Push + Slay: A gala performance by Abdu Ali featuring Schwarz, JLamar, Brandon Soderberg, Joanne Petit-Frere, Lawrence Burney and Bortusk Leer
Reception: Thursday, June 13th, 2013, 8-11pm
The Superchief Gallery at Culturefix is pleased to present a new performance by music artist, Abdu Ali, who specializes in the creation of inspirational musical poetry by the most organic means available in this world of music producers who can lay digital grids like gill nets over anything (and thereby encase everything in taut lines of control).
In the half-year since the release of INVICTOS (November 2012), Abdu Ali has become through constant performances a devotee of el duende, the “Goblin Wind” spoken of by flamenco musicians, a temblor-like onstage emotion that gives a performer tempest energy to push and slay. His pieces are structurally more like fine art textiles -sailcloth. The beats and vocals are woven through each other, inextricable as warp and weft, with all the twists and turns of his poetic designs following their slope. - Johnny Sagan, Program Director, Superchief
Gallery At Culturefix
Push + Slay will reunite Abdu Ali and the two producers of his first album, INVICTOS (November 2012). JLamar will give a special DJ set and then Schwarz will accompany Abdu in performance of material for his next ep, titled Ambrosia, to be released in the mid summer. Afterward, against the backdrop of London street artist Bortusk Leer’s gallery exhibit, Brandon Soderberg, the SPIN Magazine critic, and Lawrence Burney, XXL Magazine contributor and publisher of the Baltimore music blog True Laurels, and artist Joanne Petit-Frere, will lead a panel discussion on the inspired confluence of hip hop, ballroom, house music, disco, soul and poetry in Abdu Ali’s music.
notes
all grasshoppers cry
when i sing im happy i sing because im free
IT’S IN YA NATURE 2 HAVE FEAR OF ME.
i cnt wait
ive decided to release something summer
all bangers
a street masterpiece
PUSH + SLAY inspired titled Ep, “AMBROSIA”
Ambrosia is the the food of the gods. That’s what I want.
all snake everything
like beast mode
no mercy
This piece is inspired by all the legendary hip hop hustler albums,
M.I.A. KALA, Biggie Ready 2 die, Hardcore Lil Kim, Illmatic Nas,
On June 13th I want to give you a special performance, showing you my
soul. how I feel and breathe live.
I was born a twista, dark pepper-seasoned, and currently pushing to
slay as that celestial siren.
btw the fruit the gold the green aint what you think it is. applez.
-Abdu Ali
For all press inquiries, contact Johnny Sagan at
646-284-8601/snowywilderness@gmail.com
FLYER BY INGRID
SUPERCHIEF GALLERY @ CULTUREFIX
9 CLINTON STREET
NEW YORK, NY 10002
