This Weekend @ Holocene: Grouper w/ Ilyas Ahmed, Big Freedia + GIRL TROUBLE All Female DJ Dance Party
April 7, 2011 — PDXPIPELINE-----------------------
Related Holocene Weekend Events:
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From our sponsors at Holocene:
Visitor (Grouper w/ Ilyas Ahmed)
w/ Jefre Cantu-Ledesma & Indignant Senility
Thursday, April 7
8:30 p.m. | $7 | 21+
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison Street
www.holocene.org
Gorgeous and masterful experimental compositions.
Drowned in Sound writes of Grouper (aka Liz Harris): “The same thing can be at once terrifically cathartic and painfully overwhelming. What makes Harris unique is that rather than delve further into the murky realm of the self — emphasizing the ‘story’ behind her music, or even making that music about her — she explores what happens when you step into the shade, the grey areas where individuality breaks down, merging into the background, the wider picture. Harris sings, “invisible, I’ve become invisible”, and you realize that it’s possible to feel both scared and enchanted by that sentiment. Here, there is no quantifiable ‘story’, but rather something altogether more challenging — a journey into the shadows, a place at once beautiful, complex and frightening.”
Tiny Mix Tapes writes of Ilyas Ahmed’s 2009 record Goner: “To those well-versed in Ilyas Ahmed’s mysterious, vast, and vigorous discography, the opening guitar phrase of Goner might seem puzzling at first. It’s not puzzling in a “this is strange and bad” sense, but puzzling in a “fresh and right on!” sense. “Earn Your Blood” rips in with heroic guitar-action, summoning the lost Gods of Rock rather than the Esoteric Gods one frequently encounters on journeys through Ahmed’s mythogenic-ontology. What happens when rock rediscovers its primordial cloak, namely that sole force that can resist the superficiality and banal transparency that would eventually go from being its passing plague to its seemingly immutable second nature?
More Holocene Weekend Events after the jump…
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GIRL TROUBLE
w/ DJ Linger, DJ Magic Beans, DJ Dreamlover
DJ Jen O, DJ Womb Service, DJ Troubled Youth
and DJ Tropical Depression
Saturday, April 9
9 p.m. | 21+
$3 for ladies (and men accompanied by ladies) | $10 single dudes
We’ve assembled a team of Portland’s loveliest female DJs for the ultimate girls’ night out! Get dressed up and come dance to all-female dance jams!
Come dance the night away to an array of all-female dance jams, spanning genres from girl group pop to 80s R&B divas, the ladies of house music to the sirens of disco….A powerhaus of lady DJs guide the way! DJ Womb Service (Eliza Sohn of the Golden Hours), DJ Troubled Youth (Megan Holmes of Holocene), DJ Tropical Depression (Claudia Meza of Explode into Colors), DJ Jen Olesen (of Valentine’s), DJ Magic Beans (Maggie Vail of Kill Rock Stars), DJ Chelsea Morrisey (of Dirty Mittens), and DJ Linger (Genevieve Dellinger of Linger & Quiet) will all be picking out the finest selections for you!
