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Nick Jaina, Max’s Midnight Kitchen
Nick Jaina//Max’s Midnight Kitchen
Wednesday, April 20th
Doors 7:30pm, Show 8pm
sliding scale donation $5-$20
all ages
Nick Jaina is a musician and writer from Portland, Oregon. His most recent album, Primary Perception, was released in April 2013 on Fluff and Gravy Records. As the Portland Mercury said, “I’d feel embarrassed describing Nick Jaina as a genius outright, and I’m sure he’d hate that too, but it’s so tempting— because he is so clearly the real deal.”
He is a co-founder and musical director of the Satellite Ballet and Collective in New York City. He has composed the music for three ballets and three contemporary dances with that group, featuring dancers from the New York City Ballet, Ten Hairy Legs, and Juilliard, performing at the Baryshnikov Center and the Joyce Theater. Their most recent performance was two sold-out shows at Brooklyn Academy of Music in May 2014. Of that show, the New York Times wrote, “[The] pure, pungent, earthy music for strings, piano, and percussion… was the most physically bracing part of the night.”
He released his first book, Get It While You Can, a work of non-fiction, through Perfect Day Publishing in January 2015. It is a finalist for the 2016 Oregon Book Awards.
Nick’s live performance is an amalgamation of all he has learned from composing for dance and film, all the songs he wrote while touring the country with his band, and all the stories he has compiled in his book. It is a rare combination of storytelling and song. It is not like a normal music show or a reading. Nick loops electric guitar passages, mixing in sounds from distant rocket launches played from his phone into the pickups of his guitar. After creating a bed of sound, he reads short passages from his book, such as unsent love letters, or chronicles of Don Quixote-like figures who tried to sail across oceans. The performance is soulful and engaging. The stories alternate between funny and beautiful. The format is almost like a podcast such as Radiolabor This American Life, reaching the listener on many different emotional and intellectual levels.
http://nickjaina.com/
https://vimeo.com/64856438
https://nickjaina.bandcamp.com/album/primary-perception-2
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Max’s Midnight Kitchen is a folk group playing original tunes rooted in old time/bluegrass/country traditions with a big emphasis on storytelling, harmony, and subtle arrangements. They travel as a trio passing around guitars, banjos, and fiddles. Informed by travels up and down the interstates of the US and across international borders, their songs tell stories of wily characters and paint pictures of the world as it goes by.
http://maxsmidnightkitchen.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0AtqVCAuC4
https://cowtownsounds.bandcamp.com/album/travels-with-blake
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