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The Sound of Sex — Politics makes strange bedfellows, and strange bedfellows make interesting noises! And the NWEAMO-Festival intends to display the full spectrum at its 3rd annual stop in Manhattan, for 2 lurid pre-election nights starting with Halloween.
Since 1998 NWEAMO (New West Electronic Arts and Music Organization) has been presenting highly eclectic concert-events that fill the room with beats, invented instruments, video, dance and electronic music from the far reaches of concept and aesthetics. High and low, street and laboratory -- anything and everything converges, by design, at a NWEAMO event.
On Oct. 31 the traveling festival arrives at Joe's Pub, with works that explore sexuality, featuring SWARMIUS from California, virtuoso guitarist & composer Scott Johnson (assisted by Mark Dancigers) and Joshua Fried, supreme creator of strange beats and humorous instruments.
Imagine how it will be on Halloween before this momentous election -- the air will be super-charged -- the Carl Rove propaganda machine will be in full force -- it will be horrible -- with obscene amounts of cash from hidden corners and latent racism seeping out all over the place — To stay sane we need a ritual, a purgative: a Halloween concert on sex and politics .... to blow off steam and keep from going nuts we need to party to the brink...
on SWARMIUS:
"...dizzying, multi-genre-leaping work ... simultaneously exotic and familiar, intricate and inviting...[a] shape-shifting synthesis... "
-George Varga, Pop Music Critic - San Diego Union Tribune
on Joshua Fried:
"The lounge was doing the Limbo and nobody wanted to stop ..."
-Craig Lee, LA Weekly
on Scott Johnson:
"superamplified guitars hovering like angels above the fray...a compelling marriage of rock elements and classical formalism..."
-THE NEW YORK TIMES
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