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Our friends Dan Bowman and Tarun Krishnan will take over our backyard stage to present their beautiful debut EP Pendulum.

Pendulum contains three stories each with a different take on how we all deal with the balance between wanting love and actually discovering it. Drifting from delusion to clear-eyed reflection to an encounter with the divine, these songs are both deeply autobiographical and still revel in opaque metaphor.

This event is presented by Chasquis Group

Formed in the middle of the Coronavirus Pandemic, with songs composed mostly on phones, Telephone House reflects the introspective and lonely nature of our uncertain era. They have a penchant for sweeping strings and brass that seamlessly trade off with vocals, blending elements of Classical, Jazz, and Folk with hooky pop sensibilities

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On the evening of Wednesday, May 12, the Wild Detectives backyard in Oak Cliff’s Bishop Arts District will set the stage for a tour of Global Soundscapes, as Sangeet Millennium and Chasquis present a concert featuring the Jamal Mohamed Trio and Sangeet Millennium Ensemble. The two ensembles will perform traditional and original musical spanning the Arab World, the Indian Subcontinent, and Southeast Asia. Doors open at 7:00 pm; music starts at 7:30. This event, the first of four in South Asian and Global Performance Series, is supported in part by an Arts Activate grant from the City of Dallas Office of Arts and Culture.

Sangeet Millennium Ensemble:  Amie Maciszewski – sitar, vocals; Paul Klemperer – saxophone; Paarth Kuntawala – tabla

Jamal Mohamed Trio: Jamal Mohamed – doumbek, riq, various percussion; guitar – Buddy Mohmed; Jonathan Jones – clarinet, shawms.

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This event is presented by Chasquis Group

Jamal Mohamed // Sangeet Millennium

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Welcome back to the Six Foot Love series at The Wild Detectives. A series of live performances with social distance and special safety precautions to comply with CDC guidelines while enjoying live music, performances and discussions.

See special considerations below concerning this event:

-Tickets are $45 and are valid for TWO PEOPLE.

– 1 TICKET = 2 PEOPLE. Find them here

-All tickets are numbered and associated with a specific location

-All tables and benches are set 6′ apart from each other

-Access to this show will be made through the side of our house, not through the main door.

-Full service too all seats, no need to access the bar or the indoor area

-Find tickets here

-Doors at 7p

-Show at 7.30pm

MATTIE is a Dallas experimental vocalist with a “cybernetic vision”. Her single Human Thing was released last March on Los Angeles label Leaving Records, now her ep Jupiter’s Purse is landing into the world. Her concert in our backyard will be an expanded experience with performances of two of her closer collaborators: Black Taffy and Tramaine Townsend.

MATTIE is a mirror. She is an oracle of the SOL, a watchman over the keys to liberation that we may sometimes forget that we possess . In performances, she guides her audience into a visual and sonic world of duality.  By using introspective visuals,  lyrical self-inquiry, solful melodics, experimental instrumentation, movement, meditation, and performance art. Within these modalities they are able to bring everyone who witnesses into a remembrance of who we all are before being in the physical, human world.

Her sound? Experimental SOL

Her destination? Wholeness.

Dallas Observer Music Award Nominee, she began singing melodies at age four, developing her own concepts of notation and structure. In church she learned the basis of conventional gospel music. MATTIE used this foundation to land touring and recording gigs with Israel Houghton and New Breed, The Black and Blue, and Tha Mystics. With a love for all cultures and religions, MATTIE has adapted several different styles of music to create a sound that is uniquely hers.

https://mattie.bandcamp.com/album/human-thing

Black Taffy (Donovan Jones) is a Dallas-based composer and performer whose current focus lies in pairing ambient music with large bass and percussion. The first born son of Pentecostal music ministers, Donovan grew up witnessing the power music has to induce trance and encourage spiritual awakening. Eventually drawing parallels between christianity, voodoo, and the occult, he left the former to immerse himself in the latter. Sometimes performing with only Vibraphone and cassette decks, he frequently employs the use of tape loops and other antiquated mediums to create pillowy worlds of wow and flutter.

https://blacktaffy.bandcamp.com/

Whether he is photographing talent such as Mr Leon Bridges or creating abstract, avant-garde, sometimes bizarre imagery, Mr Tramaine Townsend’s idiosyncratic aesthetic shines through. Bold colour saturation and unusual perspectives lend his work a ponderous, otherworldly vibe even though his subjects are very much situated in the here and now.

http://tramainetownsend.com/

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Meet the authors of Forces of Nature a new book that sets the record straight and charts the fascinating history of women’s discoveries in science. In this thoroughly researched, authoritative work, Anna Reser and Leila McNeill uncover how women have navigated a male-dominated scientific culture – showing themselves to be pioneers and trailblazers, often without any recognition at all.

In the ancient and medieval world, women served as royal physicians and nurses, taught mathematics, studied the stars, and practiced midwifery. As natural philosophers, physicists, anatomists, and botanists, they were central to the great intellectual flourishing of the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment. More recently women have been crucially involved in the Manhattan Project, pioneering space missions and much more. Despite their record of illustrious achievements, even today very few women win Nobel Prizes in science.

Anna Reser is an American artist, writer, editor, and historian of science. She holds a Master’s Degree in the history of science from the University of Oklahoma, where she is currently pursuing doctoral studies in the history of technology. She is the editor and co-founder of Lady Science, an independent magazine about women in the history of science.

Leila A. McNeill is an American writer, editor, and historian of science. She studied literature at the University of Texas at Dallas where she graduated with a Master’s Degree in Literary Studies. She then shifted focus to the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, in which she earned another Master’s Degree at the University of Oklahoma. She is now an editor-in-chief of the online magazine, Lady Science, and an independent researcher and a freelance writer with a focus on women and gender in the history of science, technology and medicine.

This will be an in-person event in our backyard. Social distance and mask wearing will be enforced.

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Welcome back to the Six Foot Love series at The Wild Detectives. A series of live performances with social distance and special safety precautions to comply with CDC guidelines while enjoying live music, performances and discussions.

See special considerations below concerning this event:

-Tickets are $25 and are valid for TWO PEOPLE.

– 1 TICKET = 2 PEOPLE. Find them here

-All tickets are numbered and associated with a specific location

-All tables and benches are set 6′ apart from each other

-Access to this show will be made through the side of our house, not through the main door.

-Full service too all seats, no need to access the bar or the indoor area

-Find tickets here

-Doors at 7p

-Show at 7.30pm

Little Mazarn is Lindsey Verrill and Jeff Johnston, an electric banjo and singing saw duo from Austin, TX. Inspired by the 1960s primitive folk revival and early “high lonesome” Appalachian sound, as well as modern minimalism and ambient music, they combine imaginative songwriting with dreamy and innovative use of traditional instruments and textures. Since 2016 they’ve been performing live in rock clubs, folk listening rooms and unconventional spaces such as dry riverbeds, abandoned buildings, galleries, theaters, and churches in the United States and Canada.

Verrill and Johnston are also known individually for their work with Bill Callahan, Dana Falconberry, Okkervil River, Thor and Friends, and many others.

“The music of Little Mazarn is a cool float a few feet from the ground through a dimly lit, almost familiar forest. It is quieter than silence, big as everything, still but always moving. If you’ve ever had flying dreams, or an amazing night time bike ride on LSD, this might be a world for you. Chords are made up of notes; Little Mazarn gives them all their own moment. There are NO superfluous notes played here.

Lindsey’s kind and twisting voice ambles along over the spare sounds of Jeff Johnston’s saw bowing, Ralph White’s electric mbira wanderings, and her own slow banjo. Like DJ Screw, Bohren & Der Club of Gore, and anyone who chooses to walk instead of ride, Lindsey realizes the amazing power of slow… slow… slow music. Lindsey is at once a baby and a wise old man. Get in this canoe at dawn on some Texas river that remembers when Comanche slept under the stars.”

Thor Harris

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