LUMINESCENCE - toso toso — live event
Doors 8:00pm - Set 9:00pmTOSO TOSOIsabel Crespo Pardo - Voice Celia Hill - Guitar Rahul Carlberg - PianoKabir Adhiya-Kumar - Drums"Luminescence" is a three day festival presented by Kalia Vandever x Close Up from Feb 27 - Mar 1st 2026. The festival gathers the inventive and imaginative minds of artists who challenge the way we perceive sound, song, and performance. Through conversation, music, and community, you’re invited to experience the visceral and enchanting worlds of these performers over the course of the three day festival.Formed in 2020, toso toso is made up of producer, drummer, and sound designer Kabir Adhiya-Kumar; synth and keyboardist Rahul Carlberg; producer and guitarist Celia Hill; and interdisciplinary artist Isabel Crespo Pardo, the group’s vocalist and wordsmith. Each member brings a background in improvisation, a foundation that shapes their collaborative compositional process. Songs often begin as a single idea from one member, which is then looped, sculpted, and stretched collectively into unexpected forms. These fragments are transformed and sometimes mangled beyond recognition as they pass through the group’s shared sensibility, yielding music that is at once fractured and fluid. The genre-agnostic sound of toso toso emerges from deep collaboration and a rare kind of creative trust—one rooted in friendship. Drawing from an eclectic palette, the group delights in creating new forms through juxtapositions: punchy synths colliding with existential lyrics, blastbeat drums arising beneath washes of reverb or snap into terse, angular textures. The songs on toso toso walk a tightrope between stillness and cataclysm, balancing emotional intimacy with sonic extremity. This event is All Ages Seating is first-come, first-served; the last 10 spots in the room are standing room. ALL SALES ARE FINAL. WE ARE UNABLE TO ACCOMMODATE SWITCHING SETS OR DAYS.
Starts: 2026-03-01T21:00:00Z
Ends: 2026-03-01T23:00:00Z
Where: 154 Orchard Street, New York, New York 10002, United States
Price: $0.0