The Body

Doors: 8PM / Show: 9PM / 21+The Body & Dis Fig are a natural pair. Each has pioneered instantly recognizable worlds of sound all their own that defy any traditional categorizations or boundaries. The Body, Lee Buford and Chip King, continually challenge any conventional conceptionof metal, collaborating with myriad artists and from the folk-leanings of their work with BIG|BRAVE to their groundbreaking work with the Assembly of Light Choir to the intensity of their collaborations with OAA or Thou. Dis Fig, aka Felicia Chen,pushes electronic music into dark extremes, from warped DJ sets to avant production, from being a member of Tianzhuo Chens performance- art series TRANCE to being the vocalist with The Bug. The Body and Dis Fig find kinship in reimagining what it means to make heavy music. Their debut Orchards of a Futile Heaven is the perfect synthesis of two forces, twisting melodicism and intoxicating rhythms, layering a dense miasma of distortion with intense beats and a soaring voice clawing its way towards absolution.Orchards of a Futile Heavens walls of sputtering texture and tectonic booms are soaked in the reverence and melancholy of sacred spaces brought to life by palpable intensity by Chens voice. Crafted during a time of personal fragility, the albums devastating force lies beyond any of the expected noise and abrasive textures typically associated with both The Body s voice searches for escape in the midst of oppressive atmospheres as if determined to find relief from guilt. Eternal Hours patiently unfurls waves of surprising sounds, whispered undulations that are punctuated by sudden crashes, all beneath Chens haunting harmonies. Dissent, Shame evokes grief and shame with a minimalist drone dirge that gradually builds to an enchanting choral passage. Kings guitar on Holy Lance matches the uncanny drone of Chens accordion in an all-consuming blast, Chens voice transforming the moment from anguish to defiance and empowerment. The albums arc finishes with Coils of Kaa acting as a kind of propulsive exorcism, breaking through a suffocating air before the funeral procession of Back to the Water lays the album to rest.