His Name Is Alive, Melody English, DJ Vivid Oblivion — live event
From Livonia, Michigan, His Name Is Alive is known primarily as the creative outlet of Warren Defever who in theearly-90s, along with vocalist Karin Oliver, became an integral part of 4AD’s storied history after label founder Ivo Watts- Russell fell deeply for their dark and fragmented sound; their self-released cassettes mysteriously landing in the post, consistently improving until he could ignore no more. Having recently reissued those early tracks as part of the lauded ASilver Thread trilogy, the light now turns to their first three albums proper. Signing to 4AD in 1989, as Throwing Muses, Pixies, and The Breeders were beating a new transatlantic path for the label,they proved perfectly paired. While their sound was more in line with the gothic echoes of Cocteau Twins and Dead CanDance than the visceral college rock of the aforementioned, His Name Is Alive also had a different, nonpareil quality, something existing on the boundary of this earth and another realm further underground. It was this otherness that piqued interest and proved the fulcrum of an unpredictable sound that often-changed tack before listeners could second guess. Three decades on and His Name Is Alive’s mark on the scene is indelible, excitingly with a whole new audience now discovering them. Melody English is a singer, producer and songwriter based in New York. While putting out music under her name, Melody also collaborates in projects Test Subjects and The Furniture Group. While her early years were shaped by her transient upbringing, moving around the American West as a child with her mom and brother, she found structure and discipline in rigorous classical training. Melody sang in choirs from childhood onward and studied operatic singing throughout her formative years. Melody focused almost solely on classical music from ages 15 to 24, immersing herself in the sounds and emotions of composers like Arnold Schoenberg and Aaron Copland. The framework of music theory helped create rules for her understanding of music, which Melody could eventually dismantle and repurpose in her own songwriting. Despite feeling pride in her training, her archaic repertoire disconnected her from her peers, and Melody felt the urge to start a band after college to explore more modern styles of music. Melody began experimenting with more contemporary sounds with her first project, Godly Hemlines (an anagram of her name), before moving to Brooklyn in 2017. In New York, Melody found a cohort of burgeoning musicians performing their own unique music in bars, venues, and unconventional spaces, and she felt inspired to take her personal music a step further. Her flirtation with production came to a head as she began work on her solo debut, Melody, with help from her friend Joe Valley and her cousin Dan English, who moved to New York around the same time. Melody released her second EP, The Web, last year and is currently working on a full length album.
Starts: 2024-09-26T19:30:52Z
Ends: 2024-09-26T22:30:52Z
Where: 1647 Weirfield Street, New York 11385, United States
Price: $32.61
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