Knives of Spain + Blake Hornsby + Tacoma Park

A potent three-fer of North Carolina originals!

Knives of Spain is Greensboro based artist Gwen Young, whose music “braids aspects of folk and the psychedelic avant-garde, minimalism, electronic experimentation and sonic mood painting” (John Adamian). Sitar, guitar, analog synth, flute, accordion, electronics, and voice merge with original audio to create songs described as “a specially warped version of pop…baked in a kiln fired by ghostly spirits” (Lost in a Sea of Sound).

Blake Hornsby is an experimental folk musician based out of Western North Carolina. “From sitar ragas to swirling sound collages and solo guitar meditations… You will never be bored.” – Record Crates United.

Tacoma Park, the collaboration of Carrboro-ites John Harrison & Ben Felton, combines their abstract impulses in a style you might call homespun monumental, with heavily processed guitars and richly textured synths combining into a Southeastern American take on a certain German tradition of droning, pulsating, landscape-traveling electronic music. Live, the duo augments the music with videos of the images–forests and fields, highways and runways–that it so readily suggests.

Doors 7:30 pm, show at 8 pm. $10 suggested admission. BYO or sample what’s on hand