Paola Prestini & Nelson Patton's Ancient City Album Release — live event

Ancient City holds in its sound world of trombones, percussion and vocals-a beauty based on nature and rhythms of the land. It opens in a forest and ends in a town square with the three main characters, Dave, Marlon, and Paola, transformed by the rites and rituals of life. We incorporated field samples- from water, to foley inspired moments- wanting them to feel hard-edged against the rich tapestry of layered sound. Ancient City is about ordinary and magical lives, and it forces one to submit to an abstract world-a film guided by the invisible- from sounds of nature to the human voice, encouraging us to look at every day decisions and their consequences in a deeply human way. Every life holds ancestral guidance, and every person often masks their identity, with ceremonies and rituals binding disparate lives and moments, adding meaning and cogency across different cultures and societies. Ancient City is enigmatic, symbolic, ceremonial, concealing, mystical, sacred, cultural, theatrical and in the end, we hope, transformative. ‍ Ancient City: a non-visual film score Paola Prestini - composition, vocals Dave Nelson - trombone, looper, electronics, voice and improvisations Marlon Patton - drums, percussion, Moog bass, electronics and improvisations Stuart Bogie - clarinet

Starts: 2024-04-15T19:00:10Z

Ends: 2024-04-15T21:00:10Z

Where: 80 North 6th Street, New York 11249, United States

Price: $32.27

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