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Mike Huguenor on September 22, 2021
Seen from one angle, Imago Philosophia, the current exhibit at San Jose’s Anno Domini Gallery, glistens like the fabled streets of El Dorado. Seen from another, it all slips away into a flat black matte. Consisting of 73 hand-drawn images printed in gold leaf on black, the exhibit—much like the ideas which…
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Mike Huguenor on June 9, 2021
They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but Pablo Martín thinks they might be worth more than that. Mysterious and glyph-like, the ink-and-paper images in Inventarios by the Argentinian artist all aim to defeat traditional language, evoking “esoteric knowledge never meant to be spoken, but only viewed and understood intuitively.”…
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Mike Huguenor on May 29, 2019
It all begins with a crackle. Tape hiss purls. Then, from out of the Bay Area’s past, a voice echoes:
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Avi Salem on November 30, 2016
Gemma Ray is one of those singer-songwriters whose saturated, soulful sound is at once eerily familiar and yet completely distinct from anything else in today’s pop music landscape. Pulling from a range of influences and sound textures—including Pink Floyd, ’60s girl groups and the musical scores of John Barry—Ray’s sonic palate is unquestionably…
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Aaron Carnes on February 21, 2013
Few indie-songwriters venture into the world of ballet. Yet, Portland singer-songwriter Nick Jaina was the musical director for two of them, Warehouse under the Hudson (2012) and Epistasis (2011).
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The artsy chaos on South First Street at Subzero makes for great spectacle. At the 2012 edition on Friday, there was once again plenty to see, starting with the return of Art Alive Gallery. This body-painting collective debuted at the 2011 festival, but they really upped their game this year. Semi-nude women…
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Aaron Carnes on March 27, 2012
When Laura Weinbach laments that “I’m Not Really In The Christmas Mood This Year,” on the song her group Foxtails Brigade released in December, she expresses a sentiment often felt, but rarely expressed in song—Christmas isn’t what it used to be. The San Francisco band will bring their holiday tidings of bad…
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