Michna, Ametsub, and Nicola Cruz: Event Preview
Following on the success of its two-day festival featuring a number of audio-visual artists, Gray Area's latest event features three interdisciplinary musicians bridging the gaps between hip-hop, electronica, and pop. Headlining the affair is
Michna, a New York-based artist who began his career as part of the electro-centric outfit Secret Frequency Crew. His latest work as Michna leans on a generous amount of melodic technoid flavor, resulting in a refreshingly earnest hybrid of retro-rooted synthpop and futuristic electronica.
Ametsub, an artist based in Japan who will be making his American live debut at this performance, works in a similarly minor-key mood, but where Michna has gone techno and a bit pop, Ametsub remains in a hip-hop mode with a dreamy, jazzy influence, as cut-up, skittering beats lurk beneath washes of piano and sample-based atmospherics. Ecuadorian artist
Nicola Cruz, whose work melds Latin rhythms and textures with modern bass music, will be opening the night.
— Chris Zaldua
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