Shearling, lowercase, Lucy Liyou — live event
Pehrspace presents a record release show for Shearling, with special guests lowercase and Lucy Liyou completing the lineup. Serving as a spiritual continuation of the now-defunct Sprain, Shearling exhibits the reunion of a now decade-old collaborative force between guitarists Alexander Kent and Sylvie Simmons. A subsequent recruiting of percussionist Andrew Chanover, bassist Wesley Nelson, and Keyboardist Elizabeth Carver filled out their orchestrally-minded roster. The band was mostly quiet for its first year of existence, avoiding live performances to instead focus on their brazen debut Motherfucker, I am Both: “Amen” and "Hallelujah"… The record retains Sprain’s characteristic commitment to intensity, further mutated through a newfound lens of collagist approach. Featuring only a single, hour-plus long song, Motherfucker is a demanding exhibition of uncompromising ethos. lowercase is a post-rock slowcore band that was started by Imaad Wasif (vocals/guitar) and Brian Girgus (drums) when they were teenagers in the Southern California desert. They released numerous singles and 3 full length LP’s between 1993-2000 on the seminal labels Amphetamine Reptile and Kill Rock Stars. Initially a duo, they enlisted a third member Tiber Scheer (bass) for their final album The Going Away Present. They had been on hiatus since the year 2000 but reunited in January 2025 after being asked with 3 days notice to play a show with Brainiac during the evacuation from the Altadena wildfires. Known for onstage exorcisms, minimalist counterpoint, in the best tradition of progressive hardcore; the vocals, riffs and resulting sound is a contrast of extremes and transcendent emotion. Los Angeles-based composer Lucy Liyou synthesizes field recordings, text-to-speech readings, poetry, and elements from Korean folk opera into sonic narratives that explore the implications of Orientalism and Westernization. Combining disparate sonic elements into critically cohesive pieces, the musical world of Lucy Liyou alternates between beautiful serenity and unsettling entropy. Arresting ballads and contemporary classical pieces fragment into decaying shards, voices get warped beyond recognition, and shimmering light makes way for bit-crushed noise. Her latest record, Every Video Without Your Face, Every Sound Without Your Name, documents the parallel endings in familial connection and romantic love.
Starts: 2025-05-24T20:00:00Z
Ends: 2025-05-24T22:00:00Z
Where: 2220 Beverly Boulevard, Los Angeles, California 90057, United States
Price: $15.0