YHWH Nailgun

with Babybaby_Explores

Doors at 7pm, all ages

YHWH Nailgun is a luminary four-person experimental rock project based in NYC, made up of artists Zack Borzone (vocals), Saguiv Rosenstock (guitar), Jack Tobias (synth + electronics), and Sam Pickard (drums). Their music is a visceral blend of styles that reaches toward an absolute essence.

Cameron Winter- live at 2640 Space 

Doors at 6:30pm, show at 7:30pm

All ages

About Cameron Winter: 
While on a grueling, year-long tour with his band Geese, Cameron Winter recorded the bulk of his debut solo album in a succession of hotel room closets, singing into the built-in microphone on his MacBook. Staying awake for several days at a time to keep up with his band’s non-stop schedule, Winter’s newest work recalls creative mania in the depths of night. 
   
Cameron Winter puts forth a hallucinatory combination of dreamlike imagery and crepuscular haze – not surprising, considering that the music was created while the Geese frontman was under the near-constant influence of, in his own words, “a crazy amount of extra-strength antihistamines and crushed up wellbutrin.” Winter purports that the inspiration for his first solo effort was supplied entirely by listening to 1967’s Songs of Leonard Cohen “maybe over two-hundred times” while hospitalized with double-mononucleosis. Upon listening to Heavy Metal’s patient arrangements, warm production and hypnagogic lyricism, it’s clear that the spirit of the greats has indeed rubbed off on the young singer-songwriter. 

Astrid Sonne at Current Space

with special guest, TBA

Astrid Sonne is a Danish, London based composer and viola player. Throughout her acclaimed discography, Astrid Sonne has been carefully crafting different moods through electronic and acoustic instrumental endeavours.
On her most recent album “Great Doubt” (January 2024) this skill is refined, now with the distinct addition of the composer’s own vocal in the fore. The tone of each track is unmistakably Sonne’s, structured around contrasts through an impeccable sense of timing. Lyrics on the album are sparse, merely highlighting different scenes or emotional states of being, leaving the music to fill in the blanks. Yet they also form a pattern of ambiguity, consolidated through the album title, searching for answers through looking at how and what you are asking, questions for the world, questions of love.

The viola, a trusted companion since Astrid Sonne’s youth, appears effortlessly throughout the album, fully integrated into the sonic universe; through a pizzicato driven arrangement in the poignant track “Almost” or along with booms and claps in mutated cinematic stabs during “Give my all”, paraphrasing Mariah Carey’s 1997 ballad. Yet the string section also gives way to explorations of woodwinds, counterbalancing the bowed movements with digital brass and airy flutes. Finally,
beats and detuned piano are fresh additions to the soundscape, cementing how Sonne’s practice is always evolving into new territories.