CoPAC and the Shaking Ray Levi Society present Jeff Zagers, Russian Tsarlag, Justin Clifford Rhody, Superbody, All Girl Chorus Line and secret guests on Saturday at 8 p.m. The concert will be held at Barking Legs Theater, 1307 Dodds Ave. Admission is $7-$10 and will be available at the door.
Review for the performers:
Jeff Zagers (Savannah, Ga.) will be performing original compositions of music along with interpretations of song writers from the past 100 years in quadrophonic sound. Zagers smoothly navigates his full-length mazes with introverted determination, leading us by lantern through endless sectionals and segues; through the gateway points and ports of call. Sequenced surfaces are complicated by polished ravels of melody, harmony, noise, syncopation, plot-driven chord progressions, tone expression and color, electronic nerve, crime jazz scenery, mainstream minimalism, and a humble, vulnerable lyricism influenced by folk tradition and the Romantics. Sunset spectrum of sympathetic themes, ancient meditative innocence, mortal and supernatural, alienation, compassion, health and restlessness, crisp beauty and confinement.
Russian Tsarlag (Carlos Gonzalez) of Providence, R.I. has been spellbinding audiences for nearly a decade. Holding an expansive catalog of musical releases that ripens with age, Gonzalez also takes to the drawing chair releasing such hits as Slime Freak and Test Tube comics. He combines these two created worlds together as Russian Tsarlag in the flesh. http://russiantsarlag.tumblr.com/
Justin Clifford Rhody will be presenting a 35mm slideshow of photographs from multiple bodies of work (accompanied by a collage of field recordings gathered in some of the locations the photos were shot in). http://www.justincliffordrhody.com/
Superbody is an entertainment and media project comprised of Robert Gregg McCurry the 2nd and Caleb Jackson Dills based in the foothills of Northwestern Georgia USA. http://superbodypop.com/
All Girl Chorus Line is a raconteur and sorceress of the highest order. Upon spinning a web of fractured guitar loops and drum machines, she delivers a jocular, mystifying, and inspired dance, frothing up personal tales of pain, pleasure, struggle, confusion, unlikely humor, and transcendence.
DJ Lil Mishima spinning slabs of Slavic endarkenment between sets.
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