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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260707T073000
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URL:https://kingstonhappenings.org/events/play-time-magic-object-album-rel
 ease-show-with-ezra-feinberg/
SUMMARY:Play Time - Magic Object Album Release Show with Ezra Feinberg
DESCRIPTION:Play Time announces their debut album\, Magic Object\, out on
  July 3rd via Balmat.\n\nThe trio consists of percussionist Booker Stardr
 um (SML\, Photay\, Lisel\, Wendy Eisenberg\, Jefre Cantu-Ledesma)\, saxop
 honist Will Epstein (Nicolás Jaar\, Photay\, DARKSIDE\, Dave Harrington
 )\, and synth player Ben Vida (Marina Rosenfeld\, YarnWire\, Lea Bertucc
 i\, Tyondai Braxton).They will be joined by Ezra Feinberg\, an American 
 composer-guitarist\, a practicing psychoanalyst and former founding member
  of the San Francisco-based collective Citay. The highly acclaimed third 
 album ‘Soft Power’ (2024) saw Feinberg enlist an impressive array of
  fellow musicians including Mary Lattimore\, David Moore (Bing &amp\; Ruth
 )\, Jefre Cantu-Ledesma\, Robbie Lee and more.\n\nThe sound of Magic Obje
 ct—a polymetric blend of improv and pulse minimalism for saxophone\, dru
 ms\, and Moog—doesn’t really sound anything like any of their many oth
 er ensembles or respective solo projects. It was only while making Magic 
 Object that Play Time realized they were a band at all.\n\nThe roots of
  the trio date to 2020\, when Will and then Booker moved to the Hudson Val
 ley where Ben was already living. The three got into the habit of playing 
 together and  soon realized that their sessions felt fundamentally differ
 ent from making music in Brooklyn. Where those experiences were rushed and
  cramped\, a new sense of time and space now suggested itself. They were i
 mprovising\, but it wasn’t just a free-for-all\; they found themselves l
 istening to each other in new ways. Early gigs yielded similar revelations
 . A booking at the Kingston venue Tubby’s evolved into a kind of residen
 cy. Play Time decided that they didn’t want to play on the stage\; they 
 played in front and among the people in the bar. Rather than hogging the s
 potlight and overpowering the other voices in the room\, they blended with
  the energy of their surroundings and emerged as a sort of minimalist-jazz
 -krautrock bar band.\n\n\n“We all have our painterly solo projects\,” 
 Will says—where\, Booker adds\, “we do a lot of studio arranging and t
 hinking and composition that takes shape over a period of time.” Play Ti
 me\, on the other hand\, is all about being in the moment. That spontaneit
 y was key to the process of recording the album. They booked two days in t
 heir friend’s studio\, a converted wooden barn. They jammed for seven or
  eight hours each day. They then edited down the portions they liked best\
 , and added very judicious overdubs designed to enhance the original recor
 dings without fundamentally altering them\, staying true to the spirit of 
 the sessions.\nThe result is something like a snapshot and a mission state
 ment all rolled into one. “You’re hearing us discover the voice of the
  band in real time\,” Ben says. “We finished those sessions and we wer
 e like\, ‘Oh\, that’s what our band sounds like now.’” Now\, with
  Magic Object\, the rest of us get to find out too.Advance tickets: $20 (
 plus fees)\n\n
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LOCATION:Tempo Arts\, 29 Wurts St. \, KINGSTON\, NY\, 12401\, United States
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