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Winter Solistice Piano Concert

Please join us for a special Winter Solstice Piano Concert with:
Saloli (album release) and Luke Wyland.

December 21st, 2021
First Congregational Church, Portland, OR
Doors 7, show 7:30 sharp
All ages, proof of vax or negative covid test required.
$8-$20 suggested donation

Mary Sutton performs as Saloli and composes music for keyboard instruments. She aims to create sonic landscapes that entrance and enthrall the listener into sweetly vulnerable introspection. Saloli's debut album of synthesizer compositions, The Deep End, was released through Kranky in 2018. Her next album, The Island: Music for Piano Vol. I, will be self-released as a limited edition cassette December 21, 2021.

"The title The Island comes out of an image that popped in my mind while playing piano of an island where there is nothing to do but play music for the birds, plants, wildlife and surrounding waters. Its a tranquil and beautiful place, but lonesome with a vastness that stretches toward the horizon.
Composed and recorded on a gorgeous 1900 Chickering piano with a unique, warm, rich tone and hauntingly long decay, this music is an exploration of emotional, psychic and physical resonance."

Luke Wyland is an American interdisciplinary artist, composer, performer, and arts organizer best known for his work as AU and in collaboration with John Niekrasz as Methods Body. Wyland has been releasing records and touring internationally for the past 20 years. As a stutterer, Wylands approach to music is informed by his idiosyncratic relationship with language. The cadences of broken speech and use of technology as an aid in communication are fundamental to his musical vocabulary. Working with bespoke tuning systems and time manipulation technologies, he highlights his relationship to communication through novel sounds and rhythms.