New Museum (Venue Partner)
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Get Weird: Maher Shalal Hash Baz
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Friday Mar 12, 2010 (7–9pm)
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$10-12
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For over two decades, Maher Shalal Hash Baz has been pursuing a single-minded vision of music as simple, spontaneous, and unpredictable. Led by the husband/wife team of Tori and Reiko Kudo, the band’s fluctuating lineup features mostly untrained musicians tackling songs often written the day of performance, expressing the innate beauty of failure as much as of success. By using amateurism and error as compositional devices, the Kudos mutate their odd, gorgeously wide-eyed pop songs into intimate, shambolic visions.
With a background in Baroque, choral gospel, and electro-acoustic music, as well as experimental 16mm filmmaking, dogr sings layered and spatial songs that wind melodic phrases into journeys. His instrumental expertise, artistic conceptualism, and unworldly vocal virtuosity brought dogr to the attention of Mouse on Mars, who produced his debut LP and released it on their label, Sonig.
