Oct
02
Sun October 2nd, 2016
8:00PM
Nublu
Minimum Age: 18+
Doors Open: 7:00PM
Show Time: 8:00PM
Event Ticket: $10
Day of Show: $15
**This is a general admission event at Nublu: 151 Avenue C, Manhattan**
The Sway Machinery versus Hydra! Special Rosh Hashana eve party!
New York-based acts The Sway Machinery and Hydra launch a dynamic collaboration exploring familial intimacy alongside musical ritual. The groups mix rich vocals with robust musicianship and evocative performance in their musical exploration of zemiros, a genre of Jewish folk music sung at the table among families. Zemiros act both as source material and framework for exploring this ritual music which is at once humble and transcendental. Through the marriage of historical folksong, alongside a uniquely contemporary musical palette and performative aesthetic, a powerful new project is born. Coming on the first night of Rosh Hashana, this is a particularly timely night for diving into the past and creating with what we find there…
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The Sway Machinery
The Sway Machinery has a unique pedigree rocking festival stages and night clubs from Timbuktu to Warsaw. The band’s roots in the Cantorial spiritual music tradition takes the listener on a journey into a childlike space of wonder.
“The horn driven Sway Machinery draws on a melange of influences-from Latin Jazz to Ashkenazi Cantorial tropes-to forge a dance-friendly, at times ecstatic sound.” -The New Yorker
“Makes the ancient modern and the mythological real” -Village Voice
Hydra
Meet Hydra, Brooklyn’s newest vocal creature. I sing for you… to us… as one, as three. We speak five languages – English, Albanian, Spanish, Macedonian and HydraTongue – and we’d like to learn yours. I am three. We are one. We are Hydra. Yula Be’eri, Rima Fand, Sarah Small. We wear our whitest dress. Or I wear red. Hydra ‘dances’ sometimes. We bask in dark, thick harmony. I learn new linguistic and locomotive tricks every day. Follow us on our fiery journey from our infanthood, here and now, to beyond and after.