Drop Electric & Tone with The Sea Life, Janel & Anthony

#DropTone930 Drop Electric Based in a city known for stagnation and business as usual, Washington D.C.’s Drop Electric exists to break the mold. Drop Electric’s music is a manic barrage of soaring female vocals, distortion, tribal percussion, and electronic bleeps controlled by structured, dynamic songwriting. Ramtin Arablouei, Neel Singh, Sho Fujiwara, Navid Marvi and Anya Mizani's shared experiences as children of immigrant families contribute to an air of vague unfamiliarity in their music. They've been featured on NPR's All Songs Considered and have performed at some of the District's most prestigious venues like The Fillmore, The Howard Theatre and the 9:30 Club. Drop Electric released their third album, Lost In Decay, last year. https://open.spotify.com/album/2N812OROqgf2GVCEbIiCVc https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/lost-in-decay/id987092363 ---- Tone Tone's 7th album A N T A R E S is now available. To authenticate and acclaim this creative output, Tone will be performing a completely unique audio-visual presentation. This concert will feature a video / digital film collaboration with media artist and professor Brandon Morse: www.coplanar.org Founded by Norm Veenstra and Gregg Hudson, TONE has relentlessly explored the often unpredictable, always epic sonic path of a dedicated instrumental ensemble. They have performed in numerous venues throughout the Eastern U.S., in Europe, and at SXSW in 2010 A N T A R E S www.tonedc.bandcamp.com/album/antares compact disc released June 24th by Dischord / TminusONEmusic http://www.dischord.com/release/184-5/antares ---- The Sea Life Contrary to what the schemers in Silicon Valley say, navigating life in the 21st century is no easy feat. Sure, you can have someone come to your home and do your laundry or deliver a burrito or smoke you up at the touch of a button, but the hidden costs come in the form of general anxiety and implacable angst. The Sea Life know that imbalance all too well. This is music for people who are trying to stand on their own two feet. The fluid rhythm section swells with crisp, sweet melodies, only to slam against the uneasy the walls of panic and static, embodied by the noisy combo of affected vocals and tube-distorted guitar. Meanwhile, the lyrics dance around themes of disillusionment and self-awareness, while still infused with a real push for something, anything better. Their songwriting and performances are urgent and immediate, like an engine that would stall if it ever came to a stop. Rather than give in to the dumb ease of today, the members of The Sea Life trudge on into that good night the only way they know how: rocking your face off. Their latest single Prozac and Merlot was released in 2014 https://thesealife.bandcamp.com/album/prozac-merlot ---- Janel and Anthony Both musicians, together and separately, have long been an important and active part of Washington D.C.’s new-music scene. Anthony Pirog, an omnivorous, multi-faceted guitarist who studied jazz at Berklee and has performed country, fingerstyle, rock and surf music and Janel Leppin, a conservatory trained cellist steeped in North Indian and Persian classical music, who also plays electric bass in rock bands, have created a lavishly detailed musical journey, by turns ravishing and harrowing. Janel and Anthony alternately charm and challenge, with music that draws from classical, experimental, jazz, rock and electronic traditions but that ultimately is simply theirs. Self-recording and releasing their 1st album in 2006 and selling thousands of copies at their hundreds of shows, they spent over 3 years conceiving and recording Where Is Home in a professional, analog studio, giving the album a thoughtful, comfortable and lived in feel. Alternating compositions with brief improvisations and soundscapes, Where Is Home captures the dynamic ebb and flow of their live shows where they artfully employ live looping, an array of effects and prepared backing. Simple musical lines grow into complex blocks of echoing sound which eventually are spun and turned into elegiac melodies. The music is both experimental and elegant and smokily psychedelic in a completely modern way. *Please check the website day of show for any changes* SET TIMES FOR #DropTone930 | Doors 8p | Janel and Anthony 8:30p | The Sea Life 9:15p | TONE 10p | Drop Electric 11:15p