URB ALT 3.0 Celebrates MLK Holiday through Musical Collaboration.
WHAT: URB ALT 3.0 Musical Tribute to Martin Luther King Jr.
WHO: MuthaWit, Shaka Zulu Overdrive and Roy LaGrone
WHEN: Saturday, Jan 14, 2006 at 8pm
WHERE: MAKOR/Steinhardt Center of the 92nd Street Y, 35 West 67th Street
New York, NY (December 2005) URB ALT 3.0 will celebrate diversity and a universal love and understanding through music in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy and teachings. The performance will meld the creative voices of dynamic artists in an outpouring of passion and creative expression accompanied by URB ALTs 18 piece orchestra. URB ALT 3.0 features the soulful sounds of MuthaWit and Shaka Zulu Overdrive and the imagery of Roy LaGrone.
About MuthaWit:
MuthaWit is known for provocative live shows that incorporate rock dynamics and avant-garde experimentation. Group members have worked with Yo Yo Ma, Funkadelic, Olu Dara, Organized Noize (Outkast), Curtis Mayfield and Brendan O'Brien (Stone Temple Pilots). MuthaWit's eclectic sound provides whispers of the classical string chamber, soulful cries of the field and the electric roar of deepspace.
About Shaka Zulu Overdrive:
Shaka Zulu Overdrive is the brainchild of multi-instrumentalist Evan O'Reilly. This edgy 3 piece "shoe-gazing negro prog rock band" combines improvisation with an aggressive yet dreamy rock style containing quick shifts in dynamics and tone. Shaka Zulu Overdrive is the sonic melding of John Coltrane's sheets of sound, Fugazi's guitar skronk, Live/Evil era Miles Davis and the spirit of 3000 Zuluwarriors.
About Roy LaGrone:
Roy LaGrone sits at the crossroads of electric collage culture and resurrection aesthetics. As an initiate into the realm of cyber-shamanism and electric hermetics, LaGrone's digital/video projections at the Smithsonian, Siggraph, RUSH Arts Gallery and SCAD have shown us the alchemical process of creation and reproductive re-creation. What results in his poly-visual continuum are visual love songs for cyborgs searching for guidance through the Frankenstein aesthetic we now call global culture.
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