Reflecting the current economic climate, but determined to have some fun, ok|ok is doing a FREE show assisted by none other than Benton-C on live visual performance, to celebrate ok|ok's first ever CD “EATING MANTIS" from RKM Music.
This coming Thursday, September 18th, 2008 @ 8pm (1 set only)
No Cover, No Minimum, FREE
Roulette @ 20 Greene Street (between Canal and Grand Streets) 212.219.8242
RKM Music presents a FREE multi-media event by the avant-jazz/avant-rock group ok|ok who will be performing works from the new album “EATING MANTIS". Lending visual support will be video artist Benton-C, known for his live visual performances with such artists as Bobby Previte and the Beastie Boys. Also not to be missed: the premier of the director's cut of ok|ok's animated music video “Hunt” by PECKS, a visual-artist team in Japan, which recently won the Reel Thirteen short film competition and was broadcast on THIRTEEN/WNET. The CD, with its artful packaging created by PECKS, will be on sale at the event.
ok|ok is Kyoko Kitamura on voice and laptop, Mike McGinnis on clarinet, Khabu Doug Young on guitars, Tony Moreno on drums. Steeped in the language of jazz improvisation but working with elements of rock, folk, poetry and their own beguiling style, ok|ok manages to seamlessly fuse avant-garde jazz with avant-garde rock, adding multi-lingual spoken words and inexplicable noises to create a wild landscape all its own.
“For all its eccentricity and oddball experimentation, Eating Mantis is a highly musical album. An inside/outside perspective defines this 2006 session...a promising and engaging effort from this New York City-based foursome. “ -- Alex Henderson, AllMusicGuide
This coming Thursday, September 18th, 2008 @ 8pm (1 set only)
No Cover, No Minimum, FREE
Roulette @ 20 Greene Street (between Canal and Grand Streets) 212.219.8242
RKM Music presents a FREE multi-media event by the avant-jazz/avant-rock group ok|ok who will be performing works from the new album “EATING MANTIS". Lending visual support will be video artist Benton-C, known for his live visual performances with such artists as Bobby Previte and the Beastie Boys. Also not to be missed: the premier of the director's cut of ok|ok's animated music video “Hunt” by PECKS, a visual-artist team in Japan, which recently won the Reel Thirteen short film competition and was broadcast on THIRTEEN/WNET. The CD, with its artful packaging created by PECKS, will be on sale at the event.
ok|ok is Kyoko Kitamura on voice and laptop, Mike McGinnis on clarinet, Khabu Doug Young on guitars, Tony Moreno on drums. Steeped in the language of jazz improvisation but working with elements of rock, folk, poetry and their own beguiling style, ok|ok manages to seamlessly fuse avant-garde jazz with avant-garde rock, adding multi-lingual spoken words and inexplicable noises to create a wild landscape all its own.
“For all its eccentricity and oddball experimentation, Eating Mantis is a highly musical album. An inside/outside perspective defines this 2006 session...a promising and engaging effort from this New York City-based foursome. “ -- Alex Henderson, AllMusicGuide
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