E X O T I C . H Y P N O T I C

21 W Mount Royal Ave, 5th Floor
(enter at corner of Mount Royal and Maryland Avenues)

All Events are FREE!

Present-day Baltimore overflows with exotic musical treats! For adventurous ears, the city is a small utopia … a home to weekly concerts of the most avant-garde music imaginable, as well as a wide range of hypnotic ethnic and popular music. In this diverse Artscape 2009 series, curated by the High Zero Foundation, ancient music collides with modern monstrosities, keeping you on your toes and revealing the secret connections between different culture's states of mind. Music has never been so … mental!

Friday July 17th

Salamander Wool (Carson Garhart): Theosophically inspired psychedelic experimental music.

Owen Gardner + Friends: Avant-garde minimalist.

Ayako Katoaka + Friends: Cybernetic koto and experimental electronic music.

Brandon Ables: Contemporary experimental blues singer/songwriter.

Lurch and Holler (Liz Downing + Michael Willis): Cosmic, lush hillbilly crooning and stomping.

Lo Moda: Baltimore's coolest premier post-rock experimentalists.

The Multiphonic Choir: Hybrid of Fela Kuti with German electronic music.

Gaybomb (Andrew Barranca): Mind-bending sound art.

Tom Boram + Jenny Graf: Hypertonic electro-acoustic eccentrics.

Saturday July 18th

Ric Royer + John Eaton: Experimental language absurdists.

Dave Fell: Psychedelic/electronic folk music.

Rjyan Kidwell (AKA CEX): Baltimore's maestro of intelligent dance subversion.

Sparrow's Point School Steel Drum Ensemble: Traditional music performed on amazing instruments.

Quartet Offensive: Explosive experimental improvised music.

Liz Meredith + John Somers: Experimental improvised music ensemble.

Matt Davignon: Experimental ecologies from drum machine.

Needle Gun: Caustic-ecstatic Baltimore noise rock that can't say no.

Sunday July 19th

Paul Neidhardt + Jorge Martins: Careful and crafty experimental percussion and wild wave.

Child Bride w/ Melissa Moore: Frantic drums with exorcised electronics.

Lafayette Gilchrist: Baltimore's premier jazz composer plays solo piano.

Calusari (Ami Dang): Indian classical music meets contemporary electronics.

Weekends: Furious architectural drum and guitar duo.

Il Culo: Baltimore's hottest, tightest funk unit playing harmelodic music.

Polygons: Mind-bending electronic dance music from the Hexagon space.

Larksong Vocal Ensemble: Acapella classical music from the 16th to 20th centuries.