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Howard Ivans w/ Sean Thomas Gerard at Bourgie Nights 11/18/17

Doors 8:30pm. Show 9:30pm. $8 ADV $10 DOS.

Howard Ivans
Www.howardivans.com

Sean Thomas Gerard
http://seanthomasgerard.bandcamp.com
http://onwardsoldiers.bandcamp.com/

"A created thing is never invented and it is never true: it is always and ever itself.
Federico Fellini

Who is Howard Ivans? I dont know, but hes the one singing the songs.
Ivan Howard

Who is Howard Ivans? A stylized frequency? A flutter of heartbeats? An outline of emotion? Another gambler waiting for that strike of lightning playing the zero-sum game of love? Or is he the blurry figure at the edge of frame? Someone that likes being in the dark room and dark stages, where the sound is brighter than the face. A man away from himself. Keep breaking it down boy. On a path to obsession, his head full of fury and dreams, Howard Ivans is high-stepping through the rolling sea of time.

Ivan Howard has encountered this character before. Surely he was an uncredited guest when the Rosebuds recorded a song-by-song cover of Sades Love Deluxe. And when Prince showed up at a Gayngs show and ripped a solo offstage on his unplugged purple Strat, Ivan Howard and Howard Ivans watched him in disbelief, flickering back and forth in that sublime, surreal moment. But the first proper appearance was on a 45 for Spacebomb Records, Red Face Boy b/w Pillows; then the man could really breathe, stretch out and hear his own voice, see his hands in the light. There is a strange duality between the unassuming country boy who grew up barefoot on a tobacco farm in North Carolina and the neo-soul entertainer crooning over staccato Billie Jean guitar lines, but its not a reflection, more a yin and yang situation, interlocking bodies of shadow, imagination, and abstracted history. The tension is fascinating. No past or future, only a presence.

Beautiful Tired Bodies is Howard Ivans opus is it the magnum or a sweet 750 ml? Only time will tell. Either way, its pure magic, a soft funk tone poem to lost identity, the grip of love, and trying to live in the present as time rushes under the bridge. Feelings at the edge of feeling, a sound that Ivan Howard dreams about. What a sound to dream about, lush, muscular, brooding, rising and falling with the lungs of live musicians, crystalline guitars, enchanting string arrangementsa real show. Alongside the team of Spacebomb co-producers Cameron Ralston and Trey Pollard, and a first call cast of Richmond, Virginias finest musicians, Howard Ivans has signed his name to a smooth statement of purpose. And whoever he is, hes playing an idiosyncratic R&B game with passionate skill.

Adresse

Bourgie Nights (Afficher)
127 Princess St.
Wilmington, NC 28401
United States

Catégories

Musique > Indépendente

Âge minimum : 18

Enfants bienvenus : Non

Chiens bienvenus : Non

Non-fumeur : Oui

Accessible aux fauteuils roulants : Oui

Contact

Propriétaire : Bourgie Nights

Sur BPT depuis : 23 Oct 2014

William Mellon

www.mannaavenue.com/bourgi...

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