Celebrate the release of Kamra's "Shift Circuit" on <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://peopleplacesrecords.bandcamp.com/">people | places | records</a>! Kamra’s debut album Shift Circuit is a contemporary take on the Chitlin' Circuit for and by Black musicians from the 1930s through the 1960s. On the album Kamra sings a gossamer-like version of the kind of gutter blues that would make any listener blush. Come out for an evening full of music — with supporting sets by sandile (solo), Amelia Murray (full band), and Yaz Lancaster. In June of 2022, a queer, nonbinary Zimbabwean multidisciplinary artist <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.instagram.com/africanarchy/">sandile</a> performed their first ever solo show. A true Pisces Venus, their songbook was a diaristic and dramatic saga of their experiences navigating love, friendship, family, and fantasy. And those songs, whose first breaths were whisper-sung in fleeting moments of inspiration, delivered in dreams to the artist as they slept on a creaky twin bed in their first apartment, written to stay close to the heart, finally transformed. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.instagram.com/performanceenhancingdrug/">Kamra</a> is a singer-songwriter living between their farm in the Western Catskill Mountains and Toronto. Their music fuses string instruments, experimental sensibilities, field recordings, and band jams. Kamra’s practice centers collaboration, painterly storytelling, and transfigurations that emerge after a spiritual experience. Channeling the legacy of Black femme folk singers, Kamra puts their twist on the genre by blending the sentimental deep rich tones with soaring falsettos floating listeners off their feet. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.instagram.com/amelia_murray/">Amelia Murray</a> is a singer and songwriter, based in Brooklyn, NY. Fusing grunge and folk, her passion for art explores many mediums, including performance, songwriting, digital electronics, stop motion films, virtual and augmented reality, audio recording and production, creative coding, and embroidery. She combines her skills to create spaces that extend beyond the expected narrative of how art can be portrayed. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.instagram.com/yeehawyaz/">Yaz Lancaster</a> is an artist based in Lenapehoking (Harlem). Their work as a performer, composer, poet/writer, and collaborator is grounded in queer, DIY, and liberatory frameworks. As an Aquarius stellium, they live up to their eclecticism — recent collaborations include a digital opera made with Lisel, Miss Grit, and Sean Pecknold; a Lincoln Center debut supporting Monét X Change, Sapphira Cristál, and Thorgy Thor; and performing as medium., an ambient/noise duo with gg200bpm. Yaz co-manages people | places | records.This is a a mask required event.