Strange Familiar
Kino-Eye

Tonight Kino-Eye celebrates the return visit to Chicago of acclaimed performance vocal artist Lynn Book for the highly anticipated release of the CD, Strange Familiar. Along with her collaborator, bassist Tatsu Aoki, and guest musicians will perform Electric Lady and Native Power as well as other selections from the CD.


10/7/1995 - 10/7/1995


Achy Obejas, Chicago Reader

Tonight Kino-Eye celebrates the return visit to Chicago of acclaimed performance vocal artist Lynn Book for the highly anticipated release of the CD, Strange Familiar. Along with her collaborator, bassist Tatsu Aoki, and guest musicians will perform Electric Lady and Native Power as well as other selections from the CD. Book will also present films from her performances by Chicago filmmaker Shannon Couzinn and as earlier film/performance collaboration with Aoki. This CD release with Tatsu Aoki give Chicago audiences the opportunity to experience a range of Book?s works and see and hear how image, text and sound intersect in some of the most innovative and arresting ways. ?Book?s performance is high-concept, smart and rapid fire. Her vision and originality merit both praise and awe.?


John Corbett, Chicago Reader October 6, 1995

?David Moss summarized the physical immediacy of the voice like this: "Singing and sex give approximate answers to the same question: What does it feel like to be in someone else's body?" When singer and performance artist Lynn Book left Chicago for New York three months ago, she took with her the city's most adventurous female voice. Highly expressive, intense, and often theatrical, Book is part of a worldwide wave of outrageous vocal explorers that includes Maggie Nichols, Sainkho Namtchylak, Vanessa Mackness, Dorothea Schurch, Greetje Bijma, and Shelley Hirsch. Adaptive and sly, she uses her flexible set of pipes in many ways: as sheer sound generator spilling out nonsense syllabalia, to construct narratives through a combination of text, gesture, and inflection, or just simply to sing songs. For the last few years, Book's primary vehicle has been a duet with self-described "hyper avant-experimental-improvising outsider" Tatsu Aoki, the active bassist who recently released a record with pianist Bradley Parker-Sparrow, If It Wasn't for Paul (Southport). Book's back in town for this one weekend; this show's a party to celebrate the release of the debut Book/Aoki CD, Strange Familiar, by her own BOOKish Inc. label.?

Performers
Lynn Book, Tatsu Aoki

Tags: Music, American, 1995