Stargazer and The Lilies
with Weeks Island
New Orleans musicians Stargazer and the Lilies (Bryan Webre) and Weeks Island (Jonny Campos) team up for a live performance that - like Eno and Fripp's collab - ranges from sparse to worldbuilding. Weaving delicate melodies around shimmering beds and electronic beats, Live from the Ace plays like a cosmic opera - stars dying and being reborn in a series of reverberating tape loops.
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New Orleans musicians Stargazer and the Lilies (Bryan Webre) and Weeks Island (Jonny Campos) team up for a live performance that - like Eno and Fripp's collab - ranges from sparse to worldbuilding. Weaving delicate melodies around shimmering beds and electronic beats, Live from the Ace plays like a cosmic opera - stars dying and being reborn in a series of reverberating tape loops. Told over seven movements, the song cycle evolves across its repetitions. Ethereal strings shape-shift into pulsars of synth. Guitar drones and triphop beats form an unholy alliance. Cascading notes open up the secret hatch to Satchidananda. And by the journey’s end, gentle light and a musical heartbeat return us to the shores of consciousness, where we find ourselves in a concert venue far from home. For fans of Laraaji, Alice Coltrane, Stereolab, and Cluster.
-Betsy Shepard