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The Nightmare continues on Friday, February 24th as Dead Of Night & The Dark Market keep up the monthly grind of dark eclectic music. Come out and help keep the dancefloor barely alive as we celebrate the glum drudgery of our dreadful existence.

This month will feature:

• Noir synth-pop from Negative Gain artist Carrellee
  Similar artists: Julee Cruise, Kate Bush, Mazzy Star, This Mortal Coil, The Sundays, M83, Grimes, CHVRCHES)
  https://www.carrellee.com

• Radio Arcane Dark Music Specialists - Count Grozny & Sorrow-Vomit

• Vending by the talented Dark Market.

• Food Truck - TBA

• Drinks by the enchanting Lany StarDust

18+ entry
21+ bar
$10 cover

Radio Arcane presents:

DREKKA (Bloomington, Indiana)
post doom romance (Bradley, Illinois)
Sinister Senile (Louisville, Kentucky)
Timber Rattle
Live performance at Art Sanctuary

DREKKA
Working under the name DREKKA since 1996, composer Michael Anderson has toured, traveled, and collaborated extensively; collecting memories and building a personalized archive of sound that dates back to the mid-1980's.

Drekka has released a large body of work on labels such as Auris Apothecary, Dais, Fabrica, Morc, Silber, Somnimage, and Anderson's own label, Bluesanct. Anderson has also recorded and toured as a member of such as projects as Jessica Bailiff, Dylan Ettinger, In Gowan Ring, Lovesliescrushing, Annelies Monseré, Stone Breath, and Turn Pale.

Drekka owes something to the soundscapes and non-linear impressionism of Cindytalk or COIL, the industrial gravity of Einstürzende Neubauten or Hafler Trio, and the cinematic collaborations of Edward Artemiev/Andrei Tarkovsky or Simon Fisher Turner/Derek Jarman. But his work is singular, unique, and very personal.

Throughout years of performing and recording, Drekka has explored early industrial tape culture, fragile bedroom noise-folk, and expansive cinematic textures. His work and performances touch on themes of silence, memory, and forgetfulness. But rather than obscure himself, as is so often the effect of experimental music, DREKKA functions as a direct line into Anderson's mind and his tenuous cache of memories. These personal aspects and this fragility are clearly on display, rather than being obfuscated by poetic abstractions.

While "haunting" and "hypnogogic" are words often used to describe experimental music and art, DREKKA unequivocally occupies and deals in those dark spaces which comprise the tenuous province of memory and dreams. Those are the real ghosts of time and sound.

Just as prominent, particularly in the live setting, is a sort of confrontation; a wrestling with frenetic energy that approaches mania or ecstasy. Just as DREKKA's recordings serve not to obscure but to exhibit Michael Anderson's mind, his performances serve to exhibit his person, his body. DREKKA's audiences behold not an anonymous face in the glow of a laptop, but a man riding his flimsy card table strewn with tape players, bells, trinkets, metal, and pedals. They behold a man's spirit riding him, contact microphone in mouth, hands shifting cassettes collected over time and distance. DREKKA's audiences behold a confrontation of spirit, body, memory, and sound.
https://drekka.bandcamp.com

post doom romance
DADA-esque assemblages of sound and image passed back and forth like love letters between seah and mykel boyd.
https://postdoomromance.bandcamp.com

Sinister Senile
Sinister Senile is an evolving experimental project with a dark yet pretty electro-accoustc edge.
The project was founded in 1997 by artist Kensaku Nishizato. It has involved live works with Pas Musique. Along with contributions by Norman Westberg (Swans) and others.
Since 1986, Kensaku has collaborated with Nurse with Wound, Val Denham, and more.
https://sinistersenile.bandcamp.com

Timber Rattle
https://timberrattle.bandcamp.com

18+ entry
21+ bar
$10 cover

The Nightmare continues on Friday, February 24th as Dead Of Night & The Dark Market keep up the monthly grind of dark eclectic music. Come out and help keep the dancefloor barely alive as we celebrate the glum drudgery of our dreadful existence.

This month will feature:

• Live performance by The Dead Speak (Louisville)
• Radio Arcane Dark Music Specialists - TBA
• Vending by the talented Dark Market.
• Food Truck - TBA
• Drinks by the enchanting Lany StarDust

The Dead Speak is a Louisville, Kentucky-based horror cow-beret duo that invoke goth rockabilly energy. Jaime Muerte (she/her) and Wayne Robinson (he/him) fuse guttural, impassioned vocals with stories centering around themes of suicide, folklore and substance abuse.
https://thedeadspeak.bandcamp.com

18+ entry
21+ bar
$10 cover

Radio Arcane presents:

VAZUM (Detroit, Michigan)
Blood Handsome (Los Angeles, California)
Cold Choir (Asheville, North Carolina)
Live performance at Art Sanctuary

VAZUM
Deathgaze duo from Detroit, MI. Comprised of Zach Pliska (vocals/guitar/drums) and Emily Sturm (vocals/bass) VAZUM create a haunting and original sound combining elements of deathrock, post-punk and shoegaze. Since forming in 2017, VAZUM have released a steady stream of and music and videos which the duo produce from their own Light Echo Studios.
https://vazum.bandcamp.com

Blood Handsome
https://bloodhandsome.bandcamp.com

Cold Choir
Electro/Darkwave duo with poetic, evocative lyrics, sensual vocals dressed in a cloak of moody soul, with a ferocious power and a vulnerable delivery. Growing up in Miami in the 90s they were heavily influenced by the music they would encounter playing in the clubs of the time. From Electro and Freestyle to Darkwave and Techno their music has no rules or boundaries.
https://coldchoirmusic.bandcamp.com

18+ entry
21+ bar
$12 cover

The Nightmare continues on Friday, February 24th as Dead Of Night & The Dark Market keep up the monthly grind of dark eclectic music. Come out and help keep the dancefloor barely alive as we celebrate the glum drudgery of our dreadful existence.

This month will feature:

• Blacklist (Brooklyn, New York) Performing Live
• Radio Arcane Dark Music Specialists - TBA
• Vending by the talented Dark Market.
• Food Truck - TBA
• Drinks by the enchanting Lany StarDust

Blacklist Returns: An Interview with the Legendary NYC Band
https://post-punk.com/blacklist-returns-an-interview-with-the-legendary-nyc-band-plus-premiere-of-unreleased-track-nashira-rising
https://blacklist-motcx.bandcamp.com

18+ entry
21+ bar
$12 cover

Radio Arcane presents:

Spike Hellis (Los Angeles, California) live at Art Sanctuary with support by local EBM project Control I'm Here.

Spike Hellis has already earned the respect of electronic music veterans in the LA scene, with tracks already remixed by Susan Subtract (High-Functioning Flesh, Physical Wash), Juan Mendez (Silent Servant), and have crossed to the other coast with mixes from NYC’s Multiple Man.
https://spikehellis.com
https://spikehellis.bandcamp.com
https://post-punk.com/los-angeles-minimal-ebm-duo-spike-hellis-drop-two-tracks-from-smile-for-the-world-ep

Control I’m Here is the EBM project of Paul Chenault, member of the Hush Ltd art collective and remix contributor for artists Ex-Hyena, Pleasure Policy, Jackson VanHorn, Denial Waits, and Molotov Lust. Control I’m Here produces hard-hitting EBM infused with grooves and atypical genre conventions to bring a fresh perspective to the genre.
https://controlimhere.bandcamp.com

18+ entry
21+ bar
$12 cover

Radio Arcane presents:

Harsh Symmetry (Los Angeles, California)
Live performance at Art Sanctuary
Opening support TBA.

Harsh Symmetry is the synthesizer driven solo project of the California based musician Julian Sharwarko. Blending 80s post- punk and new wave influences with more contemporary genres like dark wave and minimal wave, Harsh Symmetry paints a refreshing and danceable picture while maintaining a good sense of revivalism.
https://harshsymmetry.bandcamp.com

18+ entry
21+ bar
$12 cover