Win Tickets ($20): Grimes, Swahili, Born Gold @ Holocene | Surreal, Future-Pop
February 16, 2012 — PDXPIPELINEWe are giving away a pair of tickets to see Grimes with Swahili and Born Gold at Holocene on Tuesday, February 21. To win, comment on this post why you’d like to attend. Winner will be drawn and emailed Monday, February 20.
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From our sponsors at Holocene:
Grimes w/ Born Gold, Swahili
Tuesday, February 21
8:30 p.m. | $10 | 21+
Purchase Tickets at Brown Paper Tickets
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St.
More Info: www.holocene.org
We’re pleased to welcome back the surreal future-pop of Canadian visionary Claire Boucher, aka Grimes.
There is a powerful harmony in Grimes. It is a project which is both musical and visual, embodying the arts of 2D, performance, dance, video and sound. Claire Boucher weaves these together to a strong rhythmic effect, “the marriage between the voice of a human and the heartbeat of a machine” [Bullett Magazine].
Boucher, born in Vancouver, Canada, came to Montreal in 2006. Her experience as a performer is deeply embedded in the illegal DIY loft culture of Montreal, where Grimes was one of the prominent figures in the scene surrounding Lab Synthèse — a 4600sq ft re-appropriated textile factory. She developed in a scene where punk ethos and pop music collide, resulting in a distinct sense of community, religiosity and psychedelic revelry.
Her work incorporates influences as wide as Enya, TLC and Aphex Twin, drawing from genres like New Jack Swing, IDM, New Age, K-pop, Industrial and glitch. This approach has marked Grimes as a curator of culture, and allowed the project to remain flexible and evolving.
A phantasmic state for the deep listener, sourcing the long forgotten spells running alongside humans for centuries and forcing them through a hyper-futuristic filter. Compositional and vocal delivery are coloured with an emotional trauma. Despite a generally upbeat demeanour, an urgency permeates the music. Calling us between our history and the future it uses the pleasure of minimal rhythms and dance to entice, but beyond its rich, software-sculpted cohesiveness, and vocal energy, runs a very real and odd world.
February 16, 2012 at 10:12
Canadian face-melting is high on my priority list, so naturally Grimes rattles my dash on the daily.
Holocene is gonna be a hella scene on Tuesday. I can’t afford another I’mgonnaseethemnexttimes. I just can’t
February 16, 2012 at 11:07
Genesis is awesome. Help me live it.
February 16, 2012 at 11:15
Claire is one of my favorite musicians in the WORLD. I must see this show. And Born Gold! Deliver me
February 16, 2012 at 11:23
I like all the elements she brings and would be super stoked to be able to see them on display. Ready to shake ma booty
February 16, 2012 at 13:43
Because Clair is the latest in a long line of HUGE Canadienne vocalist crushes…..Emily Haines, Leslie Feist, Regine Chassagne…you get the idea.
Please help get me there so I can make my proposal.
February 16, 2012 at 16:51
Grimessssssss! Didn’t catch her last time she came through Portland and was kicking myself for weeks.
February 16, 2012 at 16:52
didn’t make it when she was here with Austra, and Oblivion and Genesis are two of the best songs of the year so far! Gotta see Grimes!
February 16, 2012 at 17:35
Like Rip Van Winkle, I’ve just been aroused from a deep sleep. In order to shake this slumber my ears need to synch with this strange notion of Surreal Future Pop.
February 19, 2012 at 12:50
Let me get my groove on Tuesday night!! Unemployed student looking for some love PDX Pipeline, girls got to let some tension go and dance to the music.
February 20, 2012 at 11:49
Claire is absolute top quality. The whole witch house scene is really blowing up and her sound sits nervously on the verge of mainstream pop. Really need to make this show.