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Erek-Ki Gala: Dance & Installation

With LONER and Mani

Ancient Sumerian mythology meets contemporary dance and electronic music in an immersive experience for both audience and performers. Erec-Ki-Gala, a performance art experience, premieres at The Bakery on Friday, April 27th. One can expect a breathtaking display of choreography from, Christen Sewell Weimer, a seasoned performer and professor of dance at Spelman College and Brenau University.

“Dance is a physical manifestation of the union of the mind and heart. Achieving this union through movement is a lifelong process to which I am passionately committed,” Weimer has stated. “Choreography is the means by which I investigate the stories within my own body as well as the stories within the bodies of others.”

However, the ones with the creative seed are in fact longtime friends and Atlanta natives Aeron Attwooll and Peter Flamming. With myth in mind, Attwooll and Flamming decided to create a piece around the Sumerian tale of Inana’s Descent into the Underworld.

Inana, a prosperous Babylonian queen, celebrating the sun’s gifts with her carefree servants, discovers emptiness beneath the light. Her dreams become haunted by a distorted shadow world, so she seeks out and embraces the darkness. Sacrificing everything, she enters the underworld and meets Ereshkigal.

“It’s about releasing one’s attachment to possessions and identity, dissolving contradictions, to claim a greater wholeness by uniting with your shadow,” says Attwooll.

“Writing scores for dance performances or large-scale live performances is a passion of mine,” Flamming said. “We’re excited to put together something of the ancient and arcane with something innovative and contemporary.”

Additionally that night, the Bakery will be hosting an art show featuring 5-6 Atlanta-based artists, and performances by bands Mani and LONER. Mani is a dynamic 3-piece experimental/indie psychedelic band. LONER is a non-binary post-rock ensemble based out of Atlanta. More information can be found on the Facebook event.

7pm - Art Show

9pm - Erec-Ki-Gala Performance

10:30pm - Mani

11:30pm - LONER

Tickets are $7 at the door.

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Forgotten & Forgiven EP Review

Loudermilk & Moon’s latest Ep release is a dive into a whimsical state of clown psychology. The songs are extensive with exciting changes, each with a story woven inside by lead singer, songwriter, and guitarist Chris McGrath. He is joined on this EP by Lyle Baldes on drums, Peter Flamming on clarinet, Arthur Cabral on bass, and Emma Rubenstein and Abigail Popwell on percussion.

The sextet creates otherworldly music with a timeless folk quality that sounds like it could be echoing from the hills of the shire, or from a psychedelic circus tent with clowns miming the changes. The EP could be named the cosmic clown falls in love, as most the numbers are an in-depth look into the subject. It explores how relationships permeate with acceptance as well as deceptions, many caused by ourselves.

Standing at a slender six foot seven inches, McGrath could be intimidating if he wasn’t such a natural clown. “Saw black pedals when I thought they were red,” McGrath sings on Winter’s Wool insinuating that not all is as it seems in love. In relationships, we see what we want to see and it’s not till later that we see things for what they are.   

The instrumentation is well thought out as not to be too cluttered, and there is patience in the slow roll of the compositions. LM&M aren’t afraid to start off slow and let the tension of the songs grow, and they mature beautifully into unsuspected sonic flowery blooms. This album could be summed up as somewhere between Devandra Banhart and The Fleet Foxes, but it goes beyond these simple comparisons as it touches on and draws from southern culture. There are references to sychada rhythms and other natural phenomena, but it is the storytelling that is so ingrained in growing up in the south that shines through.  

All in all Loudermilk and Moon have produced a piece of sonic art that can be enjoyed on many different levels and for multiple listens. Check out their music on Bandcamp here.

You can also check them out tonight at 529 with Loner.