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on the TWILIGHTSANTAMONICA.ORG SEPT 26 CAPYAC YOYA WEDNESDAY 6:30PM TO SUN, OCT 7 9:30PM SEPT 5 – OCT 3 2 TWILIGHTSANTAMONICA.ORG REASON 1 #1 in Transfers for 27 Years APPLY AT SMC.EDU SANTA MONICA COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT BOARD OF TRUSTEES Barry A. Snell, Chair; Dr. Margaret Quiñones-Perez, Vice Chair; Dr. Susan Aminoff; Dr. Nancy Greenstein; Dr. Louise Jaffe; Rob Rader; Dr. Andrew Walzer; Alexandria Boyd, Student Trustee; Dr. Kathryn E. Jeffery, Superintendent/President Santa Monica College | 1900 Pico Boulevard | Santa Monica, CA 90405 | smc.edu TWILIGHTSANTAMONICA.ORG 3 2018 TWILIGHT ON THE PIER SCHEDULE SEPT 05 LATIN WAVE ORQUESTA AKOKÁN Jarina De Marco Quitapenas Sister Mantos SEPT 12 AUSTRALIA ROCKS THE PIER BETTY WHO Touch Sensitive CXLOE Death Bells SEPT 19 ISLAND VIBES ECLECTIC INDIE ON THE PIER JUDY MOWATT Bokanté his week’s Twilight on the Pier concerts Earlier in the evening, audiences won’t summer touring the Pacific Northwest and Tare sure to leave an impression with want to miss self-taught violinist Sudan midwest before returning to Los Angeles for Twilight Steel Drums Grammy-nominated electronica band Archives, with hip-hop beats and experimen- Twilight on the Pier. Dance music act DJ Danny Holloway Brazilian Girls lighting up the main stage, tal jams inspired by Sudanese fiddlers. The Capycac will round out performances at the with dance club favorites and a perform- global mix may sound unusual, but trust us, West End Stage. ance by groundbreaking visual artist and it works. The 23-year-old musician is turning Picked to go with the lineup, are two frontwoman Sabina Sciubba. The actress heads and collecting YouTube clicks with her Smorgasburg food vendors that are as eclec- SEPT 26 will likely be unrecognizable from her recur- ethereal vocals on head-bopping songs like tic as the music. A paratha taco is, “the but- ECLECTIC INDIE ring role on the FX series Baskets, as she Come Meh Way, which has more than 1.1 tery, flakey lovechild of the tortilla and crois- assumes her mysterious stage persona. With million listens on YouTube. sant” according to the chefs at Goa Taco BRAZILIAN GIRLS songs wafting from lounge to pop, the Nearby, Los Angeles-based “folktronic” (Aussie slang for go for a taco). group’s 2008 album New York City was group yOya will combine classic folk lyrics The second option, Cheezus, never disap- SUDAN ARCHIVES nominated for a Grammy in the Best Dance with contemporary electronic beats on the points with grilled cheese sandwiches stuffed Capyac Recording category. Pacific Park Stage. The band just spent their with your pick of cheeses, from fontina, comte, yOya cheddar, manchego and more. As always, the Smorgasburg record vendor will have a curat- ed collection by Beat Swap Meet. Music fans who leave wanting more can OCT 03 check out a book on the Pier to take home AFRO-BEAT great reads by indie musicians like Carrie AND R&B Brownstein, Hunger Makes Me A Modern Girl: A Memoir and Florence Welch, Useless FELA! THE CONCERT Magic: Lyrics and Poetry. “Indie” music has expanded way beyond Tiffany Gouche the singer songwriter with the guitar- At Twilight Drum Circle Twilight you’ll see Indie darlings Brazillian DJ Nnamdi Girls perform their classics and new work, Sudan Archives will blow folks away with her powerful violin and hints of her North African influence, CAPYAC are making a OCT 07 whole genre of their own with their jazz SOUTH ASIAN meets dance music vibes, and yOya’s SOUNDS refreshing and heartfelt tunes will melt away even the most stubborn cynic,” said Pier RED BARAAT Corporation director Negin Singh. "These artists are redefining what American music Vidya Vox looks and sound a like today, and I can’t DJ Rekha wait to watch it all unfold!" Discostan BRAZILIAN GIRLS 4 TWILIGHTSANTAMONICA.ORG 2018 TWILIGHT ON THE PIER BIOS Sudan Archives grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio, where she "messed around with instru- ments in the house" and took up violin in the fourth grade, eventually teaching herself how to play the instrument by ear. When she dis- covered the violin playing style of Northeast Africa, her eyes opened to the possibilities of the instrument. "The way they played it was different from classical music. I resonated with the style, and I was like, 'Maybe I can use this style with electronic music,'" she says. This fusing of folk music and electronic SUDAN ARCHIVES production was the turning point for Sudan. "I started mixing my violin into beats,” she says, “It wasn't complicated — I'd just sing straight into the iPad." She honed her at- home style after moving to Los Angeles aged 19 to study music technology, and after a chance encounter at a Low End Theory party with Stones Throw A&R and Leaving Records owner Matthewdavid, she signed with Stones Throw. At the very start of her musical career, she's already won plaudits from the likes of the New York Times and Pitchfork, and played live at experimental festival Moogfest. BRAZILIAN GIRLS CAPYAC Her EP Sudan Archives is an extraordi- nary debut statement from a singular artist. being so open to improvise like that,” says more together. It would change everything. Over six tracks, Sudan Archives layers har- SEPT 26 Murphy. Fast earning attention for their Actually that's what the whole record is monies, violin figures and ethereal vocals, ECLECTIC INDIE euphoric live show—and winning fans like about. It may even be the true meaning of grounding them all with the hip-hop beats. Zach Galifianakis, who later cast Sciubba life." The album gets its title from a glori- BRAZILIAN GIRLS as a regular on Baskets—Brazilian Girls ous anthem at the heart of the album. Like SUDAN ARCHIVES released their self-titled debut in 2005 and much of their latest record, the frenetic yet CAPYAC sophomore album Talk to La Bomb in 2006. ethereal “Let’s Make Love” takes a more In a world where all dogs are good Capyac Produced by longtime Brazilian Girls col- classically arranged form than the band’s dogs, only one dog can be the best at being yOya laborator Frederik Rubens, Let’s Make Love earlier work. At the same time, both album a great dog. Coming soon to a theater near came to life over the course of several and title track embody the quintessential you. #hollywood years. Since they’re now scattered through- spirit of Brazilian Girls: their strange bal- That’s an idea we had for a movie. BRAZILIAN GIRLS out the U.S. and Europe, the four band ance of wildness and elegance, cheeky Universal wasn’t into it. They said dog Brazilian Girls return in 2018 with Let’s members assembled when possible to write humor and fractured poetry, soulful mys- movies “ran their course” a decade ago. Make Love, their first album since the 2008 and record, piggybacking those sessions tique and libertine wisdom. “Right now Whatever, Universal. Grammy-nominated New York City. Formed onto gigs in Istanbul and Madrid and Paris ‘Let’s Make Love’ seems like a very good The next year, they stole our idea and in 2003, the group—Sabina Sciubba (lead and New York. Despite the distance, message to put into the world,” says released The Secret Life of Pets, which made vocals, electronics), Jesse Murphy (bass, Brazilian Girls consistently found their chem- Sciubba of the song’s inspiration. “It’s not $875 million at the box office. vocals), Didi Gutman (keyboards, vocals), istry as kinetic as when they first started out. even ‘Make love, not war’—it’s just ‘Make We tried to sue, but our lawyer was a Aaron Johnston (drums, percussion, “It’s a little astounding to us because we’ll love,’ and nothing else.” baked potato and we didn’t even make it vocals)—was born after the four members go so long without playing, and then we into a courtroom. Even Judge Judy said we crossed paths at East Village club Nublu. get together and things just happen in this didn’t have a case. “Somehow we all ended up at Nublu on a very harmonious way,” says Sciubba. SUDAN ARCHIVES Since then, we’ve just been making Sunday, and Ilhan (Ersahin, the club’s Brazilian Girls bring a woozy romanti- Violinist and vocalist, Sudan Archives music. Kind of boring, really, considering we founder) suggested we play together,” says cism to many tracks on Let’s Make Love. writes, plays, and produces her own had an $800 million movie idea in our back Johnston. The band began playing Nublu Opening the album with lead single music. Drawing inspiration from Sudanese pocket from the beginning. But life isn’t weekly, embracing a free-form ethos that “Pirates,” Sciubba notes of the modern-age fiddlers, she is self-taught on the violin, always fair. Rarely is, in fact. helped shape their kaleidoscopic sound. “A new wave love song, “It’s a song about and her unique songs also fold in elements Anyway, the music thing turned out to be lot of the spirit of the band comes from how we should all sleep more and sleep of R&B, and experimental electronic music. pretty fun. TWILIGHTSANTAMONICA.ORG 5 CONCERTGOERS GET A SNEAK PEAK OF THE UPCOMING “SUNDANCE” OF GAMING magine chopsticks so big they could dou- The Indiecade CEO hopes concert Ible as walking sticks, a noodle as long as goers who like what they play on the Pier a lasso and a bowl the size of your bathtub, will decide to attend the international festi- and you get a pretty good picture of Ideal val to experience more cutting edge games Meal, a goofy, interactive game that puz- on a variety of platforms - from tabletop to zled concertgoers two weeks ago at Twilight tag to television screens.