November 14, 2020 at 2pm

TONE GLOW presents

Sunik Kim

Lucy Liyou

Wendy Eisenberg

Still House Plants

Sunik Kim:

Sunik Kim is a musician currently based in New York City. Their last album, 'Zero Chime', was released in November 2019 on First Terrace Records and featured Kim playing alto sax alongside a multitude of traditional Korean instruments.

Listen to 'Zero Chime': https://sunikkim.bandcamp.com/album/zero-chime

Read an interview with Sunik Kim: https://toneglow.substack.com/p/002-sunik-kim-and-seungmin-cha

Lucy Liyou:

Philadelphia-based artist Lucy Liyou synthesizes field recordings, text-to-speech readings, poetry, and elements from Korean folk opera into sonic narratives that explore the implications of Orientalism and Westernization. Though their music reflects the work of genres such as post-industrial and musique-concrète, Lucy Liyou is greatly influenced by audiobooks as well as music from the Impressionist period and Neoclassical period. Lucy Liyou’s debut project 'A Hope I Had', which caught the attention of South London based artist Klein, was a sonic examination of hereditary depression in Asian families. Their following project 'Welfare', which was released in March through Klein’s label ijn inc., is an ambitious analysis of the colonialist concept of self-care. Most recently, they premiered their new project, 'Hey Jackie', at the 2020 Avantwhatever Festival in July.

Listen to 'Welfare': https://lucyliyou.bandcamp.com/album/welfare

Read an interview with Lucy Liyou: https://toneglow.substack.com/p/009-lucy-liyou

Wendy Eisenberg:

Wendy Eisenberg is an improvising guitarist, banjo-player, vocalist and poet. Using the languages of free jazz, new music, metal and art song, their music challenges the representational and technical demands placed on a guitar and a banjo in contemporary music. They have two solo careers: improviser/composer, and songwriter. On 'Auto' (2020), their most innovative and inner-reaching album yet, Eisenberg explores emotional, subjective truth, and how it interacts with an objectivity no person alone can grasp. Inspired by the solo work of Mark Hollis (Talk Talk) and David Sylvian’s Blemish, with playing skills that have already seen them climbing Best Guitarist lists and an unvarnished vocal immediacy, Wendy Eisenberg has created an album of subtle display that resonates with maximal impact.

Listen to 'Auto': https://badabingrecords.bandcamp.com/album/auto

Read an interview with Wendy Eisenberg: https://toneglow.substack.com/p/0335-wendy-eisenberg

Still House Plants:

Still House Plants are a Glasgow and South London-based three-piece collective made up of Finlay Clark, David Kennedy, and Jessica Hickie-Kallenbach. Combining visual strategies, free improvisation, UK garage and punk, Still House Plants build melodic hierarchies scaffolded around ambiguities and intimacy. In 2018 the trio released the LP ‘Long Play’, collecting the group’s raw guitar-drum-vocal palette and stretching it to include violin, piano and intimate home recording. Ranging from seconds-long to seven:minute:somethings, the album coagulates to form a heady meld of rudimentary phrases, kinetic repetition and malleable samples. In 2020 the trio released 'Fast Edit', which saw the group expanding and tightening their sound. Experimental songwriting is rarely so forthcoming, emotive, or approachable.

Listen to 'Fast Edit': https://bison-records.bandcamp.com/album/fast-edit

Read an interview with Still House Plants: https://toneglow.substack.com/p/024-still-house-plants