Saturday, April 19th
8:00 PM - Midnite
The Annex, 152 Orchard Street, NYC
$8 Suggested Donation

A New York City native, and founder/label manager for the Anticipate and Microcosm labels, Ezekiel Honig concentrates on his idiosyncratic brand of emotively warm electronic-acoustic music. Using the loop as more of a tool than a rule, Honig paints outside the lines, nestling into a comfortable space between techno, house and ambient - using them as reference points from which to stray, rather than as steadfast frameworks. Drawing on the rich history of musique concrete, Honig looks to incorporate a material nature into his music by imbuing it with a host of field recording/found-sound sources in the search for a balance between digital software innovation and the physicality of the world around us. His music is one of contrast and contradiction, combining minimal, abstract tendencies with a core of timeless harmonics - pairing fuzzy chords with clunky and dirty "mishaps."

In his Mofongo project, José Ayala draws upon a wide range of influences and expertise to craft physically compelling, mentally invigorating sonic worlds with razor-sharp conceptual and technical precision.

Ayala is a classically trained guitarist and composer, a native of Puerto Rico, a veteran of Jayuya, one of this country's most outrageous salsa bands, and former student of Boston improv gurus Ran Blake and Joe Maneiri. As Mofongo, he channels these years of intense study of numerous genres in to his live processed guitar work, creating a focused sound which reveals deep musical accomplishment and sensitivity without ever resorting to pastiche or fusion of the various elements of his musical background.

Colombian-born, New York-based sound artist David Vélez's sonic landscapes, while texture-based, often non-tonal and quite abstract, are comfortably lush and inhabitable. He provides his audience a richly layered, sparklingly complex field of sound to explore which, paraphrasing Brian Eno, rewards both careful and casual listening. An active member of the global experimental music community, and a proponent of free and online distribution models, Vélez has released music on numerous netlabels. His recent DataTransfer2 release was named one of 2007's best recordings by earlabs.org and-oar.org.

Andrés F. Cortés is a Colombian filmmaker/designer based in NYC. He directed TV commercials, short films, music videos and documentaries, working with talents like Cameron Diaz, Rosario Dawson, John Leguizamo, and Zoe Saldana among others. He is currently in development of his first feature film based on the life of Colombian world champion of boxing Antonio Cervantes "kid Pambelé" based on the best selling book by Alberto Salcedo Ramos, under the production of Paraiso pictures and Filmatika. Andrés is currently creative director and co-founder of the advertising agency thevoxcollective.

Polvo marks his second collaboration with sound artist David Velez. You can see their firsts effort at: filmatika.com/fortification commissioned by meat market magazine shown at instigator gallery in Williamsburg, Brooklyn back in 2006.