ChickenJam West has partnered with Bridger Brewing to bring you Beats Antique with help from TAUK to an OUTDOOR stage on Saturday, July 23rd beginning at 7:30pm in the Bridger Brewing front parking lot. Tickets to this awesome all ages show are $32 in advance in store or online at cactusrecords.net/ and $35 at the door. Doors at 6:30pm.
Celebrating its tenth anniversary with its tenth studio release, the Bay Area’s wildly innovative performance dynamo Beats Antique emerges from the studio with a brand new album and stage show to mark the milestone. When multi-instrumentalists David Satori and Tommy Cappel and choreographer Zoe Jakes dove into development of the new Beats Antique era, the concept of “Shadowbox” emerged. Driven by the infinite wonders of the deceptively simple design, the narrative of shadows and light, of darkness and contrast, of reality and surreality propelled the music and vision into new territory. Beats Antique is breaking the boundaries of conventional wisdom. Why can’t an electronic music performance encompass a range of emotion? This isn’t a nuclear-powered laser light show from the ever-intensifying optical arms race of the EDM industry. This is one of the earliest methods of storytelling brought from the past into the present. “The digital is there to enhance the analog,” notes Jakes. “We’re here to tell a story,” Satori adds. Bringing an album from the shadows of the studio to the brightly lit stage is what Beats Antique does best.
These are storytellers for a digital age –equipped with the newest technology and ancient traditions. This is where the Beats meet the Antique. •