Arca w/ Total Freedom and Jesse Kanda plus C.L.A.W.S. and Tasho
Gray Area is excited to bring Arca, Jesse Kanda, and Total Freedom to San Francisco. Arca and Jesse Kanda have been collaborating on a variety of projects, including album art, music videos, an experimental fashion film (sans models), as well as a takeover of MoMA PS1 that included tripped-out visual sculptures to match the equally out-there sounds.
For the show at Gray Area’s Art & Technology Theater, Jesse Kanda will be bringing his dark, twisted visuals, Total Freedom will play before Arca each night, and then the shows will conclude with a back-to-back set between the Arca and Total Freedom over four CDJs.
Artists
Arca
The enigmatic producer, famed for his abstract and heavily-manipulated take on hip-hop (notably scooped by Kanye West for his Yeezus album), has become almost as well-known for his DJ sets with frequent partner Jesse Kanda on visuals. His latest spate of gigs will see him take Kanda on the road …
Total Freedom
“Adventurous, often confrontational but always playful, a DJ set from LA’s producer and artist Ashland Mines, aka Total Freedom, draws listeners into a whirlwind of ever-evolving texture and sensation. Unafraid to assault crowds with jarring shifts in mood and tempo, in his hands, R&B-concrète collides with rap, grime …
Jesse Kanda
Jesse Kanda’s films are a mind twisting trip through the subconscious in which images of dancing dead babies and victims of alien car crashes contort then distort, lost in purgatory. The self–taught, Dalston-based artist’s world is pained yet playful, and apparently untainted by boundaries. Nothing seems impossible.
Tasho
Tasho is a long time defender of the San Francisco dance community. As a resident of the timeless Stompy club night, Tasho (nee Tasho Nicolopulous) has been bringing jam after jam to Bay-Area clubs for over a decade. Alongside production partner and vocal whiz Monty Luke, his first single for …
C.L.A.W.S.
C.l.a.w.s. is a long time San Francisco based music freak. After spending the better part of the 90s and 2000s playing in an array of punk and deathrock bands, he began promoting underground electronic music events in warehouses and basements around the city featuring an eclectic …
