LIVE MUSIC: Jel of Anticon, Formless Heights, + 2birds at The Legionnaire
Thursday, May 29 @ 9:00 PM
Come check out one of your fav Oakland artists JELofANTICON along with producers FORMLESS HEIGHTS + 2birds
JEL of ANTICON RECORDS: Jel was one of the first, if not the very first musician to use the a drum machine in live performance like a drum kit with little to no sequencing. Using the pads on the drum machine, Jel plays each snare, bass kick, cymbal and loop with his fingers. And his raps ain’t half bad either. His crunchy punched-out beats and swells of low-bit atmospherics have become anticon trademarks, highly sought after by artists around the globe. To date, Jel’s list of collaborators includes Can’s Malcolm Mooney, Stephanie Bohm from Ms. John Soda, Mike Patton, Wise Intelligent of Poor Righteous Teachers, Black Thought of the Roots, DJ Krush, Mr. Dibbs, Sage Francis, Atmosphere, and just about the entire anticon roster, naturally. Jel is currently a member of Themselves (with Doseone and Dax Pierson), Subtle (a cello-drumssamplers-guitar-keyboards-winds-and-words sextet on Lex artists), and 13 & God (Themselves and the Notwist). His second solo full-length is entitled Soft Money. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9aAKr58svc
FORMLESS HEIGHTS: “Dillamatic” Future-Soul, Afro-Electro, . Creating emotional landscapes through a canvas of sound, Formless Heights is one of the music names of Multi-Instrumentalist, Composer, Producer, Sound healer Kevin Njikam. “Creating soundtracks to your life” FORMLESS HEIGHTS is here to remind everyone of our limitless selves and encourage people to erase the boundaries both internally and inter-personally, thus making space for those FORMLESS HEIGHTS! “It’s got Heart plus Beats!”-Mama Crow
2BIRDS: Is a resident DJ at the Wormhole event. https://soundcloud.com/2birds
Doors 9pm, Show 9:30pm
$7 Age limit: 21+
The Legionnaire Saloon 2272 Telegraph Oakland
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