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A Low Hum Presents Aa

A Low Hum Presents Aa

Fri Feb 17th, 2012


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Doors open: 9:00 pm
Entry: R18
Cover charge: $5

Aa (”Big A little a”) has been one of the most restlessly innovative bands in Brooklyn over the past 10 years, steadily evolving their unique, intensely stylized brand of DIY maximalism through frequently-changing lineups and instrumentation. Like an ADD-afflicted Boredom...s or Aphex Twin re-imagined as a self-taught marching band, the group’s polyrhythmic sound evokes elements of global dance, hardcore, electro, psych, and other influences with a sensibility that transcends pastiche to create something bracingly new. Now featuring multiple hybrid acoustic/electronic drummers, dense, laptop-generated soundscapes, heavily processed vocals, and a distinctive, starkly minimal light show, Aa’s live performances are atmospheric, frenetic, and constantly surprising.

Not just noise, not just drums, but something that reaches ecstatic, bombastic heights. – Pitchfork

A LOW HUM presents
From Brooklyn, NYC

Aa (Big A little a)
Feb 16 - Arc Theatre, Whanganui
Feb 17 - Mighty Mighty, Wellington
Feb 18 - Whammy Bar, Auckland

ALL SHOWS ARE (cheap as) DOORSALES ONLY

http://www.youtube.com/watch'v=JHsizgLlEt4&

Aa (BIG A little a) has a very swank one-sided LP out on Narnack. It has a very beautiful way of shifting its center in unexpected ways. The single side of music is a fat tableau of the kindsa sounds that young people should be making and enjoying in bistros from here to Kalamazoo. Here they club out bite-sized hunks of neo-no, new-wave-electro-murk, disco-noise readymades, French duck calls and a buncha other stuff. And it sounds quite pleasing! – Thurston Moore, Arthur Magazine

Heavily skewed pop, though the definition of pop must be stretched thin to apply. Art-core krunk' - Flavorpill

For fans of: Gameboy, Michael J Fox, rubbing your eyes real hard, jazz cigarettes. – The Fader Blog

listed in: alternative, art/noise
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Aa were pretty cool but the standout for me was the first band, whose name i dont know (can anyone help??), they chugged out a bunch of tunes using a delightful mix of electronic gadgets and more traditional instrument. Quite original, very intersting and slightly cool in a Berlin sort of way.

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