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Greg Fox: Lobby Nights, Ace Hotel
Oct
6
to Oct 7
Drums, GDFX, Greg Fox, Modular, Music, New York, DJ, Ace Hotel

Greg Fox: Lobby Nights, Ace Hotel

Prolific, NYC born and bred drummer Greg Fox has a malleable style, rich with complex juxtaposition, wielding raw, concussive energy that plays off of his avant-garde instinct and creates a fluidity throughout any recording or performance he participates in. Fox has studied under Milford Graves, Thurman Braker, Marvin “Bugalu” Smith, and Guy Licata. Since 2007, he has played on and released 28 full-length studio albums, with his projects Guardian Alien and GDFX, as well as with Liturgy, Ben Frost, Colin Stetson, and many more.

As DJs spin, the photobooth flashes and minglers mix, enjoy delicious selections from the Lobby Bar, which is run by our Michellin-star winning neighbors at The Breslin. To reserve seating for small groups, shoot them an email. General RSVP is not required, but does get you on our A-List mailer for the latest in bookings and event info.

The 2017 Lobby Nights program is curated by JD Samson for Ace Hotel New York and, just because it's two o'clock, don't mean that you have to stop. Book a room using promo code LOBBYNIGHTS and get 10% off your stay.

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

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GDFX: The Creative Independent Celebrates One Year
Oct
2
8:00 PM20:00
Greg Fox, Music, New York, The Creative Independent, Saint Vitus Bar, Zia Anger, Eartheater, Emel Mathlouthi, Precious Okoyomon, Jennifer Vanilla, Darcie Wilder, Taeyoon Choi, Shantell Mar, Modular

GDFX: The Creative Independent Celebrates One Year

 

Zia Anger
Eartheater
GDFX
Emel Mathlouthi
Precious Okoyomon
Jennifer Vanilla
Darcie Wilder

with posters by:
Taeyoon Choi

FREE TO ATTEND

 

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GDFX: Jimmy’s Thrift of New Davonhaime
Oct
1
5:30 PM17:30
New York, Music, Greg Fox, Modular, Azikiwe Mohammed, Knockdown Center, Installation, GDFX

GDFX: Jimmy’s Thrift of New Davonhaime

This fall at Knockdown Center, artist Azikiwe Mohammed stages a performative installation of his fictional thrift store, Jimmy’s Thrift of New Davonhaime. New Davonhaime – a location conceived by Mohammed – is an amalgamation of the names of the five most densely populated Black cities in America: New Orleans, Detroit, Jackson, Birmingham, and Savannah. Jimmy’s Thrift of New Davonhaime was created to serve as a safe space for Black and Brown people living in America. Knockdown Center’s galleries will be fully transformed into a thrift store that contains objects both created and found by Mohammed including tapestries, records, postcards, paintings, lamps, and books.

Mohammed will be on site daily performing as the thrift store owner, Jimmy, accepting donations from the public in the form of photographs to be added to Mohammed’s Black Community Family Albums, or audio-recorded memories that detail the first time participants realized they were Black. These recordings, called My First Time stories, will be compiled and turned into 12” records that are then added to the installation’s growing collection. Both living archives offer an intimate and nuanced portrait of Black lives both contemporary and past.

Jimmy’s Thrift of New Davonhaime also contains a music library that invites visitors to exchange music using Mohammed’s custom New Davonhaime flash drives with an emphasis on visitors dropping off their original compositions to be shared with other visitors.

Previous versions of Jimmy’s Thrift of New Davonhaimehave shown at Spring/Break and No Longer Empty in 2016, and Knockdown Center’s culminating presentation of Jimmy’s Thrift of New Davonhaime will be its most extensive iteration yet.

Azikiwe Mohammed graduated from Bard College in 2005 where he studied photography and fine arts. Since then he has shown these things in galleries both nationally and internationally. In 2015 he received the Art Matters Grant, and in 2016 was the recipient of the Rema Hort Mann Emmerging Artist Grant. He lives in New York and currently works at Mana Fine Arts as part of their mana BSMT program.

Opening Reception:
Friday September 8, 6:00-9:00pm

Open:
September 9 – October 29, 2017

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Guardian Alien @ Donau Festival in Austria
Apr
28
to Apr 30
Guardian Alien, New York, Music, Greg Fox, Drums, Eartheater, GDFX, Modular, Donau Festival, Austria

Guardian Alien @ Donau Festival in Austria

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A formation with alternating members, Guardian Alien materialises at donaufestival as a duo. Band founder and phenomenal drummer Greg Fox (Liturgy, Zs) and electronica and guitar commissary Alexandra Drewchin (Eartheater) merge into a freecore nucleus. Guardian Alien smelts trance elements, Kraut diddle-daddle, and cosmic noises into tribal hell rides with a tick for improvisation. With his customary precision, Fox releases a steaming rataplan of drums, which is shaped by the echoes of Drewchin’s minnesong voice.

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