Superior Viaduct presents: Laraaji & Sun Araw (record release show)
8pm Doors / 9pm Music
$15 General / $10 for Members of The Lab (member tickets available at the door – email thelabsf@thelab.org to be put on the list)

Tickets available at the door. If you already purchased tickets, there is going to be a Will Call list at the door. Thanks.

Please join us for a rare performance by ambient icon Laraaji and LA experimentalists Sun Araw, two colossal forces in contemporary electronic music.

Laraaji’s musical radiance has continued to shine brightly over four decades, starting with 1980’s Ambient 3: Day of Radiance (third in Brian Eno’s classic ambient series). Sun Araw emerged in 2008 with transformative recordings that combine classic dub and reggae effects with elements of noise, drone and psychedelia.

This first-time live collaboration in the US celebrates the release of Professional Sunflow – the inaugural record on Superior Viaduct’s W.25TH imprint – featuring Laraaji’s soulful vocals and signature instrument, zither, along with Sun Araw’s Cameron Stallones (guitar/keyboards) and Alex Gray (computer synthesis).

7:30pm Doors / 8pm Sound
$15 General Admission / Free for Members of The Lab
Reserve seats here

Phillip Greenlief (reeds) & Claudia La Rocco (text, voice) created Animals & Giraffes as a way to explore how improvisation on and off the page can create a larger conversation between sound and text.  Collaboration is central to Animals & Giraffes; for this concert Greenlief and La Rocco are joined by electronic musician John Bischoff and percussionist Karen Stackpole (who is one of many Bay Area improvisers featured on the duo’s debut album, JULY, forthcoming from Relative Pitch Records).

7:30pm Doors / 8pm Music
$15 General Admission / Free for Members of The Lab
Reserve Seats Here

Laura Naukkarinen, (born 1980) is a singer-songwriter and musician from Helsinki. She is also a member of free improv and psych folk bands Kiila, Päivänsäde, the Anaksimandros, Avarus, Maailma, and the trio Hertta Lussu Ässä formed by fellow acid folk singer-songwriters Islaja and Kuupuu. Her sound has been likened to the cooing of doves. She's credited as playing anything from "colorful juice glasses" and "witch laugh megaphone" to "beer cans". This will be Lau Nau's first San Francisco show in 6 years - she will be joined onstage by members of Dire Wolves who will also open the show. Both sets will feature live film work from Paul Clipson.