Freedom Attic, Self-Help, Nettle
About This Event
At the Knitting Factory, Freedom Attic shares a bill with Self-Help and Nettle. Both Self-Help and Nettle work in New York’s free-music/performance scene and favor process over polish: Nettle’s sets, heard in rooms like Sleepwalk and on New Colossus Festival bills, let structures shift in real time as the room responds, while Self-Help treats the stage as a social tool in open-ended events such as KARAOKE NIGHT.
About the Artists
Self-Help
Self-Help is a group working in the loose, open-ended space of “Free” performance in New York City, with regular appearances at Cassette. Their events, including KARAOKE NIGHT, treat the stage as a social tool as much as a musical one, drawing on the everyday language of self-directed coping and reinvention.
Nettle
Nettle is a group working in the free-music lane, appearing in New York City rooms that prize close listening, including Sleepwalk. Their recent billings place them alongside The Heaven and Gilah, most notably on a New Colossus Festival–presented night that framed three distinct approaches to sound in one set.