Double Album Release: Lily Guarneros Maase & Ben Richter

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Livestreamed performances from Ben Richter and Lily Guarneros Maase y Curandera at Scholes Street Studio in Williamsburg, Brooklyn

Lily Guarneros Maase y Curandera
Founded as an homage to seminal female guitarists Elizabeth Cotten, Memphis Minnie and Rosetta Tharpe, Curandera is a contemporary folk ensemble dedicated to transforming misogynist themes in ancient lore into tales of empowerment, redemption and hope. Multi-genre guitarist and composer Lily Guarneros Maase returns to New York after a 5-year hiatus to premiere selections from their 2023 Infrequent Seams double album blood::face::teeth::bones, and a preview of the opening movements from their forthcoming folk opera reimagining the Mexican leyenda de La Llorona, Tale of the Bloody River. An extension of Mx. Maase’s work as faculty at the California Institute of the Arts, Curandera Ensemble features two former students, Lucas Helfman (bass) and Sage Henriksen (voice). They are joined for this performance only by special guests James Ilgenfritz (bass), Nikki D’Agostino (saxophone) and Natti Vogel (voice).

Composer-accordionist Ben Richter is joined by bassist James Ilgenfritz for the world premiere of Laramidia, a just-intonation accordion composition that creates an alien tonal landscape alternating among timbral fluctuations, melody and drone, and gradual resolution of shimmering, pulsing microtonal intervals. Portions of Laramidia are featured on Ben’s new 2CD Aurogeny (December 22, Infrequent Seams), collecting music inspired by nonhuman consciousness that orients toward new orders of magnitude in musical parameters to auralize the vast and infinitesimal timescales we do not experience in everyday life.

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Infrequent Seams New York

"OOTHER LOOUD MUZIK -Clozn vp Pageants since 2012" We presents new work by emerging composers & performers in New York City & elsewhere. We seek to locate a post-downtown musical practice in & out of New York City. Conceptually we support music that treats the AACM, MEV, Sonic Arts Union, No Wave, the New York School, and Vision / Arts For Art as antecedents to one emerging post-millennial genre. ... more