88nine Radio Milwaukee Presents: U.S. Girls • Mourning [A] BLKstar
Thu 06/06/19
8:30PM
21+
music
$13 ADV // $15 DOS
Show Lineup
U.S. Girls
(Toronto, ON)
This year marks a significant anniversary for U.S. Girls, the protean musical enterprise of multi-disciplinary artist Meg Remy. 10 years ago, Remy first used a 4-track recorder and a microphone to self-produce a series of spontaneous, starkly musical, ‘instant expressions’. These collisions of static, clang and sung melody seem in retrospect like a uniquely American display of minimalism, an unmistakably feminine counterbalance to Nebraska or Rev & Vega’s early sonic confrontations. In contrast, her latest work for 4AD, In A Poem Unlimited, Remy’s 6th album and 2nd LP for the label, was painstakingly crafted in multiple studios by a creative cast of 20+ collaborators. Remy traverses an immediate and increasingly politicized vision over the course of this decade of work. And while U.S. Girls, denoting the plural, is no longer a misnomer, In A Poem Unlimited may be Remy’s most individually distilled protest to date.
Mourning [A] BLKstar
(Cleveland, OH)
Mourning [A] BLKstar is a multi-generational, gender and genre non-conforming amalgam of Black Culture dedicated to servicing the stories and songs of the apocalyptic diaspora.