Poetry, Wool & Music: Tues @ 7 PM
Join NPP for an evening of music, poetry and visual art, featuring Cuddle Magic and singer/songwriter Josh Carrigan, and fiber art by Wool Mammoth on Tuesday, December 8th from 7-10 at the Highwire Gallery (2040 Frankford Ave., Fishtown, Phila.) 5$ cover
Cuddle Magic (pictured above) is a large ensemble with members from Brooklyn, Philadelphia & Boston that performs lush, whimsical songs with wide-ranging instrumentation including strings, percussion, vibraphone, trumpet, clarinet, keyboards, guitars, and sweet vocal harmonies. The ensemble, which sometimes swells to 12 or more, plays deftly crafted arrangements of their complex and varied set of original music. They are as friendly and inclusive as their name might suggest — after forming as a quintet over a year ago, they have gradually come to incorporate more and more of their musical friends into the band, constructing intricate soundscapes that include elements of folk music, avant-garde classical music, world music, and urban music.
Josh Carrigan is a multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, and composer living in Philadelphia. His music admires and incorporates musique concrete, tape music, free improvisation, electronic sounds, vocal musics, percussion ensembles, field recordings, erotic psychedelia, drone maps, old radio programs, and pop classics from Seoul to Memphis. He has recorded hundreds of cassettes, using and re-using these as sound material for future tapes, accumulating and overdubbing humming networks of aural references & their sonic sources. Live performances feature these sounds juxtaposed with electroacoustic orchestrations and vocal aromatics.
Wool Mammoth: A fiber artist living in Philadelphia. Involving organic creations; animals, plants, a personal mythology emerging from the movement of eyes and hands. Works in various materials; whatever breathes, shrinks, and stretches itself to fit. Small things, big things, installations, knitted musculature. Like in long-legged dreams, an assemblage of seeing. Her creatures appear (sporadically) in various Philly venues, online, and at home roosting in Kensington. Sleeping cats keeping wool warm.
Poets include Debrah Morkun, Patrick Lucy, Jamie Townsend, Sarah Heady, Carlos Soto Román, Greg Bem, and Matthew Landis
