Somewhere Between Tapes & The Glad Cafe present: ANA ROXANNE + CHANTAL MICHELLE with GRACE VILLAMIL

Ana Roxanne

Embodying the radiance of R&B vocalists, the immaculateness of church hymns, and the soul-stirring power of devotional music, Ana Roxanne makes incredibly intimate pieces of music that combine meditative drone, calming ambient soundscapes, and angelic vocals. Being both enamoured with the sacredness of choral music and the divinity of classical Hindustani singing, and obsessed with the brilliance of R&B and pop divas, Roxanne channels all these inspirations into her emotionally expressive, vulnerable work. Her debut album ~~~ (2019) was created during her last years residing in the Bay Area, where Roxanne attended the experimental Mills College, and functions as a tribute to the formative musicians and musical styles that inspired her. Follow-up Because of a Flower (2020) is a heartbreaking, poetic meditation on notions of gender identity, beauty, and cruelty. Roxanne describes her process as beginning with “a drone element and a mood,” then she incrementally intuits melody, syllables, and lyrics, like sacred shapes materialising from mist. As can be witnessed during her performance, Roxanne finds a way to channel her innermost experiences into sublime pieces of music.

Chantal Michelle

Chantal Michelle is a New York City-based artist who works with acoustic instrumentation, synthesis, field recordings, and voice to form densely textured aural landscapes. Her work is characterized by tension, disparate sounds, and non-linear arrangements. It has been realized as sound installations, live performances, and recorded material.

She has released two full-length albums, Night Blindness (Quiet Time, 2021) and the collaborative Aunis (Injazero, 2019), both to critical acclaim; The Wire called Night Blindness “a dynamic and engrossing narrative,” and Aunis received praise in The Guardian as “a virtually unprecedented palette of synth sounds.” Her most recent release, a long-form composition for manipulated field recordings, feedback, and acoustic instruments titled Pulse, Puls-ar, Procession (Dinzu Artefacts, 2022), was included in Bandcamp’s monthly list of Best Experimental Music. Her forthcoming album, Broken to Echoes, will be released in April of 2023 on Somewhere Between Tapes.

Performances of her work have been held internationally, including at MUTEK (MX), Het HEM (NL), IKLECTIK (UK), Public Records (US), Left Bank (GE), and Atopos CVC (GR). As a collaborator, she has worked with free jazz experimentalist Germán Bringas, violinist Alina Maldonado, sound and visual artist Grace Villamil, and multi-instrumentalist Brian Allen Simon. She is currently a Masters of Fine Arts candidate in Music/Sound at Bard College, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts.

chantalmichelle.me @chantalmichelle

Grace Villamil

Grace Villamil is a multidisciplinary artist born in CA & based in NY & NJ. Through sound, video, movement and material, her experimental works explore the deconstruction of self, magnetoreception and its interconnectivity amongst beings. Collaborations include projects with Tyondai Braxton, IONE+Black Mountain College Museum, Guillermo Scott Herren (Prefuse73), Samia Halaby, & Chantal Michelle, amongst others. Her live-video manipulations as accompaniment to electronic & live instruments were performed at Southbank, London, Elbphilharmonie Kleiner Saal, Hamburg, The Broad/Redcat, Los Angeles, Issue Project Room, NYC & in Boston w/ ACT, an MIT Media Lab. She is currently unearthing her southeast asian origins in a research project at University of Pennsylvania, and is an MFA candidate in Music/Sound at Bard Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts. Grace will debut her moniker mumulak at trans pecos,nyc late February 2023.

gracevillamil.com @viagracia

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