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Fhloston Paradigm: An Evening in the After

July 28, 2017 10pm @ National Sawdust

National Sawdust Event

Building on his wildly successful 2011 album Fhloston Paradigm, DJ King Britt presents a live performance of the sequel: “After…”. A sucker for the soundworlds of old science fiction, Fhloston Paradigm was King’s electronic, afro-futurist take on the “Fhloston Paradise”, known best in the film The Fifth Element. The new album, “After…”  is the continuation of the story the feeling of ascension through primal, polyrhythmic energy. For this special live presentation of the new album, King (electronics) will be joined by Ryat (electronics/vocals), Stephanie Yu (violin), Tim Motzer (guitartronics), Pia Ercole (vocals/electronics), Jacqueline Constance (vocaltronics) and a few surprises!

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Solstice Festival Cleveland Museum of Art

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6/20/15 Solstice Festival

Cleveland Museum of Art

On Saturday, June 20th, 2015

I join King Britt & Mike Todd for another performance of:

Fhloston Paradigm Live

*LISTEN*

Solstice 2015

Saturday, June 20, 2015
8:00 p.m.–1:00 a.m.
Cleveland’s hottest summer music festival

SOLD OUT

Tickets to Solstice sold out during the member pre-sale and are no longer available.

Celebrate the long summer days and hot summer nights at the museum’s seventh annual Solstice—a night where art and music come together. Guests will have an opportunity to enjoy dynamic and cutting-edge music from around the world, and explore the museum galleries late into the night.

Solstice has become the most anticipated event of the summer, featuring two stages packed with forward-looking artists from around the globe. From the Colombian tropical-psychedelia of Meridian Brothers to the state-of-the art modern disco of Escort; from the legendary pioneers of Afrobeat, Seun Kuti & Egypt 80, to the consistently creative DJ King Britt; from the futuristic sounds of the Grassy Knoll to electronic music innovator Afrikan Sciences. Solstice is the city’s premier summer kick-off event.

Food and beverages will be available for purchase throughout the evening.

 

 

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Fhloston Paradigm Live Johnny Brenda’s

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Fhloston Paradigm (live show)

Ryat, Pia Ercole, Moor Mother, Jacqueline Constance, Tim Motzer, Alexa Barchini, Sci Fi DJ Set By Ryan Todd

Tue, July 25, 2017 Doors: 8:00 pm Show: 9:00 pm

Johnny Brenda's Event

Event Page – Purchase Tickets

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Fhloston Paradigm Live: The Gatherings Concert Series

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Fhloston Paradigm Live Show

Fhloston Paradigm (the innovative music project by

King Britt w/ Pia Ercole) & Spacemusician Chuck van Zyl

are set to co-headline live within the remarkable setting of

St. Mary’s Hamilton Village as part of

The Gatherings Concert Series’ annual free admission event

on Saturday, April 21, 2018 at 8:00 pm

3916 Locust Walk in Philadelphia, PA

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To intrepid travelers along the deep and dark spaceways, King Britt‘s innovative music project Fhloston Paradigm will put a hum in your ear drum.

With a gentle precision his music generates reassuring atmospheres of electrical synthesizer tones and digital textures. From a pervasive sense of calm, to a most potent magic, we journey through a rare sonic realm against the strong tug of some unseen charm – and wonder what strange spell has been cast? Progressing through spacey thought-zones, we seem to be on an excursion where every track is a detailed mind trip. Some notes are so deep your DNA will vibrate, while further in they are as light as cosmic cotton candy.

King Britt confirms that blending technology and music at this level can produce touching works – music as intimate as our own blood cells, with the structure and strength of just discovered alloys. Writing music for other people is just nuts and bolts. King Britt makes music for all of creation. Wrapped in the luminous glow of human consciousness, it is full of electronic poetry – as, with its focus on the electro-sonic, it contemplates new narratives of existence.

While the rigors of Julliard and its prestigious training prepared Pia Ercole for the opera world, it also groomed her for the stage in another way entirely… After years of rigorous study she found that a great many other genres of music outside of classical still called to her. In working with Electronic Music luminary King Britt on Fhloston Paradigm, innovative vocalist Pia Ercole combines both her classical training in opera with her vast compositional and vocal sensibilities in a unique and beautiful way. In this project, Ercole has found a sonic landscape with the proper breadth and range to support and inspire (what she can only refer to as) her more “operatic voice”. In this collaboration the music and moment direct every nuance of her phrasing and tone. What we hear when these two get together is their connection with an atmosphere – a sonic vibe. An exercise in listening, their sessions are a place of discovery – where even the most basic rhythm, repeated melodic motive, or drone is found to be an inspiration which draws out a unique expression from Ercole’s interior world. Britt’s music directs every nuance of Ercole’s phrasing and tone – as the emerging vocals are born from connecting with a particular sonic vibe. Thus far Pia Ercole has embarked on several significant sonic journeys with King Britt – culminating in the auditory magic of the Fhloston Paradigm live and studio projects – a zone where voice, song, Electronic Music and analog synths meet – re-imagined in a beautiful, divine, and other-worldly aural plane. Pia Ercole believes that this endeavor is what her voice was meant to be used for – to translate the truth…

LISTEN:

https://soundcloud.com/kingbritt/life-feat-pia-ercole

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