M.sayyid, Jel, Heavy Arts Ensemble, mars kumari
8pm, $15 adv., $20 door
M. Sayyid
M.Sayyid (born Maurice Mboya Greene July 10 1970) is a lyricist, producer, visual artist and a founding member of The New York based Alternative hip hop group Antipop Consortium. In 2017 he was the subject of a feature article in Noisey Magazine covering his move to Paris and his mixtape Error Tape 1. In 2018 the French music television series Tracks ARTE covered the artist in a mini-documentary highlighting his work. Later that year he was invited by Sónar to perform at Sónar by Day. He has appeared in a “how-to” for Billboard (magazine) in 2009 where he was applauded for his use of the MPC 2000XL and plays the role of professor in a 2 part series called Fire in the MP. His visual work has been published in Arts Magazine in 2012 where he was commissioned to create a piece for the “carte blanche” section of the magazine.
https://msayyid.bandcamp.com/music
https://www.instagram.com/_m.sayyid/
Jel
Jeffrey James Logan (born May 7, 1978), better known by his stage name Jel, is an American hip hop producer and rapper. He is co-founder of the record label Anticon. He has been a member of Presage,Themselves, Subtle, and 13 & God. Jel is primarily a producer. He is known for his use of SP-1200 and MPC2000XL to create drum beats with little or no sequencing like playing the drums live via the sampler pads. He has produced numerous tracks for underground hip hop artists such as Deep Puddle Dynamics, Atmosphere, Sole, Sage Francis, and Serengeti.
https://jelsmusic.bandcamp.com/music
https://www.instagram.com/jeffreyjellogan/
Heavy Arts Ensemble
Heavy Arts Ensemble is a collective of Bay Area musicians and media artists. Through a collage of avant-garde jazz, drone, extended melodic improvisation, live sampling, modular synthesis, live visuals, radical software and the outer edges of experimental beat culture, Heavy Arts Ensemble seeks to push deep grooves into trance-inducing states.
The collective features a rotating lineup alongside core members
- Joel Reber- reeds // percussion
- David Alvarez - reeds // percussion
- Chili Corder - cello // percussion
- Melanie Marie- live visuals // percussion
- Justin Esposito- double bass // percussion
- Diego Munguia- modular sampler // reeds // percussion
https://heavyartsensemble.com/
https://www.instagram.com/heavy.arts.ensemble/
mars kumari
When Jacques Derrida defined the lingering Marxism of late-Capitalist society as hauntological, mashing together the words haunting and ontology, he couldn’t have imagined what the era might sound like. Mars Kumari captures the grief and grit of loss we all feel now, haunted as we are by what was here and is now missing.
https://marskumari.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/mars.kumari/
