Knitting Factory Brooklyn Presents:
Kelli Rudick
Brent Arnold, Emily Hope Price
Knitting Factory Brooklyn
Thu, February 4, 2010
Doors: 8:00 PM / Show: 9:00 PM
$10.00
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In a post-industrial Brooklyn loft strewn with guitars, drums, all manner of odd instruments and electronics, Kelli Rudick creates delicately complex, intensely driven compositions. The New York based Electro / Indie / Neo-Classical artist’s performances combine the slapped, bent, restrung and strangely tuned compositions from her first release "No One Knows You're Foreign" with multi-structured, looped string progressions, beats and heavy bass lines from her forthcoming 2nd record. Kelli has recently returned from an appearance at the Mother Music Festival in Tel Aviv followed by her 3rd US National tour. She’s collaborated with Nick Zammuto of The Books, Alon Leventon of Drops of Consciousness, and acclaimed guitarist Kaki King. Back in Brooklyn for the Winter Kelli continues recording, accelerating the intricate terrain of her first release with strings and atmospheric electronics punctuating her distinctive chordal compositions.
"...most definitely a musician's musician..." PITCHFORK
Brent Arnold uses a cello, his voice, & a battery of effects pedals to create songs of unhinged beauty & searing intensity. His unorthodox but virtuosic approach to the cello & its possibilities takes his music from minimal to massive, often within a single song. He combines rock & pop with the avant-garde and calls to mind cello pioneers like Arthur Russell & Tom Cora, as well as classical/pop tinkerers like Andrew Bird & Final Fantasy & the intense instrumental music of Explosions in the Sky.
He has worked with artists including Modest Mouse, Sleater-Kinney, DJ/Rupture, Lenny Kravitz, the Moools, Filastine, & many more.
After studies with Walter Gray of the Kronos Quartet & jazz violinist Michael White in Seattle, Brent found himself playing cello for indie rock darlings on the acclaimed Up Records label, for whom his previous band The Spheres made a critically-acclaimed album. Today he lives in Brooklyn, NY.
Experimental-folk cellist/singer/songwriter Emily Hope Price uses bowing, plucking, looping, "cello body percussion", and other instruments to create her signature sound, adding to it sweet and salty vocals to intensify the colors her work creates.