BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.3.3//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:156873@kingstonhappenings.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260717T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260717T000000 DTSTAMP:20260610T221420Z URL:https://kingstonhappenings.org/events/allah-las-w-rahill-live-at-assem bly-kingston-ny/ SUMMARY:Allah-Las w/ Rahill LIVE at Assembly - Kingston\, NY DESCRIPTION:https://www.tixr.com/groups/assembly/events/allah-las-180924\n\ nALLAH-LAS\nAllah-Las make music that resists easy placement. Since formin g in Los Angeles in 2008\, the band has steadily sidestepped trends\, crea ting a sound rooted not in nostalgia\, but in\nfeel—instinctual\, atmosp heric\, and often instrumental in its storytelling\, even when words are n ot present. Their records suggest a band uninterested in spectacle\, focus ed instead on tone\, pacing\, and space.\n\nTheir last release\, Countryma n ’82 b/w Dume Room\, strips things down even further: two instrumental demos\, raw but complete in their intent. “Countryman ’82” rides a p ulsing rhythm and circular guitar line that never quite resolves\, while “Dume Room” suggests a different kind of tension—slower\, hazier\, m ore deliberate.\n\nOver the past decade and a half\, Allah-Las have releas ed five studio albums\, toured across continents\, and built an audience t hat doesn’t need to be told what genre this is. Their sound is built on interplay. They’ve always written songs that work just as well from the back of a room as they do up close. If there’s a larger point to what th ey do\, it might be this: not everything needs to shout to be heard.\n\nTh e new demos also point toward what’s ahead. The band has been expanding its palette in the studio—introducing new instrumentation and pushing fu rther into open-ended arrangements. If “Countryman ’82” and “Dume Room” are any indication\, a full instrumental record later this year ma y find Allah-Las exploring new textures and stretching their sound in unex pected directions.\n\nRAHILL\nRahill Jamalifard is a multidisciplinary art ist and musician hailing from Lansing\, Michigan and presently based in up state New York’s idyllic Hudson Valley. As a founding member of Brooklyn garage-rock mainstays\, Habibi\, Rahill garnered a reputation for alchemi zing an eclectic range of influences\, distilling them into captivating an d heavy pop songs that gestured towards the modes and melodies of the Iran ian/American household in which she was raised—a heritage she has contin ued to nurture via successive trips to Iran. This affinity for Iranian cul ture and music is increasingly present in her emergent solo output. Indeed \, maps of her familial home cities\, Shiraz and Isfahan\, grace the inser t of her upcoming debut solo LP\, Flowers At Your Feet. The record arrives fresh off the heels of 2022’s Sun Songs\, a collection of covers (more- so reinterpretations\, really) of standards from an eclectic and personal pantheon of cherished songwriters. Sun Songs plays something like a statem ent of intent—documenting a diverse range of influences\, some of which date back to Rahill’s years-long stint working at Academy Records in Bro oklyn\; Flowers At Your Feet\, out 12th May on Big Dada. documents Rahill ’s complete efflorescence as a singer/songwriter\, while retaining the m aturity\, humility\, and intimacy that suffused Sun Songs.\n\nThe album’ s title intimates the deeply personal and often contemplative mode that th ese songs inhabit. Far from recounting the sturm und drang of heartsicknes s or frenzied new love (your standard singer/songwriter fare)\, Flowers At Your Feet finds Rahill tending\, almost diaristically\, to memory — ref lecting on childhood and family\, sifting through time\, ultimately arrivi ng at a state of quiet grace and self love.\n\nPeppered throughout Flowers At Your Feet are artifacts lovingly culled from Rahill’s private cosmog ony: field recordings\, audio from home movies\, references to film and po etry\, allusions to sports legends. Lead single\, “I Smile for E\,” a paean to family and memory\, features a recording of a beloved late aunt s inging “In honor of you” in Farsi. Presented without overt explanation \, these sonic novelties are nevertheless intuitively\, universally famili ar\, prompting the listener to construct their very own memory palace.\n\n This philosophy\, this care for the past\, for family and heritage\, is di stilled in the record’s art: a hazy photograph of an infant Rahill\, dam p hair precociously done-up in a wrapped towel\, wearing a gold necklace. Regarding this necklace’s significance\, Rahill states: “Passed down c harms have such powerful meaning and sentimentality. Preserving stories an d embodying generations of love. My grandma gifted me that necklace on my first trip to Iran when I was a year old. She’s someone who's been ever present in life\, and since her passing last year the value and appreciati on of the charms have only deepened."\n\nRecorded in phases during the Cov id pandemic\, Flowers At Your Feet constitutes a close collaboration betwe en Rahill and producer\, Alex Epton (FKA Twigs\, Arca). Two kindred and ec lectic spirits\, Rahill and Epton bonded over a shared appreciation for th e likes of Stereolab\, Curtis Mayfield\, and Kool Keith. Epton\, for his p art\, immediately identified the strength and potential of Rahill’s pre- existing solo compositions\, some of which (including the lilting standout “From a Sandbox”) she’d written years prior. Still other songs were conceived spontaneously during the recording— “Bended Light\,” a wo ozy cascade of rhyme and flow coiled around Jasper Marsalis’s (Slauson M alone) jazz chords\, began as a vocal melody Rahill sent to Eptonvia voice note during a brief sojourn in Michigan. But regardless of their origin\, these songs clearly live together: born of this present season in which R ahill has found herself.\n\nThis season might best be summarized as one of self-acceptance. Laid back and dubby\, Flowers’ third track\, “Tell M e\,” includes a plain-spoken declaration of contentment\, flipping the m elancholy of Nico’s famous “These Days” rendition on its head\, land ing somewhere surprisingly triumphant: “I stay / keep it in my zone thes e days / sun coming out sometime / but I’d rather be alone these days / And though / no one’s trying to bother me / I keep a ball around /and I watch some mob movies.” Likewise\, “Note to Self\,” nodding infectio usly to 90’s big beat EDM\, documents Rahill’s lived experiences in he r years pursuing romance and art\, synthesizing that wisdom and pushing fo rward.\n\nAmong the extensive list of talented players who have contribute d their time and talent to Flowers At Your Feet\, “Fables\,” features vocals and production credits from no less than art-pop revolutionary\, Be ck. Their friendship and creative collaboration—the consequence of a cha nce meeting at a mutual friend’s show (“kismet” in Rahill’s own wo rds) and an extended period of correspondence—should\, alone\, intrigue the uninitiated. And “Fables” itself\, complete with an ebullient\, el astic bassline\, functions as a pure marriage of sensibilities\, an aesthe tic alliance that proves Rahill is as versatile and ambitious as the compa ny she keeps.\n\nFor Rahill initiates\, as well as fans from the Habibi da ys\, there is a vast world of multi-disciplinary art and ephemera here to explore. Ever the autodidact\, Rahill works across mediums with singular e ase and earnestness. Her visual art (including a recent collection of so-c alled “primitive” crayon portraits\, I’m This I’m That I’m in th e World) has been exhibited internationally. Her keen aesthetic eye has le d her to collaborations in the world of fashion\, most notably a live perf ormance of songs from Flowers At Your Feet and “Haenim” (a track from SunSongs) in Maryam Nassir Zadeh's SS23 New York Fashion Week show. All of which is merely to say\, Rahill has been toiling ceaselessly\, not in pur suit of fame\, but authentic self-expression and community. With Flowers A t Your Feet\, she is prepared to share the fruits of her labor. 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