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THE VAMPIRE MASQUERADE BALL Official Meet and Greet Party
FRIDAY MARCH 27th 9pm
Portland, Oregon
THE VAMPIRE MASQUERADE BALL
Official Meet and Greet Party
http://www.vampireballpdx.com
starring
THE DEADFLY ENSEMBLE
http://www.cinemastrange.nightmarezone.de/Deadfly_Ensemble.html
and
SORIAH
http://www.myspace.com/soriahmusic
with your jack-of-all-ceremonies
Noah Mickens
http://www.myspace.com/noahmickens
and intermittent performances from the denizens of
BOGVILLE
http://www.myspace.com/bogville
ONLY TEN DOLLARS
with your VAMPIRE MASQUERADE BALL TICKET
$15 without
At The Bossanova Ballroom
722 E Burnside
http://www.bossanovaballroom.com
The 7th Annual Vampire Masquerade Ball is drawing the Transylvanian
diaspora from across the Globe to celebrate their common heritage
March 28th in Portland Oregon.
Those Night Owls who are able to make it to town one day in advance
will be treated to a very special Meet-and-Greet party at The
Bossanova Ballroom, where the spotlight moon will illuminate the Works
of two of our most revered artistic practitioners: the cadaverous
cabaret of The Deadfly Ensemble and throat-singing ritualist Soriah.
Framed by DJs and brief performative turns from the dark fairytale
musical review Bogville, we offer an opportunity for the very oldest
of friends and Family to quench their thirst in the company of their
peers, and make themselves ready for the evening to come. Housed in
the vintage 1930s grandeur of The Bossanova Ballroom, and organized by
the creative minds behind The Wanderlust Circus and Societas Insomnia,
our Meet-and-Greet party draws out the unique magick of The Vampire
Masquerade Ball to fill an entire weekend. Or at least, the half of
the weekend during which the sun is down.
The Deadfly Ensemble:
Mother, I am hungry for some musical theater! I long for acoustic
guitars, medieval melodies and operatic librettos! I would hear
stories of the idle rich, humanoid anomalies, and criminal geniuses of
the early nineteenth century! I need to observe the melodious
consumption of fruit and the sifting through of old newspapers and
listen to the prattle of simple minds and the banter of their
superiors! I crave songs that deliver me into new worlds from far
away, from long ago, and introduce me to characters Id be, otherwise,
afraid to know! Mother, I am hungry for some theatrical music!
My dear! What you want is the Deadfly Ensemble!
Cinema Strange frontman, Lucas Lanthier, was out strolling through the
woods a few days ago when he tripped over a tree root, falling
face-first into the earth and scattered leaves. After regaining his
feet and adjusting his cravat, it became perfectly clear that it was
time to start a theatrical folk-infused chamber music project, and the
Deadfly Ensemble was born. After completing the second album just
this morning, he reflected, I never knew that tree roots and a face
full of fallen foliage would have such a profound effect on my
creative work, but here we are, about to have lunch, with a full album
of cabaret cankers to be stimulated by and to help aid digestion.
The cabaret cankers in question are cerebral and colorful operettas,
curious and wondering, but nevertheless consumed by wide-eyed urgency.
The Deadfly Ensemble is quite interested in asserting the fact that
vaudeville, community theater, performance art, and prohibition-era
nightclub musical numbers can be summed up and delivered at an
efficient rate and in a manner that implies that their headquarters
must be in an abandoned opera house orchestra pit where the bites of
spiders inspire the next few measures of musical imagination.
Soriah:
The musician and ritual artist known as Soriah (aka Enrique Ugalde of
Portland, OR) first came into being more than 10 years ago. His unique
vision draws equally from extensive training in the traditions of
Tuvan throat singing, raga, and opera; and from the revisionist arts
of electro-acoustics, noise, butoh, and free improvisation. Through
costume, movement and meditation he evokes an otherworld of profound
mystical import. Though the settings for his performances have
included nightclubs, concert halls, churches, museums, swamps, lakes,
caves, tree tops, warehouses, forests, deserts, streets, cemeteries,
ruins, and an abandoned nuclear reactor; the Soriah project carries
its own sense of place and time that transcends the concrete world. As
much as the complex musical underpinnings of Soriah's music reach back
to Central Asia, the roots of his family are in Mexico. Frequent stays
in the cities and wilderness of his Father's home country, combined
with considerable personal research into the Aztec mysteries and the
present-day animism of the Huichol, have deeply informed his
pan-cultural ethos.
The recorded works of Soriah are chiefly available from Beta-Lactam
Ring Records; along with compilation appearances on URCK's
"Post-Asiatic" series, Sonick Sorcery's "Visions From The Garden",
Mobilization's "How To Destroy the Universe Part 5", guest appearances
with Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Perry Ferrel, Mesmer, and Mandible
Chatter; and self-released CD-Rs beyond number. The Next CD release,
"NAUT" in collaboration with Ashkelon Sain is scheduled for this Fall.
The myriad of performers with whom Soriah has appeared live and on
recording also includes Akira Kasai, Blixa Bargeld, Perry Ferrel,The
Living Jarboe, Psychic TV, Scot Kelly, F-Space, Chrome, Waldteufel,
GWAR,Extra-Action Marching Band, The Polyphonic Spree, March Forth
Marching Band, Trance to the Sun, The Dresden Dolls, Societas
Insomnia, P.A.N., Mizu Desierto, Alenka Loesch, Submarine Fleet,
Tchkung!, To-Ka-Ge, Sardonik Grin, Solovox, Sumerland, Death Posture,
Children of Paradise, Michael Sakamoto, Yakuza, Riververb, Hop-Frog,
Legerdemain, Feral, The Moe!kestra!, Flail, Black Orchid, Degenerate
Art Ensemble, Serpentine, The Red King, CoRE, Aixela, and Venerable
Showers of Beauty Gamelan.
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LocationBossanova Ballroom
722 E Burnside
Portland, OR 97214
United States
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