Celebrating their 50th anniversary, The Red Krayola-recently
dubbed the best Texas psychedelic band in history-appear for two nights
with separate concerts. Band members performing throughout the weekend
include Bill Bowman (bass);Dylan Ryan (piano, drums);Tom Watson (guitar, vocals);Sandy Yang (vocals, drums); and Mayo Thompson (vocals,
piano). These performances mark the band's first in New York since
their celebrated sets at the Whitney Biennial in 2012.
On Friday, November 4 at 8pm, the group perform the New York premiere of a new arrangement of Corrected Slogans (1976), their first collaboration with Art & Language.
As Art & Language says: "The texts-the lyrics-of Corrected Slogans,
which consist of insecurely rhyming and metrical samplings of Marxist
economic theory, historiography, and social critique, are in the main,
'not at home' in the music. Together, they make a chimera. It could be
said simplistically that the rock n' roll of the music carries the
message of the text into circumstances where it would not otherwise be
heard (on the Salvation Army principle that the Devil should not always
have the best tunes). Alternatively, it could be said that the
improbable détente between music and text is a disguise for both: the
music clothes the text in auditory garments such that it cannot appear
as itself, and the text makes a semantic demand on the music that it can
only hide."
On
Saturday, November 5 at 8pm, the band presents a NYC jamboree (Cooking
in The Kitchen), a survey of 50 years of their music with the Familiar
Ugly. Preceding the Saturday performance will be a conversation with
Mayo Thompson at 5pm.
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