Thursday, 11/07/2024
Live, 6PM, Sound Room
Durations: Kranky w/ Windy & Carl [live] + Niecy Blues [live] + Pan American & Michael Grigoni [live] + MJ Guider [live]
TicketsEstablished in 1993 by Bruce Adams and Joel Leoschke, Kranky is a Chicago-based label that exists on the outskirts of experimental electronica informed by post-rock, ambient, noise, and psychadelia. The Kranky showcase at Public Records explores the breadth of the label’s sound through four live sets from artists both timeless and and contemporary.
Windy + Carl are innovators from Dearborn, Michigan, who have torn through the scene since 1993 with their innovative approach to ambient music. Drumless, hypnotic drones are derived from guitar via usage of delay, reverb, and E-Bow, rather than synthesizers. The minimalist, husband-wife duo pushed forward other ‘80s dream pop and shoegaze acts such as Robin Guthrie of the Cocteau Twins.
Niecy Blues, aka Janise Robinson, produces floating, ghostly R+B; see: KeiyaA, Raveena, Moses Sumney. Meditative, delicate, and intentional, Robinson crafts deeply-intimate, utterly simple — sometimes just looped vocal improvisations and plucking strings — ambient gospel influenced by her religious childhood in Oklahoma.
Chicago-based Pan American is an experimental electronic folk music ensemble and alter ego of Mark Nelson, vocalist and guitarist for the band Labradford, who first began recording under the name in 1997. Nelson combines field recordings and solo lap steel guitar instrumentals to produce an emotive, romantic minimalist approach to indie Americana. For Durations, he performs live with Michael Grigoni.
MJ Guider is the alias of Melissa Guion, a multi-instrumentalist, producer, and radio DJ from New Orleans. Deep layers of droney shoegaze and heavy echo combine into sultry, darkwave dream pop backgrounded by mesmerizing soundscapes.