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The Body is an arty, sludgy duo from Providence that astonishes listeners with how heavy music can sound. Thundering riffs, harsh noise, industrial soundscapes and gospel singing provide a backdrop for apocalyptic lyrics dripping with danger. For this special show they will collaborate with the Assembly of Light Choir, a 30-person, all-female choir who bring a lightness and grace to The Body's innovative, heavy epics. Their newest album is All the Waters of the Earth Turn to Blood.

The Assembly of Light women’s choir is a ramshackle collection of about twenty women from Providence, RI. They’ve been stealing hours to sing together since late 2008, when composer and singer Chrissy Wolpert invited a few women to her apartment to sing some songs she’d been working on. It went well. They kept coming back.

A one-man sound spectacular with musical tools that vary from performance to performance. Work/Death has been seen blowing minds with heavily processed bass, amplified cymbals, or even bone scraping steel and aluminum objects. Also, sometimes blood, nails, plastic bags and togas. (actually a sarong, not a toga.)
-Jeffrey Alexander

The Blackened Music Series was created by Adam Shore, who helped produce large-scale events such as The Boredoms 77BOADRUM, featuring the Japanese band performing with 77 drummers, and the 2009 Scion Rock Fest in Atlanta, featuring 33 metal bands on four stages, and the 2010 Scion Rock Fest in Columbus, OH. As the founder and GM of VICE Records, he produced two shows with Neurosis and Mastodon at the Brooklyn Masonic Temple in 2008. Adam is also an artist manager, music consultant, and founder of The Daily Swarm.