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Double Decker Music Series
ABOUT THE EVENT
Bowerbird and Sebastian Petsu are pleased to welcome WOLF DEM, and Tessa Ellis and Dan Blacksberg to the Double Decker Music Series. Join us on Sunday, July 30th at 8:00 p.m. (rain date, July 31st) for a unique and intimate mobile concert experience on an open-top double-decker bus. Half of the performance will be on the bus, and the other half will take place at a secret outdoor location that the bus will drive to. Before, between, and after the music, tour guide Sebastian Darkly Petsu will share dry wit and history about the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
WOLF DEM is a live electronics duo from Philadelphia, conceived in the fall of 2012 by two longtime DJs who bonded over similar musical backgrounds and a mutual desire to explore the bleeding edges of electronic music. Using both digital and analog tools and drawing on a highly diverse range of influences, WOLF DEM grew from its original concept- “what your dreams would sound like if you fell asleep in an old warehouse where someone had left a dancehall station playing on the radio”- into a focused aesthetic, at once chaotic and hypnotic, sitting at the intersection of Caribbean music, techno, noise, and field recordings. Past releases include a record for Great Circles and cassettes for Vague Audio Tapes and End Result Productions; later this summer, they’re slated to release a new cassette with Embalming Lately.
https://soundcloud.com/wolf-dem/wolf-dem-live-inciting-hq-dec2016
https://soundcloud.com/great-circles/grcr-011-wolf-dem-hydrophobia-12-preview
Called “A virtuosic technician with abundant creativity,” Dan Blacksberg has become a major voice carving out new paths in both Jewish and experimental music. Primarily through his trombone playing, but also as a composer, educator, concert organizer, and sometimes record producer, Dan has excited audiences and empowered musicians in his hometown of Philadelphia, and around the world. From performing and recording with traditional klezmer musicians like Elaine Hoffman Watts and Adrienne Cooper, to experimentalists George Lewis and Anthony Braxton, to performing with his own groups Electric Simcha and Deveykus ()the worlds only hardcore simcha band and Hasidic doom-metal band respectively), his work spans from the traditional to the avant-garde and radical spaces in between.
www.danblacksberg.com
https://soundcloud.com/dan-blacksberg/shaking
Tessa Ellis is a recent graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music and is building a career as a freelance artist in Philadelphia. Passionate about performing works written by living composers, she is a member of the Arcana New Music Ensemble and Opus 5. Tessa is spending the next academic year as a Community Artist Fellow focusing on early childhood music education in partnership with William Cramp Elementary and Project Home.
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